Fragments of Conflict: a sensory history of the ‘Troubles’

By Roisín Higgins It was Christmas 1973 and a little girl drew a picture of the nativity. When her teacher asked ‘if the spiky shape above the stable was a star’, the girl replied, ‘Oh no, Miss – that’s the helicopter’. The child lived in the Creggan in Derry and her school was beside a … Continue reading Fragments of Conflict: a sensory history of the ‘Troubles’