European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes. Thursday july 27, 1978 Arm Derry Northern Ireland once All Shehad to do was react. The Soldier died she cackled. A boy on her Street was pulled out of his House at night and thrown into jail she shrieked. During Al the years of violence however she began to be asked to make judg ments on the other parts of life about her. An she found this much harder to Deal with than Mere began when the Young girl directly across the Street suddenly began to Blossom and was yanked into the House and kept in hiding until the baby living had taken its first pieces out at what had been one of the strictest Catholic neighbourhoods on Earth the bog Side in Derry. As the months of violence became years an the years a decade several More illegitimate children were born on the Street. And each Young Mother introduced the baby As a younger brother or teen age girl on the new Road announced that the baby actually was her that there was no husband. Faced with this she found herself unable to speak to the girl or Admire the baby. One Day her oldest ton came Home with his wife and announced he was getting a divorce the Mother sat motionless for hours. She Al ways believed that her son had been part of a group that had thrown petrol bombs at a policeman setting the policeman afire from fair to Ankles. In her life this was something d be proud of the police were torturers and was a moral obligation to drive them , however was an entirely different Natter. A Catholic getting a divorce allowing Man to put asunder a sacred marriage suffered the loss of heaven and its eternal Joy. The Mother turned to something she could understand the fighting. She took charge of a roup of Ira provisional who were drilling a we in a thick Stone Wall so they could fire through it at British soldiers. The Mother i. Maintained that they were drilling the Hole on a wrong Angle and she stuck a Broom handle 1 into the Hole to prove it. She had them Drill api jew Hole. Two nights later a Soldier was he of by a shot fired out of the new Hole in the Wall on the Street the next Day. Everybody \ nodded to the Mother in recognition of her role Sib shooting the Soldier. But then the Mother Flad to step into her House and Deal with Theale secret of her son s impending Diw rce no British Soldier Chest heaving against the slug inside him. Could make up for a divorce in a Catholic the morning she went to Church and one of the daughters remembers hearing the Mother saying her Rosary aloud for the special intention of getting her son thrown into prison amp. But the son got the divorce and the Mother immediately stopped talking about him tooth or people on her Street. Divorced is a couple of years later a second son walked into the House carrying suitcases an said that he. Too was getting a divorce. Yell lose your she la lose my mind if i stay the son said. The Mother now sat in Dory a City i which there had not been a divorce among catholics during her lifetime and she pondered the tragedy of two of them in her House hold. She again went to Church and prayed forthe British soldiers to arrest a son. The Pray ers went unanswered and the problem did not she is spending her life on a delicate tin Between embarrassment and one of her daughters woman s greatest Day came when on television one evening there appeared a film of the death of Brian Faulkner the anti Catho Lic former prime minister of Northern ire land. Faulkner fell during a Fox Hunt and died under his hand of god has she screamed in her tiny House. People came inform the Street to watch. She shouted to them excitedly. Brian Faulkner s horse is just after squeezing him to death. Of god. Look they re taking the horse away for but she did not know How to react to private fears she was having Over one of her Daugh ters who reached 31 and was uninterested i men. A London College girl in Derry for the excitement of the riots came Home with he daughter and remained for weeks. One night after the sound of gunfire on the Street one of the Ira provisional stumbled into the House. The Mother pulled her daughter out of bed an threw the gunman into bed with the London girl. The Mother pulled the covers Over the gunman so his clothes would t show. Her is year old daughter forced to sit at the Kitchen table and drink Tea As the soldiers searched the Block was upset about the arrangement in he bedroom. The daughter had thrilled the Mother on bloody sunday in 1972. On the Day the British paratroops shot 13 people on the Corner of the Street. The daughter had helped carry the wounded and at the end of the Day the Dangle stood in the Street and screamed for reprisals but 1972 was gone and the years now said 1175and 1976 and the London College student was gone but there were other women suspicious women being brought Home and the daughter grew Distant from the Ira provisional fight ers. One night As the Mother tried to sleep the word sodomy went through her did not know How she thought of the word for there never had been a lesbian in Derry and she knew nothing about such a thing. But she had thought of the word and h had be come the single darkest perception of her life. Sometimes i think it is easier to get Mother said. The daughter left for America and the Mother suspected something worse than even divorce. Three children now had come in out of the riots and shattered the religion that once was so unbreakable. 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