and, you know, it was very alarming, really, to see ten—year—old jude hill, under this table in the back, reallyjust, unable to comprehend what was going on but we knew that stones and bricks were flying through the windows, it turned out, of neighbours, but it could easily have been ours. and, you know, it puts you, it puts you in that position of sort of facing the world with your shoulders hunched, ready for the unexpected. it means that what follows is not easy but sometimes, it means that you rush to every possible means of losing that feeling so any humour to be found, any distraction, any entertainment to be found, you run towards. your father was working in england and eventually, you moved as a family in what, 1970, wasn't it? correct, yeah. and there is, listening to you now, there's no trace of a belfast accent there at all. yeah! did you consciously, did you make an effort to lose the accent? it took about two or three years, i suppose, for it to go but what i absolutely wanted to do was to sort of fit in, ijust wanted to disappear. i, like the rest of the family, i think, fe