For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
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Nationality: Irish Type: Politician Born: October 6, 1948 |
It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.