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Each generation in Northern Ireland has reflected on the 'troubles' in its own way – right up to 'Derry Girls'

  • Written by Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
imageA mural in Derry commemorating the TV show 'Derry Girls,' which follows the lives of teenagers growing up amid Northern Ireland's troubles.Dominic Bryan, CC BY-NC-ND

A 9-year-old boy lies on the floor of a working-class rowhouse in Belfast, Northern Ireland, wondrously watching American Westerns on TV. Outside, though, the world’s gone mad....

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