[{"node":{"title":"Lingard186","Collections":"Chapter 19","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard186","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"I.R.A, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard186","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard186_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff177\n\nCHAPTER NINETEEN\n\nThere were disturbances in the night: the sound of gunfire, rumble\nof armoured cars, shouting in the distance, the flicker of flames\nagianst the sky. No one in the Jackson house slept very much.\nTheir own street was quiet but the activity ofon the fringe of the ar\narea kept them on edge.\n\n\"Sounds like the I.R.A. fighting it out,\" commented Mr Jackson as\nhe sat drinking tea in the ktchen at two o'clock in the mroning.\n\n\"How do you know?\" said Sadie. \"Could be anybody.\"\n\n\"I don't know what we're all doing sitting here,\" said Mrs Jackson.\nShe scratched her scalp between the rollers and yawned. \"It's not\nas if we haven't heard the sound of guns before. It's funny how you\nget used to the murders after a bit.\"\n\n\"You can get used to anything,\" said Tommy. \"You have to live.\"\n\nSadie looked at the clock. She ought to go to bed and get a few\nhours sleep. She planned to leave the house before seven to go and\nmeet Kevin but now she was afraid that she might sleep in and he\nwould be sitting waiting for her in a field twenty miles outside\nBelfast, watching the road thinking she was never coming. But he\nwould wait, she/knew that.\n\n\"What are you smiling about?\" asked her mother. \"Can't see anything\nvery funny about shooting matches myself.\"\n\n\"I was thinking of something else.\" Sadie stood up. \"I'm off to bed.\nOh, and by the way, I'll be going out early in the morning so don't\nworry if I'm gone when you get up.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]