{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard008","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard008","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Jackson, Tommy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard008","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/Lingard008_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff7\n\nCHAPTER TWO\n\nMrs Jackosn turnedflipped the bacon in the pan and lowered the gas so\nthat it would not frizzle.\n\n\"Tea ready yet, Ma? \" asked Tommy. \"I'm starved.\" He had changed\nout of his overalls and had washed off the grime of the shipyards.\nHe sat at the tab kitshen table with his knife and fork in front\nof him ready to devour the foord as soon as his mother set his plate\nin front of him\n\n\"It's ready, she said. \"I'm just wondering where that girl's\ngot to. You'd think I'd nothing else to do but stand here slaving\nover a hot stove waiting for her convenience. It'll be a different\nstory when it's her that's is standing over the a stove!\"\n\n\"I can't wait to see the day,\" said Tommy. \"But I think she's got other things\nin mind.\"\n\n\"Dear knows what she has in her mind.\" Mrs Jackson shook her head\nand wiped her hands down the sides of her wrap around overall. \"I\u2019ll be glad\nwhen I see her settled.\"\n\n\"Oh come on, Aggie, let's have our tea, for dears sake.\" Said Mr\nJackson. \"W I've to be at the Lodge meeting at for seven. We can't sit here waiting\non Sadie.\"\n\n\"You're right.\"  \n\nMrs Jackson turned   outoff the gas. It went out with a plop. She\ntook the plates that had been warming abover the cooker and served\nout the food, watched hungrily by the men. They began to eat at\nonce. She poured the thick strong tea from the old brown teapot\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"853"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard009","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard009","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Lodge, Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard009","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/Lingard009_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff8\n\nand then sat down herself. She kept on her overall. Her think,\ngreying hair was garnished with rollers. She took her rollers out\nafter tea to sit and watch the television and then when the television\nclosed down at night she put the rollers back in again.\n\nThe men did not speak whilst they ate. They concentrated on the\nfood, wiping their plates clean afterwards with thcik hunks of\nbread taken from the packet on the table. Mrs Jackson talked all\nthe time, grumbling mostly about Sadie, shaking her head and sighing\nand sniffing. From time to time Mr Jackson grunted, supposedly in\n^agreement, but neither he nor Tommy listened. They knew what she\nwas saying without having to listen. Mr Jackson was thinking about\nthe Lodge meeting. It was an Orange Lodge, and they were preparing\nnow for the Srangs big Orange Walk   in the following month on the twelfth of July. He had\nbeen a member of the Lodge since he was a youth, and his father\nbefore him, but his son was not, and the fact grieved him. Tommy\nwas still a good Protestant, he knew that, but the did not seem to\nrealise that you had to be constantly reaffirming your faith.\n\nTommy was thinking about trying to decide which film he should take Linda to see.\nThere were two possibilities but one was rather violent and she\nliked what she called 'a nice picture'.\n\n\"Well I don't know,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"But there's one thing,\nshe's got no consideration for other people.\"\n\nTommy looked up. \"She'd give you her last penny.\"\n\n\"If she had one to give.\" Mrs Jackson sniffed. She got up to\nclear the dirty dishes. \"She spends her pay the day she gets it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"854"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard010","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard010","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Aggie, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard010","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/Lingard010_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9\n\n\"But she doesn't gripe about it.\"\n\n\"Pour us another cup of tea, Aggie.\" Mr Jackson psuhed his cup\nacross the table. \"And then I'll be off.\"\n\nMrs Jackson poured it.\n\nThey heard the front door opening and then Linda's voice calling,\n\"Anybody in?\"\n\nHer feet tapped in the lobby and then she opened the kitchen door.\n\n\"Oh, hello, Linda,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"Did you get fed up waiting\nfor Tommy?\"\n\n\"I was ready early so I just thought I'd come on over.\" Linda\nsat down on the chair Mrs Jackson had vacated and crossed her legs.\n\"We're a bit late the night, \" said Mrs Jackson, running hot water\ninx to the sink. \"We were waiting for Sadie.\"\n\n\"I don't think she was coming g home.\" Linda smiled knowingly.\nThe Jacksons looked at her for it was obvious that Linda knew some-\nthing.\n\n\"Have you seen her?\" asked Tommy.\n\n\"I saw her on the way home.\"\n\n\"Where was she?\"\n\n\"At a bus stop.\" Linda swiung her foot and then for a moment before she added, \"She\nwasn't alone.\"\n\n\"That's nothing new. She hardly ever is.\" Mrs Jackson scraped the remains of the food into the bucket.\n\"Our Sadie knows the half of Belfast,\" she said, not without pride.\nPart of her was pleased that Sadie knew so many people, the other\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"855"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard011","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard011","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Daughter, Linda","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard011","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/Lingard011_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff10\n\npart resented that her daughter spent so much time on them. \"It's\na wonder she didn't think shs to send a message back by you.\"\n\n\"I don't think she was that fussy about me seeing who she was with.\"\n\n\"Who was she with?\" asked Mr Jackson, taking an interest in the\nconversation for the first time.\n\n\"Oh I don't know if I should tell you that.\" Linda lowered her\neyelashes.\n\n\"Maybe you shouldn't then,\" said Tommy quickly. He got up. \"Come\non, then, Linda, let's get going or we'll miss the start of the picture\n\nLinda uncrossed her elgs reluctanly.\n\n\"Just a minute.\" Mrs Jackson dried her hands.\n\n\"I think Linda* knows something we ought to know,\" said Mr\nJackson.\n\n\"Dad, you'll be late for the start of your meeting,\" said Tommy.\n\"Away you go to it and let Sadie alone.\"\n\n\"You're always covering up for that girl,\" said Mrs Jackson,\" but\nI'm her mother and I've a right to know what she's up to.\"\n\n\"Sadie's all right,\" said Tommy. \"Come on Let's go, Linda.\"\n\nLinda got up and pushed back the chair. She looked round from one\nto the other. Her lower lip trembled slightly. \"I don't want to\ncause any trouble.\"\n\n\"No, all right then, let's go.\" Tommy took hold of her arm.\n\nLinda pulled it away and rubbed her elbow with her hand as fe\nif he had hurt her.\n\n\"Mind your manners, Tommy,\" said his father sharply.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"856"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard012","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard012","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Catholic, Jim","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard012","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/Lingard012_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11\n\nTommy's face closed tightly. He went to the window and stood\nlooking into the small back yard. A patch of sunlight touched the\ndustbin but the rest was in shadow.\n\n\"Linda dear,\u201d said Mrs Jackson, \"now if there's anything you\nthink we should know you must tell us.\u201d\n\nTLinda looked at Tommy's back. bnx \u00b1He did not move.\n\n\"That's right, Linda,\u201d said Mr Jackson. \"Your father wouldn't like it if you didn't\n\n\"I suppose I'll have to, won't I?\u201d Linda kept her eyes on Tommy.\n\"I mean to say, what else can I do?\u201d She paused. \"She was with that\nCatholic boy Kevin McCoy.\u201d\n\nTommy wheeled round. \"Kevin?\"\n\n\"A Catholic boy?\u201d said Mrs Jackson in a stunned voice.\n\n\"Yes, the one Sadie and Tommy got mixed with three summers ago,\nthe one whose sister got hurt.\u201d\n\n\"Brede,\u201d said Tommy softlys.\n\n\"That's the one,\u201d said Linda, not liking the look in Tommy's eye.\n\nMrs Jackson eased herself into a seat by the table. She gripped\nthe edge of the wood with her red, house-worn hands. \"What's she\ndoing with him?\n\n\"How should I know? I just saw the two of them together waiting\nfor a bus.\u201d\n\n\"Jim!\u201d Mrs Jackson appealed to her husband, who had been scratching\nhis head and looking bewildered.\n\n\"What do you know about this, Tommy?\u201d he demanded.\n\n\"Nothing...\" Tommy lifted his jacket. \"I'm going to the pictures.\nYou can come if you want to, Linda.\u201d\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"857"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard013","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard013","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Shock, Tommy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard013","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/Lingard013_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff11 contd.\n\n\"Thanks very much!\"\n\n\"This is a desperate shock, desperate.\" Ilrs Jackson rocked herself\non the chair.\n\n\"For goodness sake, Ma, there's nothing in it, \"said Tommy. 'Don't\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"858"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard014","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard014","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Portrush, Bangor, Isle of Man","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard014","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/Lingard014_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff12\n\nstart going on about it as if she was goingabout to marry him.\"\n\n\"Marry him?\" His mother put her hand to her throat.\n\n\"She hasn't seen him for years.\"\n\n\"As far as you know.\"\n\n\"Tommy, go and get the brandy from the sitting room cabinet,\" said\nMr Jackson. \"Your mother's just had a terrible shock.\"\n\nTommy Linda put her arm round Mrs Jackson's neck. Tommy gritted\nhis teeth and went through to the little sitting room at the front.\n\nIt smelt musty as he opened the door. They seldom used it, only for\nChristmas and special company. The room was overstaffed with furniture\nand every ledge covered with faded photgraphs and souveniers brought\nfrom Portrush, Bangor and the Isle of Man. He opened the glass-fronted\ncabinet in whiich the best china was kept. He put his ahdm hand carefully\nround the back of it a teapot andbrought out a half-bottle of brandy and a\nglass.\n\n\"You're a good girl, Linda,\" his mother was saying as he returned\nto the kitchen. \"You've got ff your head screwed on.\"\n\nTommy splashed some brandy in to a glass and gave it to his mother.\n\"You might have brought me one,\" said his father, \"I've had a\nlittle bit of a shock myself.\"\n\n\"I thought you were going to a Lodge meeting,\" M said Tommy. \"Is\nit not time you were away?\"\n\n\"When a crisis comes up one has to be prepared to be late.\"\n\"I've a brave excuse for being late the night. It's not every day you find out your daughter's ging out with a Taig\"\n\n\"Crisis!\" Tommy went, however, and fetched another glass and served his father.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"859"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard015","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard015","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Terraced, King Billy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard015","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/Lingard015_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff13\n\n\"I'm real sorry I let the cat out of the bag on\", said Linda. \"It\njust slipped out without me knowing it.\"\n\n\"Now don't you worry, Linda,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"You did rright to\ntellus.\"\n\n\"Come on, Linda, if you're coming.\" Tommy stood by the door.\n\nLinda followed him. On the way out he heard his mother saying to\nhis father. \"I'm real glad Tommy's walking out going steady with such a\nnice girl as Linda.M Linda heard it too though she did not bat an\neyelash. Tommy shut the door behind them and they stood for a moment\nin the street, the small street of red brick terraced houses in\nwhich they had been born and brought up and had played together.\n\nTommy began to walk; she caught up with him. She complained that\nhe was walking too fast. He turned stopped when they were round the side of\nthe house and looked at her.\n\n\"Why did you have to do that?\"\n\n\"I didn't meanto.\" Her lower lip trembled.\n\n\"Oh, come off it, Linda, you knew you were going to tell them\nfrom the minute you walked in the door.\"\n\nLinda's lip steadied. \"Well,\" she said defiantly,\"I think Sadie's\na right idiot walking out eejit going with a Catholic boy Fenian.\"\n\n\"She's not walking out going with him.\"\n\n\"How do you know?\"\n\nTommy stood with his back to the wall with the mural of King\nBilly behind him, the mural that Kevin McCoy had once mutilated by\nwriting DOWN WITH KING BILLY in white paint, across it. It was the\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"860"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard016","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard016","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McConkey, Sadie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard016","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/Lingard016_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff14\n\nfirst time she Linda had ever seen him angry and it made her feel a little\nafraid. He was usually very peaceable, much more so than Sadie.\n\n\"You don\u2019t know do you?\" said Linda. \"I\u2019m sure she doesn't tell\nyou everything.\"\n\n\"She would have told me if she'd met Kevin again, I'm sure of\nthat.\"  .\n\n\"You were kind of soft on had a bit of a notion of his sister weren't hadn't you?\"\n\n\"I wasn't soft on her did not. I just thought she was anice girl.\"\n\n\"She's a Mick and she'll probably have twelve kids.\"\n\n\"What's that to dox with it? I wasn't going to marry her.\nI was only fourteen at the time.\"\n\nHe began to walk again. Linda tagged along beside him but he\nwas hardly aware of her. He was thinking about Brede's soft brown\neyes and her quiet smile. He had not thought of her for years.\nThere was no point in thinking of her.\n\n\"Don't be angry with me.\" Linda's small warm hand crept in to\nhis. \"I didn't mean any harm, honest I didn't, Tommy.\"\n\nHe sighed. \"O.K.\"\n\n\"Shall we get some choclotae in Mrs McConkey's before we go to\nthe pictures?\"\n\nMrs McConkey kept a small shop in the next street. It sold every-\nthing from sweets to sticking plaster. She was reading the evening\nnewspaper with her bsosom resting on the counter. Every year\nher bosom increased until, as Sadie predicted, she might have to\ntake on a larger shop to accommodate it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"861"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard017","Collections":"Chapter 2","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard017","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"British Army, Trouble","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard017","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/Lingard017_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff15\n\n\"God help us, what times we're living in,\" she said, looking up\nas they came in. \"It's time they were doing something about them louts.\"\nShe slapped the paper with her hand, \"ChuckingClodding stones at the British\nArmy!\"\n\n\"I don't think they like getting their houses searched,\" aid\nTommy.\n\nMrs McConkey lifted up her bosom from the counter and straightened\nher back stared at him. \"What side are you on anyway?\"\n\n\"I was just making a comment.\"\n\n\"I think we'll have a couple of bars of milk cocooatechocolate, Mrs McConkey,\"\nsaid Linda, pointinag at the shelf. The continual talk of the troubles\nbored her. As far as possible she didn't think about it. She\nwanted to enjoy herself. She didn't want to throw stones or have\nthem thrown at her. They had done a bit of that when they were younger,\nbut as her mother said, it was not she who had ever wanted to get\nmixed up in trouble like that, it was Sadie Jackson that had led her\ninto it.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"862"}}]}