{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard018","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard018","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McCoy, Army","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard018","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/Lingard018_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff16\n\nCHAPTER THREE    \n\nMrs McCoy lifted the last soapy dish from the sink and laid on the\ndraining board for Brede to dry. Mr McCoy sat in the corner muttering\nover the evening paper.\n\n\"Let them come and search this house!\" he said. Mrs McCoy said\nnothing. She wiped her hands xx on the towel and began to put the\ndishes away. \"Why is it always Catholic k houses they pick on, tellxK\nme that?\" He looked at Brede demandingly.\n\nBrede sighed.\n\n\"The Briatish army has got to be run out of this province,\" he\ndeclared.\n\n\"There might be more trouble if they were,\" said Brede.\n\n\"You know nothing about it. You women are all the same. Peace\nat any price!\"\n\nMrs McCoy aned Brede stacked the last of the dishes. The pile of\nplates was high as there were eight children in the family and next\nmonth there would s be a ninth.\n\n\"Why don't you go and lie down, mumMa\" said Brede. \"You're looking\ntired.\"\n\n\"I'm all right. I'm just wondering where Kevin is. His tea's\ndrying up in the oven.\"\n\n\"He'll come back sometime, don't worry.\"\n\nMrs McCoy worried when he came in late, at fearing the worst.\nShe worried when the younger children came in late too, for they\nromaed the streets> district late at night in company with others taunting\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"863"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard019","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard019","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"God, Albert, Bonny","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard019","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/Lingard019_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff17\n\nthe soldiers that who patrolled the streets. She made efforts to control\nthem but awas often too tired to do very much and although their father\ndisapproved in principle he did little about it. \"Kids will be kids,\" he said.\n\"Sure they're all the same. I'd have done the same at their age.\"\n\nA loud sound like a gun shot made them all leap towards the door.\n\"Holy Mother of God,\" said Mrs McCoy, as she followed her husband\nand Brede out txxx into the street.\n\nMr McCoy was shaking his head and laughing.^\n\n\"Boys,Albert, you gave us a queer fright for a minute there,\"\nhe said.\n\n\"xxxxxxxxx It's only Uncle Albert's car,\"said Brede to her mother.\n\nHer Uncle Albert's car was rusty and ancient and her mtoher\noften declared it was only a miracle that it kept going at all, and\nthat it was a mystery to her as to why Albert should deserve such\na miracle   at all. He had eleven children at the last count and\nnever did a day's work if he could help avoid it. He lived on Social 2\nSecurity and sponged off his numerous brothers and sisters whenever\nthat money ran out.\n\n\"Now listen, Pete,\" said Mrs McCoy to her husband,\" don't you be\ngiving him anything. He never gave you back the xx last pound he\nborrowed.   We've penty mouths to feed ourselves. We've hardly enough to feed ourselves.\n\nAlbert got out of the car and joined them on the pavement.\n\n\"WhyMy, you're growing into a bonny girl, Brede,\" he said.\n\"You'll be going up to the altar before we know itx.\"\n\nBrede blushed\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"864"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard020","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard020","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Weapon, Gerald, Cops","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard020","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/Lingard020_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff18\n\n\"She's plenty time enough\" said her mother sharply. \"She might as well\nenjoy herself herself while she can.\"\n\n\"Aye*, you didn't get much chance, did you, xxxx Mary?\" said\nAlbert.\n\n\"I\u2019m not complaining.\"\n\nRound the corner, on the opposite side of the road, came a band\nof children, walking in single file, each carrying a toy gun or home-\nmade weapon.\n\n\"There's our Gerald,\" said Brede.\n\nGerald was leading the line; further back walked two of the younger\nMcCoys\n\n\"Gerald,\" called his mother. \"It's time you were coming inCome on you in\"\n\n\"Oh Ma, it's early yet.\" Gerlad halted, with the line behind him\n\n\"LeaveLet the lad alone,\" said his fatherx. \"It's a fine summer night\nHe's better out playing than sitting in the house.\"\n\n\"I don't like the games he's palying.\"\n\n\"Ach, all lads play at cops and robbers.\"\n\n\"There's a bit more ta than playing to what they're doing.\"\n\n\"Can you blame them when they see tanks touring the streets and\nsoldiers with guns?\"\n\nMrs McCoy sighed. It was beyond her. She had not much time for\nthe Protestands but she would have preferred to live in peace in her\nstreet and et them live in theirs and she did not see why there was\nany need to meet in themiddle to fight. She wished she were back\nin the green fields of County Tyrone where she had grown up as a\nchild. When she was little older than Brede\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"865"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard021","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard021","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Albert, McCoy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard021","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/Lingard021_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff19\n\nPete McCoy, dark/and handsome and curly-haired, with a fine\npersuading tongue on him,had come along and wooed her and brought\nher to the city. He had told her she would like the town, its\nbustle and excitement, but all she ever saw of it was this street\nof brick terraced houses and the main road beyond where she did her\nshopping. And instead of fishing for tiddlers or climbing trees\nher children played at death.\n\n\"Up the rebels!\" shouted Albert.\n\nHe and his brother laughed, and the children cheered. Gerald urged\nthem on and away they went down the streeet, walking stealthily on the\nballs of their feet as if they were stalking the an enemy.\n\n\"You'dve h k no call to encourage them like that, Albert,\" aid Mrs McCoy\nquietly.\n\n\"Sure you take everything too seriously,\" said Mr McCoy. \"Come\non, Albett, I think you and I'll take a wee trip down to the pub\nand have ourselves a jar.\"\n\nMrs McCoy turned and went    intoback to the house. Brede stood by the\ndoor watching her father and uncle get into the car. It careered\noff down the street back-firing loudly. It could have been the sound\nof gunfire. The xx sound made Brede shiverfreeze inside.\n\nShe  xxxxxxxxx xxx returned to the kitchen where her mother now sat\nwith a basket of mending at her feet. Her face was composed again\nthough her eyes looked sad.\n\n\"Are you all right,  mumMa?asked Brede. Mrs McCoy nodded. \"I though t\nI'd take a walk down the street and see Kate for a wee while.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"866"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard022","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard022","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"I.R.A, Father","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard022","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/Lingard022_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff20\n\n\"On you go, love. Don't be late,\" Mrs McCoy added automatically.\n\"And if you see Kevin tell him his tea's getting ruined.\"\n\nBrede The street was quiet. Brede walked quickly. As she came to\nthe corner Gerald leapt out on her shouting,\"Stick 'em up!\" and\npushinged a wooden gun into her stomach.\n\nShe turned the gun aside. \"For goddness sake, Gerald, one of these\ndays you'll do it to the wrong person.\"\n\nGerald swung the gun from side to side pretending it was a machine\ngun, making a noise to reperesent the sound of its fire. Several\nof the other children slumped back against tie wall clutching their\nchests and stomachs and sliding to the ground. On the wall was\nwritten in large letters UP THE I.R.A. and INFORMERS BEWAREREMEMBER 1916\n\nRemember 1916 or Fitt for Dock or Hang Paisley\n\nBrede picked her way over the collapsed bodies of the children\nand carried on towards Kate's father's scarpyard. Kate and her motherfamily\nand father lived in a house beside it.\n\nKate was at home,sitting in her bedroom reading a magazine and\nallowing the polish to dry on her nails. She spent a great deal\nof time painting and polishing herself. She was pleased to see Brede.\n\n\"I was dead bored,\" she said. \"There's nothing doing round this\nplxace.\"\n\n\"There's plenty doing in some ways.\" Brede leaned out of the x\nwindow and looked back up the street. \"Those kids worry me.\"\n\n\"Kids!\" Kate blew on her nails. \"We were just the same at their\nage.\"\n\n\"Not quite. They're much worse.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"867"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard023","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard023","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Protestants, Kate","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard023","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/Lingard023_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21\n\n\"We got into a bad fight ourselves once, you\u2019ll hardly be forgetting\nthat.\"\n\n\"Hardly.\"\n\nThey had fought agianst x a gang of Protestants one year on the\neve of the twelfth of July and Brede had been severly wounded. She still carried a scar under her curly brown hair.\n\nAt one timeFor a while they had thought she would not live. She had gone to\nhospital in an ambulance with Kevin and Sadie and Tommy Jackson, two of the Protestants, travelling behind\nin a police car. She thought about them now as she looked down on\nthe street and wondered what they would be doing..\n\nShe put her back to the window and leaned against the ledge.\n\n\"Have you seen Kevin at all?\" she asked.\n\n\"Not since he left the yard. Has he not been home?\"\n\nBrede shook her head and shrugged. She was not really worried about him. He liked\nto wander far afield, hated to be confined within a few streets.\n\n\"I thought he might have been round to see me the night,\" said\nKate. \"He\u2019s not got another girl, has he?\"\n\n\"Not as far as I know.\"\n\nKate tried to cling on to Kevin but most of the time she irritated\nhim, and this Brede knew.\n\nThe  children's voices fron the street grew louder. Brede turned to look out\nof the window again. The children were running about excitedly.\nShe leaned out further and saw that wto soldiers were coming down the\nroad. Then an arm was raised and a brick went xx through the air.\n\n\"Trouble,\" she cried quickly and ran from the room.\n\nShe ran out of the house followed by Kate. Kate\u2019s mother was\ncalling after them shouting to them to come back but they paid no\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"868"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard024","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard024","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Soldiers, Rafferty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard024","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/Lingard024_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff22\n\nattention. The children were all throwing stones now and anything\nelse they could lay handson. One of the soldiers had astreak of\nblood on the side of his head. They had both stopped dead, confronted\nby the children, their guns powerless in their hands. The soldiers\nlooked young, no more than twenty years old.\n\nFor one se moment they w stood still, then they turned and ran.\n\n\"Yeller,\"    yelledscreamed a child. \"Cowardy cowardy custards !\"\n\nA cheer went up. They danced round and round yelling, brandishing\ntheir weapons above their heads.\n\n\"Fool!\" cried Brede, seizing Gerald by the arm.\n\nGerlad shook himself free and danced out of her reach. \"Traitor,\"\nhe shouted back at her.\n\n\"You've no right to be calling him a fool,\" said a voice behind\nher.\n\nShe wheeled round to see Brian Rafferty, an old friend of Kevin's,\nstanding there. He was well over six feet tall now and had shoulders almost\nas wide as his father's. His father, Pat Rafferty, was well known\nin the district for his capacity for fighting. He had fists like\nhams that were and he raised them at the slightest provocation. Brian was\nbecoming more and more like him.\n\n\"He's no fool to be fighting for his country.\"\n\n\"Fighting for his country! Brian Rafferty, you make me sick!\"\n\"Brede McCoy, I never knew you had such a temper in you.\" Brian\nlaughed softlyx. \"I always thought you were that meek and mild.\"\n\n\"I'm not meek and mild when I see my young brother throwing bricks\nat soldiers.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"869"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard025","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard025","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Provisionals, Unification","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard025","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/Lingard025_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff23\n\n\"The soldiers are asking for it. They're occupying our country.\"\n\"I t's not their fault. They'd probably rather be at home.\"\n\n\"Ah, give over arguing you two,\" said Kate, who was leaninglounging\nagainst the wall. \"Why don\u2019t we all go down to the chipperchippy and have\na Coke? Kevin might be down there.\"\n\nBrede looked at Gerald and said, \"Go home at once, Gerald, or\nI'll send your dDa after you.\"\n\n\"Aye, away home now, you lot,\" said Brian. \"And I'll see tomorrow.\n\n\"Right Brian\" said Gerald. He saluted smartly, clicking his heels\n\nThe children went at once. Brede watched them go wonderingly.\nBrian was looking very well pleased with himself.\n\n\"You haven't been eggingencouraging them on, have you, Brian?\" she asked\nslowly.\n\nHe laughed. He put his hands into his pockets and sauntered off\ndown the street.\n\n\"I used to like him,\" said Brede. \"Now I'm not sure. He's changed.\"\n\nKate yawned. \"I heard he's got himself mixed up with some IRA.\nProvisionalsthe Provos.\"\n\n\"Surley not!\"\n\nThe Provisionals were a splinter group from the Irish Republican\nArmy. They were dedicated to the unification of Ireland, a dnand\ndeclared that they could only achieve their end by violence. Some-\ntimes they fought in the streets against the IRA and then the\npolice and the army stayed clear and let them fight it out between\nthem.\n\n\"Let's go down to the chipperchippy\" said Kate.\n\nBrede shivered. \"I'm cold. I'm going home.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"870"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard026","Collections":"Chapter 3","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard026","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McCoy, Brede","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard026","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/Lingard026_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff24\n\nShe said good-night to Kate and ran all the way to her house.\nHer mtoher was still sitting in the kitchen mending.a sock. She\nlooked up with a sock in her hand as Brede came in.\n\n\"What's up? Anything happened, Brede?\"\n\n\"Have the childrenkids come in?\"\n\nMrs McCoy nodded. \"I've sent them up to bed.\"\n\nBrede hesitated a moment. She looked at her mother's tired face\nand knew that she could not give her anything more to worry about.\nShe would talk to Kevin.\n\n\"Kevin hasn't been back?\"\n\n\"No. Not a sign of him. Well, he'll just have to starve for\nhis meal's ruinedburnt to a cinder. \"\n\nBrede went up to the room that she shared with her three sisters.\nThey were in bed; one was asleep, the other two were playing cards.\nBrede took a book and sat by the window but she did not read. Every\ntime she heard a step in the street she looked down to see if it was\nKevin.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"871"}}]}