ARDOYNE (40” x 60”- mixed media) The child’s home, where he grew to manhood, was in Ardoyne, a small nationalist/republican enclave in Northern Belfast—a place of more sectarian violence than the whole of Northern Ireland. His home, along with those of approximately 20,000 predominantly working class Catholic families, was “controlled” by the Provincial Irish Republican Army (PIRA or Provos). The British Army and the police raided homes frequently, often with airborne support, under the banner of internment (imprisonment without trial). In the early 1980’s, during the child’s teenage years, the area of his home is listed in a “no-go” zone. |