![]() ![]() ![]() We didn't have therapy or anything like that for people, or certainly working class people didn't have access to any of that and probably wouldn't have spoken about it. For somebody like Furlong, who had been bullied for years at school, I think probably the message there was, 'You'll come to nothing, you're a bastard child, you have no father and you're nobody and you don't know who you are.' "I think when we're having a bad day, we actually believe in the worst thing anyone has ever said to us. "And yet, we are bound to be somehow engaged in all of these in some way or another. I was interested in Furlong, this central character, being a man who went to the back door and not the front door, which is what most of us did for most of our lives in this country." Self-destructive heroism ![]() We have a life we hide and we have a life we quietly live. ![]() There are people, personalities, who are more interested in the display than what is at the back of the house. Or, are more interested in what's in your mind and your heart and saying absolutely nothing and showing nothing. "We all have a life we show. We have a life we hide and we have a life we quietly live. I just read through those and was floored. I thought about somebody finding somebody in a shed - and that stayed in the back of my mind for all those years. I was writer-in-residence at University College Cork at the time. There was a spread in the newspaper with victims' testimonies. "The Ferns Report was about abuses in the church here in Ireland. ![]()
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