Thought for the Week: That of God
Ian Kirk-Smith reflects on a powerful experience
In 2003 I spent over a year and a half making a film, for BBC Northern Ireland, about a working class Loyalist estate in west Belfast – Springmartin – half way up a mountain overlooking the city. The Catholic Ardoyne was a few hundred yards away. A sixteen-foot high wall separated the two communities: the Peace Line. Almost every family in the area had suffered, in some way, in the troubles. During that time thirteen people had been shot on the Springmartin and nearby Highfield estates. It was a heartland of Loyalist paramilitaries.