The concluding montage includes footage from 2010, when British Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for what happened on Bloody Sunday in 1972 and admitted the victims were innocent of wrongdoing. This could creep up at any time and it’ll be nothing to do with the political situation. The first parent dying just really shakes everybody’s world because you’re like, “We’re not safe from this level of pain.” And there was something nearly scarier about that. But that actually happened to my friend when we were at school. Growing up, you were told you live in a dangerous place - danger, danger, danger. I wanted to do something devastating that could have happened to any girl at any time. If it’s good enough, you just have to go for it.Ĭlare’s father dies suddenly of an aneurysm in the second-to-last episode. But I want to do a quote from “Pulp Fiction,” which maybe won’t come out in Northern Ireland until the next year. Sometimes it has to be a certain year, Troubles-wise, for these stories to work.

So I like to think of it as Erin looking back on her life and it’s a wee bit blurry. It doesn’t make sense if you examine it, but I need to make sense of it in my head or I couldn’t write it.

In order to keep them under 16 while the Troubles were still going and 18 when the Good Friday Agreement happens, you’re sort of stretching time, then speeding it up.

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