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The Troubles of Growing Up on the Falls Road
My father had a pub on the just off the falls road place called Leeson Street, a very well known pub. And they put a car bomb outside of it and he saw a young woman run across the road - she thought her child was on the street. My father mercifully was unharmed physically, but I'm told that it was the keys of the car which broke her neck. When he came home, he was suffering from a catatonic depression,. He didn't speak for a couple of years. We were living in a house that had been owned by nuns who lent it to us. There was no name for it then; we didn't know about trauma or post
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