voices of 74: context 2/2
A recurring feature of testimonies and memories from this period is how the conflict and violence became a permanent and almost normal feature of people’s daily lives.
If the Civil Rights era saw Northern Ireland plug itself into some sort of international zeitgeist for change, interestingly, the early 1970s, with the onset of conflict and the creeping everydayness of violence, understandably forced somewhat of an inward turn.
'Things got a lot worse, a lot more people being killed, particularly around 72. And there was a build up to that in many ways and people began to get accustomed to bombs, and we got accustomed to waking up to news, and hearing so and so was murdered.'
Mervyn Gibson