Episode 1259: A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot
Our guest today is Sinead O’Shea, the writer and director of a new film that opens in Ireland next week: A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot.
Our new poster for @AMotherBrings ahead of its cinema release on Friday 14 September. I’m so impressed by the design work of @Conor_Merriman We’re at @LightHouseD7, @PalasGalway, @QFTBelfast, @MoviebowlDerry, @TriskelCork, @CenturyCinemas + @imccinemas Dún Laoghaire + Dundalk. pic.twitter.com/ch4a7o6Fof
— Sinead O’Shea (@SineadEOShea) September 3, 2018
My piece on UK indifference to Northern Ireland, Brexit and a mother who brought her son to be shot. It’s been most read on @guardian all day. Thanks for all the feedback: https://t.co/F0I8Q62RAS
— Sinead O’Shea (@SineadEOShea) March 15, 2018
It’s a portrait of a post-conflict community in Derry, where the government and the police are not recognised, where those who are judged to have stepped out of line are dealt with by a parallel justice system involving masked men with guns.
Filmed over a period of five years, the film takes us into a family and a society still trying to come to terms with peace 20 years after the war officially ended.
We discuss earning trust, paranoia, the attraction of violence, why dissident groups target drug dealers in particular, how parts of Derry operate almost as an independent state, and the possible impact of Brexit (and talk of reunification) on various communities in Northern Ireland.
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