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Written by Contributor
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Saturday, 08 April 2006 |
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When
the 'Savoy' cinema in Monaghan Street was blown up in 1953
after showing the newsreel of the Coronation, I rushed into my granny's house
from school at dinner-time with the news that 'the Catholics blew up the Savoy!’
Her
Catholic next-door neighbour was sitting on a chair behind the door where I
hadn't seen her and firmly informed me that it wasn't Catholics who had
done it but the IRA. That
was a distinction that hadn't occurred to me or any of my school-mates.
Looking
back, that was a very important moment in my life.
Incidentally the 'Frontier' cinema
in Newry regularly showed 'Columbia'
films and when we went there on Saturday mornings, we all thought that
the Statue of Liberty logo with the radiating torch and crown was the Virgin
Mary!
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Reminiscence 
