Tanks on the HIll, Guns on the Streets – And amphibious vehicles on the beach
In August 1968, the UK government sent troops to occupy Northern Ireland, in an effort to quash rioting and discrimination against the Catholic minority by the Protestant majority. I was 11 years old, playing on a hill, in a town called Ardrossan, on the west coast of Scotland. Ardrossan had a well-established ferry service to […]