Red Lines: Ciarán Hinds 'lucky' to have avoided Troubles violence

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Actor Ciarán Hinds reflects on his journey to fame growing up during Northern Ireland's Troubles.

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He told the Red Lines podcast "in all honesty I could have got involved in some bad way at some stage". Bronagh Hinds went on to become a leading figure in the Women's Coalition which was influential in the negotiations that led to the signing of theThe civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the United States in the late 1960s, along with the student riots in Paris in May 1968, had a considerable bearing on the actor's developing world view.

His best friend, he remembered, was a young Protestant from a village outside Larne, County Antrim, who taught him a lot about the countryside and the Twelfth of July.When he abandoned his legal studies at Queen's and went off to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the IRA was bringing its bombing campaign to the towns and cities of England.He described the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham, Guildford and Woolwich as "terrible".

 

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