{"id":10515,"date":"2014-03-06T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2014-03-06T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:03:15","slug":"when-the-belfast-child-sings-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10515","title":{"rendered":"When the Belfast child sings again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018When the Belfast child sings again\u2019 a ballad by the group Simple Minds, evokes feelings of a gritty, strife torn and harsh city troubled by years of political and sectarian violence.<br \/>\nRiots, bomb blasts, and snipers were the headlines I grew up with while watching the evening news from the comfort of my teenage southern vantage.<br \/>\nThe summer of my 16th birthday I attended a dance in Tralee where Fran O Toole and the Miami Show band were playing<br \/>\nFour days after my birthday I was in Newry as the bodies of those killed in the Miami Show band massacre: O Toole, McCoy and Geraghty were lying on the roadside<br \/>\nI had not been back since until last week, when after only an hour in Belfast, I took a black taxi tour and found my self in the Shankhill area of loyalist Belfast.<br \/>\nI wanted to know were the troubles truly over and could the Belfast child sing again?<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3741\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Belfastchild.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3741','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Belfastchild.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Belfastchild.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=10515-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Belfastchild.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Belfastchild.mp3\">Download<\/a> (30.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018When the Belfast child sings again\u2019 a ballad by the group Simple Minds, evokes feelings of a gritty, strife torn and harsh city troubled by years of political and sectarian violence. 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