In the Blood
In July of 1987, just before the Orange marches, award-winning novelist
Robert MeCrum went back to the small milltown of Milford in South Armagh - on the edge of 'bandit country' in the north of Ireland. It was a very personal voyage of discovery, for Milford was practically built by McCrum's great grandfather R. G. McCrum. Tonight's Bookmark follows him on his journey as he explores his own past and the complex history of the now-beleaguered Protestants of Ulster. He talks to local people: to Dr A. T. 0. Stewart of Queens University,
Belfast, and to Tom Paulin , whose latest collection of poems, Fivemiletown, studies the mood of the Protestant people of the province in the wake of the Hillsborough Agreement.
Film cameraman JOHN KEEPING Film editor MIKE FLYNN
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS Producer PAUL PAWLIKOWSKI