The Northern atrocity no one can quite recall
Reviewed This Week
Massacre At Ballymurphy: Channel 4
Bodyguard: BBC One
Stop a hundred random people in the street, ask them for their thoughts on the Ballymurphy massacre, and you’ll be lucky if you get even one authoritative, informed answer. The 1971 atrocity falls inside a large blind spot that the national psyche has long refracted about certain pivotal episodes of the Troubles.
There are two explanations for this. First, the murder of ...