Hunger Page #2

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Oh, aye.

So, anyway, the position comes up in Kilrea.

Right.

And I'm passed over for some reason or other.

No reason, probably.

For taking too much cake off the ladies.

Probably.

So ?

So five years later

the position again comes up back in Kilrea...

and my brother Michael waltzes right in to it.

F***.

He is made parish priest at 28.

More spiritual probably. Less liberal than you.

He worked the bishop. He's a golfer.

He's a pushy little twirp, that's what he is.

At least you're not bitter.

Oh no, I couldn't be that.

Parish priest at 28 ? Fantastic.

He has two cars.

And the house he has is the most.

He has a maid, a cook.

I'm stuck in a two up two down.

with a fat Kerry man who drones on and on about Gaelic football.

Can we stop talking about that ?

Jesus. You're the one who's talking.

How's your smoke going ?

Grand.

Filthy habit. Disgusting.

Oh, yeah, awful. Lovely, though.

Aye. Praise the Lord.

Oh, stop it.

So, what happened to your eye, Bobby ?

What ?

Your eye ?

Difference of opinion.

How's the other fellow ?

A lot worse. Believe me.

So, what did you call me here for ?

Why, was that the issue you were trying to avoid ?

Priest etiquette. Start with the small talk.

I'm learning a lot about the priesthood, Don.

You'd make a fine priest.

Why ?

Good talker. Man of principles. A leader of men.

A political terrorist.

The church loves a reformed crook.

Aye.

I always felt that thief next to Jesus got off lightly.

But he recognized his sins.

Did he, though ?

Aye. Said as much.

When you're hung from a cross you're gonna say anything.

Jesus offers him a seat next to his Daddy,

in a place called Paradise.

You know, you're always gonna put your hand up

and ask if you can have a piece of that.

Aye. Even when he's nailed to a cross.

Jesus Christ ! That's sacrilegious.

Sacrilegious.

Aye.

No, no. He was a dirty thief.

So, what did you want me to tell me ?

Where are you at ?

Been driven mad by that Governor yet ?

Says he's been negotiating.

It's been a sideshow.

I can tell you that for nothing.

But you understand why you need to do it.

Because we are no longer good propaganda.

According to whom ? The leadership ?

The time has come.

A decision had to be made.

Do you think that's what the leadership think ?

Maybe. I do not know.

Is there paranoia there, Bobby ?

Ten thousand people marched for the seven hunger strikers last October, right?

Right.

International pressure on the Brits and all that.

As your time...

Even the Pope is having a say...

getting involved. The whole world trying to get

Maggie Thatcher to back down and give us our demands.

But it all came to nothing.

Right.

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