A year after doing this interview with Paul Durcan in late 1987, I began doing political interviews with political representatives from all sides in terms of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, starting with Danny Morrison and Ken McGinnis. However, as with this exchange with the poet Paul Durcan, I also talked with countless cultural figures about what I knew even then to be the single most important issue when it came to the future of my homeland, north and south.  I had intended to make a for RTE Radio 1 a 12 part radio series called Troubled Voices in 2018, but certain people silenced the series. So, now it is a podcast series. It is our history.  Arguably, as never heard before, simply becuase these interviews were for the print media, not for broadcast. Hence, the likes of Durcan could speak at leangth.