Journalist, author and feminist Nell McCafferty on growing up in the Bogside neighbourhood of Derry.
One of six children born to Lily and Hugh McCafferty in Derry, Nell McCafferty grew up in the nationalist Bogside area. She has always had a good relationship with her mother, describing her as having a sense of humour and being,
Tolerant, full of talk. I love her, deeply.
While close to her father Hugh as a child, Nell McCafferty clashed with him in her teenage years. Unfortunately his health declined during a period of her life which was busy and fulfilling. She was involved with the Civil Rights Movement, then working as a journalist with the Irish Times, and involved with the feminist movement in Ireland. She never got the opportunity to talk to her father in depth about all of this, but,
He and I had a great time.
Their household was a Catholic one, but not focused on nationalism or politics,
All we ever really talked about politically was jobs...and houses.
This episode of 'Hanly’s People’ was broadcast on 13 June 1988. The presenter is David Hanly.
‘Hanly’s People’ was a weekly programme featuring a guest in conversation with presenter David Hanly in a living-room setting for half an hour. Each guest was someone in the news, making the news, or behind the news. They were drawn from all spheres of public life, including politics and the arts. ‘Hanly’s People’ was first broadcast on 6 October 1986 and ended on 6 June 1991.
