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Paul Cassidy has been violist of the Brodsky Quartet for four decades. He is a Northern Irish Catholic, brought up in Derry as the last of 16 children – the next youngest may have been abducted soon after birth, just one of the tragedies the family had to bear.
It seems to have been quite a dysfunctional family, with a father who did not encourage any of his tribe of offspring. Cassidy also had to deal with his country’s Catholic education system – having his hand beaten black and blue, days before his Grade 7 violin exam, was typical. Then there was the discrimination that Catholics suffered in every sphere of life. In the case of the Cassidy clan, it was intensified because they had the affrontery to acquire a house in a part of town that the Protestants considered their fiefdom.
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