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ciaran hinds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now you are a man of belfast, born and raised there, and i think, as ijust mentioned, it s fair to say there is a real creative buzz around belfast and northern ireland today. but when you were a youth there, growing up, was it a place that you felt, as a sort of creative soul that you needed to get out of? it wasn t a place that i felt i needed to get out of. i mean, i did eventually, but there was a reason for that was because my chosen profession turned out to be acting, and there were no theatre schools in ireland at that time. so i left the island for the first time, to go to london, to a theatre school, to train. but when i was growing up, it was different days. i mean, we re talking about the 50s into the 60s, and there was a lot we didn t know about the world, and we only learnt about it by going down to the central library, and opening big books, and finding out that way. and in a way, i guess the world. we ma
ciaran hinds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now you are a man of belfast, born and raised there, and i think, as ijust mentioned, it s fair to say there is a real creative buzz around belfast and northern ireland today. but when you were a youth there, growing up, was it a place that you felt, as a sort of creative soul that you needed to get out of? it wasn t a place that i felt i needed to get out of. i mean, i did eventually, but there was a reason for that was was because my chosen profession turned out to be acting, and there were no theatre schools in ireland at that time. so i left the island for the first time to go to london, to a theatre school, to train. but when i was growing up, it was different days. i mean, we re talking about the 50s into the 60s, and there was a lot we didn t know about the world, and we only learnt about it by going down to the central library, and opening big books, and finding out that way. and in a way, i guess the world,
about belfast, which is home city to both of those men. one generation on from the so called troubles, northern ireland is seen as creative and cool, but have the wounds of the past really healed? ciaran hinds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now you are a man of belfast, born and raised there, and i think, as ijust mentioned, it s fair to say there is a real creative buzz around belfast and northern ireland today. but when you were a youth there, growing up, was it a place that you felt, as a sort of creative soul that you needed to get out of? it wasn t a place that i felt i needed to get out of. i mean, i did eventually, but there was a reason for that was because my chosen profession turned out to be acting, and there were no theatre schools in ireland at that time. so i left the island for the first time, to go to london, to a theatre school, to train. but when i was growing up, it was different days. i mean, we re talking about the 50s into the 60s, and ther