“For a long time, I didn’t want to write about the Troubles, and then I realized you can’t really separate that from our experience,” DerryGirls creator LisaMMcGee tells MeredithBlake. “It’s in our DNA. We are still haunted by it.”
Lisa McGee, creator of the Netflix comedy “Derry Girls,” drew from her experiences attending a Catholic school during the Troubles in the ‘90s.
Because for a lot of the series, these characters are sheltered from it. This is the first time they’ve gone, “God, maybe we need to be the generation that changes this.” Also, just around me [while writing] there was just a lot of gloom and depressing news. I remember thinking, “We did this incredible thing once.” I thought about how miraculous that vote was. I just really wanted to celebrate it.I wasn’t 18 yet, so I just missed it. I wish I had.
It was really remarkable because people were voting [to free] men who had murdered their relatives. There were victims of bombings who had been left with physical and mental trauma who were voting, knowing that the people who did that were going to get out of jail. And it leads to Erin and Michelle having a big argument: Michelle wants her brother to come home, which horrifies Erin. Did you have conversations like that?
It’s a very small place, Northern Ireland. Everyone was touched by the Troubles in some way. I had friends who had relatives in jail and they got out after the Good Friday Agreement. And similarly, friends whose family died because of violence during that period as well., whom I reference in in the show a lot, was a politician from Derry. He really was one of us. People believed what he said.
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