He cheerfully greeted each child by name as he passed them.
Then he stuck his head into a classroom, where the students addressed him in unison, “Good afternoon, Mr. McCann!”The school is in the largely Catholic Falls Road area of west Belfast, which was engulfed for decades by the bloody sectarian struggle in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
Outside, where multicolored fencing provides a bright backdrop to children playing soccer in the yard, gunfire once ricocheted, with army snipers perched on rooftops and armored vehicles rolling by.
Persons:
McCann
Locations:
Falls, Belfast, Northern Ireland