Ken Ilgunas

After the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland and a family reunion dinner, I got a ride with a local woman from Wigtown who trafficked me into Ireland in her car, which we’d park on a ferry traveling across the sea to Belfast. After a little hitchhiking, I wound up in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which many of the locals with anti-British sentiments call “Derry.” Derry was the site of “Bloody Sunday,” when, in 1972, thirteen civil rights protesters were murdered by the Britis