Seamas O'Reilly

And, you know, part of it is there's a trope, obviously, of the missing woman, even in the shows that this actress had done before and also in literature.

So there's play on that.

There's comment on that.

The sense, the sense in which

a character coming into the town who's so larger than life.

But her disappearance almost becomes a delight to everyone because it's, you know, there's that, the dark glamour of something going wrong and how much that inflects the sense of the tropes and everything else.

Well, the show itself is going to be set in the 70s, but the book is in modern day.

Oh, the modern day, sorry, okay.

But yeah, so it's, a lot of the people there are talking about, yeah, time before I was born.

I am, yeah.

So I was 12 when the peace process came in.

And so it's bifurcated pretty perfectly in my primary school days where the troubles, secondary school and onwards.

And so I think when I, definitely my, you know, as a young adult,

I remember having a very distinct sense and a quite a declarative sense that like, oh, this isn't my story to tell.

You know, I'm from, you know, a different time, you know, it's certainly not compared to my older siblings.

And, you know, some of my older siblings are 10 years older than me, you know, and certainly not compared to my dad or my grandfather, et cetera.

But it's only once I've got, since I've gotten older that I've realized how much we actually did go through it.

Yeah, we, you know, a bomb went off in my front garden when I was three.

We were, you know, constantly marched off buses for bomb scares and stuff like that.

Went through a military checkpoint every single day and every single night for the first 10 years of my life.