Liam Neeson: 'I will never get over the Troubles'

New movie is Neeson's first about the 30-year conflict. 'It's in my DNA.'

Thirteen unarmed civilians were killed in Derry by a British paratrooper regiment - while another died from his wounds five months later.

Neeson said he suddenly woke up to a new reality .

“I went into my morning classes and was surprised to find them largely empty. Only two or three other students in my physics lecture hall. Leaving the building after class and walking back to the halls of residence, I was surrounded by a throng of about a hundred angry students who shouted at me, called me a scab. They were protesting against the Bloody Sunday killings, which had happened the day before, and were staging a university-wide strike.

"I had been totally unaware of the events the day before, totally unaware of the students’ strike, and almost totally unaware of the larger grim struggle that was going on in Ireland.

‘It was an experience that shook me deeply, in complicated ways. But the message I took then was, 'Boy, you’ve got to wake up. Get moving. You’ve got to get going.'

"It came to me maybe with more of a short, sharp shock than it does to most,” he said

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