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Crossing The Line (Paperback)
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Crossing The Line (Paperback)
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Crossing The Line When the factory opened in 1981, hopes were high
that John Delorean's revolutionary gull-wing the sports car would
create a much needed industry boost for Northern Ireland, the
troubled province being the centre of a new and ever more violent
breakout of The Troubles. The 660,000 square foot site chosen by
DeLorean on which to purpose build his factory sat in a bog on the
outskirts of the troubled towns of Dunmurry and Twinbrook. Building
began in October 1978 and was completed only 16 months later.
Hundreds of workers were employed there as the government offered
John DeLorean financial incentives to build his dream car on the
outskirts of Belfast and the resulting gull-wing sports car the
maverick manufacturer and designer chose to build there on British
taxpayers' money became both famous as well as notorious, the
sports car appearing in movies, video games, and television shows
and was immortalised in the cult movie Back to The Future - despite
the terrible and troubled history of the company that built it.
Manufacture of the DeLorean car started in 1981, but fewer than
9,000 cars were produced for the American market but these cars
were so badly designed and built that the company collapsed a year
after the plant had been opened. Seven of the men who helped build
this car signed their names on one of the last gull wing doors made
under the inscription 'The end of a dream - or is it?' - seemingly
in the faint hope that despite the Troubles in Northern Ireland
there might still be hope for a better and more settled future, a
future they had initially been assured would not only benefit them,
but their families, community and their country. Most remarkably,
since the closure of Harland and Woolf, the great shipyard in
Belfast, this was the first time Catholics and Protestants had
worked side by side in the North or Ireland, which they did
peacefully and amicably - until the fateful moment that Bobby Sands
died as a result of his hunger strike and with his death came a
fresh and terrible outbreak of violence and with it an end to the
hopes and dreams of the work force. This play tells that story
through the eyes of the workers, the owners and the management of
the factory, and the British who saw a chance to take political
advantage of the troubled province. It is also a modern day Romeo
and Juliet story for at its heart lies the doomed and blighted
romance of a young Catholic girl and her Protestant boy-friend.
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