Breadboy: Teenage Kicks and Tatey Bread - What Paperboy Did Next

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The King is dead – and even Big Duff, the hardest loyalist hard man on the whole estate has been seen to shed a tear. Yer man’s an awful good big crater,’ explained my mother, ‘Sure he’s in the Black as well as the Orange. In spite of the fact that jobs were a rarity in Belfast, I had just secured my second major contract of employment.

I wanted to finish work and get home to practise my cracked Spanish guitar so that I could play like yer man in Queen with the curly hair. Unlike me, after my only bottle of Brut aftershave had run out, it never smelt bad on a Saturday morning. Survivors and perpetrators from the same village stood up in pairs and shared similar stories of reconciliation. And author Tony Macaulay is hopeful that a young unknown talent from the west of the city will rise to the challenge and star in the show. He was something of an authority on the security policies of the RUC and the British Army and he gave the impression that he played an important advisory role for MI5.This experience inspired me to ask Juvens if he would collaborate with me on a story of reconciliation. This wondrous vehicle was grander than my father’s Ford Escort respray and more welcome than a Shankill black taxi when the buses were off. And so refreshing to read of a loving, functional family doing their best to survive and thrive in such a bizarre time (as did mine! There were some nice moments and songs, though, in this rites of passage tale of the teenager working the Ormo bread van.

The Breadboy has discreet ventilation holes at the back to allow air circulation and for excess moisture to escape. My father had decided when the Troubles started that the sash his father wore should remain as a relic in the roof-space. He is a working class boy whose academic ability gained him a place at a staunchly middle class grammar school but where many schoolmates view him as a fish out of water.Following the smash-hit musical Paperboy that had 2 sell-out runs at the Lyric Theatre Belfast in 2019 and 2018, this new witty, heart-warming show will explore Tony Macaulay's second memoir Breadboy. I wondered if our shared love of bread provided a common bond, which held out some hope for peace in the future.