Portals to Other Worlds

Michael Ward is 70. He lives in a cottage in Dorset. This is his story.

I was born in Ireland in 1952. We were a nice middle-class family: two parents, two children, living in a pleasant cul de sac named Ardmore Drive, on the outskirts of Belfast. On the surface, everything seemed fine.

As the only Catholic family among some 40 Protestant ones, the realit…