Derry Girls, The Troubles, & Climate Activism
Nov 2 · 4 min read

In Derry Girls, the Netflix comedy about a group of friends coming of age in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, we the immediacy of teenagedom against the backdrop of political turmoil. Life for Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle, and James, though, still revolves around the seemingly insignificant: the local hot priest, mayhem at a chip shop, and sneaking to a concert in Belfast. Even as the sociopolitical stakes…

