Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994

Thirty years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still ugly truthFamily: Ballymun was chosen ‘because it’s an internationally recognisable landscape’ for a story that could happen in any cityI remember opening the brown envelope. There was a stamp on it, and my address. But it felt light. Inside I found a newspaper clipping, folded.

‘Ireland has changed since 1994. In some ways the place is unrecognisable. But violence in the home hasn’t gone away. Are some things, some facts, just unbearable?’ So, 30 years later, as I listened to Oliver Callan and John O’Regan talking about Riverdance, I thought to myself, “They’ll mention Family”. But they didn’t – at all.

impacted on them. A few weeks ago I got an email from a man who told me about watching Family with his mother. He’d been a bit young to be watching it, he wrote, but she had wanted him to see what her life had been like before she’d met his father. Recently, a friend of mine described watching Family

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