Denise Ferran: Painter and RUA president on women in art and the loss of her son

Joanne Sweeney

"CATHOLICS didn't like you as your father was in the RUC and Protestants didn't like you because you were a Catholic, so you walked a narrow road," is how Denise Ferran sums up her experience growing up in Enniskillen, the youngest child of a Catholic policeman.

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