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All posts tagged "The Irish Problem"
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3.2KPlay For TodayPlay Not-Quite-For Today: Series Two
Thank God that's all finished...
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Cry, The
By Derek Mahon and Chris Menaul. A journalist in 1959 Ulster finds help reporting the nocturnal beating and abduction of a youth...
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Fire at Magilligan
By Harry Barton. Derek Halligan picks up hitchhiker Dilys Hamlett on the M2 out of Belfast. The two slowly realise they’re not...
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Gates of Gold
By Maurice Leitch. Two travelling evangelists spread a fiery gospel to a peaceful part of Co. Antrim in 1959, befriending a retarded...
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Play for Tomorrow
The future... about twenty-seven years ago.
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Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
By Stewart Parker. Simple but effective study of two girls on a winter’s day in Belfast, coping with separate yet similar tragedies....
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No Visible Scar
By Rosemary Davies. Nurse Barbara Flynn is mercilessly interrogated by the authorities for helping a wounded terrorist.
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Psy-Warriors
By David Leland. Prisoners of war apparently being brutally tortured by terrorists in Northern Ireland are eventually revealed to be soldiers from...
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Shadows on Our Skin
By Derek Mahon and Jennifer Johnston. Harsh and unsentimental study of the Troubles through the eyes of an eleven year old boy...
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Katie: The Year of a Child
By Ian Cullen and John Norton. Margaret Kelly plays a 14 year old child of a large Irish travelling family, who finds...
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Last Window Cleaner, The
By Ron Hutchinson. Detective Constable Ken Campbell is transferred to Belfast, taking digs in a run-down boarding house called The Crumlin View,...
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Legion Hall Bombing, The
Dramatisation of the trial of Willie Gallagher, accused and convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976. Originally scheduled as...
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Catchpenny Twist, The
‘A charade in two acts’ from the always-reliable Stewart Parker (his first televised work) making a wry, poignant farce out of the...
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Yer Man from Six Counties
By Colin Welland. Young boy Joseph Reynolds loses his dad in an IRA bomb blast and moves out to his uncle’s remote...
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Dandelion Clock, The
By Wilson John Haire. Examined the Belfast Troubles through the eyes of a young girl missing her AWOL father, and counting the...
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Taking Leave
By Joyce Neary. Soldier George Sweeney returns to his parents’ in Ulster after six years’ service, and finds they don’t want him...
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Carson Country
By Dominic Behan. Working class protestant life in Ulster circa 1920, during the formation of Home Rule. With Sam Kydd and Harry...
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