Finborough, LondonNo Irish play in recent months has given me more pleasure than this revival of a forgotten piece by St John Ervine. Written in 1911, long before the Belfast-born Ervine became drama critic of the Observer, it offers an urgent, powerful and still-topical account of the destructive impact of religious sectarianism on family life.Ervine's protagonist, John Rainey, is a passionate Protestant who works i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on October 10, 2011