At the height of the Troubles in the first half of the 1970s, Frank Carson offered an alternative view of a Northern Ireland that was busy tearing itself apart. With a cherubic face and squared-framed spectacles lending cartoon emphasis to mischievously twinkling eyes, Carson's comedy nimbly side-stepped the sectarianism that was reducing large swathes of his home town of Belfast to rubble.
SOURCE: The Stage at 11:53AM on March 8, 2012