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John Ferguson review Irish farmers face tragedy on a biblical scale by Michael Billington

Finborough theatre, LondonSt John Ervine's 1915 play about a victimised rural family is a powerful portrait of the pros and cons of an iron faithIf you want to understand the Ulster Protestant ethos, you could do worse than watch this 1915 play by the Belfast-born St John Ervine. It doesn't have the social breadth of his earlier Mixed Marriage, revived at the Finborough in 2011, which shows how Belfast bosses ruthles…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:53AM on May 23, 2014

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