Political sensitivities that might have been stoked by the outrageously black humour and casual brutality of republican paramilitaries onstage have dissipated since Martin McDonagh wrote The Lieutenant of Inishmore in the mid-1990s. The Northern peace is still delicately balanced, but this set-up of unhinged INLA gunners running ludicrously riot seems from another world. Alex Murphy, Aisling Kearns in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Photograph: Patrick RedmondMcDonagh’s satire on sectarian violence, set during the height of the Troubles, but mostly set in Aran, was first seen in Ireland in 2006. Paul Mescal, Alex Murphy, Don Wycherley in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

Source: The Irish Times January 30, 2020 15:56 UTC