A city torn between war and peace
Non-fiction: A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921-1924. By Padraig Yeates. Gill & Macmillan, €27.99. Reviewed by Andrew Lynch.
Sean O’Casey’s The Shadow Of A Gunman opened at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in April 1923, shortly before the end of the Civil War. Security was extremely tight, with soldiers standing guard at the entrance and another one inside showing actors how to hold a revolver correctly. Audiences had to be reassured that the sound ...