'I went straight to whisky at 14': David Ireland on tackling booze on stage
His charged dark comedies tackling the extremities of religious conflict have occasionally led to walk-outs. Will his new play " about men, alcoholism and masturbation " be just as provocative? David Ireland is a worried man. The Northern Irish playwright's darkly comic, deeply political works about the Troubles have prompted trigger warnings and audience walk-outs in their time. Notoriously, Cyprus Avenue, described…