Critics loved The Ferryman. But I'm from Northern Ireland, and it doesn't ring true
Jez Butterworth's hit play about the 'disappeared' of the Troubles fails to capture the complexities of that period of history. Then there's the cliches…Early in the summer of 1981, when the IRA hunger strike had already claimed the deaths of four republican prisoners, I travelled home from London to Armagh. My parents had not long moved from the estate where I grew up to my late grandparents' house three miles sou…