Northern Star review " Irish fall out in the shadow of a hangman
Tron, GlasgowOscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett make unlikely appearances as a Protestant radical revisits the doomed 1798 rebellion"Haven't we always been on the stage in our own eyes?" asks Henry Joy McCracken, a Protestant radical involved in the 1798 Irish rebellion against British rule. Played by a reflective Paul Mallon, he thinks his nation has a tendency to self-dramatise.What is certainly true is that no Irish d…