The Ferryman's Laura Donnelly on how her uncle's murder inspired the IRA drama
The star of Jez Butterworth's acclaimed play grew up thinking her uncle had died in a car crash. Then one day she was told the truth: he had been 'disappeared' by the IRAOn New Year's Day in 1981, seven months before Laura Donnelly was born, her Uncle Eugene disappeared from his home in County Down, Northern Ireland, just near the border. He was 26 years old, a "bit of a tearaway" who had fallen in with the IRA.Three…