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Advertising helps us fund great journalism. card_expiry_style: stripeInputStyle, .reduce(function (allPrices, item) { subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.original_start_at, false : true; window.dataLayer.push({ There\u0026#039;s this surface level of chattiness and friendliness, and underneath that is a mass of guilt and questions about religion, race, sex - the subjects that Irish people are obsessed with.\u0026amp;quot;Rea has also seemed to embody other national questions, about identity and belonging. } const meterStats = JSON.parse(getCookie('subscriptionwall_meter_stats') || '{}'); card_cvc_style: stripeInputStyle, }; if (listeningForGigyaEvents === true) { He attended Belfast High School and the Queen's University, In 1980, he and Brian Friel set up their own company, Field Day Theatre Company, which toured Ireland and encouraged a new generation of Irish playwrights, at a time of hunger strikes and bombs. } }).map(function (key) { } }, 1000); if (!params[key]) { for (i = scripts.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { element.classList.add('fp-prevent-html-replace'); } Assuredly these did not involve his work with Jordan. if (returnURL) { It was such a pleasure.\u0026amp;quot;His own parents are both dead, but his mother lived to see his great success. return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; subscriptionFinishDate: '', He is to direct a monologue written by Thomas Kilroy, and performed by Laurence Kinlan, that gives voice to James Burke, a Terenure man who was caught in the crush of the crowd and died of shock a few days later.\u0026amp;quot;I\u0026#039;d worked with Tom Kilroy several times, and did the first production of his brilliant play Double Cross, and he\u0026#039;s a dear friend, so I immediately said I\u0026#039;d do it,\u0026amp;quot; Rea says. }); const oneMonthInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; }, eventData: { Rea was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Neil Jordan 's thriller The Crying Game (1992). 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And believe me, I had been waiting a long time for that.". premium_content: true, in Dublin. setPriceSelected(selectedPrice._id); }); badgeToFilterBy = urlHash; subscriptionStatus: cookieData.subscriptionStatus, } })[0]; "After the film came out, I was in New York, there was a Gay Pride march going down Fifth Avenue toward Washington Square Park, and they saw me and they started chanting my name. return { price.position = index; } else if (node.id === 'fp-tog-anch-2') { } const subscribeButton = el.querySelector('.button1:not([style^="display: none"])'); let userWall = 'none'; if (tabs) { expiry: now.getTime() + subscriptionwallPricesSelectedExpiry, metered_modal_display_period: "2592000000", const isHomeDelivery = false; } return priceExpireExist; document.getElementById('welcome_popup_wrapper').style.display = "block"; if (! }; selectedPrice._id) { const tweetUrl = socialEmbed.dataset.social_url; \u0026amp;quot;It is so long ago now I don\u0026#039;t even feel that I\u0026#039;m looking at myself.\u0026amp;quot;The film, with its themes of trans-sexualism and IRA violence, had an unusual box-office gestation. } window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; He is that rare thing, an Ulster Protestant with deeply progressive ideals. He is famously reluctant to discuss his late ex-wife Dolours Price, who was given a life sentence for her involvement in the IRA bombing of the Old Bailey in 1973. 2. } )[12] Price attended a performance of Rea's at the Court Theatre in London in 1973, the night before she participated in a car bombing which injured 200 people. }; We decided that we would have the performances as close as possible to the location where the person fell. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { }; eventCategory: 'upgrade_flow', subscribeLink.addEventListener('click', function (e) { let productClickSource = localStorage.getItem('product_click_source'); Still Crazy. badgeMap[tabPrefix + '-monthly-prices-tab-trigger'] = 'monthly'; const getBadgesForEl = function (el) { For Rea, art and politics have always been intertwined. article_id: sourceIsArticleMeter ? showPremiumBadge(plan); subscriptionStartDate: cookieData.subscriptionStartDate, } } setDataLayerMeterStats(event.detail.object); actionField: { }); I'm interested in bundleContainer.classList.toggle('-three', bundleContainer.children.length === 3); return 1; [8] He also narrated for the BBC Radio 4 production of Ulysses for Bloomsday, 16 June 2012. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, } }; \u0026amp;quot;The atmosphere was sectarian at the time but that was being changed by people like Eamonn McCann. if (!hash) { })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. 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