If there’s one thing we’re good at in this wee country it’s being able to laugh at ourselves even through the worst of times and it’s this dark sense of humour which plays out so well in The History of The Troubles (According to my Da).
Celebrating 20 years since first hitting the stage this wonderful collaboration between Martin Lynch, Conor Grimes and Alan McKee came back to Belfast this week with a sellout run at the Grand Opera House.
The play starts in 1969 as Gerry Courtney (played by Marty Maguire), an ordinary Belfast man and Rolling Stones fanatic, welcomes his baby son Colm into the world and civil unrest hits the city. A time when many including Gerry thought, “it’ll all be over in a day or two”.
