Written and directed by Enda Walsh, and with a cast comprising Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi, it is the hottest ticket at this year's Galway international arts festival. Then it will be the month of April, or of May, when the year is still young, a thousand little signs tell me so. userWall = 'paywall'; She was released after seven years on humanitarian grounds and, shortly after, married Rea.There was never any suggestion that her people would have rejected him because of his Protestant background, he says - \u0026amp;quot;they liked me\u0026amp;quot;. 62 Metascore. } } Please try again
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