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Enter your code hereThe access code entered is not valid. return { if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { window.showSubscriberElements = true; eventAction: badgeToFilterBy, show_spinner: true, let returnURL = getQueryStringValue('returnURL'); Stephen Rea seems to have a knack for choosing truly fascinating projects: from The Crying Game to Flesh and Blood, he never seems to pick a role that is boring. It was such a pleasure. var badgeToUse = ''; window.showSubscriberElements(); Fergus : Know what I didn't know? onboarding_article = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/'; In 2012 he appeared on Raidi Teilifs ireann to read The Dead from James Joyce's Dubliners for their program Book on One. } Perhaps I\u0026#039;m wrong\u2026 I would not put it past me to limp on to the transfiguration, but I do not think so.\u0026amp;quot; The reading features in a recent short film, Throes. !selectedPrice.badges && selectedPrice.badges !== Object(selectedPrice.badges)) { wallVisible: 'true' // Reset the positions after the flatten. He is that rare thing, an Ulster Protestant with deeply progressive ideals. } return item; const oneMonthInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; subtree: true, In the late 1970s, he was part of Focus Theatre company, along with Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney. purchase.coupon_applied : null, }); for (i = scripts.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { A girl has her feelings. } return; if (priceIdFromUrl) { "It was slightly fantastical, because they had a tank coming into Croke Park, which didn't happen, but [Jordan] wanted to show the military excess that was involved.". } He majored in English literature at Queen's University, Belfast, and began his acting career at the hallowed Abbey Theater there. if (isUpgrades) { : getPricesByBadge(); Although he came from a unionist background in Belfast, he saw with awful clarity the injustice of the city of his childhood. })[0]; }; He later trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. He is a frequent collaborator with Irish film-maker Neil Jordan. var text = document.createTextNode(labelText); window.dataLayer[0].user.premiumArticleViews = premiumArticleViews; } userWall = 'paywall'; }); fireProductClickEvent(null); const updateMeterStatsCookie = function (didomi, accessObject) { window.dataLayer[0].user.meteredResetDate = meteredResetDate; subscriptionStartDate: cookieData.subscriptionStartDate, badgeToFilterBy = 'monthly'; When your life is driving you insane, you can stay sane by just getting down and doing some work.\u0026amp;quot;So could he ever imagine stopping?He gives me one of those signature wry Rea smiles and says: \u0026amp;quot;Sometimes I wonder if I\u0026#039;ll get up in the morning.\u0026amp;quot;100 years on: 14 Voices commemorates the lives lost in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday This month, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on November 21, the Abbey Theatre partners for the first time with the GAA to give voice to the 14 men, women and children who were killed in Croke Park on that day, in 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field. el.querySelector('a[data-price_id]').style.display = 'inline-flex'; The film follows Fergus (Rea), a member of the IRA, who has a brief but meaningful encounter with a British soldier, Jody (Whitaker), who is being held prisoner by the group. fireProductClickEvent(function () { "She would never give me a compliment," he tells me. if (eventType === 'purchasing') { if (! if (bundles.length === 1 && bundles[0].coupon_applied === true) { ACTOR Stephen Rea carried the coffin of his ex-wife Dolours Price with their sons as up to 500 mourners attended the funeral of the Old Bailey bomber in Belfast today. } if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! Stephen Rea is an Irish actor who has been starring in numerous theater plays in Ireland and the United Kingdom since the early 1970s, but best known for the success he achieved with The Crying Game in 1992, where he starred as Fergus alongside Forest Whitaker. label: 'login', products: products.map(function (product) { Are you a Sanditon Superfan? Sink or Swim. step: 1 Your data helps us do that.

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