Theatre review: The Book Of Names gets personal with IRA cell in Dublin docks 

The innovative production by Anu for Dublin Theatre Festival immerses its audience in a tale from the War of Independence 

Thomas Reilly in The Book Of Names at Dublin Theatre Festival.   Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Book of Names, The Pumphouse, Dublin Port, ★★★★☆

In keeping with the highly successful technique of marrying people’s history with specific places, writer-director Louise Lowe’s latest creation for Anu begins at a windswept and rainy Dublin Port, with a brief introduction to Q Company, the IRA cell of dockers and port workers that helped smuggle almost all the arms and ammunition to be used in the War of Independence.