Post-Brexit, ‘Observe’ play shows Ulster has indeed grown lonely

Frank McGuinness sees redemption for a province in the context of union with the rest of Ireland, writes Victoria White

It was 1985, we were in the dead centre of the last recession, the Troubles were in full fury up North, and hardly anyone I knew had ever spoken to a Northern Unionist.

That was the moment when Frank McGuinness put eight Ulster Protestants on the stage of the Peacock Theatre as they prepared to meet their end at the Battle of the Somme.