CKP's “"A Terrible Beauty” brings The Troubles home when goodness and evil sit at the same supper table.
Belfast 1922.
Armed men bang on a door after dark as potential touts (spies) already sit at the supper table of an ordinary Catholic family trying live their lives.
Pending danger grips the evening.
Sharp questioning of guests by a wary matriarch.” From County Cork are you? And what town would that be?”
Rough intruders grill the guests—are they Republicans? Unionists? Catholics? Prods (Protestants)?

