A Night in November – New York Irish Center

The play's title is a reference to one of the most important nights in Irish soccer (football), the night in 1993 when Ireland and Northern Ireland played to a 1-1 draw. That was good enough to send Ireland through to the World Cup in the USA in 1994. This play is not about football, though. It is about tribes and tribalism, making it a contemporary subject not a historical one. Kenneth Normal McAllister (Allan Smyth) is a dole clerk at the Department of Health and Social Security in Belfast. He is a Protestant and rather proud of it. His position gives

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