The writer of a new drama set in 1880s Ulster says it warns “we can’t afford to go back” to how things were before the Northern Irish peace process.
Death and Nightingales writer Allan Cubitt says there is a “deeply felt” divide that risked becoming “active” in the wake of the Brexit border row.
“Representing how divided things were back then is a reminder we can’t let that divide reassert itself,” he says.
Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys co-star in BBC Two’s Death and Nightingales.
Set in County Fermanagh before the partition of Ireland, it tells of a young woman, played by newcomer Ann Skelly, who is torn between her Protestant stepfather and her Catholic lover.
The region’s religious and territorial tensions serve as a backdrop to the three-part drama, which Cubitt adapted from Eugene McCabe’s 1992 novel.
According to the writer, the action in McCabe’s novel is set at “the start of modern terrorism… during the time of the Fenian dynamite campaign”.
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