![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy does a marvelous job at portraying Cushla’s immense guilt and passion sparked by the affair, which offers a much-needed distraction for her from the bombings and murders claimed by the IRA and the UDA. Their clandestine meetings start once Michael asks Cushla to give him and his friends Irish lessons, and soon they’re spending nights together. ![]() In the mid-1970s, Cushla Lavery, a 24-year-old Catholic teacher, falls in love with Michael Agnew, an older married Protestant barrister who has a reputation for defending the rights of the Catholics. Kennedy ( The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac) delivers an engaging if sometimes clunky story of a forbidden affair between a Catholic and a Protestant during the Troubles. ![]()
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