Set in Belfast, the play follows the Rainey family. As the city’s factories come out on strike, John Rainey, the respected head of a Protestant family, acts to calm the sectarian tension being stirred up by politicians for their own ends.
He succeeds in uniting his fellow working men against the factory owners. His son Hugh Rainey announces that his wishes to marry the beautiful Nora Murray, a Catholic.
John Rainey’s beliefs are challenged.
He retracts his support from the strike and as a result the rioting intensifies. In the final act of the play, the Raineys are trapped in their house as the riot rages outside.
Our copy of the script was first published in 1920 to coincide with the plays revival in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
This is just one of the many play scripts that we have in stock.