The Homecoming of Joseph Grace review – poignant story of a life unmoored by war and exile

Marina Market, Cork Michael Glenn Murphy is the accidental soldier and reluctant revolutionary reckoning with his past in Deirdre Kinahan’s touching drama of regret and return A ferry terminal in steely morning light is the bare setting for Deirdre Kinahan’s poignant drama of return, as a man (Michael Glenn Murphy) in overcoat, suit and hat clutches a suitcase and considers his next move. In the 50 years since he left Ireland on a misguided impulse, Joseph Grace has never been back until now. As a bus pulls up, he hesitates and turns away, assailed by memories. What follows in Louise Lowe’s at

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