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Ervine, St John Greer

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Ervine, St John Greer (1883–1971), playwright and novelist, born in Belfast. Many of his early plays (including Mixed Marriage, 1911; The Magnanimous Lover, 1912; and John Ferguson, 1915) were performed at the Abbey Theatre in its realist phase, and dealt with themes of religious violence and conflict in Northern Ireland. Ervine later moved to England, where he wrote as drama critic for the Morning Post and the Observer, and achieved his first West End success with The First Mrs Fraser (1929).

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