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St John Greer Ervine NPG 2049

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Theodore Spicer-Simson

A clerk in a Belfast insurance office from seventeen, Ervine joined the Fabian Society and began to write, first for newspapers and then for the theatre. His first full-length play, Mixed Marriage, an exposé of Ulster sectarianism, was produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1911. He left Ireland in 1915, moving to London, where he built a reputation as a writer of drawing-room comedies, such as Anthony and Anna (1925), and The First Mrs Fraser (1929). Ervine returned to themes of Ulster in 1936... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.