TV writer says pro-Israeli views shut out of the arts
David Ireland, the Belfast writer behind Coldwater, The Lovers and Cyprus Avenue on his loyalist roots, Israel, alcoholism & God
People in the arts community who have sympathy with Israel are treated 鈥渂asically like a Nazi鈥� according to the writer of a major new TV drama.
David Ireland has said that the situation in Israel and Gaza is an 鈥渋mpossible thing to talk about鈥� for some people working in the arts.
Ireland is the writer behind the ITV crime thriller Coldwater staring Eve Myles and Andrew Lincoln, as well as The Fifth Step, a play currently starring Jack Louden and Martin Freeman and showing at the Soho Place in London.
Born in Belfast, Ireland has said that there is a natural affinity between unionist communities in Northern Ireland and Israel.
In this episode of The State of Us, he explores that, and much more 鈥� including his relationship with alcohol, God and the rest of the arts community.
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