‘Through it all is heard the voice of History (Micheál MacLiammóir) speaking in clear, measured, sonorous and authoritative tones.’20 Most adults in the audience probably knew that the voice of History was flamboyantly gay, a fact that was as obvious as it was rigorously unacknowledged. Most probably did not know his real dark secret, revealed after his death: that he was in fact an Englishman called Michael Wilmore who had entirely invented his Irish identity.
