Film-maker’s farm set in epic grassland

Only one generation away from the War of Independence and just a couple more from the Famine, every field of every farm in this country tells a story.

The memory of these events is strong — so much so that the renaissance in Irish film has been strongly marked by the biographical story of our recent past.

Maurice O’Callaghan’s screenplay — which he had made into a short film that launched at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival — went on to form the basis of the film The Wind that Shakes the Barley.