Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí review: Terrible things happen when people decide to go to war

The story is the killing of 13 Protestants over three nights during a truce at the end of the War of Independence

Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (TG4 and TG4 Player)

Ten minutes into Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (TG4 and TG4 Player) and things get complicated. Our narrator is Jerry O’Callaghan, whose father fought with the IRA in West Cork during the War of Independence. The story is the killing of 13 Protestants over three nights during a truce at the end of that war. The question: were the IRA involved in sectarian murders?

At this point, Jerry reveals his grandmother was a Protestant, descended from English settler stock who arrived during the Munster plantation in the late 1500s. Like everything else in Irish history, things aren’t as simple as they seem.