Ballingeary group explores dark deeds from the War of Independence 

The musical 'An Tuairín Dubh' revisits an incident in 1920 when young Volunteer Christopher Lucey was killed by Crown forces 

Bobby Wolfe as Christopher Lucey and director of An Tuairín Dubh Seán Óg Ó Duinnín.

“An official message received in Dublin from Macroom, Co Cork, states that while the auxiliary police were searching a house at noon to-day at Ballingarry [sic], a civilian named Christopher Lucy, of Cork, fired on them. The police returned the fire and Lucy was killed.” 

 The spellings of Ballingeary (Béal Átha ’n Ghaorthaidh) and the name of the UCC medical student shot dead near the village on November 10, 1920, were not the only questionable aspects of reports carried in The Times and other newspapers. The veracity of official accounts of the final moments of Volunteer Christopher Lucey (Criostóir Ó Luasa) is still causing debate in the Gaeltacht area more than a century later.