The involvement of relations on either side of the Ballyseedy atrocity 100 years ago next month has resonated down the decades for John O’Shea’s family, writes Mick Clifford

A wall of silence has long surrounded the scale and brutality of the violence in Kerry, not least the deaths of 173 people

Munster endured a particularly bloody era, with both sides losing men in military battles — and by summary executions