Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jeremy Irons has given his time free of charge to help a heritage centre produce a series of short films detailing harrowing, true stories of the Great Famine in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

A play which sheds new light on the bloody pirate raid of a West Cork village in the 1600s will be performed over the next three nights.

A play of the famed and bloody invasion by pirates, of a West Cork village in the 1600s will add another twist to the conspiracy theories about The Sack of Baltimore.