Plants that conjure up the otherworldly beings in their name are the ones to watch, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

 

This fairly low-budget actioner takes as its basis the popular novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliff, a story set in Roman Britain which has become obscured by myth.

THE ritual of clearing out her turf-fired Stanley range turned to delight for Kerry woman, Sheila Edgeworth, when she discovered a 1,400-year-old brooch – dating from the early Christian period – among the ashes.