Civil War-era novel greatly anticipated

HIS father fought as a teenager with Tom Barry and the Flying Columns and was a contemporary of Michael Collins, while his mother defied her family to support the Volunteers.

West Cork-born film director Maurice O’Callaghan has written a rip-roaring novel of two families in West Cork during the War of Independence and the Civil War.

The book embraces everything from the battles of Kilmichael and Crossbarry to the assassination of Michael Collins and the Ballyseedy Massacre of 1923.