Burial site of legendary Diarmuid found, says historian

A legendary warrior, also one of Celtic mythology’s greatest romantic figures, is buried near the graves of IRA fighters in a little-known cemetery in West Cork, a book to be published this month reveals.

Diarmuid Uí Duibhne was one of the central characters in Toraíocht Dhiarmada Agus Gráinne, an epic of love, betrayal, and death.

The tragic tale, reinterpreted in the 2015 film Pursuit, starring Brendan Gleeson and Game of Thrones’s Liam Cunningham, began when Diarmuid, a renowned warrior, eloped with the beautiful princess, Gráinne, daughter of the High King of Ireland.