Bandon massacre of 1922 is revisited in TV doc
OVER three dark nights in April, 1922, 13 men were murdered in West Cork - purely because of their Protestant religion, according to the late historian, Peter Hart.
In 1998, he said what became known as ‘The Bandon Valley Massacre’ was the point where “the nationalist revolution had also been a sectarian one”.
The programme will go to the root of the bitter historical war of words that Hart’s controversial views have created.
It includes a last long interview which presenter, Jerry O’Callaghan, did with Canadian Hart, who died in 2010, and also interviews with O’Callaghan’s, father, an active member of the West Cork IRA.
Included also is an interview with O’Callaghan’s Protestant cousin, a grandson of one of the victims.
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