If a new TG4 documentary series is anything to go by, Cork is ahead of most other counties as far as it comes to famous love stories that end in tragedy.
Scéalta Ghrá na hÉireann/Love Stories of Ireland is a new series which got underway this week with an episode about Michael Collins and his fiancée Kitty Kiernan. That romance ended in tragedy with the killing of the Free State leader at Béal na Blath in 1922.
Next week s programme features another romance featuring a patriot, Robert Emmett, who fell in love with Newmarket born Sarah Curran, the youngest daughter of John Philpott Curran, an eminent judge who was against the relationship between his daughter and Emmet.