It is a lovely sunny day in Cork, hurtling towards the depths of summer 2023. There are hundreds of people enjoying the wide variety of food on offer at the famous Marina Market, and they’re all completely oblivious that they are just a few feet away from some of the most recognisable Corkonians this side of Cillian Murphy.
It started without any formal declaration of war and ended without a negotiated peace. But Ireland’s Civil War – deemed to have run from June 28, 1922, until May 24, 1923 – left us a legacy of deeply entrenched bitterness and framed this nation’s politics across the 20th century.