does it not bother anyone that a character (Teddy) based on Gen. Tom Barry would fight on the side of the treaty & the irish free state? For those who don't know, that's the treaty that sold away the north & put the republic at civil war. Barry was a republican always. A fine man. "The wind that shakes the barley", directed by an englishman, takes from our incredibly painful and heroic West Cork -ingredients for a good fiction. Here's to someday making a film commemorating the true brave Irish heroes. Terrorized by black & tans, farmers, young boys & old men fought outnumbered - 312 men from west Cork brought the British army 12,800 stationed in west Cork, to it's knees. May we remember our brave heroes on this eve of sunday bloody sunday. Don't let them be forgotten even as our politicians rush to join the british crown. Sean O Tuama writes : "say your prayers for the brave soul of "x", even if you find that your prayers have turned to tears...