How Ireland’s violent history haunts The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated film is set during the bloody conflict of 1922, but it is not a neat metaphor for civil war.
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Roy Foster
Roy Foster is an Irish historian and academic whose books include Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923.
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