Upwards of four and a half thousand sons of Donegal fell in the Great War. Many stood and were cut down in the colours of the Southern Regiments at places like Ginchy and Guillemont in the Somme slaughter of 1916.

Those who died were conveniently forgotten in the prevailing political culture following on the War of Independence. No bands piped the survivors home; medals and honourable discharge scrolls were hidden away in the back of drawers; the pain of what they saw and suffered invariably went to the grave with them.

‘Léargas’ follows in the footsteps of the Tirconnell dead – searching out their ghosts in the homes of Donegal and among the monumental War Graves of Picardy.