In the past she produced RTÉ’s Charles Haughey documentary, and the Fine Gael TV history Family at War, while working for Steve Carson’s Mint Productions. The Production Company for this programme is Reel Story Productions, whose director is Niamh Sammon. Rival TV production companies bid to fill slots with their proposals for one-off programmes in the series. The Hidden History series has an eclectic approach. RTÉ’s proposed Hidden History programme was inspired by Harris’s articles and by the Stanley book. Paddy Heaney’s original account was ignored, as if it did not exist. This was picked up by Eoghan Harris who published two Sunday Independent articles in October 2005 highlighting the religious aspect – the Pearsons, he says, were other-worldly, pacifist Amish types brutally murdered by savage, sectarian monsters intent on ethnic cleansing. In it the executions are portrayed as sectarian murder in furtherance of a land-grab during a bigoted anti-British rebellion. In 2005 Alan Stanley of Carlow published I Met Murder on the Way. In 2002 local historian Paddy Heaney gave the first published history of these events in his book At the Foot of Slieve Bloom, describing the Pearsons’ active involvement on the side of the Black and Tans. ![]() This documentary is about an execution by the IRA, on June 30 1921, of the brothers Richard and Abraham Pearson of Coolacrease, near Cadamstown, Co. After protests in the past two months, the title changed from explicit to implied ethnic hatred: the story of a supposed sectarian land-grab by grasping catholic peasants killing inoffensive Protestant neighbours. The original title reveals the real intent of the programme. The original title of this programme was: “Atonement: ethnic cleansing in the midlands” - see reproduction below of pages 1 and 13 from RTE presentation in Clontarf Castle on. ![]() Related Links: The Story Starts Here | The Hidden History documentary strand returns to RTÉ Featuring interviews with descendants of the men who carried out the killings, this portrait of a forgotten atrocity features substantial newspaper archive research, IRA witness statements and military documents from the period.” “The bloody tale of a bitter land dispute, involving a family of Protestant farmers in County Offaly, which comes to a deadly conclusion during the War of Independence. Guns and Neighbours: The Killings at Coolacrease This is how RTE is currently publicising it: RTÉ has announced a programme in its Hidden History series making controversial claims about IRA sectarianism during the War of independence.
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