Beyond The Bullets – Real Life During The Civil War

8PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★★

The social-history documentary moves forward to the period from June to December 1922, when the Civil War began, unemployment was high and Mussolini and Hitler were on the rise. However for the more well-heeled members of society, there was a scorching summer that led to high tourism, especially to seaside resort towns, while the rest of the country (right) struggled with the heat. One man’s heatwave is another farmer’s drought…