TV: A historical drama out of step with its subject

The new five-part series dealing with events of the War of Independence does not entirely deal with ordinary people ‘caught up’ in the war

Brian Gleeson as Jimmy Mahon in Resistance (RTÉ One)

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Resistance: RTÉ One

Catastrophe: Channel 4

Whatever you might think about Neil Jordan’s fact-bending film Michael Collins, it at least had some swagger about it. The Big Fella was played by the Homerically proportioned Liam Neeson in a movie that was little less than a sweeping paean of partisan praise. InResistance(RTÉ One), according to series producer Catherine Magee: “What we were interested in looking at was not the ‘great man’ ...