A selection of the most distinctive BBC documentaries produced in the last twelve months.
An unromantic view of a foreign land by Patrick O'Donovan.
"Ireland is not a tranquil, never-never land. It is a place with too much history of the wrong sort."
"To me, it is the utterly different, the unaffectedly God-centred place. Its supreme achievement is to have survived."
"The real horror of Ireland's history is that it was committed by honest men."
BBC film