SOME old-fashioned surgery, a tasty boar cooking on a spit, and some cannon booming in the back round will be part of the entertainment, as the north Cork village of Liscarroll steps back bore than 350 years in time this weekend.
Liscarroll is overshadowed by the almost intact stone castle where the Irish, fighting on the side of the Catholic Royalists were defeated by Lord Inchquin in 1642.Britain.
The local organisers see nothing strange in commemorating a battle in which at least 600 Irishmen lost their lives. A publican and chairman of the local community council, Mr Noel Brosnan, says 80 per cent of the 10,000 men whoa fought on that day were Irish and they should all be remembered.
The battle was reinacted for the first time since September 1642 last summer by a contingent of the Sealed Knot group, which specialises in re- creating 17th-century battles, especially those of the British civil war.