Special thanks to Sam Smith-Stevens, videographer. Music Score: Broken Bottle Genie by Todd Pate and Joe O'Brien. "Seamus Scanlon's The McGowan Trilogy, set on both sides of the porous Irish border during the 'troubles' of the 1980s, is internecine both in the modern sense (relating to internal struggles) as well as the word's original meaning (fought all the way to the death).