O’Connor's short story "Guests of the Nation" has been the basis of several films.[22] The story is set during the Irish War of Independence and chronicles the doomed friendship between the members of an I.R.A. unit and the two British Army hostages whom they are guarding.[23] The first film was a silent one, directed in 1934 by Denis Johnston and featuring Barry Fitzgerald and Cyril Cusack.[24] Neil Jordan's award-winning film The Crying Game was inspired in part by this story.
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