With the prospect of Civil War looming, Jack Larkin, a veteran of the War of Independence, is torn by his idealistic search for the 'True Republic', the love of his sweetheart and the memory of his dead father. Set in Dublin during the 1922-23 Civil War, The Republican examines the emotionally charged divisions that the Treaty with England created within the Republican movement and one man's desperate struggle to understand his decision to fight. The Republican is one man's journey though Ireland's darkest hour - a period which many would like to forget, but which is etched deep in the collective unconscious of the Irish Nation.