History Recap / XIIITheIrishVersion

* BuxomIsBetter: Seamus O'Neil tells explicitly that he was attracted to Mairead because of her large breasts. Her cleavage also distracts the soldiers at the checkpoints.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: The CIA forces [[spoiler:Jason Fly]] to impersonate [[spoiler:Seamus O'Neil (after his murder by Terence Parnell)]] to infiltrate a Cuban guerilla training camp.

** Terence Parnell turns out to be one. He forces Seamus to execute O'Shea. Then he orders Seamus to murder Jason Fly and he plans to kill Jessica. Since Seamus refuses to obey, he [[spoiler:tries to kill Jason Fly and murders Seamus in the process]].
** This episode also confirms that Giordino, one of the main villains of the series, is XIII's uncle.

** Since Kelly Brian is accidentally murdered and Jason Fly survives, Giordino gives Jason Fly the same choice: if Fly does not accept to work for him, he will frame Fly for Kelly's murder.

* TakingTheBullet: Seamus protects Jason with his own body when Terence Parnell shoots at Jason.

* {{Retcon}}: In ''[[Recap/XIIIReleaseTheHounds Release the Hounds]]'', Jessica tells XIII that she knows his story because she read a file about him after killing Warren Glass. She also tells that she thinks that XIII is Seamus O'Neil (and not Jason Fly) and that she just typed a report about Seamus O'Neil when she worked at the CIA. (She tells it after betraying Irina and Giordino and just before saving XIII's life, so there is no reason for her to lie at that point.) This album establishes the fact that she did much more than typing a report, since she meets Seamus O'Neil and Jason Fly when they are students, she witnesses the murder of [[spoiler:Seamus]] and she plays an active role when the CIA [[spoiler:forces Jason Fly to impersonate Seamus O'Neil]].

''The Irish Version'' (in French ''La Version irlandaise'') is the eighteenth album of the comic book series ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''. It was published in 2007. It is the first album of the series that was not drawn by William Vance and the only album of the series that was drawn by [[Creator/{{Moebius}} Jean Giraud]]. It was published together with the next album, ''[[Recap/XIIITheLastRound The Last Round]]''.

* TheMole: O'Shea is a member of the Sinn Féin, but he secretly works for the Brits.

* BuxomIsBetter: Seamus O'Neil tells explicitly that he was attracted to Mairead because of her large breasts.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: The Brits and the IRA. The British rule in Northern Ireland is presented as unfair: the trials of the Irish activists are unfair, people can be arrested for no reason... But the IRA is cruel and merciless: the IRA carries out a terrorist attack where civilians get killed (even if the civilian casualties are caused by a malfunction of the bomb), summary executions of traitors and embarrassing witnesses are commonplace.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Terence Parnell orders Seamus to kill Jason Fly because Fly knows Seamus's real identity.

* {{Retcon}}: In ''[[Recap/XIIIReleaseTheHounds Release the Hounds]]'', Jessica told XIII that she knows his story because she read a file about him after killing Warren Glass. She also tells that she does not know whether XIII is Seamus O'Neil or Jason Fly and that she just typed a report about Seamus O'Neil when she worked at the CIA. This album establishes the fact that she did much more than typing a report, since she meets Seamus O'Neil and Jason Fly when they are students, she witnesses the murder of [[spoiler:Seamus]] and she plays an active role when the CIA [[spoiler:forces Jason Fly to impersonate Seamus O'Neil]].

''The Irish Version'' (in French ''La Version irlandaise'') is the eighteenth album of the comic book series ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''. It was published in 2007. It is the first album of the series that was not drawn by William Vance and the only album of the series that was drawn by [[Creator/{{Moebius}} Jean Giraud]].

* {{Retcon}}: In ''[[Recap/XIIIReleaseTheHounds Release the Hounds]]'', Jessica told XIII that she knows his story because she read a file about him after killing Warren Glass. She also tells that she does not know whether XIII is Seamus O'Neil or Jason Fly and that she just typed a report about Seamus O'Neil when she worked at the CIA. This album establishes the fact that she did much more than typing a report, since she meets Seamus O'Neil and Jason Fly when they were students, she witnesses the murder of [[spoiler:Seamus]] and she plays an active role when the CIA [[spoiler:forces Jason Fly to impersonate Seamus O'Neil]].

* {{Retcon}}: In ''[[Recap/XIIIReleaseTheHounds Release the Hounds]]'', Jessica told XIII that she knows his story because she read a file about him after killing Warren Glass. She also tells that she does not know whether XIII is Seamus O'Neil or Jason Fly and that she typed a report about Seamus O'Neil when she worked at the CIA. This album establishes the fact that she was involved in XIII's story much earlier, since she meets Seamus O'Neil and Jason Fly when they were students, she witnesses the murder of [[spoiler:Seamus]] and she plays an active role when the CIA [[spoiler:forces Jason Fly to impersonate Seamus O'Neil]].

* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: The whole episode is flashback in the series: it is set at the time when XIII studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, years before the events of ''[[Recap/XIIITheDayOfTheBlackSun The Day of the Black Sun]]''. Inside this flashback, there is a flashback that tells the life of Seamus O'Neil, starting when he was 13.

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''The Irish Version'' (in French ''La Version irlandaise'') is the eighteenth album of the comic book series ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''. It was published in 2007. It is the first album of the series that was not drawn by William Vance and the only album of the series that was drawn by [[Creator/Moebius Jean Giraud]].

''The Irish Version'' (in French ''La Version irlandaise'') is the eighteenth album of the comic book series ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''. It was published in 2007.