Professor Dermot Keogh, who passed away this week, was recognised as one of the country’s foremost historians, lecturing on the subject at UCC for over 30 years. This is an extract, published in the then Cork Examiner in March 1981, from his book Romero: El Salvador’s Martyr in which he details the massacre he got caught up in while attending the funeral of murdered Archbishop Romero in San Salvador.