Saving Private Ryan: How iconic scene 'shook' Wexford beach

"Most of the explosive charges on that beach were real, so when they went off the beach shook."
In 1997, the usually peaceful Curracloe Beach in County Wexford was transformed into a scene of bloodshed and horror as Steven Spielberg recreated D-Day in Ireland.
Saving Private Ryan was released to critical and veterans' acclaim for how it depicted the American assault on Omaha Beach.