Ciarán Brady

Great grandfather fought at Upton (after his breakfast)

Anthony Slattery

Great grandfather and 3 brothers in IRA & ran safe house & hid guns

Áine O’Brien

Memories of the Revolutionary Period from an elderly neighbour

Paddy French, Sarah McCarthy & Liadhain Hogan

Multiple stories from Union Hall during the War of Independence

Donal O’Callaghan

Great great grandmother remembers ‘Tans checking list of house occupants & living in safe house where bread baked and ready for IRA who also drilled and made bombs in yard

Viktorija Stonyte

Great grandmother almost died in WW2 as a child when accidentally strayed onto Front; hid in groove from bullets

Rebecca Connolly

Great great grandfather Neilus Connolly; stories of his evading capture, his arrest & imprisonment

Lilly Heaton-Jones & Jessie Holmes

Great great granduncle delivered messages to safe houses; shot through back mouth in Bantry & died; buried in shallow grave & later moved

Katie Scannell

Family stories about the Burning of Cork; Kilmichael Ambush aftermath; Hiding guns on farm; Spike Island prison & WW1

Claire Griffin

Man smuggles suit as disguise for Tom Barry & arrested; men hiding under potato stalks Rosscarbery before escaping; house raid stopped when Colonel Hudson recognised family photo as someone he knew from WW1