Category: Abbeystrewry National School, Skibbereen

Foyinsolami Aba

Father fell out of coconut tree on Great Great Grandfather’s farm in Nigeria

Fionn Coombes

Woman saved Crown Solicitor from being shot by disguising him as a nun

Great Great Uncle died aged 19 in Battle of the Somme

Granny on school in the 1950s and pursuing her dream to become a nurse

Story of William Fahy’s genealogy work and website

Crown Solicitor surrounded by IRA & saved by woman who disguised him as a nun to escape

Granny had to go in bomb shelter during WW2 and lost everything when her house bombed

Great Great Grandfather shot in knees by Free Staters for storing guns for IRA

Family had farm in India; Grandad a soldier; Grandad arrested for preaching gospel in Dubai

Great Great grandparents’ workers on farm hid in hay stacks when Black and Tans raided house

Great Great Grandmother worked in munitions factory in UK & Great Great Grandfather in RNLI in Dublin

Sean Hurley was the only Cork man to die in the 1916 Rising

A turret in Coolcraheen that Michael Collins hid in