Yasmin Atalay

‘Tans shoot up Skibb pub and Great great grandfather evicted them & Story of IRA escape from Old Brothers’ School

Paddy French, Sarah McCarthy & Liadhain Hogan

Multiple stories from Union Hall during the War of Independence

Paddy French

Story of IRA man wrongly accused & young man who didn’t run from the ‘Tans

Lucy Deasy

Story of the West Cork Bottling Company

Liadhain Ní hÓgáin

Great great grandfather John McCarthy, active member of IRA, lots of stories of arrests, raids, ambushes, gun smuggling; met Collins on day he was shot and much more

Kellie Pearce

Great grandfather’s life as a fisherman in Union Hall & artist Robert Ballagh’s connection to Union Hal

Kate Connolly

Granddad remembers U-boat sinking off Union Hall harbour in WW2 & some wrack came onshore afterwards

Kellie Daly

Great great great granfather was watchman for coastguards and had to mind bodies washed up inc. one headless corpse & later purchased coastguard station to live in

Jack Moloney

Great great grandfather involved in blowing up bridge near Skibbereen

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

Davin Limrick

Story of ancestors’ lives including one who was killed during WW1

Daisy Taylor

Why yew trees were grown in cemeteries in times past & story of Knockfierna Hill and WW2

Callum Moloney

Story of burning of Michael Collins’ homeplace told by a neighbour; Great great grandfather arrested and forced to dig own grave but later released

Ben Perez

Story of Sean Hurley’s life and his death during 1916 Rising

Aisling Forde

Daily life in Reen and rationing during WW2

Ailbhe Dahm

Great great great granfather travelled on ship just before it was torpedoed on return journey to Holyhead in 1918