Category: St Joseph’s GNS, Skibbereen

Elaine O’Donovan

Story of Daniel O’Connell’s life & his Monster Meeting in Skibbereen

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

Ava Minihane

Woman asked sons to kill man visiting pub near her house

Aoife Hurley

Great granduncle jailed in Spike for being in IRA; other Ggreat granduncles emigrated to New York

Ayleasha Brosnan

Story of grandmother’s life from emigration, WW2 & marriage

Amy McCarthy

Great great grandfather got ill himself while helping others & didn’t survive

Amie O’Driscoll

GGfather was explosives expert; in charge of TNT used to widen roads

Aisling Collins

Cattle stolen from ‘Big Houses’ to fund IRA and sold in Dunmanway market

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