Diaspora Story Project

Rowan O Leathlaoibhir

The burning of Dunboy Castle in 1921

Orna Ní Bhriain

Guns and ammunition stored in Uncles ancestral home

Crossbarry Ambush & local IRA men

Great grandfather in IRA at age of 15

Great grandfather in IRA & stole the scales of justice from courthouse as protest to lack of justice

Great Great Grandfather took part in 1916 Rising in GPO; Great Grandmother on other side related to Sam Maguire

Illustration of the Upton Train

Great grandmother saved IRA men by warning safe house about Black and Tans raid

Movie Director John Ford sent money to IRA-neighbour Micheál O droignean

Great grandmother’s homeplace was safe house before Crossbarry Ambush

Story about safe house that de Valera stayed in

The Crossbarry Ambush

‘The Upton Ambush’

‘The Mystery of Michael Collins’ Revolver’

Daily life for a child in the 1930s/40s

Shot by a child looting a shop during the Easter Rising

Story of Great Granduncle in the British Navy

Family story of emigration

Family stories of War of Independence

Story of Great Grandfather Officer of the Coomhola Company, Bantry, Co. Cork