Diaspora Story Project

Michael Sheehan

Account of prison life of captured IRA Volunteer through letters home

Matthew O’Neill

Great Grandfather’s involvement in War Independence

Family stories of Great Grandfather’s safe house

Story of Dunmanway, Co. Cork

Family stories of IRA company, Fermoy, Co. Cork

Family stories of IRA company, Fermoy, Co. Cork

Family stories of bomb making during the Rising

Family Story of Kilmichael Ambush

Personal family account from Grandmother Nell Kelly of her memories of the Kilmichael Ambush as a witness from nearby house

Story of Captain Flyer Nyhan

Great grandfather and two brothers in IRA.

Great granduncle Seán Hales-story of fighting on opposite side to brother & commanding Column on day Michael Collins shot

Granduncle in IRA & arrested

Lord Bandon held hostage & IRA-man brings beer and played cards with him

Great granduncle former Mayor of Limerick; spoke at rallies alongside DeValera, Casement and Pearse; received 2 threats to his life

Local IRA-man Richard Barrett arrested & jailed but escaped, later executed

‘ Local man shot in Lyre bar by Black & Tans from ‘about half a kilometre away’

Man shot in head in Lyre pub by Black & Tans from ‘a mile away’

Two local men killed in reprisal for killing by IRA of ‘suspected spy’

Grandfather hid under a table during Black and Tans raid & uncle found old guns in door frame in 1975