Diaspora Story Project

Isabel Nic Suibhne

‘Experiences of a child during troubled times’ including bullets coming through school windows

Ewan Stuart

Story about stones in Norrie Blue’s Lane off Townshend Street Skibbereen

Great Great Grandfather stopped at ‘Tans checkpoint as a 9-year old and terrified

Godfather’s uncle’s IRA experiences including being thought dead by family

Multiple stories from Leap area including executions, house burning, IRA members and ambushes

family story of Arrest in Co. Galway 1912

Story of Upton Ambush

Vol Michael O’Sullivan and The Curragh Interment Camp

Story about Vol Cornelius O’Sullivan’s & Spike Island

Family stories of experiences during the Revolutionary Period

Story of the Upton Ambush

Story about Upton Train Ambush

Story about Vol Michael Kelleher and Spike Island

Family story about the ‘Far Away Camp’ of Granure

Family Story of Cumann na mBan member Elise O’Callaghan

Story about Sir John Maxwell

Story about escaping from Baxter’s Bridge, Bandon

Great Great Grandfather fought in Civil war against his cousin

Family story Great granddad fighting the Black and Tans

Family story of growing up in Rosscarbery