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Aidan Davison
Family history of the O’Neill’s and McCarthy’s from Eyeries
Diaspora Story Project
Adam O’Sullivan
Story about O’Donovan Rossa Sash & Toureen Ambush
Abbie Atkinson
Story about Crossbarry Ambush
Samuel Linehan
Great granduncle fundraised for IRA in America and Great grandfather a dispatch soldier in IRA
Róisín Curtin
Great grandfather helped to bring Terence MacSwiney’s body back to Cork
Meadhbh Kiely
Great grandfather in IRA at Toureen ambush, hid guns later used in Crossbarry Ambush
Mathew Kelleher
Great grandfather killed in WW1 & story of IRA man McEllistrim in Kerry
Kevin Dart O’Flynn
Multiple stories about two Great grandfathers’ time in IRA, Civil War, driving Dev on the day Collins shot & much more and Great grandaunt in Cuman na mBan
Jack Brew
‘The Black and Tan Medal’
Éabha Murphy
Great grandparents hid wounded IRA man after Upton Ambush
Ciarán Brady
Great grandfather fought at Upton (after his breakfast)
Chloe McCarthy
Great granduncle in IRA, shot and wounded at Crossbarry Ambush
Anthony Slattery
Great grandfather and 3 brothers in IRA & ran safe house & hid guns
Áine O’Brien
Memories of the Revolutionary Period from an elderly neighbour
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