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Kate Connolly
Granddad remembers U-boat sinking off Union Hall harbour in WW2 & some wrack came onshore afterwards
Diaspora Story Project
Kellie Daly
Great great great granfather was watchman for coastguards and had to mind bodies washed up inc. one headless corpse & later purchased coastguard station to live in
Jack Moloney
Great great grandfather involved in blowing up bridge near Skibbereen
Donal O’Callaghan
Great great grandmother remembers ‘Tans checking list of house occupants & living in safe house where bread baked and ready for IRA who also drilled and made bombs in yard
Davin Limrick
Story of ancestors’ lives including one who was killed during WW1
Daisy Taylor
Why yew trees were grown in cemeteries in times past & story of Knockfierna Hill and WW2
Callum Moloney
Story of burning of Michael Collins’ homeplace told by a neighbour; Great great grandfather arrested and forced to dig own grave but later released
Ben Perez
Story of Sean Hurley’s life and his death during 1916 Rising
Aisling Forde
Daily life in Reen and rationing during WW2
Shane Crowley
The burning of Schull Workhouse
Shauna Stam
A family story of the Netherlands during World War 1
Ailbhe Dahm
Great great great granfather travelled on ship just before it was torpedoed on return journey to Holyhead in 1918
Sasha Sahous
A Russian soldier of World War 1
Ryan O’Driscoll
Army bandsman in World War 1
Louis Dolan Anderson
The story of the impact of the War on a RIC man
Liadh O’Donovan
The Raid on the Fastnet Lighthouse
Kiva Scannell
Family stores from the Revolutionary period
Killian Power
Relationship between a RIC man and an IRA Volunteer
Fintan O’Brien
Execution of Captain Con Murphy IRA
Finn Bueb
Story of an old school desk