Diaspora Story Project

Katie Daly

Great Grandfather in IRA; driver for Tom Barry & Michael Collins; took part in burning of several RIC stations, workhouse etc

Julia Cotter

Great Grandfather in IRA; escaped from Black and Tans by jumping over a ditch

Archbishop Denis Hurley’s life story

Great Grandfather in IRA

Story of day to day life for ancestors during the Revolutionary period

Tom Barry disguised as medical student so he could travel to Dublin

Great Grandfather taken by IRA as driver; family terrified he’d never return

Great Great Grandaunt in house during Black & Tans raid; Statue of Our Lady miraculously missed by bullets

Story of ancestors’ daily lives and family history

Great Grandfather in IRA

Great Grandfather lied about age to enlist in WW1

Daily life for ancestor in Castlehaven

Great Grandfather taken by IRA as driver; family terrified he’d never return

Great Grandfather emigrated to America and returned to Ireland in 1920s

Great Grandfather in I.R.A.

Story about a coach house in Drimoleague

Great Grandfather in IRA; his mother killed trying to get a glimpse of him while he was imprisoned

Great Grandmother hid in chimney as child from ‘drunk and ruthless’ Black & Tans

‘Explaining the mystery of the Casement Ship’ the Aud

Story about local IRA man Seán Murphy