Diaspora Story Project

Beatrice Attridge

Great Great grandparents’ workers on farm hid in hay stacks when Black and Tans raided house

Aoife Hendy

Great Great Grandmother worked in munitions factory in UK & Great Great Grandfather in RNLI in Dublin

Sean Hurley was the only Cork man to die in the 1916 Rising

A turret in Coolcraheen that Michael Collins hid in

Son of RIC officer shot dead & family leaves West Cork to ultimately return

A church is built in Poland while Ireland was ‘experiencing Civil War’

Shooting at graveyard during Civil War between different side delayed Great Grand uncle’s funeral

Great Great Great Grandfather fought in WW1

Family relation IRA messenger shot in back aged 15 by Black and Tans

Family stories about being raided and secret messages & providing cover for Tom Barry’s reconnaissance of Skibbereen RIC Barracks

Great Grandparents lives in Malaysia during Irish Revolutionary Period

Story of the WW2 ‘Eire’ signs & Spain Tower

Farming in the 1920s

Great Grandfather as a little boy sitting on lap of ‘freedom fighter’ who was kidnapped and killed

Story of the coffin stone on Heir Island

The burning of Cork

Great grandfather in IRA, involved in Crossbarry ambush & had lucky escape from grenade with pin still in

Great, great, grandfather in WW1, afterwards injured in Russia

Story about yacht GGfather built during Ireland’s Revolutionary Period

Farmer hid in hay cocks as terrified of Black and Tans & story of GGmother being stopped and searched