Personal History – Ciara Condren

In Castletown, Wexford around the 1960’s I lived on a farm with my ma, da and 7 brothers and sisters. My Dad was a farmer so we lived out in […]

Personal History – Nathaniel Clark 4C

Secondary School Life during the 1940s in Sligo These are the memories of a lady who lived in Ballyshannon and attended boarding school in Markievicz House in Sligo during the […]

Personal History – Thomas Francis Mc Manus

This story is from a first-hand account from my father. It happened when he was only five or six. At the time him, his parents, and his grandfather, lived in […]

PERSONAL HISTORY – Colin Davis

My grandparents lived in a cottage in killery Balintogher near Lough gill. They had no electricity and there was no water and tap in the house for water. My grandfather […]

David Shannon

Michael Manning, Battalion Adjutant, Old IRA, Clifden District, Co Galway, received   intelligence that the Black and Tans were searching for an informer in Clifden who had set up an ambush […]