Clare County Council: Decade of Centenaries Arts Project Award 2021

‘I Fought the War’ : Revoicing Clare Women in the Revolutionary Period 1919-1921

© Tim Collins 2021

‘I Fought the War’ : Revoicing Clare Women in the Revolutionary Period 1919-1921

‘Brigades at War’ -  This documentary by journalist and historian Joe Ó Muircheartaigh examines the friction which existed between the Mid Clare Brigade led by the Barretts and the East Clare Brigade led by the Brennans during the War of Independence.

The Brigades at War

Safe as Houses - The Journey of Liam Mellows through Clare. A History Week 2022 documentary by Joe O'Muircheartaigh.

Safe as Houses - The Journey of Liam Mellows through Clare

Gael Force – Shots that Split Clare GAA explores the origins of the GAA split that occurred 100 years ago at the height of the Civil War
when Gaelic Games became split along Civil War lines.

Gael Force – Shots that Split Clare GAA by Joe Ó Muircheartaigh

Reading of the poem Donn na Duimhche, written by the Clare poet and seanchaidhe, Aindrias Mac Cruitín. 

Recorded and introduction by Luke McInerney.
Recited by Risteárd Ua Cróinín at Dysert O’Dea, Óiche Shamhna 2023

Reading of Donn na Duimhche

T24 Bonavella 08-07-1976

T45-1 Bodyke 29-06-1978

T57 Maghera 13-09-1979

T59 Maghera 26-09-1987

T85 Doolin 1962

T73-2 Rochford

T88 New York 1993-4

T105-1 Kelly

T105-2 Crotty Kelly

T21 Miltown Malbay 1976

JH12 Bonavella 1961

JH17 Spanish Point

JH2 Bonavella

JH7 Martin Junior Crehan

JH24-1 Kiltannon 15-08-1972

JH24-2 Aughrim 21-08-1972

JH39 Paddy, Thady, Bobby & Sean Casey

JH8-2 Martin Junior Crehan

JH49 Various

CM-LI49 London 1970s

CM-LI53 London C1972

CM-LI64 London 1970s

CM-WC120 Lahinch 11 March 1988

Podcast August 2018 - Clare County Library

Podcast September 2018 - Clare County Library

This podcast takes the form of a 'radio type broadcast' with historian Rita McCarthy sourcing information from around Clare in 1920 using local newspapers of the time.  Events covered give an understanding of everyday life in a county beset by the conflict of the War of Independence.

Social Life in Clare during the War of Independence

‘Two Lives’ – a documentary on Art O’Donnell and Michael Brennan by Rita McCarthy

‘Two Lives’ – a documentary on Art O’Donnell and Michael Brennan

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