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Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin: A Life

 

Zoom lecture

Philip O’Regan

Thurs Mar 18 2021

8 pm

 

Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin was one of a number of West Cork men who were closely connected to Michael Collins during the War of Independence. Gearóid had the distinction of hoisting the Tricolour over the GPO in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916. He was appointed Adjutant General of the IRA in 1919 and was a member of the General Headquarters staff. Following the Treaty, Gearóid was appointed Adjutant General of the Free State Army.

 

Philip O’Regan is a native of Skibbereen. He is a former Deputy Editor of the Southern Star newspaper.Philip has had a lifelong interest in history. He is current chairman of Skibbereen & District Historical Society.He has a particular interest in nineteenth-century Irish history and has studied the Famine in the Skibbereen union in great depth.

 

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: Mar 18, 2021 08:00 PM
Topic: Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage Lecture on Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin by Philip O'Regan

Register in advance for this webinar HERE 

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Documentary: Historic Coastal Village of Timoleague

As part of Heritage Week 2022, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage visited the historic coastal village of Timoleague which is situated at the mouth of the Argideen river estuary.  To take us back over the centuries our guides are Diarmuid Kingston and Michael O’Mahony.

Documentary: Three Local Stories

Produced as part of Heritage Week 2021, this documentary tells three stories. The first part is the history of Lisselane Estate and in particular two of its owners – the infamous landlord William Bence Jones and in more modern times, C. O. Stanley. The second section concentrates on Kilgarriffe old cemetery and some of the many important individuals and families interred there over the last three hundred years or so. The final section of the video highlights Ring Village and the nearby Ballintemple Graveyard, detailing the importance of Ring as a port and the 800-year history of the cemetery wherein lay the remains of Tadhg an Asna among other notable names.