The link to the recording of our Sean Hales and Dick Barrett commemorative event held on November 18:2022 is HERE

Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage Seán Hales and Dick Barrett: Centenery Remembrance, 18th November 2023 at the Clonakilty GAA Pavilion.

Regrettably, Sean and Dick took opposite sides on the Treaty, which Sean supported and Dick taking the anti-treaty side. On 7 December 1922, Sean was shot dead in Dublin, possibly in a case of mistaken identity, by anti-Treaty IRA. In response, the Free State Government decided on the drastic action of executing prisoners, without charge or trial, as a reprisal for Sean’s horrific death. Dick had been a prisoner in Mountjoy Jail since the fall of the Four Courts six months earlier and was executed the next Morning, December 8th 1922