History & Folklore - West Cork People

Take the Michael Collins House virtual tour

WCP Staff April, 2020

If you can’t go to it, it will come to you! Take a virtual tour of Michael Collins House, Clonakilty using the Michael Collins House App. With a 45 min audio guide, photos, videos and more, learn all about Micheal Collins and the history of Irish independence. Available at: https://michaelcollinshouse.oncell.com/ or on […]

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Clonakilty historical group puts journals online

WCP Staff March, 2020

Local community organisation, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage, has recently put the full contents of their two sell-out ‘Historical and Archaeological Journals’, (published 2015 and 2017), on their website. The idea was mooted at a recent online meeting of it’s executive committee where it was suggested that many people isolating because of […]

The Spanish Flu – History repeating itself

Kieran Doyle March, 2020

Be safe, listen to the experts and behave responsibly As I write this article, I am conscious of how the current Covid -19 pandemic, is even affecting this very article. The editor of the West Cork People, Mary O’Brien, communicated to us that this month’s edition, was to be only […]

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Battle of Crossbarry commemoration

WCP Staff March, 2020

The 99th anniversary commemoration of the battle of Crossbarry will be held on Sunday March 29 next at 2pm at the monument. On March 19, 1921 the flying column of the third Cork brigade of 104 volunteers under the command of Tom Barry won a famous victory when they smashed […]

Civil war politics

Kieran Doyle March, 2020

Photo : Desertserges man, Dick Barrett One of the sound bites to emerge after the 2020 election is that the ‘old civil war politics is dead’. This reflected the emergence of Sinn Féin (SF) as a party equal in strength to the traditional big two, Fianna Fáil (FF) and Fine […]

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Thanking local history societies – look what you give us

Kieran Doyle February, 2020

There probably isn’t a week goes by, where some history lecture is to be found in the towns of villages of Cork. It’s something that could be taken for granted but based on the crowded attendances of two recent lectures, history is becoming more popular than ever. Last month there […]

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