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Irish Heritage Tree farmer Tim Daly gives an update on the native trees planted near Drimoleague in West Cork and shares how his grandfather inspired his passion for farming. Join the Irish Heritage Tree program and plant your roots in Ireland today.

By mid-March 1921, British crown forces invariably operated in West Cork in units of not less than three hundred.

The Crossbarry ambush restored IRA morale in March 1921, but could so easily have been a disaster. The Parish of Clogagh had never seen a funeral like it. No parish in Ireland would ever see its like again.  In the pre-dawn darkness, down the rain-slicked road from the church to the cemetery, the cortege came. The coffin was borne by six men, and behind the coffin, six mourners walked.   Six mourners. At an Irish country funeral.  It was as many as they dared bring.  Carried on the wind: th...