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The oral history of The Wind That Shakes the Barley - The making of an Irish classic

The oral history of The Wind That Shakes the Barley - The making of an Irish classic
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Crossbarry ambush: Myths, facts and the in-between


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: the creak of leather, the soft shiiing-shiiing of metal upon metal, the murmur of boots on damp, hard-packed road – the unmistakable sound of heavily armed men on the move.   ....

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Leitrim's Bloody Sunday - Leitrim Observer


Leitrim’s Bloody Sunday
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The date of Friday, 11th March 1921, will be forever etched in the memory of those who follow history. This was Leitrim’s ‘Bloody Sunday’, when six young men were gunned down in their prime by the Black n Tans writes Cormac O Súilleabháin, Author of Leitrim’s Republican Story
In every conflict there is always an event or tragedy which stands out above all others. Something that strikes a chord within people and never leaves your mind. For the people of Leitrim, the Selton Hill Ambush is that event.
The date of Friday, 11th March 1921 will be forever etched in the memory of those who follow history, not to mention the descendants of the families affected and the generations gone, and to come. This was Leitrim’s “Bloody Sunday”, when six young men were gunned down in their prime by members of the Hampshire Regiment in the most defining engagement of the Tan War in Leitrim. In such situations many often could rightly ....

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