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Kilmichael Ambush Aftereffects
Former school principal of Dromleigh NS in Kilmichael, Anne Bradley, recounts the aftermath of the Kilmichael Ambush and the repercussions for local people as part of the Stories of the Revolution Project skibbheritage.com/the-stories-of-the-revolution-book/
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Stories of the Revolution Book Launch
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The launch of the Stories of the Revolution book in September 2022 had over 430 attendees, many of the budding authors. This short video presents highlights from the evening and features interviews with some of the students involved as well as some of the project team.
Stories of the Revolution Book and Archive
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A treasure trove of oral history on the 1916-23 period, collected by 823 children around West Cork Full details skibbheritage.com/stories-of-the-revolution/
Fenian Denis Downing
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Denis Downing was a Skibbereen-born revolutionary Fenian who went on to fight in the American Civil War. Famous for starting a 'sing-song' on the eve of the charge of Fredericksburg, he went on to officiate at the execution of Mrs Surratt for her role in the assisination of President Abraham Lincoln. Downing is buried in Chapel Lane Graveyard Skibbereen in an unknown location.
Inchydoney & Tragumna c. 1960
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A 'day out' to Inchydoney Strand for some Skibbereen children c. 1960 followed by a short video of swimming and water rescue at Tragumna.
'The Procession' & Holy Cross mass in Skibbereen 1960
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Religious events were once huge occasions in Skibbereen and this short video shows the 'Procession', held for the festival of Corpus Christi in June every year, making its way through the town in 1960. This is followed by footage of the outdoor mass at the Holy Cross on Coomb Hill, which took place every summer. This involved a steep climb in one's 'best clothes' but it was clearly another very...
Famine Mass Grave at Chapel Lane, Skibbereen
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Chapel Lane Graveyard, just north of Skibbereen town, featured in two famous Famine illustrations which were published in the newspaper the 'Illustrated London News' in February, 1847. One of these illustrations is of the watch house which once stood in the centre of Chapel Lane graveyard where 'the dying could bury themselves' during the horrors of the Great Famine. A graveyard watch house was...
Famine Mass Grave at Drimoleague, West Cork
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Drimoleague lost some 42% of its people to disease, starvation and death during an Gorta Mór, Ireland's Great Famine of the 1840s. As part of the Skibbereen Union, this area was one of the worst affected in all of Ireland during that crisis. The mass grave at Drimoleague's old graveyard was dug as an emergency measure for the hundreds who were dying in the area during that terrible time. This s...
Famine Mass Graves at Skibbereen Workhouse
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The workhouse was the final refuge for thousands of starving people during Ireland's Great Hunger. The Skibbereen Union was one of the worst affected areas in Ireland by the crisis and its workhouse was grossly overcrowded and underfunded. The smaller workhouse at Schull was opened in the early 1850s. Thousands died in the Skibbereen Workhouse during the Famine of the 1840s and, at first, these...
Confirmation Day in Rossmore c. 1960
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Confirmation day in Rossmore, county Cork was a big event in 1960 with the long-serving Bishop Lucey officiating in full regalia (and everyone else dressed in their best too) (with thanks to Peter McCarthy)
Chapel Lane Graveyard Skibbereen
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Chapel Lane Graveyard, just north of Skibbereen town, is the final resting place of generations of local people and this short film features some of the stories of those buried in this graveyard. These include many early Fenians; several veterans of the American Civil War; numerous Famine victims, and a man who tried to save them. This short film features two illustrations relating to Chapel La...
Glengarriffe 1960
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This short video features views of Glengarriff and the bay in 1960; Garnish Island, boats in the harbour, the pier and the Eccles Hotel. (with thanks to Peter McCarthy)
Abbey School Skibbereen Opening 1960
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The opening of the Abbey School near Skibbereen in 1960 was a big occasion and this short film features many local faces from that eventful day. (With thanks to Peter McCarthy) All images and text © Skibbereen Heritage Centre
Drimoleague Old Graveyard
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Drimoleague is in the heart of West Cork, and its beautiful old medieval graveyard, just north of the village, contains burials from the local Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland and Methodist communities. There are centuries of burials in Drimoleague Old Graveyard including nameless victims of the Great Famine, buried in a mass grave during that terrible time. This short video gives an overview ...
Skibbereen Athletics Club Sports Day 1960
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The Skibbereen Athletic Club held its Sports Day in the Rossa Park in 1960 and this short film shows some of the races from that day as well as the prize giving ... and features some members of St Fachtna's Silver Band on a lemonade break. (with thanks to Peter McCarthy) All images and text © Skibbereen Heritage Centre
Convent of Mercy Skibbereen Centenary 1960
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Convent of Mercy Skibbereen Centenary 1960
Baltimore IDRA Dinghy Sailing Week 1960
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Baltimore IDRA Dinghy Sailing Week 1960
Glandore, West Cork , c.1960
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Glandore, West Cork , c.1960
Cape Clear Island, West Cork, 1960
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Cape Clear Island, West Cork, 1960
Lough Hyne/Ballyalla c. 1960
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Lough Hyne/Ballyalla c. 1960
First Holy Communion in the 'Nuns' Garden' Skibbereen c. 1960
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First Holy Communion in the 'Nuns' Garden' Skibbereen c. 1960
Skibbereen Show in 1960
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Skibbereen Show in 1960
Great Famine in the Skibbereen and Schull Workhouses
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Great Famine in the Skibbereen and Schull Workhouses
Famine Burials in Cillíní
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Famine Burials in Cillíní
Cillíní - children's burial grounds in Ireland
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Cillíní - children's burial grounds in Ireland
West Cork Graveyards Project
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West Cork Graveyards Project
Widow Lynch Dies in Famine Skibbereen
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Widow Lynch Dies in Famine Skibbereen
Boy Buried Alive in Famine Pits Skibbereen
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Boy Buried Alive in Famine Pits Skibbereen
Aughadown Graveyard
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Aughadown Graveyard
Famine Mass Graves at Abbeystrowry Skibbereen
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Famine Mass Graves at Abbeystrowry Skibbereen

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  • @AnBreadanFeasa
    @AnBreadanFeasa Місяць тому

    Ar fheabhas... grmma ❤

  • @lightningspirit2166
    @lightningspirit2166 Місяць тому

    I'm sure some of my mothers relatives must have experienced this in and around bandon co cork,may their souls find happiness...!😮😮

  • @allisonshaw9341
    @allisonshaw9341 Місяць тому

    Great Britain will have hell to pay come Judgment Day for how it treated the Irish people.

  • @aprilsun8562
    @aprilsun8562 2 місяці тому

    Eugenics plans going on then as now no doubt.. 😢 Google Galton

  • @aprilsun8562
    @aprilsun8562 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for this film. I dream of my unknown Cork and Kerry ancestors sometimes.

  • @lightningspirit2166
    @lightningspirit2166 2 місяці тому

    The sad thing is all my great grandparents,are buried in kolbrogan bandon,and my mother and ourselves are exiled in england due to seeking work and poverty ...at least our ancestors were buried in their homeland but we will die and be buried as exiles...

  • @seanohare5488
    @seanohare5488 3 місяці тому

    Very interesting well done

  • @russellhogan2708
    @russellhogan2708 4 місяці тому

    I wonder about a connection between the Counter-Reformation & the beginning of these burial grounds, the Church trying in its own clumsy & heavy handed way to preserve the “sacredness” of regular burial grounds. Inexcusable from this vantage point, like many rules.

  • @russellhogan2708
    @russellhogan2708 4 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for this. I only heard about cillini from Patrick Joyce’s book Remembering Peasants. Such sadness & devotion in this whole idea & custom.

  • @forasfeasa
    @forasfeasa 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful video! Thank you

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 4 місяці тому

    Our self àlone forget😢

  • @dogwhistle8836
    @dogwhistle8836 5 місяців тому

    This is a brilliant piece of work on Irish history

  • @eriktroske6405
    @eriktroske6405 5 місяців тому

    And even now, the bastards still haven’t left Ireland entirely

  • @sileado2896
    @sileado2896 5 місяців тому

    Love the Island and Love the people.

  • @joemccarthy8293
    @joemccarthy8293 5 місяців тому

    Certainly one of my life's most memorable events was during my only visit to Ireland, when Tadhg O'Driscoll brought me to this holy place and was able to show me the two unmarked graves where my McCarthy ancestors of Heir Island were buried. I can close my eyes and travel there despite my physical body being in the states.

  • @MichaelEnright-gk6yc
    @MichaelEnright-gk6yc 8 місяців тому

    Poor people today are treated nearly as bad .

  • @jmk1962
    @jmk1962 9 місяців тому

    Very helpful.

  • @pomerau
    @pomerau 9 місяців тому

    I'm not in to Irish history and was never very fond of my home country, but this brings home how near ago the famine was (I couldn't have told you), and the scale and the suffering of so many people. Plus the seeming inhumanity and cruelty of many people of the time, both in relation to the famine but more directly those horrendous workhouses where humans were treated awfully. Seems like any religion Catholicism could turn a blind eye if it wanted to. I grew up in Cork City until aged 17, but my father's family were originally from Skibbereen, though we seldom passed through it. I lost touch with my remaing family at that age, in 1977, so this fills a gap for me. I'm living in London 37 years (now hate it here too - being impoverished but not on the scale here) previously living in Dublin for 10 years until 1987. Thanks for the video.

  • @jerryfields4837
    @jerryfields4837 9 місяців тому

    thanks brits,, AGAIN...3 thousand english pounds she sent for famine relief, and then spent 250, 000 pounds on the memorial for her dead husband...i drive by that graveyard everyday and bless myself for those poor souls..i hope if there is a God he was watching this and give those poor souls everlasting happiness

  • @botatobias2539
    @botatobias2539 11 місяців тому

    Hello, I hope you will reply. I only recently picked up the topic of the Great Famine and there's one thing that confuses me. What exactly is the relation between Skibbereen and Caheragh? Does Skibbereen own Caheragh as a sort of subordinate village/suburb? I ask because of that rather infamous sketch of the boy and girl, I saw it used interchangeably for both, so I was wondering if it's an actual relation between the two places or if it's just a matter of proximity.

    • @skibbereenheritagecentre8706
      @skibbereenheritagecentre8706 11 місяців тому

      Caheragh is an area in the Skibbereen Poor Law Union that existed during the Famine so appropriate to be named as part of 'Skibbereen' as such.

  • @exsaxpommernjung
    @exsaxpommernjung 11 місяців тому

    In der Schule haben wir von dem Wort „Famine“ nichts gehört, ich kenne es aus dem Lied „The Fields of Athenry“. Ebenso nie etwas gehört von „Holodomor“. Kennst du das Wort? Schau nach Holodomor. We didn't hear anything about the word "Famine" at school (at the time in GDR), I know it from the song "The Fields of Athenry." Also, never heard of "Holodomor". Do you know the word? Look for Holodomor. Beides sind Genocide mit über 5 Million Menschen, die verhungerten. Both are genocide with over 5 million people who starved to death. 💔

  • @myhousenow
    @myhousenow Рік тому

    😢

  • @johnkelly879
    @johnkelly879 Рік тому

    It wasn't a famine it was a holocaust

  • @johnkelly879
    @johnkelly879 Рік тому

    The population has fewer people now than before the famine.

  • @user-gl2eq2ly4g
    @user-gl2eq2ly4g Рік тому

    We had a workhouse in my town .... We were always afraid to go near it because, as kids, we thought there was still disease in it.

  • @user-gl2eq2ly4g
    @user-gl2eq2ly4g Рік тому

    It resonates because it shows somebody recognized the problem and cared at a human level and out of generosity tried to do what they could to help.

  • @marykatherinegoode2773
    @marykatherinegoode2773 Рік тому

    I would seriously consider a sort of national survey of the graves to answer some questions about the Famine that either were not answerable at the time or might not be accurate. Privately, I suspect more died than we know, but the only way to prove that would be to dig up the pits. WAIT, WAAAAAIT, HOLD YOUR FIRE!!! Hear me out before you throw the rotten tomatoes and muck!!! I SWEAR, it would be for honest reasons, and also there would be every intention of putting them back to their eternal rest unless their descendants can be connected to the body and would wish to give them the burial and a coffin they were denied long ago. What we could find out or reconstruct would be how many died of cholera, how many died of typhus, how many had refeeding syndrome, total body counts per site per county, etc. it would be an unpleasant job, but it would let the dead speak when so many couldn’t bear to do it. It would be, in a way, seeking justice: Ireland is free now, and has been for 100 years. The people now are well fed and pat their bellies after eating a nice ROAST BEEF sandwich at lunchtime, something in 1846 they would have had to steal to get anywhere near, particularly the beef. Time to reckon with the ones who never got that far. And if my suspicions are right, if the numbers were fudged, the proof will show itself in those graves.

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Рік тому

    Considering the story it seems the deaths from starvation and disease had to be far more.

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Рік тому

    Why are there no reports of opportunities to fish and hunt along the land?

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Рік тому

    19:15 the story of Chactaw Indians sending money and grain to the Irish is telling of the natural truth of human nature.

    • @MichaelEnright-gk6yc
      @MichaelEnright-gk6yc 8 місяців тому

      The Chactow Indian's knew what it was like to be enslaved by the conquering colonialist's Poor houses were concentration camps

  • @Hands2HealNow
    @Hands2HealNow Рік тому

    Why is there never any mention of the OVERLORDS NEVER BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR STOPPING ANY FISHING AND OTHER FARMING for people to feed and care for themselves!!!

  • @LadyStardust45
    @LadyStardust45 Рік тому

    Ive been to this cemetery. Why is it so overgrown?. This is so sad to see when others are looked after.

  • @champagnjethersiahdduvenag6078

    😢those work houses were nothing other than jailes.

  • @champagnjethersiahdduvenag6078

    Thank you for making this and other video's available to us to view. I am also good part Irish. I always whanted to know more about our history.

  • @johnmcdyer7297
    @johnmcdyer7297 Рік тому

    How right was he a lesson here Russia mmmm

  • @johnfrancis2215
    @johnfrancis2215 Рік тому

    A genocide we can lay directly at our British door, have we ever apologised, i doubt it

  • @kriptoow
    @kriptoow Рік тому

    Hello I am desperately trying to find my nana birthplace, she said she was born in Skibereen in 1913, can you help ?

    • @skibbereenheritagecentre8706
      @skibbereenheritagecentre8706 Рік тому

      Hi Wendy, please email our genealogist your query on skibbheritage1@gmail.com ... best of luck with it!

  • @vincentwhelan475
    @vincentwhelan475 Рік тому

    2023 and still nothing is taught in UK schools about the British oppression in Ireland...absolutely disgraceful.

  • @vincentwhelan475
    @vincentwhelan475 Рік тому

    As someone born in England it disgusts me what the British did to the Irish.

  • @baxpiz1289
    @baxpiz1289 Рік тому

    was this the only cemetery with a watch house

    • @skibbereenheritagecentre8706
      @skibbereenheritagecentre8706 Рік тому

      No baxpiz, these were once common in graveyard in the era of 'grave robbers'.

    • @baxpiz1289
      @baxpiz1289 Рік тому

      @@skibbereenheritagecentre8706 thank you am compiling a book of irish terminology for yanks and there are several dozen entries under "Death." added this one

  • @kevkevkev59
    @kevkevkev59 Рік тому

    Well done on the video. More people should visit this site.

  • @baxpiz1289
    @baxpiz1289 Рік тому

    think of this stuff wnvr the pig royals are in the press

  • @becca3755
    @becca3755 Рік тому

    I've often wondered at the word, "Inhumanity". Man is not "Inhumane" to man. Man is UnGodly, and UnChristian, one to another. How else can man explain how a national government watch millions die on their doorstep. die

  • @seankearney6632
    @seankearney6632 Рік тому

    The bloody british were a great help werent they. The queen donated five pounds.

    • @gudlisner501
      @gudlisner501 Рік тому

      You need to understand that by then The Vatican was excommunicating those Irish rebels that dared to take a stand and fight against the crown.

    • @jaynekirsopp7123
      @jaynekirsopp7123 5 місяців тому

      She donated a thousand pounds. Nowhere near enough but posting falsehoods doesn't help the cause of truth

  • @georgebrowne5935
    @georgebrowne5935 Рік тому

    British Colonialism was the Greatest Sin against God and Humanity. Irelands Reunification will be the Cross on their Graves.

  • @jbdpromil
    @jbdpromil Рік тому

    The Ottoman Empire of Turkey were well off and known for generosity, they didn't even try to extend some help to alleviate the Irish famine?

    • @aston0708
      @aston0708 Рік тому

      actually they did,,,,but the the english blocked the relief,,, i wonder why?

    • @johnfrancis2215
      @johnfrancis2215 Рік тому

      I think it a shame that the richest empire in the world at that time did virtually nothing but look how we treated our own English citizens in those times, I remember my father telling me a true account of an Indian Maharaja who when he visited London was astounded at the children running around the streets in rags and bare feet

  • @kamalindsey
    @kamalindsey Рік тому

    Revenge for Skibbereen.

  • @fdoy
    @fdoy 2 роки тому

    My Ggandmother born in 1861 told me as a child that immigrants always wrote back that America was awful because those left in Ireland wanted their families in America $ to pay for their passage over.

  • @johnryan2193
    @johnryan2193 2 роки тому

    WHERE WAS THE VATICAN DURING THIS CATASTROPHE

  • @anitaokearney1970
    @anitaokearney1970 2 роки тому

    I have some relations I'm trying to trace from the Collins and Cahalane families from this area I am my grandads only granddaughter from Dublin