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    • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
    • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
    • Shard of Wood
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      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
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      • Rusheen Pike
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      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
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      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
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      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
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  • Home
  • Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020
  • The Annual Terence MacSwiney Weekend
  • Terence MacSwiney Artifacts
    • Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
    • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
    • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
    • Shard of Wood
  • The Museum
    • Object of the month
      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Grenade and Home-made Bomb
      • Irish Democratic Labour Federation Badge
      • Aghabullogue Hurley – Cork’s First All Ireland Title.
      • Rush Light Holder from Kilkea Castle
      • Rusheen Pike
      • Manchester Martyr’s Table
      • Princess Mary Gift Box
      • Cork Total Abstinence Medal
      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
      • St. Patrick’s Gift Box
      • Cell No.6, Cork Military Detention Barracks
      • Racehorse shoe owned by Abraham Morris
      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Shard of Wood
      • Prize Winning Pin Cushion
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
      • Old school seat from Kilmurry Boys School
    • Articles
      • Kilmurry Hidden Gems Tour Notes Heritage Week 2017
      • The Warrens of Warrenscourt
      • Ireland XO
  • Museum Books
  • News
  • Lectures and Field Trips
  • Attractions
    • Trails and Walks
  • About KHAA
  • Contact Us
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Welcome to Independence Museum Kilmurry

 

 

The museum will be closed until at least the 5th of March 2021 as directed under current Irish Government Covid-19 Level 5  provisions.

 

 

 

Opening hours: 2pm – 5pm, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

We are also open on bank holidays.

Group Bookings and viewing by appointment available. Contact the museum for details.

 


  • President MIchael D. Higgins officially opening the Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Members of the Association
  • Hidden Gems Tour 2017
  • Part of the Independence Museum Collection

 

‘Dripsey Ambush , Executions and Reprisals’ , gives an account of those involved in this historic engagement on January 28, 1921 which would subsequently lead to the deaths of fourteen people – five volunteers executed, another volunteer to die in military hospital, six soldiers killed as reprisals and two informants executed by the IRA.

This centenary book acknowledges the sacrifice of local volunteers and details the events and how they were communicated in contemporary newspaper reports, with the aid of supporting documentation from an Irish and British perspective. Proceeds from the sale of this publication will go towards Independence Museum Kilmurry and the Dripsey Ambush Site Fund.

This book will be on sale in local shops including Sheila’s Shop Kilmurry, QuikPick Crookstown, O’Leary’s SuperValu Macroom,  Murphy’s Centra, Coachford, Kathleen’s Shop Coachford, Coachford Post Office,  O’Leary’s SuperValu and Filling Station, Tower and we are hoping to add others.

If you have any queries  and/or wish to purchase the book online – please contact kilmurry.historical@gmail.com

 

 

Object Of The Month February

Upton Bullet 3

 

Upton Ambush Bullet

 

 

 

 

Ambush at Coolnacaheragh, West Cork, Ireland

A story of conflict and sacrifice in the Irish War of Independence, 25 February, 1921

Compiled by Ken Hanley and Ed Lyne

 

Luíochán Cúil na Cathrach, Bhaile Bhuirne, Co. Chorcaí.

 

Cothrom an lae seo 100 bliain ó shin, bhí breis is trí scór Óglach de Cholún Reatha nó ‘Flying Column’ ag feitheamh le saighdiúirí Shasana, na Auxies, a bhí ag cur fúthu i gCaisleán Mhaigh Chromtha. ⚔️
Tharla an luíochán stairiúil seo i gCúil na Cathrach i bparóiste Bhaile Bhuirne, Co. Chorcaí.
🎥 Tá scéal an luíocháin á insint ag Cormac Ó hAodha, garmhac le hEoghan Ó Súilleabháin, an meaisínghunnadóir ó Chúil Aodha.

@MOLSCEALTG4  Mol Scéalta ó @TG4TV

 

 

Drishanebeg Train Ambush Centenary Publication

 The Drishanebeg Train ambush was a Millstreet Battalion operation led by Commandant Cornelius J Meany and the Flying Column O/C Jeremiah Crowley. It was regarded as one of the more successful train ambushes of the War of Independence period due to meticulous planning and patience on the part of the Volunteers. The publication details the story of the lead up to the ambush and also the ambush itself. The arms and equipment captured that night would be used within weeks at Clonbanin Ambush on 5 March 1921
                                 Terence MacSwiney had strong links with the Millstreet Battalion and visited Millstreet several times in 1915 in an organisational capacity. It was on 1 Nov 1915 a Fair Day that he attended a public meeting where the first 4 companies of Millstreet Battalion were formed. A chapter in the book outlines the influence of Fr. Joseph Breen on the Millstreet Battalion and being a source of counsel and comfort for them. He also campaigned openly in Millstreet during the 1918 election for Terence Macswiney.

 

The Publication costs €10.00
A copy can be purchased by contacting drishanebegtrainambush@gmail.com

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry Fundraiser

GoFundMe Link

 

Below is a link to a recent exhibition we staged to commemorate the centenary of the Lissarda Ambush

Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020

 

Show your support by going to this link

gofund.me/c2268ef9

 

Our main source of funding for The Independence Museum Kilmurry is through  events organised and run by volunteers such as concerts, coffee mornings, bag packing etc.  There is also a community room onsite which up to March served as an area for classes, birthday parties and the active retirement group to meet etc.  This was also a source of income for the museum.  However, due to COVID-19, we are unable to have any of these activities due to the present government guidelines.

From March of this year  to the end of July, our running costs for the museum and community room have remained the same but we were not able to open our doors and as such this year we have incurred a loss of €12,000.

We would appreciate it if you, the potential donor would support us in trying to keep our museum and community room running in these difficult times.  We would be delighted with any contribution you could help with.  A heartfelt thank you in advance.

Yours sincerely,

Aidan O’Sullivan, Chairman Independence Museum Kilmurry.

 

Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney

The County Cork Connection

A 360o short documentary undertaken by Wombat Media, working with and on behalf of Cork County Council to commemorate the County Cork connections of Terence McSwiney and Tomás Mac Curtáin. This production forms part of Cork County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Commemorative Programme, developed by Cork County Council’s Commemorations Committee and supported by Cork County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media



 

 

Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
 

After 74 days since he began his hunger strike on the day of his arrest in Cork City Hall Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London on the 25th October 1920.

 

LORD MAYOR MacSWINEY DEAD

 

These are the original Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts)  newspaper coverage, not unlike many other international newspapers 100 years ago, which kept the  worldwide public informed daily on the tragic saga of the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike. Note how the coverage continued even after the death of the Lord Mayor.

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath. Note also the reference here (“Friends of Irish Freedom- ATTENTION”) to the Cork deaths, also on hunger strike, of Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph Murphy.

 

These newspapers were very kindly donated to the Museum in 2019 and earlier this year were centerpiece in the January 2020 launch of the Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020 by the then Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan in the City Hall Cork.

RTE NEWS January 2020 coverage

Irish Times coverage

Professor Cathal MacSwiney Brugha, Tomás MacCurtain (grandson of Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain) and Lord Mayor John Sheehan review original US newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike

 

 

 

 

Minister of State for Equality David Stanton,, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan, and Professor Cathal MacSwiney Brugha grandson of Terence MacSwiney at the anouncement of Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020. Photograph: Gerard McCarthy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aindrias Moynihan T.D. and Tomás MacCurtain (grandson of Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain )reviewing original US newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike

 

 

Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Council and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage these newspapers are currently undergoing preservation off-site for eventual public display in our collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Home
  • Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020
  • The Annual Terence MacSwiney Weekend
  • Terence MacSwiney Artifacts
    • Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
    • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
    • Terence MacSwiney Dish Ring
    • Shard of Wood
  • The Museum
    • Object of the month
      • The Famine Pot
      • Terence MacSwiney Funeral Hearse Wheel
      • Grenade and Home-made Bomb
      • Irish Democratic Labour Federation Badge
      • Aghabullogue Hurley – Cork’s First All Ireland Title.
      • Rush Light Holder from Kilkea Castle
      • Rusheen Pike
      • Manchester Martyr’s Table
      • Princess Mary Gift Box
      • Cork Total Abstinence Medal
      • Bullet from Upton Ambush
      • St. Patrick’s Gift Box
      • Cell No.6, Cork Military Detention Barracks
      • Racehorse shoe owned by Abraham Morris
      • Piece of Fr. Dominic’s Tunic
      • Cromwellian Cannon Ball
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Shard of Wood
      • Prize Winning Pin Cushion
      • Oswald Swanzy Gun
      • Chinese Embroidered Hat
      • Old school seat from Kilmurry Boys School
    • Articles
      • Kilmurry Hidden Gems Tour Notes Heritage Week 2017
      • The Warrens of Warrenscourt
      • Ireland XO
  • Museum Books
  • News
  • Lectures and Field Trips
  • Attractions
    • Trails and Walks
  • About KHAA
  • Contact Us
  • Donate

News

  I.R.A. ATTACK ON KILMURRY R.I.C. BARRACKS, JANUARY 1920 A talk by Dr. John Borgonovo UCC Scho ...

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Book Launch – Friday, 29th of November 8pm

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“Clean Up Your Act!”

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Kilmichael Crossley Tender Wheel

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‘Dripsey Ambush , Executions and Reprisals’ , gives an account of those involved in this historic engagement on January 28, 1921 which would subsequently lead to the deaths of fourteen people – five volunteers executed, another volunteer to die in military hospital, six soldiers killed as reprisals and two informants executed by the IRA.

This centenary book acknowledges the sacrifice of local volunteers and details the events and how they were communicated in contemporary newspaper reports, with the aid of supporting documentation from an Irish and British perspective. Proceeds from the sale of this publication will go towards Independence Museum Kilmurry and the Dripsey Ambush Site Fund.

This book will be on sale in local shops including Sheila’s Shop Kilmurry, QuikPick Crookstown, O’Leary’s SuperValu Macroom,  Murphy’s Centra, Coachford, Kathleen’s Shop Coachford, Coachford Post Office,  O’Leary’s SuperValu and Filling Station, Tower and we are hoping to add others.

If you have any queries  and/or wish to purchase the book online – please contact kilmurry.historical@gmail.com

 

 

Object Of The Month February

Upton Bullet 3

 

Upton Ambush Bullet

 

 

 

 

Ambush at Coolnacaheragh, West Cork, Ireland

A story of conflict and sacrifice in the Irish War of Independence, 25 February, 1921

Compiled by Ken Hanley and Ed Lyne

 

Luíochán Cúil na Cathrach, Bhaile Bhuirne, Co. Chorcaí.

 

Cothrom an lae seo 100 bliain ó shin, bhí breis is trí scór Óglach de Cholún Reatha nó ‘Flying Column’ ag feitheamh le saighdiúirí Shasana, na Auxies, a bhí ag cur fúthu i gCaisleán Mhaigh Chromtha. ⚔️
Tharla an luíochán stairiúil seo i gCúil na Cathrach i bparóiste Bhaile Bhuirne, Co. Chorcaí.
🎥 Tá scéal an luíocháin á insint ag Cormac Ó hAodha, garmhac le hEoghan Ó Súilleabháin, an meaisínghunnadóir ó Chúil Aodha.

@MOLSCEALTG4  Mol Scéalta ó @TG4TV

 

 

Drishanebeg Train Ambush Centenary Publication

 The Drishanebeg Train ambush was a Millstreet Battalion operation led by Commandant Cornelius J Meany and the Flying Column O/C Jeremiah Crowley. It was regarded as one of the more successful train ambushes of the War of Independence period due to meticulous planning and patience on the part of the Volunteers. The publication details the story of the lead up to the ambush and also the ambush itself. The arms and equipment captured that night would be used within weeks at Clonbanin Ambush on 5 March 1921
                                 Terence MacSwiney had strong links with the Millstreet Battalion and visited Millstreet several times in 1915 in an organisational capacity. It was on 1 Nov 1915 a Fair Day that he attended a public meeting where the first 4 companies of Millstreet Battalion were formed. A chapter in the book outlines the influence of Fr. Joseph Breen on the Millstreet Battalion and being a source of counsel and comfort for them. He also campaigned openly in Millstreet during the 1918 election for Terence Macswiney.

 

The Publication costs €10.00
A copy can be purchased by contacting drishanebegtrainambush@gmail.com

 

 

 

Independence Museum Kilmurry Fundraiser

GoFundMe Link

 

Below is a link to a recent exhibition we staged to commemorate the centenary of the Lissarda Ambush

Lissarda Ambush Centenary Exhibition 1920-2020

 

Show your support by going to this link

gofund.me/c2268ef9

 

Our main source of funding for The Independence Museum Kilmurry is through  events organised and run by volunteers such as concerts, coffee mornings, bag packing etc.  There is also a community room onsite which up to March served as an area for classes, birthday parties and the active retirement group to meet etc.  This was also a source of income for the museum.  However, due to COVID-19, we are unable to have any of these activities due to the present government guidelines.

From March of this year  to the end of July, our running costs for the museum and community room have remained the same but we were not able to open our doors and as such this year we have incurred a loss of €12,000.

We would appreciate it if you, the potential donor would support us in trying to keep our museum and community room running in these difficult times.  We would be delighted with any contribution you could help with.  A heartfelt thank you in advance.

Yours sincerely,

Aidan O’Sullivan, Chairman Independence Museum Kilmurry.

 

Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney

The County Cork Connection

A 360o short documentary undertaken by Wombat Media, working with and on behalf of Cork County Council to commemorate the County Cork connections of Terence McSwiney and Tomás Mac Curtáin. This production forms part of Cork County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Commemorative Programme, developed by Cork County Council’s Commemorations Committee and supported by Cork County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media



 

 

Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike 12th of August 1920 – 25th October 1920
 

After 74 days since he began his hunger strike on the day of his arrest in Cork City Hall Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London on the 25th October 1920.

 

LORD MAYOR MacSWINEY DEAD

 

These are the original Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence , Massachusetts)  newspaper coverage, not unlike many other international newspapers 100 years ago, which kept the  worldwide public informed daily on the tragic saga of the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike. Note how the coverage continued even after the death of the Lord Mayor.

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath.

 

Lawrence Telegram (Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA) showing the daily almost vigil-like reporting with which the world media followed the Lord Mayor’s struggle during his hunger strike and eventual death in Brixton Prison as well as the aftermath. Note also the reference here (“Friends of Irish Freedom- ATTENTION”) to the Cork deaths, also on hunger strike, of Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph Murphy.

 

These newspapers were very kindly donated to the Museum in 2019 and earlier this year were centerpiece in the January 2020 launch of the Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020 by the then Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan in the City Hall Cork.

RTE NEWS January 2020 coverage

Irish Times coverage

Professor Cathal MacSwiney Brugha, Tomás MacCurtain (grandson of Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain) and Lord Mayor John Sheehan review original US newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike

 

 

 

 

Minister of State for Equality David Stanton,, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan, and Professor Cathal MacSwiney Brugha grandson of Terence MacSwiney at the anouncement of Cork Decade of Centenaries Programme 2020. Photograph: Gerard McCarthy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aindrias Moynihan T.D. and Tomás MacCurtain (grandson of Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain )reviewing original US newspaper coverage of Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike

 

 

Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Council and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage these newspapers are currently undergoing preservation off-site for eventual public display in our collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • President MIchael D. Higgins officially opening the Independence Museum Kilmurry
  • Members of the Association
  • Hidden Gems Tour 2017
  • Part of the Independence Museum Collection

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See below a birdseye view of Sackville St. (O’Connell St.) Dublin as the funeral procession made its way from the Pro Cathedral, Dublin where Collins lay in state to Glasnevin Cemetery where Collins would be buried. (Credit: National Library of Ireland)

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Mary Byrne In Concert

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KHAA present an evening with Mary Byrne - X Factor Finalist at Eire Og Pavillion on Saturday, 21st September, 2019 at 8 pm. Support acts include Newcestown Comhaltas and Kilmurry Parish Singers. Join us for a fabulous evening of song, music and first class entertainment. ... See more

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Michael Collins House

On this day August 28th 1922, six days after being killed in an ambush at Beál na Bláth, Michael Collins was laid to rest.

A reported 500,000, one fifth of the country’s population at the time, lined the streets and paid their respects to ‘The Big Fella’ in what would be the largest attendance to a state funeral in Irish history.

See below a birdseye view of Sackville St. (O’Connell St.) Dublin as the funeral procession made its way from the Pro Cathedral, Dublin where Collins lay in state to Glasnevin Cemetery where Collins would be buried. (Credit: National Library of Ireland)

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