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The Scariff Martyrs - War, Murder and Memory in East Clare (Paperback)
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The Scariff Martyrs - War, Murder and Memory in East Clare (Paperback)
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'This incredible book is very, very important'. Damien Dempsey In
November 2008, Tomas Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman
at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her
memories, he asked the east Clare native; 'Do you remember the time
that four lads were killed on the Bridge of Killaloe?'. Almost
immediately, the woman's countenance changed to deep outward
sadness. Her recollection took him back to 17th November 1920, when
news of the brutal death of four men, who became known as the
Scariff Martyrs, was revealed to the local community. Late the
previous night, on the bridge of Killaloe they were shot by British
Forces, who claimed they had attempted to escape. Locals insisted
they were murdered. A story remembered for 100 years is now fully
told. This incident presents a remarkable confluence of dimensions.
The young rebels committed to a cause. Their betrayal by a spy,
their torture and evident refusal to betray comrades, the
loneliness and liminal nature of their site of death on a bridge.
The withholding of their dead bodies and their collective burial.
All these dimensions bequeath a moment which carries an enduring
quality that has reverberated across the generations and continues
to strike a deep chord within the local landscape of memory in East
Clare and beyond.
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