Irish Life & Lore

Recollections of 1916 and its Aftermath

Echoes from History

The 1916 Rising and the struggle for Irish freedom. Much has been written about Ireland's national struggle for freedom over the centuries. With this collection, Irish Life and Lore present the voices of those who experienced those years.

The Irish Life and Lore recordings include not only a Collection around 1916 and its aftermath but also recordings in other Collections, including the Great Houses and Offaly, which feature memories of these events.

Listen to Maurice O'Keeffe's introduction to the Recollections of 1916 and Its Aftermath collection of recordings.

Listen to short excerpts of some interviews:
02 Colonel Sean Clancy	03 Life of Tom Barry
04 Life of Michael Collins	05 Paddy Gleeson
06 Patsy Holmes	07 William Geary
08 Billy Mullins	09 James Stack
10 Events in Kerry in 1916	12 Rowland Blennerhassett
13 Margaret Kennedy Doughan	14 Nora Costello Humphreys
15 Dan Keating	16 Dan Keating and Nollaig Ó Gadhra
17 Michael Finucane	18 Des and Pam Cooke
19 Eileen Sprague	20 Paddy Hurley
21 Hannah Crowley O'Connor	22 Roy Mooney
23 Tom Batt O’Connor	24 Maurice Barrett
25 Michael Howard	26 Liam Lynch
27 Diarmuid Ring

Work is now proceeding on a new collection relating to the 1916 period. The recollections and memories of relatives and descendants of historical figures who were central to the events of Easter Week are being recorded.

From our collection

L-R: Robert Monteith (with moustache); Private Daniel Bailey, and (2nd from right) Roger Casement, on board the submarine U-20. See 1916 Collection, CD13.	Austin Stack postcard, from a series of postcards "Irish Rebellion, 1916".
2nd from right:- Rosalie Rice, Post Office, Kenmare. See 1916 Collection, CD13.	Eily O'Flaherty with comrade in arms, see 1916 Collection CD25.
Postcard 'Irish Rebellion May 1916. A group of officers with the captured rebel flag'. Probably in Dublin.	Charles Cooke, driver, in his hackney car, 1916. See 1916 Collection CD21.
Fighters during the Revolutionary period.	M. O. Gidlow, Garda Sergeant Geary and his daughter, Helen Markett, on October 13 2004, three days before his death. See 1916 Collection, CD7-CD10.