Name: "Notes On Eire"

Subtitle: Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill—2nd. Extended Edition

Author: Bowen, Elizabeth

Editor: Clifford, Brendan and Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781-903497-42-5

Contents: The story of this book starts in 1993, when extracts from Elizabeth Bowen's works were included in "A North Cork Anthology", with the qualification that, though her family had property connections in the areas, she could not be regarded as a North Cork, or even an Irish, writer. This caused outrage in the Dublin media and some vicious attacks on Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, the compilers of the Anthology. There was even doubt cast on the fact that Ms. Bowen spied against Ireland in the Second World War.

The upshot of that controversy was that the Aubane Historical Society traced several of Ms. Bowen's secret reports, which are published here in full for the first time.

For those who would see Ms. Bowen's spying as needing no defence, on the supposition that the Allied war on Germany was absolutely justified, and that Neutrals had no case, this book provides an extensive survey of international affairs in the decades before the War, including de Valera's role in the League of Nations. There are also sections on Irish and European Fascism.

The book is rounded out by reproducing the polemic about Bowen which took place between the Aubane Historical Society and luminaries of the "Irish Times" and the "Sunday Business Post". The controversy about how to describe Ms. Bowen goes to the heart of what Ireland and Irish culture is, and this book is as good a starting point as any for those who seek the middle path between the Scylla of bigoted nationalism and the Charybdis of West British globalism.

The second edition provides a further review of aspects of World War 2—the British betrayal of Poland, the American provocation of Japan, the British insistence on delaying the Second Front, and the Nuremberg Trials—in response to an indictment of Irish neutrality by Professor B. Girvin and Dr. G. Roberts. 152 pp.

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Name: A Defence Of Cork Political Culture

Subtitle:

Author: Murphy, Dr. Brian P (osb)

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2005

ISBN: 1 903497 22 1

Contents: Cork was the European City of Culture in 2005 and it seemed appropriate that during the year there should be a celebration of the political culture of Cork. Political culture is as important and as valid as any other part of the culture of a society but did not seem to play any part of the year's official celebrations. So the Aubane Historical Society decided to host a meeting in Cork to celebrate this aspect of its culture. It was also appropriate and timely because there has been a sustained attack on Cork's political culture in recent years with attempts to disparage and discredit it by our revisionist historians and in particular its part in the War of Independence. This is an effort to give us a bad conscience about our past which is totally unjustified and asserted on the basis of spurious research and selective evidence. We were delighted when Dr. Brian Murphy agreed to speak at our meeting, as he is an acknowledged expert on the period and well known for the meticulous and thorough research that is the basis of all his work. The meeting was a tremendous success with over 200 people overflowing the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel on 15th April 2005. This is a set of CDs of Dr. Murphy's address and the question and answer session afterwards.

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Price: €10.00; £7.50

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Name: A Millstreet Medley

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2001

ISBN: 1 903497 05 1

Contents: As Jack Lane writes in his introduction to this unique volume:?"This is a collection of various items from many different sources that I think will be of interest to people in the Millstreet and the North Cork area generally. Some of it is original material and most of it has not seen the light of day for many, many years." Including as it does some works in English by the bard of the last flowering of Gaelic culture, Eoghan Ruadh O'Sulleabhain, it will certainly be of much wider interest.

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Name: A Millstreet Miscellany

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1 903497 10 4

Contents:

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Name: A Millstreet Miscellany (2)

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2005

ISBN: 1 903497 23 X

Contents:

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Name: A North Cork Anthology

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1993

ISBN: 0 9521081 1 9

Contents: Contains extracts from the writings of Bowen, Buckley, Burke, Curran, Davis, Dineen, Eoghan Rua and many others. 176 pp.

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Name: All The Owners Of Land In Cork In 1872

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2004

ISBN: 1 903497 20 5

Contents:

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Name: An Answer To Revisionists

Subtitle: Éamon Ó Cuív T.D. and others launch Sean Moylan's Memoir

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2004

ISBN: 1 903497 18 3

Contents: This pamphlet celebrates the launch of Sean Moylan's Memoir of the War of Independence by Éamon Ó Cuív TD earlier this year (2004). It includes his speech on that occasion and those of others at the launch. In addition there is an extensive review of the Memoir by Michael O'Riordan and the three Epilogues to the three editions of the Memoir by Brendan Clifford which puts it in its historical context. Also included, and published for the first time, is Moylan's correspondence with Joseph McGarrity in the 1920s which gives an indication of his activities and his thinking as it developed between the War of Independence and the beginning of his Dáil career.

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Name: Around The Cork-Kerry Border

Subtitle: Recalling The Rambling House

Author: Cronin, Dan

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-903497-47-0

Contents: Dan cronin has long been known as a writer with a great knowledge of the heritage of the Sliabh Luachra area. He has always sought to share this heritage with interested people over the years in various ways but most by his writings.

Here he presents a collection of stories and historical sketches from his native Shrone and surrounding areas. It is a tribute to the people of his area, their knowledge, culture and resilience in the face of many difficulties. They are stories and experiences that have impressed and entertained him, and many others, and they give a real glimpse into a bygone age by someone who lived in it and became one of its narrators.

Dan has been actively engaged in many projects during his life. Perhaps the most important is the work he has done to make the historical significance of the City (Cathair Crobh Dearg), the Shrone area and the Paps better known and appreciated. Thanks largely to him the historic significance of the area is becoming better known and acknowledged in official circles. It is to be hoped that eventually it will be seen as similar to, and as significant as Tara, Tailteann, and Eamhain Macha.

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Name: Aubane

Subtitle: Where In The World Is It?

Author: Lane, Jack

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1999

ISBN: 0 9521081 7 8

Contents: A microcosm of Irish history in a Cork Townland. 200 pp. Illustrations, Index.

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Name: Aubane vs. Oxford

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2002

ISBN: 0 85034 088 8

Contents: A response to Professor Roy and Bernard O'Donoghue by Jack Lane, Julianne Herlihy, Brendan Clifford, Thomas Bartlett, Bernard O'Donoghue, Seoirse O Luasa. 44 pages. A4

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Name: Canon Sheehan

Subtitle: A Turbulent Priest

Author: Clifford, Brendan

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published:

ISBN:

Contents:

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Name: Coolacrease

Subtitle: The true story of the Pearson executions:—an incident in the Irish War of Independence

Author: Heaney, Paddy, Muldowney, Pat, O'Connor,

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-903497-48-7

Contents: COOLACREASE: A Shocking Story

At the end of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers were shot in Coolacrease, Co. Offaly, and their house was burned.

The people who carried out the shootings were not Irish rebels or uninvolved civilians. They were loyalist Protestants who had chosen to take up arms against the forces of the democratically elected Irish government. The IRA command ordered their execution.

So what is shocking about the deaths of these two men, in comparison with the hundreds of other deaths in the war waged by the British Imperial Government against the Irish democracy?

These events were practically unkown until 2007 when the Irish national broadcasting agency RTE produced a television documentary which portrayed the executions of the Pearson brothers as a sectarian anti-Protestant atrocity in furtherance of a land grab, as part of an ethnic cleansing drive by the Irish Republican movement against an ethnic minority in Ireland.

RTE claimed that their case was based on official evidence in documents of the Irish Land Commission.

…and now comes the really shocking part

RTE could not produce the documents they claimed proved their case, and the Land Commission denies that the programme ever examined the records of the division of the Pearson farm. The case presented by RTE is nothing but spurious atrocity propaganda, a travesty of what really happened.

The documentary record is presented in this book, which tells the true story of these tragic events.

This is a shocking story of low standards and cheap propaganda.

Name: D. D. Sheehan: Why He Left Cork In 1918

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1 903497 14 0

Contents: Reprinting and putting in context an interesting correspondence in the North Cork edition of "The Corkman" between October 2002 and January 2003 about D D Sheehan's departure from Cork in 1918.

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Name: Daniel O'Connell And Republican Ireland

Subtitle:

Author: Clifford, Brendan

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published:

ISBN:

Contents:

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Name: Dánta Piarais Feiritéir

Subtitle: Poems of Pearse Ferriter

Author: Ferriter, Pearse

Editor: Muldowney, Pat

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1999

ISBN: 0 9521081 8 6

Contents: Poems of Pearse Ferriter with English translations by Pat Muldowney. A companion cassette tape of reading of the Gaelic poems by Bosc? ? Conc?ir is also available from the publishers. 120 pp.

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Name: Edmund Burke And The United Irishmen

Subtitle: Their Relevance To Ireland Today

Author: Clifford, Brendan

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published:

ISBN:

Contents: Pamphlet.

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Name: Elizabeth Bowen: a 'debate' in the Irish Examiner

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781 9034976 44 9

Contents: Jack Lane and others on Elizabeth Bowen's espionage activities in Ireland during WW II.

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Name: Elizabeth Bowen: More Espionage Reports To Winston Churchill

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-903497-54-8

Contents:

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Price: 4.00

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Name: Envoi: Taking Leave Of Roy Foster

Subtitle:

Author: Clifford, Brendan & Herlihy, Julianne

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1 903497 28 0

Contents: Roy Foster is an Oxford-based overlord of Irish academia. He is not the first revisionist, nor the most thorough, but the most flamboyant. He is the figurehead of a modern tendency which has been busily 'deconstructing' Irish history. The aim is to undermine pride in the achievement of national independence, to denigrate those who devoted themselves to that end and, indeed, to depopulate the historical landscape of Ireland. Correspondingly, the crimes of the conquest are relativised.

But in this book it is Foster's Irish Story which is itself 'deconstructed' by the Aubane Historical Society. His erudite references—to such matters as A.M. Sullivan's Story Of Ireland, Lady Ferguson, Gellner's Ruritania, Catholic Emancipation, Christian Brothers' education, national amnesia, De Certeau, etc.—are subjected to scrutiny by Brendan Clifford. They are found to be inapt, unhistorical—and even infantile.

Foster's sub-title to The Irish Story is Telling Tales And Making It Up In Ireland, meaning that received Irish history is unreliable. Unfortunately the Oxford History Professor undermines his own thesis by retailing a piece of hearsay about the Aubane Historical Society in his book, passing this gossip off as history!

In Part Two of the book, Selling The Product, Julianne Herlihy looks at how the media plays its part in the revisionist project by promoting Foster's work with publicity of every kind. In place of critical appreciation there has been adulation. Clearly the object is to attempt to create a readership for his work approaching that for the reminiscences of Gerry Adams, Frank McCourt, and Alice Taylor—all targets of Foster's vituperation.

David Alvey deals with Foster's influence on the Schools History Syllabus.

Brian Murphy osb shows how Foster has carried forward research errors by his three main academic sources in regard to interpretations of the national movement.

There is plenty of food for thought in this stimulating and thought-provoking book.

Extracts: Read the contents here.

Read the preface by Julianne Herlihy here

Errata: p9, last line of 2nd paragraph: title should read, No Man's Man

p36, quotation, para 2: line 6, 'guilty' should read 'gently'; line 7, 'mere' should read 'more'; line 8, 'then' should read 'than'

p40, para 3: 'in Millstreet' should read 'in Kanturk and Millstreet

p83, quotation, last line of para 1: 'strongly' should read 'strangely'

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Name: Evidence To The Parnell Commission (Duhallow)

Subtitle: A Local Conflict In The Land War

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2000

ISBN:

Contents: This takes us to the Royal Courts of Justice in London to see Jeremiah Hegarty and Canon Griffin and the local Member of Parliament, Dr. Tanner, give their evidence to a Special Commission set up to indict Parnell and the Land League where they are cross-examined by Michael Davitt and others. It gives an indication of the passions and events of one episode in the Land League period around the Millstreet area that made national news and made the place a bye word for the dramatic events of the time.

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Name: James Connolly Re-Assessed

Subtitle: The Irish And European Context

Author: O'Riordan, Manus

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1 903497 26 4

Contents:

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Name: Local Evidence To The Devon Commission (Duhallow)

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published:

ISBN:

Contents:

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Name: Michael Collins

Subtitle: Some original documents in his own hand

Author:

Editor: Murphy, Dr. Brian P (osb)

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2004

ISBN: 1 903497 19 1

Contents: This is a small collection of original documents by Michael Collins which throws some light on his thinking and interests in his teenage years. They are mostly connected with his application for work in the British Civil Service. Dr. Brian P Murphy osb introduces them, explains their background and puts them in the context of the information already available on Collins' early life. Brian Murphy is a member of the Benedictine Community at Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick. He is a graduate of Oxford University, Trinity College, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland (UCD). He is the author of "Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal" (1991). "John Chartres: the Mystery Man of the Treaty" (1995). "St. Gerard's School, Bray, An Educational Initiative" (1999) and various articles.

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Name: Millstreet: A "Considerable" Town

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1 903497 09 4

Contents:

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Name: Millstreet—The Cockpit Of Ireland

Subtitle:

Author: Lane, Jack

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2002

ISBN: 1 903497 03 5

Contents: Visitors and Public Meetings over two centuries.

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Name: Myths From Easter 1916

Subtitle:

Author: Neeson, Eoin

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2007

ISBN: 978 1 903497 34 0

Contents: Eoin Neeson is the author of 23 books and 14 plays. Much of his historic writing has been devoted to subjects ignored or neglected before his own work appeared—The Civil War in Ireland; A History of Irish Forestry; Birth of the Republic; the Epic of the Tain—to name but four of his ground-breaking works.

In Myths from Easter 1916 he again breaks new ground, examining and disposing of myths that have grown and ripened with the years and also suggesting answers to the questions:—

i. Why did the Civil War occur? ii What might have happened had Michael Collins not been killed?

It is a book that no one interested in the course of formative Irish history can afford to miss.

Neeson was born and reared in Cork. Of his books, five, including this one, are on history. Much of his other work is devoted to Mythology, his most recent, An Tain, the Imperishable Celtic Epic, being the first narrative version of the entire epic in modern language. His historical novels under the pseudonym Donal O'Neill led to his being dubbed "the Walter Scott of Ireland". He now lives in Dublin and lectures at home and abroad.

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Name: na hAisling

Subtitle: Vision Poems

Author: O'Sullivan, Eoghan Rua

Editor: Muldowney, Pat

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2002

ISBN: 1 9034970 7 8

Contents: Eoghan Rua O'Sullivan is one of the greatest poets that Ireland has produced. When he died in 1784, a mourner said to the parish priest that the clergy would no longer have any complaint to make of Eoghan. The priest replied that Eoghan's death was a greater loss than the loss of dozens of priests. "Because", he said, "priests may be produced any day by the expenditure of money. But all the money in Ireland would not produce another poet like Eoghan Rua." The vision poems or Aisling? are reprinted in this book, along with explanatory notes and English translations. It is the first in a series which will make the poetry of Eoghan Rua available again to the public. Also included are several of the airs to which the poems were sung, metric analysis of the poems, and a literary study by Pádraig Ua Duinnín. Niall Cusack provides a response to criticism of the use of Gaelic script, and Brendan Clifford has an analysis of Ireland in the 18th century, putting revisionist history under the spotlight.

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Name: Narrative History Of Ireland (Stair-Sheanchas Éireann)

Subtitle:

Author: Ó Siochfhradha, Mícheál

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2005

ISBN: 1 903497 21 3

Contents: Seo stair na hÉireann, ón tsean-aimsir go dtí an lá inniu, curtha in eagar ag Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha ó Chorcha Dhuibhne. Tá aistí eile sonnracha sa leabhar seo, mar atá, fianaise Phádraig Uí Shiochfhradha ("An Seabhac") i dtaobh Sheachtain na Cásca 1916, agus cur síos ar an tslí ar chuaigh cúrsaí domhanda i bhfeidhm ar stair na hÉireann sa fichiú aois. Má tá ré an aithbhreithiúnachais i stair scríobhtha na hÉireann ag teacht chun deiridh,is mithid breathnú siar arís ar an nós inar chuir stairithe na hÉireann an scéal ársa sin in iúl don tsaol. This is a narrative history of Ireland from prehistoric times until the present day. It gives a lucid, concise account of all the major events over two millenia. It is the perfect introduction to the course of Irish history and it was a standard school textbook for many years at Secondary level. It was originally published in Irish only by the Educational Company of Ireland. This is a bilingual edition. As in previous publications we have retained the original Gaelic script. Therefore, the book is both a study of history and a means of studying some Gaelic as well as an opportunity to appreciate a modern example of the unique Gaelic script.

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Name: Ned Buckley's Poems

Subtitle:

Author: Buckley, Ned

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published:

ISBN:

Contents: 112 pp. Paperback.

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Price: £9.00; €12.00

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Name: Notes On The History Of Millstreet

Subtitle:

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2001

ISBN: 1 903 497 04 3

Contents: These two contributions towards a history of Millstreet, by Canon Costello and Padraig O'Maidin, were prepared some time ago. "Canon Costello took a particular interest in the history of the Parish while he was Parish Priest here and collected a lot of interest over a number of years. The late Padraig O'Maidin was in charge of the County Library for many years and contributed an enormous amount to local history through his research and writings in many journals and newspapers." Their work will appeal to natives, exiles and anyone interested in the real history which is the detailed local knowledge of Ireland.

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Name: Propaganda as Anti-History

Subtitle: Peter Hart's 'The IRA and its Enemies' examined

Author: Sheridan, Owen

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781-903497-41-8

Contents: Because historians tell the story of humanity, we depend on them for our understanding of who and what we are. But writers of history can also distort the story, presenting their subjects, not as people, but as caricatures of good and evil. When such distortion becomes serious and deliberate, Owen Sheridan describes it as anti-history.

Using a detailed examination of The IRA and Its Enemies, Sheridan shows how writer Peter Hart removes the humanity of IRA Volunteers during the War of Independence, depicting them as the popular press in Britain depicted Germans during the First World War—as objects of hatred. His Anti-History is a wake-up call, not only for historians but for thinking people everywhere.

Owen Sheridan grew up in Country Cork, where members of his family have been local historians for several generations. Most of his adult life has been spent out of Ireland where he worked in construction and real estate. He is now retired and living in the United States. Anti-History is his second book.

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Name: Readings from Pearse Ferriter

Subtitle:

Author: Ferriter, Pearse

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1999

ISBN:

Contents: Readings of Pearse Ferriter's Gaelic poems by Boscó Ó Concúir.

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Name: Sean Moylan - In His Own Words

Subtitle: His memoir of the Irish War of Independence

Author: Moylan, Sean

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1 903497 11 0

Contents: Sean Moylan was the Republican military commander in North Cork during the most intense phase of the War of Independence. Thirty years later he wrote an account of his part in that war—and it was placed in the Bureau of Military History along with the accounts of many others. These memoirs of the people who actually conducted the war were to have been held in a closed archive for a certain period before being opened to the public. That period was extended several times but the material was finally made available in March 2003. Sean Moylan was perhaps the public figure who was most representative of the men who ensured that the British state could not peacefully cast aside the electoral mandate of the 1918 election in Ireland, and who compelled it to concede to force at least part of what it denied to the ballot-box. He was a carpenter by vocation. There were, of course, soldiers by vocation amongst his colleagues in the war—Tom Barry whom he admired, and Ernie O'Malley whom he took good-humouredly with a pinch of salt being the outstanding ones—but Moylan never became one of them. He went to war from a sense of duty founded in the self-respect of a republican citizen, and then he gave up the business of soldiery. He later became a Government Minister, having been drawn into politics thanks to the Civil War—being one of those who brought about the resurgence which developed the defeated side in the Civil War into the party which has dominated the state ever since 1932: Fianna Fail. And, when he wrote his memoir of the War of Independence, it was not for publication! He was Minister for Agriculture when he died in 1957. This is an account of a piece of history by a man who made it. The present work includes Moylan's memoir, along with a number of his speeches and poems. An epilogue by Brendan Clifford provides the context in which Moylan and his colleagues were forced to win by the bullet what Britain refused to concede to the ballot, and reviews current misrepresentations of the War of Independence.

Extracts: To read a sample chapter please click here.

"Seán Moylan - in his own words" was launched by Éamon Ó Cuív TD, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs at the Aubane Community Centre. Mr. O Cuiv's remarks can be read here.

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Name: Seán O'Hegarty

Subtitle: O/C First Cork Brigade Irish Republican Army

Author: Girvin, Kevin

Editor:

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2007

ISBN: 9-781903-2973-02

Contents: A first and long overdue biographical study of Seán O'Hegarty, Officer Commanding, First Cork Brigade, Irish Republican Army, during the Irish War of Independence. O'Hegarty was one of the most effective military commanders in the Cork area during the period of greatest strain and activity from 1920 to 1921. A direct successor of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, his significance has long been overshadowed by his martyred comrades.

As a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Army, Seán O'Hegarty's life personifies the national independence movment. The quality of his leadership was an inspiration to those who served with him. His contribution to the struggle for national independence stands proudly alongside those of Tom Barry, Seán Moylan, and Liam Lynch.

Seán O'Hegarty was responsible more than any other individual for the aggressive and militant activities which placed Cork No.1 Brigade amongst the leading Brigades in Ireland'. Tom Barry

'Seán O'Hegarty was a man whose leadership was an inspiration to us all, whose sense of humour and integrity was a shining example'.Florrie O'Donoghue

Kevin Girvin is a native of Cork and is a graduate of University College Cork. He received a BA in history and Greek & Roman Civilisation in 2002 and an M.Phil in history in 2003. He is currently employed at the University.
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Name: Six Days Of The Irish Republic

Subtitle: An Eyewitness Account Of 1916

Author: Redmond-Howard, L. G.

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1 903497 27 2

Contents: Also contains a profile of Roger Casement, written during his trial; the Irish Case for the League of Nations; and a play written jointly with Harry Carson (the Ulster leader's son).
Introduction by Brendan Clifford.

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Name: Spotlights On Irish History

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Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1997

ISBN: 0 9521081 5 1

Contents: "Spotlights On Irish History" looks at major personalities, movements and events through which Ireland developed from what Pearse called a "mob" into a nation. Brendan Clifford, at a series of meetings held in his native Slieve Luacra, looked over the past from the standpoint of the present. Slieve Luacra is a region in which, amidst all the "revisionist" undermining, the past has held firm enough to make this possible. The book consists of accounts of those meetings, the discussions as well as the opening talks. The participants in those history meetings were not academics doing what they were paid for. They were farmers, workers, business people and teachers who had done their day's work and were at the meetings on the basis of sheer interest. It had not been our intention to cite any press comments in our praise, but as we go to print the "Sunday Business Post", through the pen of Mary Ellen Synon, has made such a flattering comment on the "Aubane Historical Society" that we cannot refrain from quoting it: "I know enough about North Cork to know that the society has just about six active members and none of them historians". Talks given at Duhallow Heritage Centre on?*The Confederation of Kilkenny Battles of Knocknanoss and Knockbrack; *Edmund Burke And The United Irishmen, Their relevance in Ireland today; *John Philpot Curran Of Newmarket; *Daniel O'Connell And Republican Ireland; *The Famine; *The Irish Civil War, the conflict that shaped the state; *with extra material on Roy Foster's "History" and other matters. 168 pp. Illustrations. Index.

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Name: The 'Boys' of the Millstreet Battalion Area

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Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1 903497 124

Contents: Some personal accounts of the War of Independence by veterans of the Battalion. 63 pp.

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Name: The 'Cork Free Press' In The Context of The Parnell Split

Subtitle: The Restructuring of Ireland, 1890-1910

Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1998

ISBN: 0 9521081 06 10

Contents: Aftermath of the Irish Big Bang: Redmondism; Fenians; Clericalism; The Land War; Russellites; Land & Labour League, and All-For-Ireland League?an Irish pluralist political development originating in County Cork. 168pp. Index.

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Name: The Battle Of Crossbarry

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Author: Neeson, Eoin

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-903497-40-1

Contents: The action at Crossbarry in West Cork in March 1921 was, from the Irish point of view, the most successful of all the battles of the War of Independence.

One hundred and four Irish troops of the special Flying Column fought their way successfully through surrounding, closing-in, British troops amounting to 1,200 men.

While this remarkable feat has been acknowledged and applauded world-wide, and used as a text-book example in military colleges from Sweden and the USA to Egypt, the full story is as yet little-known in Ireland.

This booklet is intended to redress the balance.

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Name: The Battles Of Knocknanoss And Knockbrack

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Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

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Contents: The story of two battles involving the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 17th century English Civil War.

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Name: The Burning Of Cork

Subtitle: An Eyewitness Account

Author: Ellis, Alan J.

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2004

ISBN: 1 903497 16 7

Contents: Along with the eyewitness account of the burning of Cork by the Black & Tans are reminiscences by members of the Gloucester Regiment of their experiences in Kiskeam during the War of Independence. Also, some more miscellaneous items on Millstreet Town.

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Name: The Irish Civil War

Subtitle: The Conflict That Formed The State

Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1993

ISBN: 0 9521081 00 0

Contents: A Speech Given At The Duhallow Heritage Centre On 22nd. April, 1992.

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Name: The Irish Press

Subtitle: Fianna Fáil and the decline of the Free State

Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2007

ISBN: 978 1 903497 33 3

Contents: The opponents of the Treaty were utterly defeated in 1923 by the forces of the pro-Treaty party. Yet, within four years, the defeated party was equal in electoral support to the pro-Treaty party and formed the Government of the State five years later.

Effectively, it has remained in power ever since with interludes of coalition governments formed around the pro-Treaty party which has never since won an election in its own right.

This is a phenomenon that needs explaining. It appears to be taken for granted by most historians as if it was all in some way inevitable, even though nothing is inevitable in politics.

This book sets out to explain the crucial elements in the story that saw the formation and emergence of Fianna Fáil and how it first established itself as the major party of the state.

It also looks at the significance of the newspaper it founded, The Irish Press, and its unique contribution to Irish political and social development.

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Name: The Life And Death Of Mikie Dineen

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Author: Lane, Jack

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2002

ISBN:

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Name: The Nation: Volume One

Subtitle: Selections 1842-1844

Author:

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2000

ISBN: 1 903497 02 7

Contents: Contents include Young Ieland, Daniel O'Connell, Monster Meetings, State Trials, A New Culture. Introduction by Brendan Clifford. 152.pp Index

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Name: The Origin And Development Of The Parish Of Millstreet

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Author: Tucker, Fr. Sean

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781 9034976 44 9

Contents: In this booklet, Fr. Seán Tucker traces the history of Millstreet Parish across nearly a thousand years. It is the first such record of the Parish. It is based on detailed analyses of church records using many primary sources and is the result of a long-term interest in the area by Father Tucker - truly a labour of love.

Each phase of the Parish's history is also put in the context of its time, both nationally and internationally, and Father Tucker shows a great appreciation of all the forces that shaped our history and helped make us what we are.

Father Seán Tucker grew up in Ballydaly, was educated at Rathduane National School and at the De la Salle College in Waterford. He completed his priestly training at Oscott College, Birmingham, did further studies in Social Work at Aston and Selly Oak Colleges. He worked in the Archdiocese of Birmingham for 25 years. He spent three years in a Charismatic Community in the USA and worked in a parish in South Africa for the past 12 years.

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Name: The Origins & Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland, 1920

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Author: Murphy, Dr. Brian P (osb)

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1 903497 24 8

Contents: On 22 May 1920, the Irish Statesman, the journal associated with Sir Horace Plunkett and George Russell, declared that "…this is a time for plain speaking and we shall speak plainly. The propaganda supplied to the British Press from Dublin Castle is a propaganda of lies. The version of the state of Ireland based upon this propaganda which the Coalition's kept Press serves up to the British people is lies."
Dr. Brian P. Murphy osb has been working for many years on British and Irish propaganda in the years before and during the Irish War of Independence, c.1916-1922. In this essay he has concentrated on British propaganda, with some reference to the origins and workings of Irish propaganda to which it was opposed.
There are also some reflections on the manner in which propaganda may have influenced the writing of Irish history for these important years.
Dr. Murphy is a member of the Benedictine Community at Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick. He is a graduate of Oxford University, Trinity College, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland (UCD).

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Name: The Pearson Executions In Co. Offaly

Subtitle: a debate on alleged sectarianism during the War of Independence

Author: Muldowney, Pat

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2007

ISBN: 9 781903 497326

Contents: Readers of our literature will be aware of our efforts to counter the revisionist writing and commentary on our history.

The event dealt with here is a rather classic example of how these issues are dealt with these days by our media and academic historians. But more importantly it is an example of how this type of issue should be dealt with and all the facts of the case established.

A book appears about an incident that involved the killing of two Protestant family members during the War of Independence. The IRA executed them. That was sufficient to set off a typical harangue by Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, October 2nd.) as if that was all there was to the event and the usual invective followed about alleged sectarianism of the IRA. Then, our old friend, Roy Foster (BA., MA., Ph.D., D.Litt (Hons), Hons.Litt.D., FRSL., FRHistS., FBA. Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford University) weighed in with a declaration in the Dublin Review about "…the murder of the Pearson brothers in Kinnitty Co. Offaly in June 1921 and the burning of their house—the subject of a recent local study." (Dublin Review, Autumn 2006). This debate examines that 'local study' in some detail.

Messrs. Harris and Foster could not have been more wrong and Pat Muldowney set out to prove it and did so comprehensively and conclusively on the Indymedia website. Messrs. Harris and Foster did not engage in the debate and it was left to some anonymous Smart Alecs to try to make their case for them. They failed abysmally. We thought it all worth recording.

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Name: The Poems of Geoffrey O'Donoghue

Subtitle: with Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 by John Minahane

Author: O'Donoghue, Geoffrey

Editor: Minahane, John

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-903-497-49-4

Contents: Séafraidh Ó Donnachadha an Ghleanna, or Geoffrey O'Donoghue of Glenflesk, wa a lively, witty and robust poet of 17th. century Kerry. This is the first collection of his work since Patrick Dinneen's pioneering edition of 1902. The Irish text is accompanied by an English translation, which tries to point to the poetry in the original (Introduction). Included also are poems doubtfully attributed to Geoffrey but interesting in their own right, and some poems relating to the Cromwellian War in which he fought.

In Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 John Minahane ranges through the rich and striking poetry which was part of the great conflict. Among the poets featured are Pádraigin Haicéad, Piaras Feirtéar, Toirdhealbhach Ó Conchobhair, Seán Ó Criagáin and the enigmatic Diarmaid Óg Ó Murchadha, whose three poems are among the book's highlights. This literature has been shamefully neglected by professional scholars, and much of it is published here, in whole or in part, for the first time.

Published with an essay on Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 by John Minahane.

Translation by John Minahane.

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Name: The Shakespeare Conspiracies

Subtitle: Untangling A 400-Year Web Of Myth And Deceit

Author: McClinton, Brian

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2007

ISBN: 978 1 903497 36 4

Contents: To question the identity of the universal cultural icon known as Shakespeare might be seen as placing the sceptic in the loonier department of the conspiracy market. Yet this very challenge is now refreshingly renewed for a new generation of readers by Brian McClinton. Many in the past have doubted the orthodox claimant. Included among the doubters are Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Henry James and Enoch Powell.

In this brilliant synthesis, with its illuminating study of one of the richest periods in human culture, Brian McClinton provides incontrovertible evidence that nothing in the life of the Stratford man is commensurate with the incomporable learning, determined literacy and philosophical and educational purpose of the plays. The depth of the author's research and the clarity of his prose point inexorably to one man as the mastermind behind the greatest literature ever penned.

Harold Bloom suggests that Shakespeare 'invented the human'. He certainly helped to extend our understanding of human consciousness and defined with greater clarity than any previous writer what it is to live as a human being in the world.

Read this book and you will see that this was not an incidental effect but indeed the central purpose of the Shakespearean canon, namely the education of humanity through a myth. Read also to discover why only one man had the genius, knowledge, skill and unparalleled understanding to carry through this task—a man, as Ben Jonson said allegedly of another, who was 'not of an age but for all time.'

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Name: Thomas Davis

Subtitle:

Author: Duffy, Charles Gavan

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2000

ISBN: 1 903497 01 9

Contents: Reprint of classic biography of 1890; with extract from Duffy's autobiography. Introduction by Brendan Clifford. 268 pp. Index.

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Name: Troubled History

Subtitle: A tenth anniversary critique of Peter Hart's The IRA and its Enemies (1998)

Author: Murphy, Dr. Brian P & Meehan, Niall

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-903497–46-3

Contents: Niall Meehan examines Peter Hart's arguments in the context of political pressures in Irish society affecting the writing of Irish history. In particular, he looks at the effect of violence in Northern Ireland post 1968. The threat of violence was used to inhibit intellectual inquiry in Southern Ireland. State censorship, perfected by Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien while a minister from 1973-1977, was accompanied by attacks on print media, on dissenting academics and on civil liberties. This, argues Meehan, helped to stabilise a new orthodoxy that privileged reframing the earlier Irish Troubles of 1916-21 as a religious or ethnic conflict. Within this new framework Peter Hart's research emerged and was uncritically applauded in 1998.

Meehan publishes for the first time an affidavit from the son of the last surviving participant in the Kilmichael ambush of November 28, 1920. He also publishes a newspaper report of the death of this ambush veteran. Peter Hart claimed to have interviewed an ambush participant anonymously one day later. In the affidavit it is claimed that Hart could not have interviewed the last surviving participant. The sole surviving IRA veteran suffered a stroke affecting his mobility and speech over a year prior to Hart's claimed anonymous interviews with two such veterans. Meehan pursues these and also newly discovered inconsistencies in Hart's account of sectarianism during the conflict. He attempts an explanation of why these deficiencies are ignored by mainstream Irish historians.

Brian Murphy examines the way in which Peter Hart's research on Cork during Ireland's War of Independence has been used to encourage the view that Catholic-Protestant antagonisms were a significant feature of the conflict. Murphy answers criticism of his research on British Propaganda in 1920 by David Leeson of Laurentian University, Canada. Murphy also examines Leeson's defense of Peter Hart. Murphy indicates the extent of significant Protestant support for Irish Independence. He takes issue with a recent Irish television documentary that pursued the Hart sectarianism thesis in another part of Ireland during the War of Independence.

Ruan O'Donnell, in his introduction, makes the point that 'the highly contentious nature of the revolutionary period has found an echo in the hostile tenor present in some of the debates between scholars. Questions of interpretation are inevitable in such dialogues and important issues have also arisen in relation to the reliability of certain classes of historical evidence. Something of the heat of these clashes stems, in all probability, from proximity to 'the Long War'. Connections between 1922 and 1998 are obviously more profound than the mere repetition of nomenclature and re-articulation of slogans but contemporary judgments on this issue must, as yet, remain tentative. It is to be hoped that a fuller and more nuanced grasp of Irish history will emerge from the new histories of the new Ireland.'

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Name: Was 1916 A Crime?

Subtitle: A discussion from 'Village' Magazine, July - July 2006

Author:

Editor: Lane, Jack

Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1 903497 25 6

Contents: This is the second edition of this work which incorporates new material printed in 'Village' magazine since December 2005

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Name: With Michael Collins

Subtitle: In The Fight For Irish Independence

Author: O'Connor, Batt

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 2004

ISBN: 1 903497 17 5

Contents: Batt O'Connor of Brosna, Co. Kerry was one of Michael Collins' inner circle in the War of Independence. His recollections of that War read more like an adventure story than history. All the more surprising, therefore, that his memoir has been out of print since 1929. Following lively public interest in Sean Moylan's Memoirs, launched by Éamon Ó Cuív, the Aubane Historical Society is making a further account of the War of Independence available—this time from a participant who felt pressed to take the pro-Treaty side in 1922. However, while Moylan's story is firmly centred in North Cork, Batt's features Dublin. Mrs. O'Connor's recollections, which she lodged in the Bureau of Military History appear here for the first time. An Introduction by Brendan Clifford takes issue with the view that the divisions among the Volunteers over whether to accept Lloyd George's Treaty ultimatum really constituted a 'civil war' in the true sense of the term. Both sides were pledged to the Republic—the division was merely over whether to make a partial submission to the Crown under the British Prime Minister's threat of 'terrible and immediate war'.

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