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Dr Sandra Collins, University Librarian, UCD President-elect Professor Orla Feely, Dee Forbes, Director General, RTÉ and Liam McGrath, Scratch Films at the launch of The Silent Civil War at UCD which will be aired across RTÉ platforms, presenting over 100 hours of unedited material and testimonies of Irish Civil War revolutionaries and their families to the National Folklore Collection in UCD Library.
KERRY’S Tony Meade and Sadhbh Ní Mhidhigh, nephew-in-law and grandniece of IRA Commandeer Charlie Dálaigh who was executed in Drumbeo in 1923 will feature in episode 1 of The Silent Civil War, which airs this Wednesday, April 26, 9.35pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
Michael and Patrick O’Connor Scarteen, from Kerry will feature in episode 2, which airs on Wednesday 3rd May.
Michael and Patrick are descendants of two Free-State men, Tom and John O’Connor (their granduncles) who were killed in Kenmare in September 1922. They share details of the ambush and the morning of the killing in the documentary.
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Patsy O’Connor from Listowel, Kerry also features in episode 2. Patsy is a grandnephew of Drumboe Martyr Daniel Enright. Patsy’s grandmother Minnie was Daniel’s younger sister. Pasty spoke about the tragedy of Drumbeo in an incredibly emotional interview.
Kathleen, Tom Herlihy and Paudie Fuller from Kerry also speak candidly and openly in episode 2. In an incredibly moving interview, they discuss the Ballyseedy Massacre in March 1923, and how Stephen Fuller was hidden and nursed on Tom’s family’s farm.
Donal O’Sullivan, from Kerry nephew of Tim O’Sullivan, one of the four Drumboe Martyrs also features in episode 2.
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