For the women, their meetings and voices were often ignored. A report of a gathering of Republican women at the Wolfe Tone memorial in Bodenstown in June 19223, which included Caitlín was reported as ‘small’. The writer of the report noted that the women knew why it was not a large gathering… it was composed almost entirely of women. Like her husband, Caitlín Brugha was deeply opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and with this statement she set down a definite marker of her political position. In a letter in the National Library of Ireland, (MS 49,552/1) to Edmund Downey she said after Cathal’s death her one consulation was he died for Ireland.

Your children are sure to enjoy personalizing their own garden stake. Googly eyes, craft paper, toilet paper roll, and a few other supplies you probably already have on hand is all you need to do this project. Teach your kiddos all about learning how to recycle with this unique and creative bee craft. We have worked hard with this year group since I joined the school when they were Year 8.

This is not as unusual as it seems however, as John Wilmot was also from north Kerry, from Knocknagoshel, where he was born in 1877, the son of Daniel Wilmot, an agricultural labourer, and his wife, Mary Bunworth. There could be several reasons why John joined the 8th Hussars in December 1899, at Tralee. The Boer war was on at the time, but there was no conscription. However, as the son of an agricultural labourer, his prospects in Lixnaw would not have been good. There is also a report in Kerry Sentinel of March 3rd, 1900, which might give us another reason.

I’m hoping tomorrow to also try a bike ride, maybe all the way to school. His legacy lives on in the great work being carried out in his name in empowering and encouraging young people to grow and develop. Terry’s legacy is about the fullness of life, those who killed him were small and evil, incapable of understanding what the fullness of life means. We grew up in Dermott Hill, a housing estate at the top of the Whiterock Road on the outskirts of Ballymurphy.

An inquest into the deaths heard Coroner Paul Morris state that one of the problems in classifying Mollie’s death was whether she had been born. The tragic incident occurred near Bansha in March 2012 and left Mollie’s mother, Mary Enright, and 17 year old Robert Stoker dead. Please send your well wishes for an accident free start to September!!

The Dublin Evening Telegraph of May 17, 1921 reported that on Saturday May 14, ‘The parents and friends of the victims proceeded to Tralee from Listowel on Saturday, recover the bodies for burial in their respective districts’. This succinct account covers up the long and traumatic story of the recovery and burial of the three men, a story that has the women of several local Cumann na mBan branches at its heart. In the aftermath of the killings, the bodies of the three men had been brought livly clothing by the Black and Tans in Crossley Tenders to Listowel, and then were taken on to Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee. Lady Albina Broderick, or as she was better known, Gobnait Ní Bhruadair, a well-known republican activist and a leading member of Cumann na mBan, was in Tralee when the lorries with the bodies arrived in the town. She described what she saw in a letter; ‘They must have been one or two of them still alive for the blood was still running from the lorry as it came in.