Cork historian, Anne Twomey of the Shandon Area History Group will discuss the role of three Cork women in the Revolutionary period.
“Pathways to Freedom: The Life and Times of Margaret Buckley and the Conlon Sisters.”
Dance Cork Firkin Crane Thursday 27th July at 7.15.
(Followed immediately by historian, Liz Gillis)
Background.
The Blarney Street/Sundays Well area is a long established community on the north west of Cork city, bounded on the south by the River Lee and on the north by Blarney Street.
Three extraordinary women from this community who were born a little more than a kilometre from each other in this area; sisters Lil and May Conlon who lived on Blarney Street and later at 92 Sundays Well Road and Margaret Buckley from 12 Winter’s Hill all contributed enormously to the Irish Revolution. Yet the Irish Civil War saw them on opposite sides of the political schism. The subsequent lives of these women represent a local human microcosm of the bitter split among friends after the War of Independence and the different roads of life subsequently taken by each.
Anne Twomey will examine their journeys.
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