School: Clanna Caoilte (B.) (roll number 12286)

Location:
Clonakilty, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Síthe
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    freedom; there shall be no peace until the Republic is restored; there shall be no peace until the manacled are undone”.
    That would be the “Flyers” message from the grave. Those who knew him and who had the honour of working with him here and now would avow that until that freedom for which he worked and for which he worked and for which his comrades gave their lives, was a reality, there would be armed men within this country who would take the opportunity, when it would come, to again go out in arms for the freedom of this nation, if it were necessary. When the “Flyer” would meet across the Great Divide the men of 1922-’23, like Dick Barrett and Lar. Cunningham, or the men of 1920-’21, like Charlie Hurley, Paddy Crowley, Dick McKee, or further back, the men of 1916, like Pearse, Connolly or Clarke; or further back
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        1. War of Independence (~9)
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