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The following podcasts were produced as part of the Decade of Centenaries programme:  

Donegal County Museum in association with Donegal County Archives and in partnership with Highland Radio News and Sport created their first ever Radio Documentary series, funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media. The documentaries aired on Highland Radio     

'UNTOLD - Donegal Women with Caroline Carr, Donegal County Museum in conversation with Michaela Clarke.  

Listen as Caroline explores the untold stories of Donegal women during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Her talk covers those who took an active role in War of Independence including Eithne Coyle, violence against women and children and how the everyday lives of Donegal women were affected during this turbulent period of our history.  

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‘From Behind The Walls’ Stories of the First World War: Donegal Casualties & Survivors with Judith McCarthy, Donegal County Museum

Listen to Judith in conversation with Michaela Clarke, Highland Radio, as she uncovers the stories of casualties and survivors from the First World War in her talk ‘From Behind the Walls’. By using records from institutions such as the Workhouses and the Donegal District Lunatic Asylum, Judith explores what happened to some of those from County Donegal who suffered trauma, injury and death during and after the Great War.  

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Donegal Claims and Compensation – The Irish Grant Committee with Dr Niamh Brennan, Donegal County Archives 

Join Michaela Clarke, Highland Radio, in conversation with Dr Niamh Brennan, who will endeavour to answer the questions as to who were the ‘southern Irish loyalists’ and what happened to them during the Revolutionary years? What was the Irish Grants Committee and how did it assist refugees and why? In 1922 the Irish Distress Committee (IGC) later becoming the Irish Grants Committee in March 1923, was set up in London to provide assistance to refugees which had fled from Ireland to England, but later extended its activities to granting loans to persons having valid claims against either the British or Irish Governments. The IGC investigated compensation claims and compensated thousands of people.    

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‘Drumboe - The Last Letters’ - Caroline Carr, Donegal County Museum

Join Michaela Clarke, Highland Radio in conversation with Caroline Carr, who will discuss the arrest, Court Martial and execution in March 1923 of those who became known as the Drumboe Martyrs.     

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Donegal County library     

As part of the Decade of Centenaries Commemorations the Library Service produced 6 Podcasts.   

  1. Dr Sean Beattie – Michael Collins and the formation of the Garda Síochana

  2. Caroline Carr – ‘Untold@ Donegal women during the revolutionary period

  3. Tom Plunkett – Chronicling Mid-west Donegal. 

  4. Seoirse O’Dochartaigh – Pearse’s Vision, A new Ireland – expressed through music.

  5. Seosamh O’Ceallaigh – Aspects of the War of Independence in Cloughaneely

  6. Dr Niamh Brennan – The Treaty 1921 – Records from the Archives 

Donegal County Museum     

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