Documentary on the Cork sisters whose shop was at the heart of IRA operations 

Sheila and Nora Wallace were crucial to the War of Independence campaign in the city.
Documentary on the Cork sisters whose shop was at the heart of IRA operations 
 Sheila and Nora Wallace. 

Sheila and Nora Wallace grew up on a small farm in Donoughmore, Co Cork – which is about 20 miles northwest of Cork City – at the turn of the twentieth century. 

They could scarcely have imagined what a dramatic turn their lives would take in adulthood when they became two of the IRA’s most important secret agents during the War of Independence.

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