Smugglers, revolutionaries and hunger strikers: Inside Ireland's first refugee camp 

Vera Sheridan's new book looks at Knockalisheen refugee camp, where Hungarian people and families stayed after fleeing war and poverty

Hungarian refugee children at Knockalisheen in Co Clare. Image from Sean Curtin's Limerick: A Stroll Down Memory Lane

Vera Sheridan was just five years old when she fled Hungary. 

In 1956, revolution and chaos came to her country when a popular uprising against the communist government was comprehensively crushed by the Red Army of the Soviet Union.