Person: Paddy O’Daly

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<p>The former workhouse at Bahaghs near Caherciveen, Co Kerry was used as a makeshift detention centre during the Civil War. In March, 1923, National Army troops took out five republican prisoners, shot them in the legs, and then blew them up. Picture: Alan Landers</p>

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Mick Clifford: Cold-blooded Civil War mass murders reverberate around Kerry a century later

Mick Clifford tells the shameful story of the murder by Free State troops of five young men — and how a senior garda and a civil servant helped thwart the subsequent attempt to cover it up

<p>The Ballyseedy monument, a memorial to the Republican insurgents executed by Free State forces at Ballyseedy, located on the Tralee to Cork Road. Picture: Domnick Walsh</p>

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Cork and Kerry treated as 'hostile foreign country', civil war conference hears

<p>As the sole survivor, Stephen Fuller, right, was able to tell what really happened at Ballyseedy, Co Kerry when National Army troops massacred eight anti-Treaty prisoners. Fuller is pictured campaigning in the 1938 general election, and served as a TD from 1937 to 1943. Picture: NLI/Military Archives/Owen O'Shea</p>

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Irish Civil War: Cork and Kerry's darkest days claimed 400 lives

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Irish Civil War: 12 Munster killings that tell the story of the conflict

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Irish Civil War: State executed twice as many republicans as the British had done in 1916-1921

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Decisive leadership and selflessness saved the nation after the Army Mutiny

How the State turned a blind eye to the Ballyseedy killings

IN RECENT years there has been outrage following reports into clerical abuse, as well as the publication of the recent report into the behaviour at Magdalene Laundries.

Tue, 05 Mar, 2013

Dramatic historical episode hidden behind a long-lost masterpiece

DURING the week RTÉ televised a fascinating documentary on of the discovery in Dublin of the priceless Caravaggio painting, The Betrayal of Christ. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for more than 200 years before it was found hanging in the dining room of the Jesuits’ house on Leeson Street, where it had been for some 60 years.

Sat, 21 Aug, 2010