Qualla: Adrigole https://qualla.com/adrigole en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Adrigole https://qualla.com/adrigole Adrigole: Introduction https://qualla.com/adrigole/ In the last week of March 1927, Daniel O'Sullivan, his wife, and two of their children were found dead in their home at Clashduff, just outside Adrigole. They had starved. The Great Famine had ended seventy-five years earlier. Ireland was an independent state. And yet in a quiet townland on the Beara Peninsula, a family in their cottage had run out of food entirely. The story so shook the writer Peadar O'Donnell that he turned it into a play, Adrigoole, moving the setting to Donegal to give the grief some distance. The village itself is small - around 500 people in the surrounding electoral division - but its name carries that memory.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/n/adrigole-wp/gc1n-adrigole-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Adrigole: The Junction Below the Pass https://qualla.com/adrigole/ Adrigole sits where two roads meet, the R572 running west along the Beara coast from Glengarriff to Castletownbere, and the R574 climbing north over the Healy Pass into County Kerry. The Healy Pass road, named for Tim Healy, the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, is ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/n/adrigole-wp/gc1n-adrigole-the-junction-below-the-pass.mp3 0:06 2 full Adrigole: What Peadar O'Donnell Saw https://qualla.com/adrigole/ Peadar O'Donnell was a Donegal-born republican, novelist, and labor activist who spent his life writing about rural poverty and the people the new Irish state had failed. When word reached him in 1927 of the O'Sullivan deaths at Clashduff, he understood at once that this was not ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/n/adrigole-wp/gc1n-adrigole-what-peadar-odonnell-saw.mp3 0:06 3 full Adrigole: Football, Faith, and Granite https://qualla.com/adrigole/ Like most rural Cork parishes, Adrigole holds its identity in its football team. Adrigole GAA Club won the Cork Intermediate Football Championship in 1979 and the Cork Junior Football Championship in November 2006, beating Grenagh 0-5 to 0-3 at Pairc Ui Rinn. Brendan Ger O'Sulliv...

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