Qualla: Cliffoney https://qualla.com/cliffoney en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cliffoney https://qualla.com/cliffoney Cliffoney: Introduction https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall, Public domain. In November 1915, a Catholic curate in a small County Sligo village walked his parishioners into the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Forty men joined what became the Cliffoney Company of the Irish Volunteers. They took over the old Boys' School Lord Palmerston had built and renamed it after their priest. The drill hall sat directly across the street from the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks. On Saint Patrick's Day 1916, fifty Volunteers in uniform paraded past the windows of the men who would soon be hunting them.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/gc9v-cliffoney-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cliffoney: The Republican Priest https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Cliffoney, CC BY-SA 4.0. Father Michael O'Flanagan arrived in Cliffoney with strong nationalist, socialist, and republican ideals already burning. The Bishop of Elphin had likely sent him here as punishment for his support of the 1913 Sligo Dock Strike. The village turned out to be the wrong place to exi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/gc9v-cliffoney-the-republican-priest.mp3 0:06 2 full Cliffoney: Easter Monday at Daybreak https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Cliffoney, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Cliffoney Volunteers had their orders: march on Sligo, capturing R.I.C. barracks along the route. In the early hours of Easter Monday 1916, sixty of them mobilized, including the Fianna boys. They waited at the break of day, ready to advance. A messenger arrived instead, carr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/gc9v-cliffoney-easter-monday-at-daybreak.mp3 0:06 3 full Cliffoney: Stones Older Than Empires https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Cliffoney, CC BY-SA 4.0. The longest history in Cliffoney has nothing to do with British prime ministers or Catholic curates. Five megalithic tombs cluster around the village in the townlands of Creevykeel, Creevymore, and Cartronplank. The Creevykeel Court Tomb, excavated by the Harvard Archaeological M...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/gc9v-cliffoney-stones-older-than-empires.mp3 0:06 4 full Cliffoney: Palmerston's Inheritance https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. Henry John Temple, the future 3rd Viscount Palmerston and one of the most powerful prime ministers Britain would ever produce, first laid eyes on his County Sligo estates in 1808. He found ten thousand acres of destitution. His father had been an absentee landlord who, by one acc...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/cliffoney-wp/gc9v-cliffoney-palmerstons-inheritance.mp3 0:06 5 full Cliffoney: What Stays https://qualla.com/cliffoney/ Photo credit Cliffoney, CC BY-SA 4.0. In October 2014, President Michael D. Higgins came to Cliffoney to mark the centenary of the National School. He spoke about Yeats, about Classiebawn Castle three kilometres up the road at Mullaghmore, about the school's century of children. The Garda station closed in 2013. The ...

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