Qualla: Clonmany https://qualla.com/clonmany en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clonmany https://qualla.com/clonmany Clonmany: Introduction https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Jmchugh1962, CC BY-SA 4.0. On a calm spring morning in 1847, eight men set out from the Isle of Doagh to fish Trawbreaga Bay. The weather was good. The water was, by every account, exceptionally still. Then a single sudden swell rolled in from somewhere out at sea, and seven of the eight drowned within sight of their families on the shore. Their names were Donald Doherty, Patrick Doherty, James MacLoughlin, Patrick Roe Doherty, William Noher Doherty, Hugh McCool, and John McLoughlin. They left behind wives and children whose names also entered the record. This is Clonmany, a village in north-west Inishowen known locally as The Cross, because it grew up where two roads met. The cross is also the right symbol. Clonmany has carried more than most.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/gcfd-clonmany-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clonmany: A Parish Priest Who Fought at Waterloo https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Kanchelskis, Public domain. Born in 1779 in Cockhill, Buncrana, William O'Donnell graduated from Maynooth College and promptly declined the priesthood for the army. He fought through the Peninsular War: Vitoria, Roncesvalles, the Pyrenees. He survived Waterloo. Then, at forty, he was ordained. He arrived in...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/gcfd-clonmany-a-parish-priest-who-fought-at-waterloo.mp3 0:06 2 full Clonmany: The Poitin Republic of Urris https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Three miles west of Clonmany, in the Urris valley, the locals briefly established their own polity. The Urris Hills were ideal for making illegal poitin: surrounded by mountains, reachable only through Mamore Gap and Crossconnell, but close enough to Derry to sell what they disti...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/gcfd-clonmany-the-poitin-republic-of-urris.mp3 0:06 3 full Clonmany: Land War and Eviction https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The nineteenth century brought a different kind of unrest. By the 1830s the Ribbon men were attacking landlords. In February 1832, three thousand tenants assaulted the properties of Michael Doherty of Glen House and Neal Loughrey of Binnion. The unrest never really stopped. In 18...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/gcfd-clonmany-land-war-and-eviction.mp3 0:06 4 full Clonmany: The Murders of 1921 https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Qoan (Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez), CC BY-SA 3.0. On 10 May 1921, two Royal Irish Constabulary officers stationed at the Clonmany barracks went out for an evening walk near Straid. Their names were Alexander Clarke, twenty-three, and Charles Murdock, originally from Dublin. They never returned. The IRA abducted them both. Clarke...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/clonmany-wp/gcfd-clonmany-the-murders-of-1921.mp3 0:06 5 full Clonmany: What the Sea Brings In https://qualla.com/clonmany/ Photo credit Jmchugh1962, CC BY-SA 4.0. Clonmany's shoreline has always belonged half to the sea. In August 1940, the body of an Italian migrant named Giovanni Ferdenzi washed ashore at Gaddyduff. He had been on the SS Arandora Star, sunk by a U-boat that July while carrying internees to Canada. He was buried in Clonma...

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