Woodquay
Riverside working-class quarter by the Corrib, scene of a deadly War of Independence raid.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Woodquay in Galway goes back to a night in May nineteen twenty-one, during Ireland's War of Independence, when Crown Forces known as the Black and Tans came to a family home looking for an IRA quartermaster named James Folan. It is a story about his younger brothers, a raid on a working neighbourhood by the river, and how a city remembers a civilian a century later. Best heard standing among the streets near the river.
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