It’s hoped an archive of documents, photographs and maps discovered in West Clare will be on display to the public in the coming years.
Following the sale of a house owned by an auctioneering business in Kilrush, the personal archive of Joseph Barrett, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the IRA was discovered.
It mostly relates to his activities during the War of Independence and the Civil War.
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Historian and lecturer at Mary Immaculate College Dr Paul O’Brien, who helped to rescue the archive says its of national significance:
