Westmeath's Decade of Centenaries

Documentary - 'Wreckage and Ruin': scenes from a civil war


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The forty-five minute documentary, researched and written by Dr Ian Kenneally, Historian in Residence with Westmeath County Council, and produced by Midlands 103, looks at four stories from the midlands during the Irish Civil War: an ambush in Glasson in August 1922; the shooting of Patrick Mulrennan in Athlone in October 1922; the civil war diaries of Alice Ginnell; and the state-sanctioned executions that took place in Athlone's Custume Barracks on 20 January 1923. It also contains a never-before broadcast interview related to those executions. This documentary was originally broadcast by Midlands 103 on 26 December 2022.

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Westmeath's Decade of CentenariesBy Westmeath Historian in Residence