In the first of a series of Westmeath County Council Decade of  Centenaries podcasts, Dr Paul Hughes talks to John  Sheehan, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University  College, Cork, about the lives and deaths of the Tormey brothers of Moate. In January 1921, Joseph Tormey was shot dead by a British sentry at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Co. Down, and just over a fortnight later, his brother James, an officer of the IRA's Athlone Brigade Active Service Unit, died in an engagement with Crown forces at Cornafulla. John Sheehan, a native of Westmeath, wrote an extensive article about  the Tormey brothers for the highly acclaimed Cork University Press  publication, The Atlas of the Irish Revolution (2017).

More details on the War of Independence can be found at the Westmeath County Council Blog.