NAMES RELEASED OF ORPHANS IN HISTORIC CONNEMARA CARE HOME

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Date Published: 20-Feb-2012

The names of 21 boys who were burnt out of a Connemara care home during the Civil War have now been released, after 90 years.

The orphanage in Ballyconree in Clifden was burnt down by anti-treaty republican forces in July 1922.

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