By Cianna McNally
The Ulster Canal Stores, Clones provided the setting last Friday for an informative and interesting discussion on the Battle of the Somme as part of History Ireland magazine’s Hedge School series.
Entitled ‘The Somme – What Really Happened,’ the event, which drew a large crowd, was opened by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys. Contributors to the discussion on the night, which was chaired by History Ireland editor Tommy Graham, included Clones historian George Knight from Clogher Historical Society, curator of Irish Military History at the …