"Photograph of presentation, to Independence Museum Kilmurry (then Terence MacSwiney Memorial Museum), of his War of Independence rifle by Dinny 'The Dane' Long."
A simple-enough piece of metal symbolises the local innovation used when it came to assembling weapons a century ago in mid-Cork.
This pike-head was donated to our collection at Independence Museum Kilmurry by a former Irish Volunteers/IRA member…