27-610: Coachford College is a post primary school located in Coachford , County Cork, Ireland. Situated in the Lee Valley, 22 km west of Cork city, the catchment area stretches from Kanturk to Bandon , and from Ballincollig to Macroom . Coachford College is part of Cork Education and Training Board (ETB). As of 2017, there were over 610 students enrolled in the school, increasing to 841 students by 2023. Enrolment in Coachford College
54-447: A "Village Design Statement" (VDS) for the three villages in 2012. Mrs. Mary (or Maria) Lindsay, Leemount House, Coachford, an elderly widow, was executed by the IRA (along with her driver, James Clarke), on 9 March 1921. Attempting to prevent bloodshed she, along with a Roman Catholic priest, tried to persuade members of the IRA against a planned ambush. The IRA ignored them and she then warned
81-481: A Jackboot caricature; the rebels' lighthouse hideout an excuse for some pretty romantic sea-scapes; the conflict between Kerry's ideals and his involvement in violence is handled in the style of the Western theme of the reluctant gunfighter; and Lenihan's repressions and tensions are indicated mainly insofar as they yield material for a fanciful beach scene in which he spurns Kitty O'Brady, the village prostitute. The style of
108-462: A crossing point over a stream for horse-drawn coaches, and this stream continues to flow beneath the village to the present day. The Lee was flooded for a hydroelectric power plant and farmland including many houses was flooded by the newly formed lake. Coachford is located around a crossroads where the R618 and R619 regional roads intersect. Mallow is 20 miles (32 km) north of the village, Macroom
135-585: A golf team, athletics team as well as a frisbee team. while volleyball made a debut for both boys and girls. Coachford Coachford ( Irish : Áth an Chóiste ) is a village in County Cork , Ireland . It is located on the north side of the River Lee . The village is located in the civil parish of Magourney. Coachford is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West . Coachford owes its name to once being
162-404: A hideout by the sea, the base of an IRA unit commanded by Chris Noonan. Lenihan is furious to find local barmaid Kitty Brady consorting with the men there. When Liam O'Sullivan, a top IRA leader, is wounded escaping from prison, O'Shea agrees to accompany the unit to the rendezvous point to treat him. O'Sullivan is discovered in the boot of the car of aged Lady Fitzhugh and killed in a shootout by
189-462: A ship there. During the ensuing shootout, Lenihan shoots Kitty dead in cold blood. When the men reassemble at a lighthouse, they hear two bits of news. First, Lady Fitzhugh has died. Second, the British have offered a peace treaty . The General is satisfied to have peace, but not Lenihan. When he decides to execute Mrs. Curtis, O'Shea has to stop him. They exchange shots, and Lenihan is killed. The film
216-537: Is 9 miles (14 km) west, Cork City is 15 miles (24 km) east and Bandon is 20 miles (32 km) south. Coachford does not feature on the 1811 Grand Jury Map of Cork, but is mentioned in the Freeman's Journal , dated 10 January 1822, and the area and its environs were known as "Magourney". The village developed rapidly during the Famine (when it was a centre of relief within the mid Cork area) and subsequently. By 1888,
243-400: Is a co-educational secondary school which, as of 2017, had an enrollment of over 610 students. An extension was completed in 2002 and provided the college with a sports hall. In October 2020, funding was allocated for the extension and refurbishment of facilities at Coachford College. Coachford was formerly connected by railway to Cork City with a narrow gauge railway , opened in 1888 by
270-534: Is about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Coachford just off the Macroom Road. About 1-mile (1.6 km) south of Coachford on the road to Bandon is Rooves Bridge, constructed over the River Lee in the 1950s to replace the old bridge which was submerged due to the building of the hydroelectric dam at Inniscarra about 6 miles (9.7 km) down river. Rooves Bridge is the longest bridge spanning the River Lee. The village
297-552: Is also a high-ranking IRA leader known as "the Commandant". Lenihan removes the bullet, but Nolan dies anyway. Since O'Shea left his textbook (with his name inscribed) at the scene of the ambush, he is now a wanted man. Lenihan takes him to meet his superior, "the General", an old comrade-in-arms of O'Shea's father. When O'Shea refuses his invitation to join the IRA, the General arranges for a boat passage out of Ireland. Lenihan takes him to
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#1732885037311324-713: Is in accordance with their admissions policy. Coachford College is the sole provider in the catchment boundary area and most students from primary schools in the area attend Coachford College. 114 students started in Coachford College in September 2015, 134 starting in Sept 2016, 137 starting in Sept 2017, 142 students starting in Sept 2018, 152 students starting in 2019. In 2015, additional school developments were announced for Coachford College to accommodate 1000 students. A temporary accommodation block of seven classrooms opened in May 2021, and funding
351-467: Is sentenced to prison and goes on a hunger strike . Lenihan kidnaps Jennifer Curtis, the widowed daughter of a top British adviser, to try to force a prisoner exchange. Complications ensue when Kerry falls for her. When Kitty gets into trouble, both with Lenihan and the British, she decides to leave Ireland. Lenihan prepares to assassinate Colonel Smithson at the dock. However, he suspects he has been betrayed when Kitty, purely by coincidence, tries to board
378-533: Is the home of Aghabullogue GAA , best known for capturing Cork's first hurling All-Ireland title in 1890 when they defeated Castlebridge, Wexford in the final. A local amateur drama group, the Coachford Players, was established in 1987 and performs a full-length play each year. The village is also home to a tennis club, soccer club, a pub, and a Centra. The village and its environs are served by Coachford National School and Coachford College . The latter
405-572: The Cork and Muskerry Light Railway . The line was closed in 1934 by the GSR . Coachford railway station opened on 19 March 1888, but finally closed on 31 December 1934. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film) Shake Hands with the Devil is a 1959 British-Irish film produced and directed by Michael Anderson and starring James Cagney , Don Murray , Dana Wynter , Glynis Johns and Michael Redgrave . The film
432-648: The Irish War of Independence . Apolitical and sick of killing after fighting in World War I, he is drawn into the struggle between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British Black and Tans. He and his friend and fellow medical student, Paddy Nolan, are caught in the middle of an IRA ambush, and Nolan is shot by the British. Nolan tells O'Shea to fetch Sean Lenihan, one of their professors. Lenihan, it turns out,
459-456: The British Army of a planned ambush in nearby Dripsey , for which six IRA volunteers were later executed. She and her driver were shot and her home, Leemount House, burned down, after the British authorities refused to commute the executions of the six IRA volunteers. A character ("Lady Fitzhugh") based on Mrs. Lindsay was played by Dame Sybil Thorndike in the 1959 film, Shake Hands with
486-467: The British. When the soldiers check the people in the nearby pub (where the IRA men are waiting), Terence O'Brien tries to hide a pistol he brought (against Noonan's explicit orders). When it is found, it is O'Shea who is taken away. He is brutally beaten by Colonel Smithson of the Black and Tans, but refuses to talk. Lenihan leads a raid to rescue him. At that point, O'Shea decides to join the IRA. Lady Fitzhugh
513-520: The Cork & Muskerry Light Railway had a terminus at Coachford, adding to local business, accessibility and vibrancy. By the end of the 19th-century, the village also had a creamery, complimenting its agricultural hinterland. By the 1950s, a Vocational School was established, known today as Coachford College (sometimes referred to as Coachford Community College). The 2011-15 Aghabullogue-Coachford-Rylane Community Council commissioned URS consultants to draw up
540-634: The Devil , which starred James Cagney , Don Murray and Michael Redgrave . An IRA man named Frank Busteed later claimed credit for the killings and for burning down Mrs. Lindsay's home. Near Rooves Bridge is a monument to Captain Tadhg Kennefick of the Irish Republican Army , who was killed during the Irish Civil War by the Free State Army . On his way home to his mother's funeral, he
567-434: The I.R.A. general, is reduced to platitudes: when it comes to voicing an issue, as it should do in the scenes between Lenihan and the general, the film has all too little to say. In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "good", writing: "Strong thriller liked by most critics; a few complained that it cheapened and caricatured the conflict." The Radio Times Guide to Films gave
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#1732885037311594-408: The film is staccato, flashyand over-emphatic, the camerawork all glistening night streets and heavy shadows, and the playing uneven. James Cagney is spruce, hard-hitting but a little gangsterish, Glynis Johns and Dana Wynter respectively too boisterous and too subdued, and Don Murray effective mainly because he is able to make the most of his natural sincerity. It is Hat though, that Michael Redgrave, as
621-476: The level of character study and, with its obvious contempory parallels, political comment; he had the Irish setting and a distinguished and capable cast. What he has in fact done is to treat the subject as melodrama, with some intermittently exciting interludes (Lenihan's escape from the operating theatre, Lady FitzHugh's capture), but a continual debasing of his theme's dramatic currency. The Black and Tan savagery becomes
648-413: Was allocated in 2020 for the construction of a new school building. The school uses Google Classroom , and also uses VSWare to assist parents in accessing student attendance and academic progress. In sport, male students have the option of playing hurling, football or volleyball, while female students can play camogie, basketball, volleyball or ladies football. The school also has/had an equestrian team,
675-545: Was filmed in Dublin, Ballymore Eustace, and at Ardmore Studios in Bray , Ireland. The film received its world premiere on 21 May 1959 in Dublin. In a contemporary review, The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: With Shake Hands with the Devil , Michael Anderson gave himself the opportunity fo achieve something really ambitious. He had independence (Troy Films is his own company); he had a theme which could be forcefully developed both at
702-410: Was stopped at a checkpoint where Free State soldiers tied him to the back of a truck near a hamlet called Peake and dragged him a distance of four miles (6 km) to the bridge where he was shot by soldiers and his body dumped in a ditch. Local people who witnessed this recovered his body. A monument now stands on the site where his body was recovered. Close to Coachford is Mullinhassig Waterfall. It
729-507: Was written by Marian Spitzer based on the 1933 novel of the same title by Rearden Conner, the son of a Royal Irish Constabulary policeman. The film is set in 1921 Dublin, where the Irish Republican Army battles the Black and Tans , ex-British soldiers sent to suppress the rebels. Irish-American Kerry O'Shea is studying at the College of Surgeons in 1921 Dublin , Ireland, during a guerrilla war –
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