How fish merchant became the curator of Ireland's independence struggle


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History isn't the exclusive preserve of governments and world-famous museums, but can sometimes be found in locked-up rooms containing a lifetime's collection of papers and objects. The Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina, Ireland, sounds like a people's museum that's worth a visit.

In this removed County Mayo town, Ballina, at the mouth of the River Moy, the widow of a local fish merchant decided one day to share her husband’s collection of Irish miscellany with the public. Better to ha