The Joe Clarke cumann was founded 1989 in and its founding members included Thomas Hassett (RIP) and Thomas Hickey (RIP).

Since its foundation our cumann has been involved with the interets of local communites including: The Liberties, Oliver Bond, The Tenters, Maryland, Donore and Dolphins Barn. We were central in the anti-drugs campaign and were instrumental in the development of a drug treatment in Oliver Bond and Bridgefoot Street.

We can be contacted by email at joeclarke@sinnfeindsc.com and new members are always welcome. JOE CLARKE

Joe Clarke was born in Rush on 22nd of December 1882. He worked for the Sinn Fein Bank in Harcourt Street where he meet the 1916 leaders from Pearse to Connolly. Joe joined C company 3rd Battallion of the Irish Volunteers as served under De Valera. During the 1916 Easter Rising Clarke defended Mount Street Bridge. When, eventually captured, after a heroic battle, he was lined up to be shot.

Miraculously Joe survived the head wound. Having survived the British he was imprisoned in both Liverpool and Wakefield prisons and later in Frongogh Internment Camp in Wales.

Joe founded the Irish Book Bereau and he published nearly all the republican speeches and the Wolfe Tone Weekly.

Joe died in 1976 leaving behind many friends and a dedicated local republican following.