too long and be back the following year to possibly win an All Ireland football crown but, in the years that followed 1917, the struggle for freedom would supersede the struggle for an All Ireland football title in the Banner county.

Clare football would trudge into the 1920s and 30s but never manage to hit the highs of 1917. Clare would make Munster Football finals in 1924, 25, 27, 29, 36, 37 and 41, but they lost every one of them against the same opposition: Kerry! A revenge of sorts played out in 1992 when Clare got the better of Kerry in that years Munster football final, beating the kingdom 2-10 to 0-12 but, no title has been added to the football realms of Clare GAA since.Quick Links

In 1919, in the wake of the
upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up
with their own solution to the world's grief: a new religion. At the
heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a
vicar's widow named Mabel Bartlrop. Her followers called her Octavia,
and they believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the
New Jerusalem in Bedford.

When the last living members of
the Panacea Society revealed to historian Jane Shaw their immense and
painstakingly preserved archives, she began to reconstruct the story of a
close-knit utopian community that grew to include seventy residents,
thousands of followers, and an international healing ministry reaching
130,000 people. Shaw offers a detailed portrait of Octavia and describes
the faith of her devoted followers who believed they would