Feakle

Feakle (historically Feakell and Fiakil, from Irish: an Fhiacail, meaning 'the tooth')[1] is a village in County Clare, Ireland, in the Roman Catholic parish of the same name.

[2] The village is in the Tulla Upper barony, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northwest of Scarriff on the road to Gort.

[8] On 12 December 1974 Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin leaders met at Smith's Hotel, Feakle, with the leaders of the main Irish Protestant Christian denominations (Church of Ireland, Methodist, and Presbyterian) to discuss ways of resolving the Northern Ireland crisis.

Although any wanted IRA men had already departed, the churchmen did pass on the list of Republican demands to the British government.

Methodist leader Eric Gallagher was in attendance and later became the subject of the book Peacemaker by author Dennis Cooke.