Harry Clarke windows at Cabinteely Church, Co. Dublin presented by Joe McGrath, Founder of the Irish Sweeps and Ancestral Baptismal Font.

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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The church in Cabinteely, Co.Dublin has Harry Clarke windows presented by Joe McGrath who lived locally at Cabinteely House. The Parish Priest says they weree done by the Harry Clarke studio if not by Harry Clarke himself.

There are other Harry Clarke windows in the Honan Chapel Cork, Athlone Cathedral, Terenure Church, the Metropolitan Art gallery Dublin and the church attaching to the convent of the former Belcamp school Dublin.

Joe McGrath and the Irish Sweeps have not enjoyed a good press lately. The Sweep founded by McGrath, Bookmaker Richard Duggan and Publicist Spenser Freeman was in the 1930 the largest Lottery in the world. Legal in Ireland but not so in its main markets the UK, and USA at its height it brought millions of hard currency into i=an impoverished country and gave employment if low paid to thousands. The McGrath family ploughed some of their money back into reviving Waterford Glass in the Irish Glass Bottle Company into Irish Racing and through their investment company Avenue Investments. Their former house is now owned by South Dublin County Council and the grounds a public park.

The baptismal font used by the church was rescued many years ago in a field. It is thought to be associated with the ancient church at Tully suppressed during the Penal Laws from the late 17th century.

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Harry Clarke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Clarke

Joe McGrath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McGrath_(politician)

Tully Church:
http://www.christiaancorlett.com/#/blog/4564514201/Tully-Church-near-Cabinteely-south-county-Dublin/5971049

St. Barrahanes, Castletownsend, West Cork:

http://www.abbeystrewryunion.com/#/st-barrahanes-church/4557284996

Congressman William Henry Hammett 1843-1845 for Mississippi, born 1799, Dunmanway, Co. Cork

28 Monday Oct 2013

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William Henry Hammett
Elected Office(s): Representative, Delegate
State: Mississippi, Virginia, Washington
Country: Ireland, USA
Biography: a Representative from Mississippi; born March 25, 1799, in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland; studied theology; chaplain of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1832-1834 and of the State house of delegates; moved to Princeton, Miss.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); died July 9, 1861, in Washington County, Mississippi.

His parents were Richard Hammett, a cloth merchant from Dunmanway who emigrated to the USA in the early 1800s. His mother was Isabella Norwood, her father William was a Master at the Dunmanway Charter School and they lived in the townland of Ballickalwick

Rides through the County of Cork, Castle Donovan, Dublin Penny Journal 11th November 1834

28 Monday Oct 2013

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Probably written by John Windle later associated with Queens College, Cork now UCC. Father John referred to is Father John Parish Priest of Drimoleague.

British Army in Macroom, Co. Cork 1727-1836 with Separate Local Occupational Profile

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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The Church of Ireland records of Macroom contain many references to British Army personnel. Some are soldiers garrisoned there marrying locally of being the fathers of children or dying. Other are local pensioners, one dying in America Joseph Kennedy and being the father of twins. During the 1798 period there were a significant number of Irish regiments or local County Militias garrisoned locally.

Separately are included references to occupations where they occur. It is assumed that most of the other people mentioned are farming or landowners.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEJjQlZQRjQ2UmdXNkpsbGwwYzJxNmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

The Church of Ireland Records are:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/macroom-maigh-chromtha-sloping-or-crooked-plain-co-cork-records-church-of-ireladn-from-1727-to-1836/

Applications for Concordatum to Lord Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Ireland 1817-1821

25 Friday Oct 2013

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The Concordat was a discretionary endowment to be given out by the Lord Lieutenant. Government also had at its disposal the equivalent of a petty cash fund known as concordatum money, but this had to be accounted for and was frequently overspent in the innumerable legitimate sundry expenses in running a large establishment. Many of the applicants for relief were women often widowed. The were the wives of Military personnel or clergymen, Government Officials who had in the absence of pensions fallen on hard times. Some of the amount awarded came to £10. To put this in perspective, a cadet to the RIC in the officer class had a starting salary of £100 per annum. from the 1830s.

The observations are made by senior clergy judicial persons and members of the Gentry and MPs. Nor althoether unlike the representations of present day TDs.

Lor Talbot served in Ireland from 1817 to 1821
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chetwynd-Talbot,_2nd_Earl_Talbot