General area.
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Canon Shinkwin was talking to the older people in Borlin (Bantry, West Cork, in Irish around 1903 and asking them to speak Irish to the small children at night with a view towards arresting the decline of the language. There were 4 million Irish speakers pre famine in 1840 and in 1900 probably at least 10 million worldwide whose parents had been Irish speakers.
In some ways people continued to speak Irish but through the medium of the English language. To some extent that is still true. The rhythms of language appear normal but to non Irish English speakers appears strange exotic and sometimes puzzling. The language lives in hidden in placenames, field names in half forgotten phrase which exist in the collective unconscious.
In the Irish Civil War one of the Cronin family from Borlin was a Free State Officer and was known as ‘The Borlin Bull’
DEAN MICHAEL SHINKWIN PP VG
Deceased
Parish Of Birth
Kilmurry
Colleges Attended
St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland
Details Of Ordination
Ursuline Convent Chapel, Blackrock, Cork
4/2/1859
Appointments
St. Patricks (Lower Rd.) PP : 27/2/1906 – 12/9/1923
Chaplain, Military Prison/Cork : 1906 – 1908
Bantry PP : 12/1879 – 27/2/1906
Glounthaune PP : 1878 – 12/1879
South Parish CC : 1869 – 1878
Bandon CC : 1867 – 1869
Bantry CC : 1859 – 1867
Notes
He was one of three brothers – Canon Joseph Shinkwin, P.P., Bandon and Canon Thomas Shinkwin P.P., Glanmire, who ministered in the Diocese.
Appointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in 1878.
Appointed Vicar Forane (V.F.) of the Bantry Deanery in 1880.
Appointed Vicar General of the Diocese in 27/2/1906.
Appointed Dean of the Diocese in 8/6/1906
Date Of Death
12/9/1923
Place Of Death
Parochial House, St. Patrick’s, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork
Place Of Burial
St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork
Obituary
The celebrant of the Solemn Requiem Mass was, Very Rev. Canon Roche, P.P., Glanmire, deacon was Fr. Richard Barrett, C.C., Cathedral; sub-deacon was, Fr. Richard Barrett, Chaplain, Clifton, and master of ceremonies was, Fr. Thomas A. Murray, C.C., St. Patricks.
died aged 92.
His brother James was a Barrister and Coroner who died young:
died 1895 James Henry Shinkwin Barrister 1870 Coroner West Riding 1894 KIlbrogan House. Strong political nationalist number of brother priests. Probate to widow £211 Magistrates at the funeral J. C. Allman, Bandon, P. Buckley, Cork, James Daly, Mawbeg House, Bandon, M. Dennehy, Innishannon, T. Dwyer, Cobh, T. Foley, Bandon, M. Healy, Coachford, John P. Howard, Crookstown, C.J. Harold, Mallow, B. O’Leary, Bantry, D. J. Riordan, Ballincollig,
Canon Shinkwin was talking to the older people in Borlin (Bantry, West Cork, in Irish around 1903 and asking them to speak Irish to the small children at night with a view towards arresting the decline of the language. There were 4 million Irish speakers pre famine in 1840 and in 1900 probably at least 10 million worldwide whose parents had been Irish speakers.
In some ways people continued to speak Irish but through the medium of the English language. To some extent that is still true. The rhythms of language appear normal but to non Irish English speakers appears strange exotic and sometimes puzzling. The language lives in hidden in placenames, field names in half forgotten phrase which exist in the collective unconscious.
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Re the query raised by Jeome Lordan re Canon Shinkwin and the Shinkwin family I forgot that I may be related to the Shinkwins. Many years ago a brother of my mother, Seán Carey wrote a memoir in a few jotters of growing up in Blackrock and Ballinure just outside Cork. I transcribed them. He refers to the family getting various Christmasn items from Shinkwins who had a large grocery shop in Prince St. in Cork and remarked that they are probably relatives. The Shinkwins come from Kilmurray and Seán thought that his maternal grandmother O’Mahony’s family came from the same area. Despite extensive searching he could never nail it down. By the way my gedmatch is M008562 if that rings any bells.
The Shinkwin family was highly political. I enclose details of Canon Shinkwin from the Diovcesdn website of his brother, a barrister in Banon and Corner for West Riding, Co. Cork. I could not find an obit for Canon Shinkwin but his brother Father Michael Shinkwin died 1922 and the general public listing gives the relations. Quite a number of Crowleys.
The Shinkwins were of a class that has largely gone undetected the prosperous Catholic large farmers.
I did not find any obit for Canon Shinkwin but his brother Father Michael Shinkwin died in 1922 and had a large funeral, this would give the family relationships:
1895 Funeral, Bandon James Henry Shinkwin, Barrister and Coroner. 1922 Funeral Canon Michael Shinkwin.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FdPjTMSWpMSX0UxCP-8keXWben_Avmp6i5qZNB9GfaA/edit
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One of the things I found most moving “coming home” to Cork, nearly a hundred years after my Great Grandmother left, was listening to the language being spoken on the radio. Never failed to solidly, get me to tear up. Have always felt that the ethos of the place strongly carried forward, yet not a word of the language was passed to that 2nd generation to be born in America.
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