Homeplace, Myross

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Machnamh an Duine Dhoilíosaigh (The Melancholy Man’s Reflections), Seán Ó Coileáin, (1754-1817) (John Collins, The Silver Tongue of Carbery), and his Manuscripts.

Courtesy JCHAS 1892

He was also a Genealogist. In the letters to Dr. John O’Donovan (Graves Collection, Royal Irish Academy) from various members of the O’Donovan Sept re their shared Genealogy with the Doctor, some are scathing about his alleged attempts to doctor genealogy to curry favour with Lieutenant Colonel O’Donovan, ‘The O’Donovan’ in suppressing the alleged illegitimacy of a 17th century ancestor.

Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), Carbery Poet, ‘The Silver tongue of Munster’, born into an Ireland of Broken Abbeys, Roofless Churches, Battered castles, Burnt Houses, Deserted Villages united in common Poverty. Attendance 1773 at Coimba, Portugal, College for Christian Refugees.

https://durrushistory.com/2013/12/21/sean-o-coileain-john-collins-1754-1816-poet-of-carbery-co-cork/