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  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
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  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
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  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Sir Edward Sullivan, Barrister, Publisher Book of Kells, Bookbinder in Style of Irish Parliamentary Bindings 1613-1800, son of Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart., LLD, PC, (1822-1885), from Mallow, Co. Cork, Solicitor General, Attorney General, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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Sir Edward Sullivan, Barrister,  Publisher Book of Kells, Bookbinder in Style of Irish Parliamentary Bindings 1613-1800, son of  Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart., LLD, PC, (1822-1885), from Mallow, Co. Cork, Solicitor General, Attorney General, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/05/sir-edward-sullivan-bart-lld-pc-1822-1885-from-mallow-co-cork-to-lord-chancellor-of-ireland/

Courtesy Four Courts Press.

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000237535

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Aibidial Gaoidheilge Agus Caiticiosma, First Book Published in 1571, in Irish, in Ireland Acquired by Trinity College Dublin, 1995, TCD Hurling Team Photo, 1880. One Time Member Sir Edward Carson (Lord Carson).

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Aibidial Gaoidheilge Agus Caiticiosma, First Book Published in 1571, in Irish, in Ireland Acquired by Trinity College Dublin, 1995, TCD Hurling Team Photo, 1880. One Time Member Sir Edward Carson (Lord Carson).

Courtesy Four Courts Press.

The hurling photo has sticks probably home made called ‘hurls’, the form played by the club was that common in the North of Ireland ‘Camánanacht’ more like modern shinty.  When the GAA was established in 1884 the southern version Iomán was adopted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carson

During the Home Rule Crisis in the early 20th century a ditty ran as follows ‘Sir Edward Carson had a cat and every time it caught a mouse it cried ‘No Home Rule’.

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Attempting to Identify the Millions who Perished by Disease, Starvation or Emigrated in the Irish Famine, 1847, and Pockets of Affluence, a Micro Example, Muintervara.

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6347339,-9.5268343,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Attempting to Identify the Millions who Perished by Disease, Starvation or Emigrated in the Irish Famine, 1847,  and Pockets of Affluence, a Micro Example, Muintervara.

Pre Famine Ireland had a rural population in congested areas rivalling China, India or Haitai.   The Famine fell disproportionately on the cottiers or those below them.

This class, as it dod not have a property interest, does not appear in the 1830 Tithe Aplottments of later in the 1850 Griffith Valuation.   The relevant Census have been destroyed for Ireland.

Regarding affluence it is also possible ti identify clusters of families from whom sprang the teacher.s priests, shopkeepers and strong farmers.  We all have a tendency to marry within peer groups and the same process is evident from an examination of birth and marriage records but in this case the marriages take palace over a wider geographic area.

Contratry to popular belief a strong class of Catholics survived and prospered in the 18th and 19th centuries dwelling just below the radar.

However for many parts of Ireland the catholic Church Records and some of the Church of Ireland have been digitalised at:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=&namel=&location=muintervara&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search&sort=&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&ddBfrom=&ddMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmBfrom=&mmMfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyBfrom=&yyMfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&ddMto=&ddDto=&mmBto=&mmMto=&mmDto=&yyBto=&yyMto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&event=

This can be cross checked by 1830, Tithe Aplottment (courtesy Susan Beretta, Salt Lake City):

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/durrus/tithe.html

It is possible by townland to identify those born 1820-1845, by reference to parents, and sponsors.  Sometimes the parents marriages are shown with the names of witnesses.  By a slow process of cross matching it is possible to identify families.  It requires some knowledge of the various versions of Christian names Surname sand Townland as the spelling vary enormously.  One pattern emerges for the local area of Muintervara..  The class in question are geographically mobile moving from townland often presumable from mud cabin to mud cabin but by concentration on the parent it is possible to plot their locations.   For most of the townlands this class have completely disappeared, the lucky ones re emerged in the United States which interestingly at the time did not turn Emigrants away unlike contemporary European regarding Africans.

Caricatures of the Irish in London Press early 19th century: Irish Bog Trotters 1812, Posting in Ireland 1805, A New Irish Jaunting Car 1819, Paddy Whack’s First Ride In a Sedan 1800, The Scare crows Arrival or Honest Pat Giving Them an Irish welcome 1803.

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Caricatures of the Irish in London Press early 19th century:  Irish Bog Trotters 1812, Posting in Ireland 1805, A New Irish Jaunting Car 1819, Paddy Whack’s First Ride In a Sedan 1800, The Scare crows Arrival or Honest Pat Giving Them an Irish welcome 1803.

Courtesy Nicholas K Robinson, Four Courts Press.

It is interesting in the Coaching Cartoon a man is shown presumably an old soldier with a stump of a leg maybe a legacy of all the earlier wars.

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Bantry, West Cork, Hotels, Pier Scene and Street Scenes 1890-1930.

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Bantry, West Cork, Hotels,  Pier Scene and Street Scenes 1890-1930.

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7th to 10th Century Irish Law Texts with Diagram of the Seven Tunics and Three Humours of the Eye, from Irish Medieval Medical Treatises.

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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7th to 10th Century Irish Law Texts with Diagram of the Seven Tunics and Three Humours of the Eye, from Irish Medieval Medical Treatises.

Courtesy Four Courts Press, ‘The Old Library’ TCD, 1712-2012

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/13/early-irish-medicaine-from-dian-cech-the-irish-god-of-healing-queen-macha-mong-ruadha-legendary-hospital-at-emain-macha-pre-377-bc-women-physicians-under-brehon-laws-arabic-medical-texts-translate/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/03/02/ilments-in-ireland-1693-few-sickly-persons-plague-is-wonderfully-rare-irish-agues-of-the-looseness/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/03/25/lawyers-and-four-types-of-judges-and-their-renumeration-in-ireland-600-900-ad/

https://durrushistory.com/2012/05/11/early-judicial-review-re-cork-gaol-28th-september-1303/

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Kilmeen, Church of Ireland, Dioceses of Ross, Burials 1864-70, Vestry Books 1853-70, Preacher/Reader Books, School Rolls 1850s 60s.

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Glebe,+Co.+Cork/@51.6756138,-8.9920313,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844558743fe663f:0x04618107d7d4e1cd

Kilmeen, Church of Ireland, Dioceses of Ross, Burials 1864-70, Vestry Books 1853-70, Preacher/Reader Books, School Rolls 1850s 60s.

http://ireland.anglican.org/information/dioceses/parish/16340

http://www.variouscplaces.net/churchofireland/cork/parishes/kilmeenchurchofireland.htm

http://www.irelandxo.com/node/15726

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/kilmeen-1341.html

https://durrushistory.com/2014/09/02/burial-register-parish-of-kilmeen-church-of-ireladn-dioceses-of-ross-from-1843-2-2/

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West Cork Railway Map 1940, Comic Postcard Schull/Skibbereen Tramway, Timoleague Line with Ardageen, last Train out of Macroom 1953, 1956 Diesel Railcar

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.5975876,-9.3417834,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

West Cork Railway Map 1940, Comic Postcard Schull/Skibbereen Tramway, Timoleague Line with Ardageen, last Train out of Macroom 1953, 1956 Diesel Railcar

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Keeping a Close Eye on the Tsar, West Cork Eagle and Southern Advertiser, 1870, Editor Eldon Potter.

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Keeping a Close Eye on the Tsar, West Cork  Eagle and Southern Advertiser, 1870,  Editor Eldon Potter.

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‘Bantry Gang’, Tim Healy, Journalist, King’s Counsel, MP. Governor General Irish Free State, A. M. Sullivan, King’s Counsel, MP, T.D. Sullivan, Father-in-Law of Tim Healy, Composer ‘God Save Ireland’, Richard Swanton, Magistrate, Cobh, Cullinane, Bantry.

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‘Bantry Gang’, Tim Healy, Journalist, King’s Counsel, MP. Governor General Irish Free State, A. M. Sullivan, King’s Counsel, MP, T.D. Sullivan, Father-in-Law of Tim Healy, Composer ‘God Save Ireland’.

The extended Healy/Sullivan/William Martin Murphy family were known as the ‘Bantry Band’ for their Anti-Parnellite stand.   Their descendants live on in the O’Higgins political family of Fine Gael and the Carroll legal family of Fermoy..

 

 

Richard Swanton resigned as a Magistrate in protest at British Government.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/23/genealogy-of-ohealyhealy-family-of-donoughmore-co-cork-ancestors-of-tim-healy-governor-general-and-john-hely-hutchinsonearls-of-donoughmore-adn-1850-census-of-st-annes-parish-shandon-cork/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/23/12th-century-bronze-shrine-misacht-inlaid-with-gold-and-silver-containing-the-hand-of-st-lachtin-patron-of-the-healyohealy-clan-donoughmore-co-cork-had-been-in-the-custody-of-the-ancestral-f/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/21/at-the-fireplace-in-the-anchor-hotel-bantry-the-future-governor-general-tim-healy-1855-1931-with-friends-asked-as-a-parting-gift-that-something-be-done-about-the-path-from-adrigole-to-lauragh/

https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/25/tim-healy-governor-general-irish-free-state-census-return-1901/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/08/02/irish-passport-1926-preamble-deirimidne-tadhg-o-healiuthe-duine-de-chonnadra-a-sheillar-seanaschcal-shaorstait-eireann-in-ainm-a-shoilte-buichtaini-a-iarraidh-agus-aa-uleamh-ar-gach-n-aon-lena-m/

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