‘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.

Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork.

12th century Bronze Shrine (Misacht) inlaid with Gold and Silver containing the hand of St. Lachtin, Patron of the Healy/O’Healy Clan, Donoughmore, Co. Cork had been in the custody of the Ancestral Family of Tim Healy, MP (born Bantry).

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’ now the Healy pass and Bill O’Donnell’s Memoir ‘The Shortest Way Home’

Tim Healy Governor General Irish Free State Census Return 1901

Irish Passport 1926 Preamble Deirimidne Tadhg Ó hEaliuthe, duine de chonnadra a Sheillar, Seanaschcal Shaorstáit Eireann, in ainm a Shoilte Buichtaini , a iarraidh agus a uleamh ar gach n aon lena mbainana leigiat don toealbhóir dul ar aghadih gan bao gan cosc agus gach cuineamh agus caomhas is gadh di thabhairt. We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty’s Counsel. Governor General of the irish Free State, Request and require, in the name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford every assistance and protection of which may stand in need