A love affair between Samuel Beckett’s father Bill and Eva Murphy frustrated by her father William Martin Murphy

https://durrushistory.com/2014/10/08/building-of-old-pier-and-stables-cupola-and-winged-feet-bantry-house-1840-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/04/28/bantry-gang-tim-healy-journalist-kings-counsel-mp-governor-general-irish-free-state-a-m-sullivan-kings-counsel-mp-t-d-sullivan-father-in-law-of-tim-healy-composer-god-save-irel/

https://durrushistory.com/2013/09/16/william-martin-murphy-bantry-and-the-noel-brown-connection/

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Wiliam Martin Murphy by Sir William Orpen
William Martin Murphy by Sir William Orpen

Sir William Orpens family have strong local links. Part of a network c 1790s of the Durrus Hutchinsons, Ballydehob Swantons and Caheragh family of Eugene O’Sullivan (Protestant).

Graveyard of St. Finbarrs Church, Bantry: