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

Building of Old Pier, and Stables Cupola and Winged feet Bantry House, 1840-2.

‘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.

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: