A talk was held in the Maritime Hotel Bantry on Saturday evening the 14th July 2013 to explore the legacy of William Martin Murphy. The speakers were Jim O’Keeffe former Junior Minister, TD, and Chairman of Murphy O’Connor & Co of Bantry a building providing firm founded ny William Martin Murphy and now entering its second hundred years. Also present was local historian Hazel Vickery and Padraig Yeates former Irish Times journalist and historian of the 1913 lockout.
Mr O’Keeffe outlined Murphy’s early life birth in Castletown Bere and moving to Bantry as an infant where is father operated as a builder. He was sent to Dublin as a day boy at Belvedere College and lodged with the Sullivan brothers (of “The Nation’) off the South Circular Road. His father was anxious that he train as an architect and he attended appropriate lectures at the Catholic University as well as…
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