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Samhain/Halloween in Irish folklore.

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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The Turnip Jack O'Lantern is the Irish Halloween tradition - the use of pumpkins is an American idea. The turnip Jack O’Lantern is the Irish Halloween tradition – the use of pumpkins is an American idea which, sadly, has caught on in Ireland.  .

As we enter the dark half of the year, in Ireland tonight we are celebrating Halloween or, more properly, Samhain. Our ancient feast of Samhain was partially replaced by the Christian feast of All Saints or All Hallows on 1st November. This feast pushed the ancient pre-Christian observances of Samhain to the evening of 31st October – the Eve of All Hallows or Halloween. The Feasts of All Hallows and All Souls (2nd November) both commemorate the dead, and Samhain was a liminal festival which marked a time when the division between the world of the living and the world of spirits and the dead is very faint and it is possible to pass from one to the other. It also marked the end…

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Samhain/Halloween in Irish folklore. | Midleton with 1 ‘d’

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The Devestation of The Great Famine in Durrus, West Cork, in Micro Detail from The Loan Reproduction Records 1830-1853

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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The Devastation of The Great Famine in Durrus, West Cork, in Micro Detail from The Loan Reproduction Records 1830-1853

 

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGuvc8o800_q1O4g1A89XC-ULjOS_mgpd5rTj4aMfNU/edit#heading=h.m962wjbnm08d

 

Father Fitzpatrick Skibbereen evidence 1844:

 

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Evidence of John Collins, substantial farmer  1844 re Local Loan funds 1844 Witnesses at Skibbereen (into Her Majesties Commissioners into The Law and Practice of Occupation of Land in Ireland.

 

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282493

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Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

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Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.  From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.  Other families associated with same Brooks, Lannins and Millers of Dromreagh and Coolculaghta.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

March 1862, Meeting Flax Society, Colonel Bernard (Bandon), Colonel Beamish, Captain Sealy RN, JF Maguire, Mayor of Cork, Messrs W Thurley, D Cunningham, W Sheehy (Skibbereen), Edward Smyth (Knox Mills), W Dowman, Offer by Peter Riordan, Keilgane, Castleisland to buy Scutching Machine, Discussion of Rowen of Belfast new Scutching machine hint of past failures. proposed meeting with Sir Robert Peel ‘The Organ of the Irish Government’.

The Buachallán Bawn, Spinning Duet, probably pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1907), Parents died of Cholera in…

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Briseann an dúchas trí shúile an chait, Cork families of Danish Origin.

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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Briseann an dúchas trí shúile an chait, Cork families of Danish Origin.

A genetic map of Ireland published some time ago mixing DNA testing with other sources highlighted two hot spots of Danish origin.

One was East Cork home to the Cotter family. The West Cork Cotters originate from sone families forcibly expelled from East Cork c 1650 and who settled in Inchigeela. Even still the old church there is used as their burial place.

The other is around Courtmacsherry home to the Coppingers. One of the family Sir Walter Coppinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Walter_) in the late 16th and early 17th century amassed a huge estate through the provision of mortgages. Many of the clients defaulted including the McCarthys thereby forfeiting lands at Ballycomane in Durrus and around Caheragh. He backed the wrong horse in the wars of the 17th century and was attained for treason and his lands eventually passed in…

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1969, Testimonial by Dr. Albert Casey, Birmingham, Alabama, USA to Colonel Grove White (1852-1938)

21 Saturday Nov 2015

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1969, Testimonial by Dr. Albert Casey, Birmingham, Alabama, USA to Colonel Grove White (1852-1938)

 

A number of others could be added:

 

Richard Caulfield

John T. Collins

Maziere Brady

Richard Henchion alive and well

Dr. John O’Donovan

Peadar  Ó h-Anracháin

Paddy O’Keeffe

Paddy Madden

 

 

Colonel Grove White, Born Melbourne, Australia 1852 died Cork 1938, Cork Antiquarian, Member County Council, Munster Agricultural Society

 

Colonel Grove White, Born Melbourne, Australia 1852 died Cork 1938, Cork Antiquarian, Member County Council, Munster Agricultural Society, Brother-in-Law, Maurice FitzGibbon, ‘The White Knight and Mac an tSen Riddery

 

Colonel James Grove White (1852-1938), Historical Notes North East Cork precursor to Dr. Casey’s of Birmingham Alabama O’Kiev Coshe Mang.

 

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1750 Map of Baronies of Carbery and Bantry, Co. Cork

21 Saturday Nov 2015

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1750 Map of Baronies of Carbery and Bantry, Co. Cork

 

 

From Smith’s History of Cork in Casey Collection

 

 

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Charlie Haughey and The Licensing Laws, The Cork Film Festival early 1960s.

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Charlie Haughey and The Licensing Laws, The Cork Film Festival early 1960s.

Courtesy Collins Press, Vera Ryan, Dan Donovan.

 

 

 

 

https://durrushistory.com/2012/11/20/from-the-prohibition-of-irish-wool-exports-to-charlie-haughey-1980/

 

Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

 

Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.

 

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1822 Estimate of Cost of Providing Policing in Irish County with ten Baronies with Provision for £30 per Constable and Shoeing 26 Horses.

20 Friday Nov 2015

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1822 Estimate of Cost of Providing Policing in Irish County with ten Baronies with Provision for £30 per Constable and Shoeing 26 Horses.

 

 

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/

The project was made possible by a bequest from the late Professor Francis J Crowley. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Crowley was educated at Yale and Princeton, and became a professor of French at the University of California at Los Angeles. Both his parents were born in Ireland, and in his will he bequeathed most of his estate to the Republic of Ireland to be used for the preservation of records of the history of the Irish people.

 

 

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1822, Letter of Protest from Dr. Elmore, Clonakilty, Co. Cork against Dismissal of Rickard Deasy Early Catholic Magistrate.

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1822, Letter of Protest from Dr. Elmore, Clonakilty, Co. Cork against Dismissal of Rickard Deasy Early Catholic Magistrate.

At the time there was a a considerable amount of dismissals possibly because of age or infirmity.

The project was made possible by a bequest from the late Professor Francis J Crowley. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Crowley was educated at Yale and Princeton, and became a professor of French at the University of California at Los Angeles. Both his parents were born in Ireland, and in his will he bequeathed most of his estate to the Republic of Ireland to be used for the preservation of records of the history of the Irish people.

The Deasys were part of an extended family network heavily invloved in politics:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

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