‘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-Parnelite stand.   Their descendants live on in the O’Higgins political family of Fine Gael.

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…