1871 Cork Notables from Melbourne Advocate, Australia, a Catholic Newspaper.

Of the personnel Michael Joseph Barry:

1817-1889 Michael Joseph Barry Barrister Poet ‘Kishohue Papers’ , Songs of Ireland, The Green Flag, step Together, nephew of Bishops Dr. England probably of Charlestown, Carolina. Imprisoned 1843 ultimately became Police Magistrate Dublin. Lived Highland Cottage, Blackrock. Young Irelander Editor Southern Reporter, co-author of ‘A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery of Ireland with Mr. Justice Sadlier, died early 1889 after a sojurn on the Continet a widower with no children. . Highly thought of by Gavan Duffy and others A notice by Frank MacDonagh in The Nation (16 Feb. 1889) characterises Barry as a ‘brilliant songwriter who helped build up a National literature for Ireland.’ Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College.

Thomas Sheehan:

Died 1836 Thomas Sheehan Barrister Newspaper Owner Author ‘Sketches of the Munster Bar’, owner 1826 Cork Mercantile Chronicle radical paper expousing tenat working man rights. Buried Ballyphane St. Josephs grave in Ogham

The Englands were from Bandon one became Archbishop of Savanagh, South Carolina.

Father O’Leary:

Arthur O’Leary, born Acres. Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), West Cork, 1729-1802, Hedge School to Capuchin College, St. Malo, ‘A poor Friar buried between salt houses and stables poring over his books’ at his foundation Blackamoor Lane, Sullivan’s Quay, Cork, ministering to Irish speaking prisoners St. Malo, Chaplin to Spanish Embassy London, British Government Pension, elected as member of Monks of Screw friend Baron Yelverton ‘a fine smooth brogue, his learning extensive and his wit brilliant,.

 

Briseann an Duchais Trí Súil an Chait, The Maverick DNA of Black Jack Fitzgibbon, (Lord Clare 1749-1801), First Irish Born Attorney-General of the 18th Century, Pioneer of World-wide Metropolitan Policing, his sister Lady Arabella Jeffares, Blarney, Supporter of Tenant farmer and Rightboys, sister Eleanor married to Cork Barrister, Dominic Trant, the insult of Trinity Fellow Patrick Duignan to Father Arthur O’Leary, ‘The Friar with the Barbarous Surname’ and an account of the Cork Rightboys in 1785 by Cork Apothecary John Barrett Bennett.

 

 

Cork Celebrities 1871 (1)