https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/foundation-of-aer-lingus-1934-jj-oleary-sean-o-h-udhaigh-and-colonel-charles-russell/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/foundation-of-aer-lingus-1934-jj-oleary-sean-o-h-udhaigh-and-colonel-charles-russell/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/forgotten-contributions-john-byrne-and-young-opw-architects-in-1937-dublin-airport-terminal-j-j-oleary-co-founder-of-aer-lingus-grandfather-of-european-low-cost-aviation-ryanair-gpa-aircraft/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/j-j-oleary-businessman-dublin/

The Hurley family have a long lineage in Ballycomane, Durrus,  they had a large farm pre 1780 there when the Vickery family moved in.  There was a a marriage between John Vickery and Hanora Hurley around the same time so there may be a connection there.   In the 1870s elements of the family were active in East London with Dukelows and Swantons in Fenian activities and there is a connection with Michael Collins who lodged with one of their associates when he came to work in London.

One of the Hurleys was active in Home Rule Politics in the 1890s and was later involved with the County Council.

Sean Hurley may have been associated in Dublin with JJ O’Leary also from Cork, and be one of the pioneers of Aer Lingus

Cork County Gaol, 1713 with Bloody Skulls on Spikes and Fishermen on River.

Included is a piece onCork Prisons:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMDGaZCW9Z6Cq_C_gwm_FB2orzTe2WxR0WcLXjZZO40/edit#gid=0

Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor, 1827, Some West Cork Schools

http://books.google.ie/books?id=t3QWAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA85&lpg=RA2-PA85&dq=john+kirby+bantry&source=bl&ots=SoV4PMlkBE&sig=uFamEQyYVcvsxr9HUiVj4gIYxPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=STn9U_RB6MXsBuLxgKgH&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=john%20kirby%20bantry&f=false

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15-0T1szKkpbk6NAGNEkr7xaRlJ0_hiwSYRhLVQxnfs8/edit#gid=0

Schools in West Cork 19th century

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/schools-in-bantryskibbereenschull-area-west-cork-19th-century/

Irish proverbs from John Rey’s 1670 Collection:

Dublin Penny Journal 1832

Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/SinglebyAshWed.html

https://irelandsotherpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/the-skellig-lists/

http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_021652

The Skellig
(2nd edition and supplement)

1910

By John Thomas (Jack) Roycroft b. Jan. 2, 1889, son of Samuel James Roycroft and Martha Skuce

The closing night of Shrove is here
All dark and stormy wild and dear
While o’er the road to Skellig Rock
The lads and lasses are seen to flock
Alone I stand and view the scene
Well knowing what this march doth mean
An even number forth doth go
Forth to that rock for weal or woe,
I scan the figures as they pass,
Along o’er the heather and dewy grass,
I think I’ve counted about two score
Yet indeed there may have been many more.
Some faces look merry, some look grave,
While dresses flutter and tresses wave.
And the stars through the clouds peep merrily down
To…

Benjamin Sullivan, (1720-1767), O’Sullivan Mór, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork and Waterford Kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company.  Barry Crosbie’s book 2012 Cambridge Press says they were brothers and sons to Philip O’Sullivan and Miss Irwin from a trading family with Roscommon and Cork connections.  He suggests Benjamin became a Judge in Calcutta, which seems unlikely.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=DpvRF0W5KIMC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=clerk+of+the+crown+for+cork+1750&source=bl&ots=US9h-C-l5P&sig=BNrHrORmT-zggnlr20xZ3uVq9eg&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiymt717p3LAhVDnw4KHbbMB_kQ6AEIHzAB#v=onepage&q=clerk%20of%20the%20crown%20for%20cork%201750&f=false

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/laurence-sulivan-1713-1786-cork-born-chairman-of-the-east-india-company-and-m-p/

According to Denny Lane, Cork Antiquarian, Benjamin Sullivan styled himself the head of the O’Sullivan Mór, Sept.

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1720-1767 Benjamin Sullivan Attorney, Barrister, 1752 Clerk of the Crown for Counties Cork and Waterford. Thomas Harrison writing clerk to him 1742, Married Bridget Limerick daughter of Dr. Limerick, Rector Kilmoe (Ballydehob), 1742 Father Philip mother Elizabeth Irwin a Presbeterian, Parish of St Paul. Benjamin Sullivan Senior Esq., eminent Attorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. Son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the…