1866, Release of Mahony Alleged Fenian From Ballydehob under Habeas Corpus Suspension Act from Cork Jail and Rumoured that Aughadown Prisoners Charged with Illegal Drilling Due to Be Released.

 

 

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

 

James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, Justice of the Peace, West Cork, Member ‘Bantry Band’, children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School. In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.

 

Richard O’Sullivan Burke (1838-1922), Clouneyreague, Kinneigh, Co. Cork, Soldier, Fenian, Patriot, Colonel US Civil War, Member Clann na Gael in USA, his Brother Morgan.

 

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 12th April 1947, Investigation at Castletownbere 1859 of William Power, Shopkeeper, John Kelly Smith, patrick Murphy and Michael McCarthy Shopkeepers fears of the spreading of the Phoenix Society Skibbereen (Fenians), 25 men summonsed in Bantry for lighting tar barrels to show respect for Phoenix man let out of Jail Mr. Denis Sullivan, Orange Riot caused in Kinsale 12th July 1859 by Antrim Militia stationed there. West Cork had serious

 

Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

 

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