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Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) Meeting addressed by Peadar Ó h-Anracháin, in Durrus, West Cork, 1905.

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Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork.

Ó h-Anracháin was a teacher and a travelling organiser for the Gaelic League. Later he was editor of the Southern Star. He went to Dublin around 1940 to take up a job with the Pigs and Bacon Commission and wrote a regular column for the Southern Star ‘Cois Life’.

His daughter Nessa Ní h-Anracháin (Bean Uí Bhriain) died recently in Dublin in her 90s. She had been an actress with RTE.

Peadar Ó h-Anrachain (Peadar O’Hourihane) listed as Vice-Chairman, Cork County Council, 1921.

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…

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