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The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken in the World Today. Irish has the oldest vernacular literature of any language in Western Europe. While the rest of Europe was speaking their own languages and writing in Latin, the Irish decided that they wanted to write in their own language instead.

Irish Gaelic

Although Irish Gaelic is only spoken as a native language by a small majority of Irish people nowadays, it has a long history behind it. It is a member of the Celtic branch of Indo-European languages, and it existed on the islands that are now Great Britain and Ireland well before the Germanic influences arrived. Irish Gaelic was the language from which Scottish Gaelic and Manx (which is spoken on the Isle of Man) arose, but the fact that really lands it on this list is that it has the oldest vernacular literature of any language in Western Europe. While the rest of Europe was speaking their own languages and writing in Latin, the Irish decided that they wanted to write in their own language instead.

in the 1970s in UCC, Cork there was a story circulating that the Professor Breathnach of the Irish Department did his M.A. thesis on the place name of Cape Clear Island and concluded that were probably of Basque origin.

Dan Suggest a strong connection between the Basque Country and Ireland. forgetting the linguistic difference in the towns and villages of the Basque Country the similarities are remarkable. A strong sense of family, community and cohesion, a work ethic and a propensity to emigration.

The Basque Country is only a few days sailing away from West Cork/South Kerry with good winds. It looks like based on DNA analysis that the Celts were small in number but with superior technology and when they arrive in Ireland they locals took on their language. In West Cork some of the pre Celtic families e the Coghlans adn O’Driscolls.

Irish declined in the 19th century but then it is day that the people still continue t speak Irish but through the medium of the English Language

In 1900 there were probably

In 1900 there were probably 10 million people world whose whose parents had Irish

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The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken in the World Today

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Allman Dowden, Special Stout Brewed from Home-Made, Malt and Hops, Bandon, Famous Stout, Throughout West Cork

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Proposal by Thomas Downes, Solicitor, Skibbereen that West Cork Be Made A Separate County with its Own Assize Town, Grand Jury. It Had Every Type of Industry, Teeming Seas, Mines and Minerals

1886-1910, 1869, 1876, 1884 Thomas Downes Solicitor, North St. “Born son Thomas Mitchelstown, Castleknock College, Gold Medalist, partner with McCarthy Downing MP 1870, land agent to Wrixon-Beecher, Local bodies and railways. Subscriber (3 copies) Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876. Probably advanced money 1888 and secured mortgage to Whites (Lord Bantry). Paddy O’Keeffe 1894 assistant John James Carmody. 1876 Andrew Collins. ” “Married 1876, Teresa d late Charles O’Connell, RM, Bantry, and first Catholic MP for Kerry whose wife was the 2nd daughter of Daniel O’Connell. subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895. 1877. Opening Skibbereen Railway T. Downes J. E. Marshall Prominent in Carbery Agricultural Show.” Died 1904, probate to widow Theresa and Daniel O’Connell Esq Agent Bank of Ireland Effects £10,676 5s 6d

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This was at the dinner for the judges of the West Carbery Agricultural Society of which Mr. Downes was a founder member.

1931 Funeral of Tim Healy, Bantry Born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of Irish Free State. Genealogy (by John T. Collins 1944) of O’Healys/Healys/Hely from 5th Century, Patron Saint of Family St. Lachtin died 622 AD.

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1931 Funeral of Tim Healy, Bantry Born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of Irish Free State.  It also included a 1944 article on the genealogy of the O’Healy/Healy/Hely family by West Cork historian John, T .Collins.

Tim Healy’s life  has been covered extensively.  His funeral was  a quiet family affair but this death triggered huge newspaper coverage of his extraordinary life and career, sometimes warts and all.  This is a selection.

Funeral and obituary speech at Trinity College, Nephew Kevin O’Higgins, Assassinated Minister for Justice 1927. The Earl of Granard, Master of Horse, represented the King of the United Kingdom, p.3

Dublin Letter, Belfast Newsletter, Dozens of Cartoons by Harry Furness, Enthusiastic Motorist, p.11, 45

Death of Two of the Greatest Irish Lawyers in one Week, Tim Healy and Lord Glenavy, p.15

Healy Pass, p.20

Master of Irony, Filled Office of Governor with Dignity Tact and Ability, p.22

Influence of Joe Biggar, Belfast M.P., High Opinion of Lord Wyndeham, great grandson of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. His Land Act Liberated Irish tenants.  Intimate Friendship with Lord Birkenhead, p. 32 

Judge Sir  Dunbar Plunket Barton, reference to the Uganda `speech 1902, p.35, 37, 43

Passing of Two Great Irish Lawyers in One Week, Lord Glenavy and Tim Healy, p.48

Cumann na nGaedheal Cork, Telegram of Sympathy from Ramsay McDonald, British Prime Minister, p.52

Monaghan Election 1883, p.56

Tim Healy’s Will 1931, Estate £18,887.   Orpen Portrait.  The value of his estate was  £18,777.  The salary of the Governor General was £10,000.  In the 1930s the average  industrial wage was about €3 a week.  Around this period de Valea famously said  ‘No man is with more than £10,000 a year, p.57, 60

Author of Legal Story, ‘Stolen Waters’, p. 62

Cork Harbour Board Sympathy, p.63

Better to be on A Brake in Bantry then on the Bend in Rathmines, p. 63

Tribute from Drogheda Independent’ A corrosive Tongue when Engaged in a tussle with a Saxon Enemy’, p.64

Photograph. Tribute to Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith 1923, Two Fundraising Trips to USA, 1928 Treasurer of the Honourable Society of Grey’s Inns, p. 66, 72

Tributes from Three Former Chief Secretaries for Ireland, Lord Merrivale, Edward Shortt, K.C., Lord Greenway, p. 84

Tributes from Manchester Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Sketch, Morning Post, Daily Herald, News Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, p. 85

Tributes from the Bench in Dublin, p. 91

Every Catholic Understands the Kyrie Elieson, p. 93

1916 Lord Beaverbrook to Tim Healy, Is there a Rising in Ireland? When Did it Begin?  When Strongbow came to Ireland.   When Will it End?  When Cromwell is Released from Hell, p. 94, 95

Belfast Obituary including Tribute by Lod Birkenhead ,  1906 He attracted attention by a brilliant maiden speech, “I warn the Government…” After this speech, Tim Healy, the Irish Nationalist, a master of parliamentary invective, sent Smith a note, “I am old, and you are young, but you have beaten me at my own game.”  Visit 1930 to Belfast City Hall with Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, p. 96

Tribute from Bantry.  Financed Memorial to Famine Pits,  Abbey Graveyard, Bantry, p.103

Flags at Government Building at Half Mast, Message of Sympathy from King Geoge V of the UK on the Death of a Statesman, Tribute at Ennis Circuit Court, p.105

Summary of Life, Works, p.110

Death 1983 in Cobh, Co. Cork of Miss Mary Swanton of an old Ballydehob Family, father member of Bantry Band  with Tim Healy, p.109

1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s, MP,  Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board and Non Attending Board  Member,  90 Year old Earl of Mount Cashel, p.111

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 the path from Adrigole to Lauragh now the Healy Pass,  p.115

Tim Healy’s grandfather, p. 115

1901 Census Return, p.116

Article 60 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State Establishing Office of Governor General salary of £10,000 per annum, p.117

Irish Passport 1926 Preamble.  Deirimidne Tadhg Ó hEaliuthe, duine de chonnadra a Sheillar, Seanaschcal Shaorstáit Eireann, in ainm a Shoilte Buichtaini , a iarraidh agus a uleamh ar gach n aon lena mbainana leigiat don toealbhóir dul ar aghadih gan bao gan cosc agus gach cuineamh agus caomhas is gadh di thabhairt.                      

We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty’s Counsel. Governor General of the Irish Free State, Request and require, in the name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford  every assistance and protection of which may stand in need, p.117

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A Bronze Shrine (Miseacht) containing the hand of St. Lachtin, Patron of the O’Healy Clan was in the possession of Tim Healy’s family, O’Healy Genealogy.  Connection to John Hely-Hutchinson, (1724-1794),  p. 118

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Sergeant Alexander Martin Sullivan, defending Roger Casement, on his grave in Glasnevin he is ‘The last Sergeant of The Kingdom of Ireland’. Celebrated Painting Shows Charles Gavan Duffy, Instructing Solicitors, female Relation Attend Court by Special Permission, A First on Attorneys Bench. Constitutional Conundrum does The Kingdom of Ireland Still Exist?

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1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s , MP, Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board and Non Attending Board Member 90 Year old Earl of Mount Cashel.

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Leading 1937 case on Irish libel law, Sinclair v Gogarty, Samuel Beckett’s affidavit, Arthur Cox, Aidan Higgins memories of Gogarty, Con Curran, Justice Kenneth Reddin bringing Olhausen Black pudding to Joyce in Paris, Patrick Kavanagh trial, Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy, Tim Healy Governor General, Denis Johnson, Lady Glenavy.

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Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1911), House c 1740-70 and Probably Prior House in ruins Pre-1740, Teacher Healy, Bantry, probably Grandfather of Tim Healy, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Grandfather’s 2 Day Wake with Professional Keener.

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1939, James O’Brien from Skibbereen, First Irishman in 300 years to be High Sheriff of Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.

1952, Enormous Funeral, Skibbereen Closes Down, of Jasper Travers Wolfe, Born 1872, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor West Cork, Three Times Elected TD, ‘He Had all of Munster as His Client’, First Corkman to be President Incorporated Law Society.

The Wolfes are  probably part of the migration of English Protestants  mainly from the West County to the Bandon area from the 1590s.  Ironically many were no conformist.  In time many of these families broke into three separate segments: Church of Ireland, Catholic and Methodist.  From church and other records it is likely that the Wolfes migrated westward from Bandon to the Skibbereen area and to the Mizen from the late 17th, early 18th  century.

Letitia Camier nee Kingston who with her husband Tommy Camier  runs the Gotnagrough Folk Museum outside Ballydehob has the Wolfe Genealogies.  Included is Danno Mahony, Dereenloman, World Wrestling Champion a Wolfe.

Jasper Travers Wolfe Solicitor, Crown Solicitor, TD “Norton, Skibbereen, 1st place Law Society Final Exam, Director Skibbereen Eagle member Governing Body, UCC. subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895. Returning officer west Cork constituency election agent James Gilhooley MP. 1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner. 1914 RDC election nominated by Parish Priest Fr..Michael O’Callaghan. Married Minnie elder d of George George Levis Vickery 2 daughters, grandson wrote biography. Fled to England after IRA threats April 1922 returned months later. Later received £3,000 from a claim of £7,670 for injury to is business and loss of income from the loss of his office for IGC. Letter to Eoin O’Mahony from Jasper Travers Wolfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, regarding the Dail motion to remove Judge Edward McElligott from office, 1941 May 5. “Jasper Travers Wolfe was born in 1872, the third of nine children of William John Wolfe, a Methodist shopkeeper and his wife Rachel Wood. He was educated at the Bishop’s School, Skibbereen and passed the Law Society preliminary exam in 1888. Indentured in the practice of Thomas Downes, he obtained first place in his final exams, was awarded a gold medal and the Findlater Scholarship and admitted as a solicitor in 1893. His father died in 1894 after a long illness and Jasper established J. Travers Wolfe & Co. shortly after, quickly establishing himself as an expert in land law. ” 1915, attending funeral of Patrick J. Hurley, solicitor, Drimoleague.

His mother was a strict Methods and strongly disapproved of his card playing and moderate whiskey drinking

Daughter;

1952 Dorothy Wolfe Barrister, London “The following evening the Independent candidate Jasper Travers Wolfe (former Crown Prosecutor, later independent TD) addressed a meeting in Bantry. His campaigns were managed by his daughter Dorothy. In later campaigns she would speak personally in Durrus and Dunbeacon. She qualified as a barrister in London and became Lady Ungoed-Thomas when her husband, Solicitor General n the post war Atlee Government was knigh

Son in Law:

1904-1972 UNGOED-THOMAS, (ARWYN) LYNN (1904-1972) He was a British delegate to the Council of Europe in 1949. He served as Solicitor-General in 1949-51 and he was appointed a judge of the High Court in April 1962, a move which precipitated his resignation from the House of Commons. Ungoed-Thomas was born at Carmarthen on 26 June 1904, the son of the Revd. Evan Ungoed-Thomas and Katherine Howells. His father, a minister with the Welsh Baptist denomination, was a minister at Carmarthen for more than forty years. This background undoubtedly moulded Ungoed-Thomas’s views and character. He was in every sense very much the son of the nonconformist manse. Throughout his life he was never to forget that he was Welsh and a nonconformist. “died 1952 Dorothy Woulfe Barrister, London “”The following evening the Independent candidate Jasper Travers Wolfe (former Crown Prosecutor, later independent TD) addressed a meeting in Bantry. His campaigns were managed by his daughter Dorothy. In later campaigns she would speak personally in Durrus and Dunbeacon. She qualified as a barrister in London and became Lady Ungoed-Thomas when her husband, Solicitor General n the post war Attlee Government was knighted.

2nd Woman to Qualify as a Solicitor In Ireland his Apprentice:

1923 Dorothea Browne, later Mrs O’Reilly Mother nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna, Durrus, father Sergeant RIC died of Cholera Mitchelstown Workhouse 1900 leaving 8 children “Apprenticed to Jasper Wolfe, Skibbereen, then Crown Prosecutor for West Cork, later independent TD. 1920s, Dorothea Browne, 2nd Woman to Qualify as a Solicitor in Ireland. Her mother was Mrs. Brown, nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna. She went on to found the firm of PF O’Reilly with her husband which is still operational. Her husband later Fine Gael Senator and Taxing Master of the High Court. ” Grandmother Mercy Pier of Huguenot ancestry. “Telegram of sympathy fr her and husband P.F.O’REilly. Funeral 1941, Mrs. Rachel Wolfe nee Wood, Snugboro, Skibbereen, aged 95, mother of Jasper Wolfe, Solicitor buried Aughadown,. Southern Star 25th January 1941 “

At funeral Master JASPER UNGOED-THOMAS,

Grandson author of acclaimed biography:

Stories are still told in West Cork about Jasper Wolfe. He led a remarkable and dangerous existence in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. A highly successful lawyer in Skibbereen, he was a strong supporter of Home Rule and gave an acclaimed speech at the rally in London in 1912 that launched the Irish Protestant Home Rule movement. After Easter 1916 he was appointed Crown Solicitor for the City and West Riding of Cork, and put the Crown case at the inquest into the murder of the Republican Lord Mayor of Cork. Having been thrice sentenced to death by the IRA, he became a defense lawyer for dissident Republicans after the Civil War. In 1927 he was elected to the Dáil as an Independent candidate. Jasper Wolfe was clever, convivial, and hard drinking. Personally fearless, he was cherished for the stories of his exploits. More seriously, he stood for an Ireland at peace and at ease with itself. ‘This book tells of the amazing relation between the Wolfe and Collins families.”” – Irish American News

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Partner with Jasper Travers Wolfe, brother of Frederick Boland Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs President General Assembly United Nations. Uncle of late poet Eavan Boland. Funeral of Pat O’Leary, Solicitor,  Bantry, 1941. Fearless campaigner for development of West Cork in 1950s and 60s In Carbery Agricultural Show a class called after his memory “Attending funeral of  1942 Dr. Collins, Leap 1942, James Duggan, P.C., U.C.C., Judge in Sinn Féin Superior Court, Managing Director, Southern Star, Election Committee Michael Collins

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Given the destruction and loss of Irish  census records for the 19th century these listings contain huge detail of those exhibiting and their addresses.

Despite the perception of widespread poverty and distress in West Cork from the mid 19th century there wsaa cohort of middling to large farmers.May enjoyed leases and were improvers

In the Bandon area there were those  like in the  Bandon area T.  J. Biggs, Garryhandkerdmore  John Hurley, brewers, William Connor Sullivan. They didn’t agree on politics but worked  together to improve agriculture, bring the railway to Bandon and  endeavour to improve navigation on the Bandon river.

Members Ballineen Agricultural Society 1845-7

These records were transcribed in 1946 by T. Shea and published in the 1946 issue of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  It was based on the record lent to him by William Daunt of Deriga House, Ballineen.  His uncle Mr. Daunt was secretary of the Society and presumably maintained the records including the townland of the member.

Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

From the show listing it is possible to trace new breeds of livestock and plants.

Women are largely invisible in 19th century Ireland but here there are frequent listings in areas such as poultry,fruit and vegetable arts and crafts.

It was common for families to migrate from West Cork to  the more fertile land around Cork Harbour but they continued even for generations to exhibit the in the  local shows.

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1843, Skibbereen Union Farming Society and  Show, p.4

1845, Bandon Union Agricultural Society Dinner including improver T.J.Biggs, Garryhandkerdmore, p.20

1847, Bandon Union Agricultural Society Dinner, p.39

1845-7.Members Ballineen Agricultural Society, p. 31

Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant farmers. 

1849, Bandon Union Agricultural Society Dinner, p.50

1856 Skibbereen Agricultural Show reference, p. 61

1860. Munster Flax Society Visit to Bantry Farms 

1863, Agricultural Prizes, Prizewinners, 1896 and 1897 Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, p. 64

1900 August Durrus Butter Show, p. 70

1909.  Agricultural Improvement, County Premium Boars, Premium Bulls, Extra Premium Bulls, Stallion Asses, Barony of Bantry and Bere, Carbery, p.71

1929, Carbery Show, p.74

1930, Lisivard, p. 94

1937 Durrus Show, p.101

1942, Bandon Show, p. 106

1946, Carbery  Bantry, and Clonakilty Shows, p. 107

1947, Bantry Agricultural Show, p, 138, 145

1947 Skibbereen Shorthorn Breeders Show, 114

A Comment:

Interesting to read some of the newspaper reports about the agricultural shows and the subsequent dinners. I assume ‘removing the cloth and subsequent toasts’ were Freemason traditions but there does seem to have been a large number of toasts followed by ‘drank with much cheering’ so it seems they were really an excuse for a big, all male drinking session but without worries about drinking and driving afterwards.

1915 Quarter Sessions West Cork, Kinsale, Bandon, Bantry, Skibbereen, Clonakilty. 1914, Securities Approved by Public Trustees Ireland, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Siam, Uruguay. 1914 the London Colonial Office Approved Irish Solicitors to Practice in Trinidad and Tobago.

These securities appear exotic but frequently turn up in probate records from the 1860s on West Cork wills. The census of 1901 and 1911 often have people living on dividends. In August 1914 when the First World War broke out the music stopped and within a few years many of these securities became worthless beggaring a whole class of people.

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The Law Society of Ireland has digitised many old records. The Gazette of the 1920s on contain many obituaries of Irish Solicitors who died in places like Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand. It seems to have been common to emigrate after qualification. There are none from the USA as Irish qualifications are not recognised. Indeed most US States do not still recognise the qualifications of other states so you need to qualify.

1915 Quarter Sessions West Cork

Circuit Court (Irish: An Chúirt Chuarda) of Ireland as the Circuit Court of Justice under the Courts of Justice Act 1924 and replaced the County Court on the civil side, and quarter sessions and recorder’s courts on the criminal side, as well as some of the jurisdiction of the assizes.

Many of the barristers who attended the quarter sessions lived in Dublin but had local connections:

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1908, Lord Chief Justice O’Brien, Honourable Judge Andrews, Registrars, Theobold William Butler Keaney, 1 Hatch St., Dublin, James T. Andrews, 1 Waterloo Road, Dublin Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet KC, PC (NI) (3 January 1877 – 18 February 1951) was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and brother of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews and Thomas Andrews, builder of the Titanic. Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, the third son of Thomas Andrews, flax spinner, of Ardara, Comber, and his wife, Eliza, daughter of James Alexander Pirrie and Eliza Swan and sister of William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie. He was a great-grandson of the United Irishman leader William Drennan. Although he came from a family of industrialists Andrews chose to study law (his uncle, William Drennan Andrews, had been a barrister and Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland). In 1900 he was called to the Irish Bar at King’s Inns.Although he came from a family of industrialists Andrews chose to read law (his uncle, William Drennan Andrews, had been a barrister and Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland). In 1900 he was called to the Irish Bar at King’s Inns. He died in Comber in 1951, his estate valued at £40,142 1s. 3d. in England; Northern Irish probate sealed in England, 30 June 1951. The baronetcy died with him.

1908, Cork Assizes, Lord Chief Justice O’Brien, Honourable Judge Andrews, Registrar, James T. Andrews, 1 Waterloo Road, Dublin later Sir James Andrews, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and brother of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, John Miller Andrews and Thomas Andrews, builder of the Titanic. Great grandson of Thomas Drennan, United Irishman, Poet, Coiner of Phrase ‘The Emerald Isle’

William Drennan: Drennan’s Ancestors were the Irish clan Ó Draighnáin, Anglicized to Drennan meaning “grandson of blackthorn”. William was son to Reverend Thomas Drennan (1696–1768), minister of Belfast’s First Presbyterian Church on Rosemary Street, where William was born in 1754.^[3] Thomas Drennan was an educated man from the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the congregation of Holywood, Co. Down in 1731. Drennan was heavily influenced by his father, whose religious convictions served as the foundation for his own radical political ideas. His sister, Martha, married fellow future United Irishman Samuel McTier in 1773.

Some earlier Cork Assizes:

Assizes 1273	Record in UK Archives SC 8/174/8666		Proceedings at the High Court of Justice at Dublin and Cork 1652–1654 for Trying Irish Catholics Arising from Rising of 1641. Mentioned Belgooly, Bandon, Garretstow	Assizes 1686, Chief Justice Keating.
Assizes	1711, Kings Old Castle, Lord Chief Baron Rockford, John Nutley. March . 1717, Judge John Foster, 1719, Munster Circuit at the Tholsel, Lord Chief Baron Gilbert and Mr. Baron Pockington. August 1731 3 Judges, Rogerson, Ward, KIngs Counsel	Spring 1749 Justice Yorke, Sergeant Marshall, City Tholsel, County Kings Old Castle. Summer 1749, Sitting Saturday City Tholsel, County Kings Old Castle Baron Dawson, Justice Hassett.	1753 Spring. Mr. Justice Arthur Blennerhassett Judge Court of King’s bench 1745 subscriber to Ancient and Present State of Cork, Smith., Summer Mr Lord Chief Justice Caulfield. French, Justice, Mr. Justice, Lent Assizes 1754, Munster Circuit, County of Cork, at the King‘s Old Castle, Mon. 8 Apr. CJ (19/02/1754) Caulfield, Lord Chief Justice. Justice, Lent Assizes 1754 Munster Circuit, County of Cork, at the King‘s Old Castle, Mon. 8 Apr. CJ (19/02/1754) Caulfield, Lord Chief Justice. Justice, Lent Assizes 1754 Munster Circuit, County of the City Cork, at the Tholsel, Mon. 8 Apr. CJ (19/02/1754)1754 Bowes, Lord Chief Baron. Justice, Summer Assizes, Munster Circuit, County of Cork, at the King‘s Old Castle, Fri. 16 Aug. 1754 CJ (15/07/1754) Bowes, Lord Chief Baron. Assizes Judge, [no address given] Fri. 16 Aug. 1754 Assizes began Friday 16th August ; Lord Chief Baron Bowes and Boleyn Whitney, Esq; Judges.‘ FCR (1783), 1756, September, Baron Mountney, Judge Smith. 1759 Summer Tholsel for City, KIngs Old Castle County, : Lord Chief Justice Caulfield, French, Clerks, Samuel Owens Esq., Whitefriars St., Wiliam Knox Esq., Loughboy	March 1768, Judge Clay, Baron Scott.	Spring 1770 Mr. Justice Henn

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