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  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
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  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
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1957 Descendant of Patriot, Robert Emmett, New York Lawyer T. Granville Emmett, last Visit Guest of Dr. Edith Somerville.

28 Monday Nov 2022

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Robert Emmett as far as is know had no descendants struck down even before his prime,

T. Granville Emmett might be a descendant of

1764-1828 Thomas Addis Emmet TCD Studied Medicine. York Attorney United Irishman Doctor Born junction Grattan St/Shears St. Father State Physician 1770 and moved to Dublin. Degree TCD and Edinburgh Medicine, Secretary United Irishmen imprisoned release to Holland then NY. In New York associated with other Cork Attorneys (Robert Swanton, Ballydehob, United Irishman, Admiralty Judge), Clerke Skibbereen. 1817, New York. Judge Robert Swanton (United Irishman, Ballydehob) one of Judges of the New York, Marine Court, Charge to Jury. 1817 One of Committee in New York with Thomas Addis Emmet, (Brother of Robert Emmett) to Promote the Welfare of the Irish. 1828 Pallbearer at Funeral of Thomas Addis Emmet with the Governor of the State of New York, Martin Van Buren later President, United States, Senator Nathan Sandford Thomas Addis Emmet” One of the first lawyers in Dublin and one of the most virtuous and most patriotic of men. He was a member of the Irish Directory with Lord Edward Fitzgerald and was arrested in 1798. He was sent to Fort George. Liberated and expatriates in 1803 like the other prisoners of Fort George. He was chosen by the Irish in Paris in 1803 to be the agent from the provisional Government of Ireland to the First Consul and French Government, which he held till 1805.  On finding there was no prospect of an expedition to Ireland} he got his passports and went to America, where the Congress passed a decree, by which, contrary to the usual term of ten years, he received his naturalisation twenty-four hours after landing there. He rose to great eminence as a lawyer in his newly adopted country and died in New York.

Fighter For God, Rev. Meara of Dunmanway, Methodist Missionary in South Africa 1900

25 Friday Nov 2022

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1956. Drimoleague 100 Years ago by Fitzsimmons

24 Thursday Nov 2022

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David Ross is living in the house that McCarthy had the pub in at the Top of the Tock. His wife was Genevieve Kingston . They all went to Rochester, New York after

Dr. John O’Donovan Ireland’s Great Scholar. View 1850s of The O’Donovan (1812-1890). A Good Friend, He Seemed To Me A Kind and Good Man and Really an Irishman of Spirit.

23 Wednesday Nov 2022

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After the death of Lieutenant General Donovan of Bawnlahan, Leap the Chieftainship passed to the Montpelier (Douglas) Cork branch. They too were Protestant very wealthy by way of prudent marriages in the 18th and 19th century into the Cork Mercantiler Community.

When the General died his estate passed to his wife’s nephew Colonel Powell who was from Wales.  By all accounts a reasonable landlord but no feeling for him locally as he was not of ancient stock.

The subsequent O’Donovan were in fact very popular and very engaged locally and even after~`independence when they decamped to England were active in promoting agricultural development locally.

In the John O’Donovan papers and also in O’Donona Rossa’s recollections there were superior genealogical claims to be Chieftain of the O’Donovan including the gateman in Skibbereen Workhouse who wanted no mention of this lest he lose his job. Others mentioned were a ploughman in Myross and a cobbler in Waterford.

In John O’Donovn reference to a young gentleman on the Inner Temple London he may be from the Wexford O’Donovans on his mother’s side, later a senior figure in Dublin Castle .  John O’Donovan said the Wexford O’Donovan originated in Carbery but wer ‘Rabid Orangemen”

Re John Collins, The Silver Tongue of Carbery a wonderful poet but many doubted the facts in his genealogical tracts.

O’Donovan from Cois Life

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i81sLnwDt9WZjFM4-3eRYbKjmlOTarVyedlSHM6P2bM/edit

The O’Donovan’s son:

Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Árd, Skibbereen, son of Henry Wintrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and  Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilballyowen, Co. Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War, Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society.  Presented organ to Creagh Church to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. 1892 High Sheriff, Co.Cork ill, spent the summer on the Continent recovering.  1893 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  Member Royal Society of Antiquaries 1889.   Sent a carriage to the funeral of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L. (1824-1898), Clontaff, Drishane.  Signed Requisition   1905. Cork Junction Railway Bill.  Requisition to the Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon K.P., to Call a meeting for the purpose of Approving the Cork Junctions Railway Bill.  Addressing a recruitment meeting in Drimoleague In July 1915 he referred  to this ancient stronghold (Castle Donovan) of his family.  After they displaced the O’Driscolls they became the Chief People of the Carberies. Listed  family members as giving a present to 1907 Spaight wedding Union Hall.  Considered the preservation of ancient documents a matter of importance. M Mary Eleanor, (Madame) odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, she chaired the Women’s Emergency Recruiting Committee WW1, Skibbereen, listed 1921.   Attending 10 Grand Jury presentments.  1933 writing to Carbery Agricultural Society suggesting horticultural potential in West Cork.

Overview of John O’Donovan from Kilkenny:

Click to access OKR1962-05-T-J-Clohosey-John-O-Donovan.pdf

1841-. Dr. John O’Donovan correspondence with Timothy O’Donovan, Landlord and Magistrate, Durrus, James O’Donovan, Gravesend, Kent

Tracing members of the extended O’Donovan family:

Originals in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St., Dublinm Graves Collection.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16VJptRac8CKsG_ylR0Zm78DLE-rPwWHJ_q2n4HKpW5s/edit

The Leahy Brothers from Dereentra, Schull in Australia.  John Leahy (1854-1909) Originator of Land Classification System in Queensland. In Parliament he spoke with a Strong Brogue.

18 Friday Nov 2022

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Patrick James Leahy (1850-1925), Businessman and, Minister for Mines, Member of Legislature

Daniel Vincent Leahy, Barrister

John Leahy (1854-1909 Originator of Land Classification System in Queensland. In Parliament he spoke with a Strong Brogue.

Patrick James Leahy (1850-1925), Businessman and, Minister for Mines, Member of Legislature

Daniel Vincent Leahy, Barrister

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leahy-john-7133

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1869 Teaching Irish Speaking Children in Bauravilla, Caheragh Through English, Teachers We knew it  was Wrong. We Were Appointed to Teach Them English

17 Thursday Nov 2022

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Bauravilla:

https://www.townlands.ie/cork/west-carbery-west-division/caheragh/woodfort/bauravilla/

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1835-1920. Irish Speakers in West Cork Litigation, 1835 Election Petition Cork County Election. Notice Never Explained in Irish. Irish in Election. Interpeters in Some Booths

Irish Speakers, Interpreters and the Courts 1751 – 1921. Mary Phelan 286PP Four Courts Press Dublin in Association with the Irish Legal History Society. Price €55 

The Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland) 1737, (herein after referred to as the 1737 Act), stipulated that all legal proceedings in Ireland should take place in English, thus placing Irish speakers at a huge disadvantage, obliging them to communicate through others, and treating them as foreigners in their own country. Gradually, over time, legislation was passed to allow the grand juries, forerunners of county councils, to employ salaried interpreters. Drawing on extensive research on grand jury records held at national and local level, supplemented by records of correspondence with the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle, this book provides definitive answers on where, when, and until when, Irish language court interpreters were employed. Contemporaneous newspaper court reports are used to illustrate how exactly the system worked in practice and to explore official, primarily negative, attitudes towards Irish speakers

Genealogy of O’Donovan Rossa

16 Wednesday Nov 2022

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1642 West Cork Men Indicted in Youghal for ‘Rebellion’

15 Tuesday Nov 2022

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1642 West Cork Men Indicted in Youghal for ‘Rebellion’

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, Cork Poet, (1795-1829)

12 Saturday Nov 2022

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fh89WiU9uQf-h1hqm1Agm66d_nRLVzIrk9zM3VC5jxg/edit#

J J Callanan

Death in Lisbon, p.1

Teacher, p.1

Background, p.3

Gougan Barra, p.6

Songs Of the Munster Poets, p. 7

Dr. Thomas Burke, Bantry, p.16

Extended Callanan Medical Family, 17

Appraisal, p. 20

Denis Florence Mccarthy, p. 22

National LIbrary Catalogue, p. 24

The Irish Poems of JJ Callanan, p. 25

Dictionary of Irish Biography, p 26

J J Callanan

Callanan, J. J. [Cork] city

At Lisbon, on the evening of the 19th of September, 1829, Mr. J. J. Callanan. He was a

native of this City, and had distinguished himself by his poetical compositions, which

were of the first order of merit.‘ Cork Constitution (05/11/1829)

Teacher for a brief Period in Cork:

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JJ James (Jeremiah) Joseph Callanan, 1786 died Lisbon 1829, Cork Poet bridging Gaelic Ireland with Irish Literature in English, Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poems.

The Trinity Alumni records record him as Pensioner admitted 6th July 1801, aged 15, Roman Catholic, son of John Physician educated Mr. Lee Vernon 1805 see Allibone.

Presumably a brother slightly different spelling ‘Callinan’ Thomas educated Mr. Barrington admitted 5th July 1802.

Walker’s magazine records a marriage in November 1779 between John Callanan MD and Miss Cooper, Barry’s Court, daughter of William. It is possible that Cooper is a version of Coppinger and might account for his schooling in Cobh.

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From Dr. Casey collection.

It is forgotten but a section of the Catholic population survived and some thrived during the Penal Laws. The Callanans appear as apothecaries in Cork, Doctors, and are close to McCarthys, Nagles and O’Learys (of the ‘outlaw’ family Raleigh Macroom) and form a close network. It is from this background that JJ Callinan came. Later his friend Crofton Croker would comment that he spent years living with various friends who were Doctors, Schoolteachers and surprisingly Policemen. One such Doctor was Doctor Burke who practised in the Square in Bantry and was from A Caheragh Landowning family probably associated with the McCarthys according to the late Cork Historian John T Collins. It was in Bantry he wrote Gougán Barra.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdDA2VHduY1pNUHllbFFHbzJKRUhzU3c#gid=0

In the online edition of the Kings Inns Admission papers (Irish Manuscript Commission) p 92 online p 72 text the admission records of James Joseph Callanan gives his date of birth as the 17th January 1786, 3rd son of father John Medical Doctor mother Catherine Coppinger. TCD 1805, MT M 1806 E (Admitted King’s Inns) 1809. The mother’s name is interesting, as the Coppingers are of Danish descent and his friend Crofton Croker describes him as ‘fair’.

A possible cousin also appears on the list for 1800 James Callanan born 1783 2nd son of Michael Apothecary and Elizabeth McCarthy.

The Callinan’s were the hereditary physicians of the McCarthys:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/callanan-apothecaries-cork-18th-century-and-hereditary-physicians-to-mccarthys/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/callnan-family-hereditary-physicians-to-the-mccarthy-riabhachs-1798-in-west-cork-dr-john-richard-elmore-owner-of-largest-linen-mill-in-munster-in-clonakilty-1820s-and-dr-william-and-albert-callnan/

To continue the McCarthy connection JJ Callanan at one time tutored from a well to do McCarthy family in Millstre

Fascia Sign in New York c 1890.  ‘Johnny Ramsay from Clonakilty.  The Worst Shoemaker in New York’

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Re Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, (11873-1985). Peadar was a wonderful Conradh na Gaeilge organiser throughout a number of counties including Cork and he wrote several books as Gaeilge. He also wrote on the Southern Star as ‘Cois Life’ in the 1940s and 1950s. In that period he worked in the Pigs and Bacon Commission in Dublin.  The column often wandered over long lost history, family relationships and there was a touch of the ‘Seanachaí’ about them.  The daughter of the Gaelic Scholar, landowner and businessman in Ballydehob Thomas Swanton, Crianlarich, gave him her father’s papers.

One of 13 children, 10 of whom survived and the majority emigrated.

In Colaiste Chairbhe/The Convent  (owned by Judge Devoy, New York, Peadar Ó hAnnracháin. Peadar the Southern Star as ‘Cois Life’

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