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.

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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…

From the Recollections 1938 of Ben Good, Millowner, Rineen, West Cork of James Hutchinson Swanton (‘The Governor’). Businessman, Millowner, Shipowner, 1815-1891:

James Hutchinson Swanton

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Methodist Field Meetings, Mow, Shropshire, Inchingeerig, Kiloveenohue, Drinagh Meanvour and 100 years at Meenies, Drimoleague, West Cork 1907-2007:

Meemies Field Meeting Drimoleague 1907-2007

Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852 journeyed from Bandon to Bantry to inspect defences.  He is credited with the phrase  re nationality  ‘that because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse’, in fact this was probably said by Daniel O’Connell.  His paternal grandfather was Richard Colley of an old English or Gaelic family of origin who had conformed to the Established Church.  The grandfather had taken the name of a childless relative Wellesley.

This extract if from the grand Tour of Cork, Cornelius Kelly. Cailleach Books, 2003.

28th (Summer) 1806 set off at half past six and arrived at Bantry and half past four – and very bad road and miserable country after you pass Dunmanna (Dunmanway) – got a boat and went to look at Whiddy Island and the fortification construction there – the island is of greater extent then I had imagined and the formation…

Schools in Bantry/Skibbereen/Schull area West Cork 19th century School Boycott, Dromore (Bantry) 1880s Remarkable as a consequence of the Catholic Church dispute with the British Government that for 30 years (c1845-75)children were taught by untrained teachers

In the early 19th century there was an extensive network of informal or hedge schools in the area.  A Parliamentary enquiry of 1823 lists these.

An idea of what informal schools might be like is described in the Diary of Humprey O”Sullivan (Amhlaóibh Ó Suilleabáin) published in 1820. In the 1790, he and his father left the Killarney area to set up a hedge school in South Kilkenny. The locals built a sod house in three days for the school. He later left teaching and became a prosperous merchant.

The Church of Ireland schools had funding from the Church Education Society.  Their records are in the Representative Church Body Library in Rathgar in Dublin…

January 1756, Lisbon Earthquake, Losses by Cork Merchants of Beef, Pork, Beef in the amount of £4,300 (c€2 million) and the formation of the Barley Cove Sand Dunes, West Cork.

It is believed that the sand dunes at Barley Cove adn other areas on the West Cork and Kerry Coast were caused by a Tsunami caused by the earthquake.

The entire city of Lisbon was destroyed by the earthquake and it was rebuilt in the grid pattern.

Courtesy JCHAS, John T. Collins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

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Rebuilt Lisbon: