Ahakista Bridge possibly from 1950s
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Old Roadsign Bantry Durrus, formerly at Ahakista Bridge, Glengariff Road.
04 Sunday Oct 2015
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Chief Francis O’Neill (1848-1936), Festival Bantry 2015, Chicago and Trawlebane, Pattern at Trawlebane Bridge, Commemorative Wall
02 Friday Oct 2015
The music still lives on, John Spillane, Cork Songwriter’s mother is a few miles from the Chief:
Subscriber to Durrus Church Building 1900:
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Max Levitas : 100-year-old Jewish Dubliner and Working Class hero
02 Friday Oct 2015
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[Note: Special thanks to Manus and Luke O’Riordan for their photographs, knowledge and continuing friendship]
Max Levitas celebrated his 100th birthday this year surrounded by family and friends in Whitechapel, East London. At the end of the festivities, he called for the crowd to offer up a collection for the Morning Star newspaper. This minor incident symbolises Max’s absolute generosity and unbroken commitment to progressive, left-wing politics going back over 80 years.
Max, 2011. Photo -Spitalfieldslife.com.
Born in Portobello, Dublin 8 over a century ago, Max visited his native city last weekend. This article looks at his family background, his long political life and brings together pictures and stories from his recent trip to Dublin.
Family background:
Max’s parents, Harry Levitas from the Lithuanian shtetl of Akmeyan and Leah Rick from the Latvian capital of Riga, fled the anti-Semitism of Tsarist Russia in 1913 to join relatives already residing in…
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Life in an early Irish Methodist society – Bandon.
02 Friday Oct 2015
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TheLife of Rev John Murray provided insights into the development of an early Irish Methodist society. ‘The Methodists in this [Bandon], as in every other place where they sojourned, by degrees established a permanent residence. They first preached in the streets, practised much self-denial, and mortification, inveighed against the standing religion of the country, as impious and hypocritical, declaring the new birth only to be found among them.’ ‘They gained many proselytes; it became the fashion for multitudes to become religious; and it is in religion as in everything else, where once it is followed by a multitude, multitudes will follow. A meeting-house was speedily obtained, a society was formed, and classes of every description regularly arranged.’
‘Three classes [types] of the people were denominated Methodist: the congregation, who, as outer court worshippers, were only hearers and seekers; members of the society, who were classed; and members of the…
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01 Thursday Oct 2015
01 Thursday Oct 2015
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Former Church site Dromote Bantry
Postcards from..
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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Some of the most popular and viewed posts I put on this site are in the series ”POSTCARDS FROM…”where I post snaps from places I happen to visit or pass through. These are mostly places in Ireland where I live. Many of them are a little off the beaten track, almost in a hidden Ireland but all are ‘Real’ Ireland.
I have created a new page on my site where I will place links to the posts in the series. The list will be added to from time to time. I hope you will enjoy!
The link to the page is HERE , but below is a list of all the places so far!
Places in Ireland
Newcastle West, Co Limerick August 2013
Moneygall, Co. Offaly, ancestral home of Barack Obama. August 2013
Dublin September 2013.
Kells Co Meath January 2014
Bunratty, Co Clare, May 2014
Dun Laoghaire, Co…
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Henry Bryan, and Extended Dukelow, Durrus family, from Knockeenboy, Dunmanway, West Cork, 1855-1930 was a fluent Irish speaker, musician and folklorist. He moved to Glenville in 1892 and his house became a mecca for travellers from other parts of Ireland for folklore and Irish stories.
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He was a descendant of the marriage of Michael O’Sullivan, Bantry, (Heart Tax Collector and land Owner and reputed descendant of O’Sullivan Bere) and Mary Vickery, Whiddy Island.
From Ron Price a descendant of the extended family:
Between 1981 and 1990 I made notes immediately after speaking to various Co Cork people about my Cork ancestry. I now wish to make those notes available to anyone interested. Any clarification comments added at this stage are in square brackets. I would welcome any questions or comments.
Source: Thomas (Tommy) Bryan (b 1930) of Ballybrack, Glenville, Co Cork
Notes from conversation on 8 May 1989
– Definitely heard that William Dukelow was relatively prosperous. As well as his 5 sons who worked on the farm he had 2 hired men working from first thing in the morning. Mrs Roberts views, which are slightly anti-William perhaps influenced by his heavy drinking – she…
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DNA evidence questioning how many of the O’Mahonys, McCarthys, O’Donovans migrating to West Cork c 1250 AD are of the families.
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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DNA evidence questioning how many of the O’Mahonys, McCarthys, O’Donovans migrating to West Cork c 1250 AD are of the families.
Recent advances in DNA is calling into question the presumptions of genealogy. In essence families such as the above were displaced by the Normans from South Tipperary and Limerick and migrated to West Cork.
Everybody with the name assumed that they are of the migrating families. Looking at the genetic evidence it appears as if some if not a lot ave marked more associated with the pre existing population in West Cork.
What may have happened is that the migration did take place but perhaps of an elite in the manner of the Celts. The local people where they med to them emulated them taking on their names.
Patterns of intermarriage between Affluent Crypto-Catholic Families in 18th Century Cork.
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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Patterns of intermarriage between Affluent Crypto-Catholic Families in 18th Century Cork.
A diverse group of Cork families such as the Galweys/Galways, Meads, Roynanes, Cotters, Coppingers, Terrys, Skiddys, from a diverse background including Gaelic, Hiberno-Norse, Norman as Catholic would appear to have lost all in the upheavals of the 17th century. These families were either merchants in the city or landowners in the county excluding West Cork.
Many of the families had branches when in the course of the 18th century conformed to the Church of Ireland and embraced Protestantism and renounced the ‘Errors of Popery’.
There were contemporaneous complaints from enforcers and supporters of the Penal Laws of the activities of ‘Crypto-Catholics’ who used the fig leaf of conformity for conveyancing and professional purposes. In Dublin in the Legal Profession in particular, there were complains that prominent lawyers had wives who had chapels in the house and priest openly calling.
The Convert Rolls still extant probably underestimate the numbers conforming. Looking at some of the names the conformity is often concurrent with the dating of wills:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-TQFfRKt_p6AGtxLaHODge_ReszztDcE-NFF1626_c/edit#gid=0
It is possible to broadly track families such as the Galweys from 1250 and it is remarkable how prevalent the family and others are to the present day in land ownership, the legal profession and as merchants.
In West Cork certain Protestant families acted as trustees to hold Catholic lands including the Townsends for the O’Heas and the O’Donovans were also such beneficiaries. In Cork City the Tuckeys acted for Nagle in respect of Blackrock lands in the tithe books of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral in the 1780s Tuckeys Land appears as a townland in Ballinure.
In Dublin there were a number of Attorneys who used the actual legal provision of the Penal Laws to circumvent the in conveyancing. Among those from a legal background who had fathers who conformed were Edmund Burke and Lord Clare (Jack Fitzgibbon).
Looking at Herbert Gillman’s marriage index it is apparent that many of the families mentioned continued to intermarry:
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
It is also interesting that many of the Planter families have a line of ancestor which is Gaelic or Norman even if Protestant, such as the McCarthys to the Bandon Bernards and Dunmanway Shouldhams and Ballineen Welbys, The O’Donovan/Beecher connection, Galwey/Townsend. From early on the O’Sullivans are intermarried everywhere especially in Bandon and Cork City.
West Cork History 