Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, B.A., T.C.D., Greenfield, Clonakilty, Later, Attorney General, Chief Justice Natal, Commission to Investigate Abuses of Indian Indentured Servant, Natal, South Africa 1872. Died 1912 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

1826 or 26th October 1828-1912 Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, TCD Kings Inns 1849, Q.C., Attorney General and Chief Justice adn Acting Governor Natal, Arbitrator between Transvaal and the Zuus. Died 1912, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1st son , 10 siblings, Henry Greenfield, Margaret McCarthy Co. Cork in Kings Inns Admissiones 1849, Greenfield, Ardfield. Practiced Munster Circuit, father Henry mother Margaret McCarthy her father Denis Rathroe “Margaret McCarthy, Millstreet, Married Henry Gallwey of Greenfield, Clonakilty c1824, they had eleven children. Their eldest son, Sir Michael Henry Gallwey ‘was admitted to King’s Inns entitled to practice as a Barrister-at-Law. He graduated from Trinity College in 1851 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (15). He held the office of Chief Justice of Natal between 1890 and 1901. He was Deputy-Governor of Natal in 1897. He held the office of Administrator [Natal] in 1898 (15). ” Blackhall on Munster Gallweys. ‘He held the office of Member of the Legislative Council (M.L.C.) [Natal] between 1857 and 1890. He held the office of Attorney-General [Natal].He was invested as a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1883. He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in 1888.He was invested as a Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.) in 1888.’ The eldest son of Henry Gallwey of Greenfield House, Ardfield, nr. Clonakilty, Co Cork, b. 1794 was, Michael Henry (MHG) (Sir), KCMG, QC, b. 26 Oct 1826, educ TCD, Attorney General Natal 1857-1890, MEC, MLC, Chief Justice 1890-1901, Acting Governor or Administrator for several terms, m. 23 Aug 1861 Frances Cadwallader (known as Fannie CampbellTown,Tasmania 5 Dec 1840, bapt 5 Dec 1840 – Ref.. RGD 2; Yr 1840, Reg. No. 1150, d. 23 Sep 1914, Isle of Wight), eldest daughter of Lt- Colonel the Honourable David Erskine, Colonial Secretary of Natal (third son of the second baronet and grandson of ”the great defender of the rights of man”,

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Galwey Lawyers, Cork City:

1688	Counsellor Galway	Counsellor, MP	Lota, lost lands under Penal Laws	Caulfield’s Annals of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral
1829, 1839, 1848, 1847, 1850, 1878, 1884	Bryan Galway	Solicitor and Borough Coroner, 1845 23 South Mall, 76 South Mall. Crown Solicitor West riding 1848.	Probably the Bryan Gallway, Kilkerran, Clonakilty, King’s Inns 1823, 5th son of Michael and Eliza Donovan, over 16, Ed Rosscarbery, affadavit father. Daughter Mary married Alexander McCarthy, Solicitor and Town Clerk 1874, son William, King’s Inns, aged 20, 1863 his affadavit	1838 West Riding, Bryan Galway, Crown Prosecutor, Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. 5. Anastasia Galwey, m. 10 Feb 1800 William O’Donoghue of Cork, wine merchant and had issue inter alia: a Catherine O’Donoghue, m. her cousin Bryan Gallwey, Crown Solicitor Cork. Subscriber of £2,000 Railway stock 1840s.	Aldwell’s Directory 1845. Bryan, b. 1809, Sessional Crown Solicitor and Coroner, Cork, m. 2 Jan 1841 hisfirst cousin Kate [also called Catherine -TJG], dau of William O’Donoghue and Anastasia Gallwey {supra). He d. 28 Dec 1886, having had issue: (1) William Bryan, b. 1843, admitted King’s Inn 1863, sub-Sheriff, Cork, m. 27 Jan 1876 Mary, dau of Hatton Conron, JP of Grange, Co Cork, and relict of Neil Arthur Galwey (see ‘Galwey of Cork and Bordeaux’ supra). He dsvp1) Margaret Elizabeth, bapt 24 Jan 1851. (2) Mary, m. 15 Oct 1874 Alexander McCarthy of Cork, solicitor, JP, Co Cork,Law Agent and Town Clerk, Cork, had issue: a Florence William McCarthy, heir to his grandfather Bryan Gallwey. (3) Frances [according to Lt Col HD Gallwey – TJG]	Will shares in Cork River Steam Co.,Munster adn leinster Bank,Cork Victoria Dock Co.Cork National Bank. 1880 probate to Alexander McCarthy guardian of donee £2,140.
1609	Edmond Galway	Aget	Nominated to conduct Cork Corportion business in Dublin	Richard Caulfield Corporation of Cork
1835	Edward Galwey	Barrister	Lota. Son of William and Anne, daughter of Hugh Norcott Esq., Springfied, he married Cornelia Matilda edo of Hayward St. Ledger, of Heyward Hill, Co. Cork	Married secondly a widow Mrs Stewart he ws no longer at Lota at that time post 1865.
B 1804, TCD 1827, 1852	Edward Galwey, TCD	Attorney	Lota, South Mall Patrick Bourke writing clerk Deed Cole Meadstown Cork Archive U 195	Brother William 1833 eldest
1809	F .H. Galway	Attorney	Prince’s St.	West’s Directory 1809-10
1833	Ignatius Gallwey	King’s Inns	2ns son William amd Ellen Harding both deceased Pope’s Quay, over 16 ed Everton, Queen’s County, affadavit James McCarthy brother-in-law
1757	William Gallwey	Writing Clerk	Deed
1798	James Galwey	Attorney, Dublin	In Cotter/McCarthy deed probably Cork connections
1668	John Galway	Admitted Grey’s Inns, 1668, Councillor	Lota, Son and heir of Edward Gent, MP for Cork 1689, Commisioner to Aplott Tax 1690 under King James, estates forfeit adn later restored. M 1674 Elizabeth d Colonel William Meade, Balymartle?, sister of 1st Bart Sir John Meadead grandfather 1st earl of Clancarthy.	May be Counsellor Galwey acting in 1689 for Lord Kilmallock, 1711 Mary Gamble/John Tooker	Richard Caulfield
1734	John Gallwey	Barrister did not practise	Lota, Westcourt, d 1793 KIlkenny, buried Rathcoursey.
c 1850	John Garcia Galwey	Stipendary Magistrate, Trinidad	Father Richard, Lota, grandfather MP for Kinsale living Lota.
1826, 11834	Michael Galway	Attorney 1834, Grand Parade, possible KIng’s Inns 1820	Deed Alleyne, Armstrong, Beamish, Callaghan, Franks Walsh, King’s Inns 2ns son Patrick, Cork, over 16 other Ellen McCarthy, Ed Dublin affadavit father. In Chancery action Austen v Gallwey over lands at Donemark adn other in Bantry he is the contact person. marriage 1690 Henry Galwey Mary Mellifont both Bantry.	Memorial 567821
1688, 1703	Councillor Galway		Annals of St. Finbarrs refers to his letter 1688 to Sir Thomas Crosby	Cork Corporation send case to advise arising fro complaint rom THancock of arrest by Clerk of Crown Thomas Farren	http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/caulfield_complete.pdf
1414	John Galwey	Coroner Co. Cork	John Galwey fz John of Kinsale, who in May 1404 was appointed jointly with John Wynchedon and William Gowlys to enquire into certain matters in the counties of Limerick and Cork.105 In 1412 he, together with John, Meagh and John Wynchedon, was appointed ` to arrest all Irish enemies passing out of Ireland contrary to a statute made that year.106 On 24 May 1414 John Galwey was con­stituted a Coroner in Co. Cork.107 He m. Cecilia —	Blackhall HIstory of Galwets
1688	John Galwey	Grey’s Inns, 1688, Barrister, MP Cork, 1689, in King James Parliament.	John Galwey of Lota `bred to the law and very eminent in his profession’ was admitted to Gray’s Inn 16 May 1668 and subsequently called to the Bar in Ireland.166 He was M.P. for Cork City in the Parliament of 1689 and a J.P. for the county and city, and was appointed a Commissioner for applotting tax for Co. Cork under King James II’s commission 10 April 1690. For his adherence to the Jacobite cause he was outlawed in 1690 and his estates forfeited. I have already related how his outlawry came to be reversed (17 June 1693), how he received a Royal Pardon (1 Aug. 1695), and how he got in and out of trouble with the Irish House of Commons in 1707 for taking young James Cotter to England. He brought three claims before the Chichester House Commissioners in 1700, of which two were successful.167 His will, dated 7 Feb. 1711, was proved 17 Feb. 1712/13. He was bur. in the family vault at Rathconev.168 He m. 1674 (‘ marriage Articles of the Lord John Galwey ‘ were dated 14 Jan. 1674) Elizabeth, dau. of Col. William Meade of Ballintubber, Co. Cork, by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of Sir Robert Travers. Elizabeth Meade was sister of Sir John Meade, 1st Bt. (grandfather of the 1st Earl of Clanwilliam).169 By her, John Galwey had with other issue,
1734	John Galwey	Kings Inns	Son William Mary Butler m Jane O’Byrne 1739 d 1793 Lived at Lota and Westcourt, Co. KIllenny, 10 children. Did not practice.	Peerage.com
1700	William Galweay	Admitted Grey’s Inns	Son and heir of John Esq.
1829	Michael Galwey	Attorney	Deed
1757	William Galwey	Writing Clerk	Deed
1673-	William Galwey	Grey’s Inns 1704	Lota, conformed to Church of Ireland,1720, m 1711 Mary d Colonel John Butler, Westcourt, Kilkenny	William Galwey, 1733, Lota, Liberties of Cork, Barrister, Conformed to Church of Ireland 1720, Justice of the Peace 1733. Freeman of Cork. m 1711 Mary d Colonel John Butler, Westcourt, Kilkenny. Trustee in marriage settlement of Denis McCarthy of Cloghroe and Mary daughter of Sir. R. Meade Bart, 1728.
B 1776	William Galwey	Barrister	Lota, Freeman of Limerick practised in Cork until 1814		Balckhall on Munster Gallweys
b 1776, 1805, 1824,1826	William Galway	Attorney later 1814 moved to Dublin	Whites St., 1824 South-mall. Married 1803 at Buttevant Ann d James Norcott, Springfield,Co. Cork. 1826 Dublin voting as non resident freeman, for Hutchinson as is his son Edward.	Holden’s Directory 1805. Son of dward Galwey, Lota, MP. Kinsale, Kot of the Friednly Brothers of St. Patrick, adn Jane d Mountiford Westropp of Mellon, Co. Limerick	Pigot’s Directory 1824. Anne Galwey (born Norcott), Circa 1785 – 1832 Anne Galwey (born Norcott) was born circa 1785, to Hugh Norcott. Hugh was born in of Springfield, County Cork, Ireland. Anne married William Gallwey circa 1803, at age 18. William was born circa 1775, in Lota, and Baggott Street, Dublin, County Cork, Ireland. His occupation was Attorney at Law. They had 3 children: Edward Gallwey and 2 other children. Anne passed away in 1832, at age 47.
1556	William Galwey	One of 6 clerks of Chancery	Also held Customs sinecures in Cork, Kinsale, Limerick	Dr. Casey Vol 6, 1685
1766-1865	William Galwey	Attorney, Cork to 1814 then Dublin	Lota, Freeman Limerick, m 1803, Buttevant, Ann d James Norcott, Springfield. Possible1820 Member Cork Library.	Possibly the Secretary Bankruptcy Commission in the case of William Thompson, Irish economict estate owner Rosscarbery 1808
1833	William Gallwey	Kings Inns	1st son William and Ellen harding, Pope’s Quay, both deceased, ed Killarney, affadavi James Mccarthy brother-in;Law, assistant to Peter McLaouglin 1843
1863	Wiliam Gallwey	King’s Inns, qualified as Solicitor 1863. Sub Sherifff of Cork	Son Bryan solicitor, aged 20 , affadavit father	Cork Exaaminer	Bryan, b. 1809, Sessional Crown Solicitor and Coroner, Cork, m. 2 Jan 1841 hisfirst cousin Kate [also called Catherine -TJG], dau of William O’Donoghue and Anastasia Gallwey {supra). He d. 28 Dec 1886, having had issue: (1) William Bryan, b. 1843, admitted King’s Inn 1863, sub-Sheriff, Cork, m. 27 Jan 1876 Mary, dau of Hatton Conron, JP of Grange, Co Cork, and relict of Neil Arthur Galwey (see ‘Galwey of Cork and Bordeaux’ supra). He dsvp1) Margaret Elizabeth, bapt 24 Jan 1851. (2) Mary, m. 15 Oct 1874 Alexander McCarthy of Cork, solicitor, JP, Co Cork,Law Agent and Town Clerk, Cork, had issue: a Florence William McCarthy, heir to his grandfather Bryan Gallwey. (3) Frances [according to Lt Col HD Gallwey – TJG]
1893	Rev. Canon W. J. Gallwey, LLD	Management committee Queens College			http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectories/2014directories/1893_guys_complete_cropped.pdf

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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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From foreign fishing fleets in Ireland, 1531 Dermot O’Sullivan, ‘Prince of Bere and Bantry’ hangs English Captain that seized Spanish ship, 1572 Spanish and Basque fleets at Baltimore, 1586, O’Sullivan Bere and O’Driscoll ‘extortionate dealings’ with English fishermen, 1683 Herring fishery between Baltimore and Bantry Bay.

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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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Invitation by Henry Townsend DL, 1839, on behalf of The Reformers of the West Riding of Cork to Daniel O’Connel MP to Dinner in Bandon, Co Cork, with 200 Liberals in attendance including, Francis Bernard Beamish MP (1802-1868), Rickard Deasy (1766-1852) Brewer Clonakilty, James Clugston Allman Distiller Bandon, James Redmond Barry J.P., Cmmisioner for Fisheries, Edward O’Brien, Masonic Lodge Bandon, John Hurley Brewer., Major E. Broderick, Henry Owen Beecher Townsend (1775-1847), Major Mathew Scott J.P. (1779-1844), Philip Harding, Carrigafooka, Macroom, Richard Dowden (1794-1861) Unitarian, Frances Coppinger Esq., Parkview, Bandon.

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 non 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 late husband Tommy Camier  ran the Gotnagrough Folk Museum outside Ballydehob has the Wolfe Genealogies.  Included is Danno Mahony, Dereenlomane, 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

Michael R Boland
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

1953, Jasper Travers Wolfe

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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.

Tobago

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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