Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in L1dl and Aldi
Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
26 Friday Feb 2016
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26 Friday Feb 2016
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Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in L1dl and Aldi
25 Thursday Feb 2016
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1850 Evidence of The Venerable Samuel Kyle, LLD, Vicar General of Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, on Consistory (Probate) Court, Registrar Henry Stopford Kyle, Barrister, Resident in London, 6 Proctors, Advocates All Protestants. In Registry Attached to St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, Book of Wills since 1575, Classified wills from 1606-1850, Court Documents from 1755 (All Probably Destroyed in 1922).
The Registrar is probably related to him, as is the Vicar General of Cloyne, 1835, Rev. William Cotter Kyle LLD. Barrister.
The Consistory Courts were abolished and replaced by the Dublin Probate Office.
Summaries of will from 1865 are on line at :
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/home.jsp
25 Thursday Feb 2016
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Irish Links to New Brunswick, Canada, 1843, Repeal Meeting.
The Canadian ambassador to Ireland whose maternal forebears descend from Paul Kingston from ‘Bantry Bay’ emigrated in the 1820s was talking recently of the strong links. Irish emigration continued fro the late 18th century.
Emigrant ships from West Cork to St. Johns, New Brunswick, 1832-1847
REPEAL IN AMERICA—NEW BRUNSWICK—
ADJOURNED SIMULTANEOUS MEETING.TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE POUNDS COLLECTED, The above meeting, pursuant to notice, took place last Monday evening, and far surpassed our expectations in point of numbers assembled, and the amount collected. At seven o’clock the theatre was crowded, and Charles Doherty, Esq. was called to the chair, and addressed the meeting at considerable length, and with political fertility of thought which would do honor to the leading agitators of the 19th century. His speech embraced master strokes, which would stagger the man of monopoly, though supported by the crown, and as strong as the pillars of Hercules. The Rev. James Dunphy, R.C. rector of the city, who so generously promoted the success of Ireland’s Monday, by his princely contribution and great influence, handed in the sum of 5l. from a friend to Repeal. Dr. De Wolfe, a native of Nova Scotia, paying 1l. 5s, became a member of the Repeal Association. The Subscription of Denis Burke, employed as stoker or fireman in a steam-boat, was announced to be 5l. The amount collected last Monday evening was 75l., which added to the sum of the previous evening, brought the gross proceeds of the sumultaneous meeting up to 1,060 dollars, which being announced from the chair, created several peals of Repeal thunder, showing how loud the public voice was calling for justice for Ireland. Such a sum was never before collected at one Repeal meeting at this side of the Atlantic, a fact which proves that the friends of Ireland in this city know how to organise a meeting better than their fellow-countrymen in the colonies, or their fellow-labourers in the United States. The thanks of the meeting having been given to Mr. Doherty, for his exemplary conduct in the chair, the meeting adjourned with several rounds of cheers for the leading agitators of the day—St. John Liberator. The Repealers of this city (St. John) contributed more at the simultaneous meeting than all British America on the same occasion. The laurels of the patriotism are blooming on their brow, and to them belongs the proud boast of having collected more at one meeting than has ever been received in one day, in any part of the New World.
24 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Alexander Clerke (1804-1877), Son of Helena McCarthy and William Clerke, Millowner, Skibbereen, Emigration to Tasmania 1828, Land Owner, Businessman, Magistrate, MP, Extended Family Network of Jagoe, Mahony, Young, Deasy, Long, Bird, Love.
From the early 19th century there was significant emigration of West Cork Landlord families and large farmers and professional people. Names include Cotter of Bantry, Bernard, Baldwins, Sullivans, Kingstons, of Bandon, Jennings of Dunmanway, Townsends of Skibbereen among others.
It was common for emigrants to call their ranches after place names in West Cork as for the Townsends ‘Dunbeacon.’
Brother Thomas, Judge,New York.
Genealogy of Sweetnam family of Clehane/Cloghane, Caheragh, West Cork, arising from Marriage 1812 of Mathew Sweetnam (Murrahin) to Elizabeth Connell with descendants, USA, Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland compiled 1952 revised 1988.
Death of Captain Stephen Sweetnam, 70th Regiment of Foot, of Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 29th September 1805 in the West Indies, Involved in Storming of Deig and Bhurtpore, India.
1852 Tribute to Doctor Stephen Sweetnam Esq., Dispensary Doctor, Schull, West Cork, For 18 Years, Praised for Efforts during Famine, with List of Local Subscribers.
Courtesy Jeffrey Briscoe, Hobart, Tasmania.
24 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Parish Priest of Schull and Kilmoe, West Cork, Rev. Jeremiah Hart converts to the Church of Ireland in 1774.
From Irish Genealogical Abstracts from the ‘Londonderry Journal 1772-1784’. The Journal makes frequent references to conversions as to that of Daniel O’Sullivan and Timothy Harrington, Parish of Bantry in the 24th November 1775.
Sometimes conversion may have been for doctrinal other times for Commercial reasons but by the 1777s the Penal Laws were in abeyances. Probably more frequently marriage was the reason.
In the 1790s was the sensational conversion of Father Daniel McCarthy Parish priest of Durrus.
In the early 18th century ‘Perversion’ of Protestants to Catholicism was a major concern in Church of Ireland reports.
24 Wednesday Feb 2016
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From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’
From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.
24 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.
Baltimore:
Castlehaven:
23 Tuesday Feb 2016
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1762, Dispatch of General Sebright’s and General Alercron’s, General Montagues, Light Infantry, Royal Scottish from Cork to Bantry to be Followed by a Company of Every Regiment in the Kingdom of Ireland.
British Army in West Cork:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQrKsTDoupxktWQ41Wx5P4GFliNUT4Z2uyTdwyi0xjU/edit#gid=0
From London Chronicle:

22 Monday Feb 2016
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1840 Legal Action on 1740 Deed Whereby Thornhill acted as Trustee for Galweys on Hedges Eyre Macroom, Co. Cork, Estate to Circumvent Penal Laws and Ejectment Action by Hedges Eyre estate in 1840.
In Co. Cork generally the Galwey family wee remarkable survivors. Some branches conformed to the Church of Ireland but still continued to marry within the old Irish families who also conformed.








22 Monday Feb 2016
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Post 1606 Grant by James 1 of England of McCarthy Lands in Barony of Carbery Forfeit by Rebellion to David Lord Barry, Viscount Buttevant.
