Seán McBride (Later Senior Counsel, Minister for External Affairs and Assistant general Secretary United Nations, High Commissioner for Namibia) at IRA Convention, Exchange Hotel Dublin, June 1922 ”All Those in Favour of The Republic, Come To The Four Courts, Leading Ultimately to The Destruction Of 1,000 Years of Ireland’s Records.

From Connie Neenan’s memoir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacBride

At Post Treaty IRA Convention 1922, General Tom Barry, Cork No. 3 Brigade, suggests Establishment of Dictatorship further Convention June 1922 where He Forwards Motion to Declare War.

This is from the detailed memoir of Connie Neenan of Cork who took the anti-Treaty side and later became a prominent businessman in the USA. He was an organiser of the Irish Sweeps and involved in the sale of Waterford Glass in the USA. He was a friend of Joe McGrath of both businesses.

General Tom Barry’s comment was probably made in the heat of the moment in volatile times. It point out the difficulty of revolutionary heroes finding a place in a decommissioned society. He was one who probably made a poor transition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barry_(soldier)

June 1922 Motion.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kilcrohane,+Co.+Cork/@51.580608,-9.7043771,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484582d45a68d7bf:0x0a00c7a99731a160

New Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks at Kilcrohane, West Cork and Meeting of Bantry Court February 1852

BANTRY COURT DECISIONS – FEBRUARY 1852

List of Jurors and Application for new RIC station at Kilcrohane. It was presided over by James Mooney,

Assistant Barrister, J. Drummond, Resident Magistrate, Philip Armstrong, Captain Somerville and Timothy O’Donovan

The following gentlemen were sworn in: –

Grand Jury

1. Patrick O’Sullivan, Mill Cove (Castletownbere) – Foreman

2. George Bird, Bantry

3. Arthur Hutchins, Ballylickey,

4. Robert Pugsley, Oakmount

5. Hamilton White, Inchaclough,

6. Richard Lewis Blair, Blairs Cove (Durrus),

7. Roger Downing, Bantry

8. John O’Connell Junior, Beach,

9. William Bennett, Schull,

10. John O’Connor, Bantry

11. John Fleming, Ballyduggan

12. John Abraham Jagoe, Rathfeivan Beg,

13. James O’Callaghan, Rock College,

14. William Ross, Dromcorra,

15. William Jagoe, Bantry

16. Samuel Daly, Drumkeale (Bantry),

17. William Clarke, Bantry

18. John Kingston, Bantry

19. David Turvey, Bantry

20. Daniel O’Connor, Bantry

21. Arthur Tisdale, Donemark (Bantry),

22. John Pidell, Bantry

23. Tim Driscoll, Harbour View

In relation to Kilcrohane, an application for the increase of the Constabulary Forces in the Bantry District by forming a new station at Kilcrohane in the Barony of West Carbery to consist of one constable and four constables was read and carried. Timothy O’Donovan stated that there was not one station for an area of twenty miles near it. Two sub-constables were agreed to be taken from the Carrigbui (Durrus) Station to form part of the new station.

A member of the extended family Rickard Deasy led the National Farmers Association in the 1960s and led the famous march in protest at farmer’s plight from Bantry to Dublin. Some time ago that march 50 years on was replicated.

His son also Rickard promoted dairy development among Tanzanian farmers in the 1970s unfortunately when it was given to local authorities corruption ensured that all was lost within a few short years at great cost to the Irish Taxpayer.

Deasy/O’Donovan Political Machine:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Cork Magistrates:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

Election Address of Rickard Deasy, of Clonakilty Brewing Family, 1854, Later elected MP and Attorney General for Ireland and Judge, with a Listing of his election Committee,

Deasy was part of a network of wealthy Catholic Landowners and Professionals an Liberal Protestants. In is case there were many bonds of family by marriage, his sister was married to Doctor Daniel O’Donovan of Norton Cottage, Skibbereen a brother of his agent Timothy O’Donovan of O’Donovan’s Cove in Durrus. He was also related by marriage to the Protestant Clerkes of Skibbereen Liberal Protestants.

This is the address of Rickard Deasy Queen’s Counsel to the electors in April 1855 and it is as follows: –

To the Independent Electors of the County of Cork, Gentlemen:

Your late representative having received from her Majesty the manifestations of royal favour to which his long service as member of your important County entitled to. I beg to leave the solicitor on a revere suffered for the seat which has now become vacant.

Connected as I am to this county by birth and family association I confidently ground by claim to your support upon the identity between our political feelings, and the practical knowledge which I have acquired of your … interest through my professional intercourse with you. In the event of my election I shall endeavour to obtain for the attendant farmers foreign security for their improvements which has been promised to them by successive governments but from which they unjustly depart. I have been a strenuous advocate for a liberal and truly national party, which I will secure to all the subjects of the realm, the unfettered exercise of their religious rights and I will resist any attempt to upset the settlement by act of parliament by which the late Sir Robert Peel secured the endowment of Maynooth. Holding as I do the conviction that the existence of the Established Church, as it is presently constituted, is the principles of Religious Freedom of which I have been the contentious advocate. I shall gladly support any welcomed project to put an end to this monstrous grievance of Ireland.

Although as of yet we have succeeded in resisting the insulting efforts to invade the privacy and the character of our conventional institution, still we must not relax in vigilantly defending the establishment contained within their walls our nearest villages, where our mothers and our sisters have imbibed the religious and moral principles, which form the happiness of the democratic optimistic circle and which has sent forth the heroic ladies whose exertions in the hospital to the east have mitigated the suffering of our brave soldiers and gained the admiration of the whole world.

Many questions of a material interest at present occupy the public mind and are before parliament such as reform of the pole house, alterations to the grand jury system, a thorough revision of local taxation and the extension of railway communication throughout your county. To all these I cordially invite my best abilities and professional expertise. Within the remit of the address, it is impossible to enter a … in the public interest and between this and the election to wait personally as many electors of the great extent of this county shall permit have the honour to be gentlemen your obedient servant.

Rickard Deasy, Queen’s Counsel, Cork, April 4th 1855

Election Address of Rickard Deasy, of Clonakilty Brewing Family, 1854, Later elected MP and Attorney General for Ireland and Judge, with a Listing of his election Committee,
Mr. Deasy’s Election Committee: –

2. Daniel Clanchy JP, Charleville

3. James Murphy JP, Mahon Castle, Brewing, Distilling family.

4. William Fitzjames Barry JP, Glandoreson of Redmond Barry, Fishery Commissioner.

5. Timothy O’Donovan JP, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Landlord adn Magistrate.

6. Reverend William O’Connor, PP, Courcies

7. Henry Hassett JP, Bandon

8. Reverend J. Beechinor PP, Newmarket

9. Luke Joseph JP, Rennies

10. Reverend Morgan Madden PP, Clonakilty

11. Anthony Guerin JP, Rushmount

12. Reverend P. Hartnett PP, Kilmaine

13. Reverend M. Drew JP, Queenstown

14. Reverend Edmund Murphy PP, Banteer

15. Eugene O’Neill MD JP, Mitchelstown

16. Reverend John F. Falvey PP, Glanmire

17. Edward O’Brien JP, Mitchelstown

18. Very Reverend Michael O’Hea PP, Ross

19. Daniel McCarthy JP, Rathroe

20. Reverend Thomas Croke PP, Charleville

21. Henry Hardiman JP, Fernville

22. Reverend D. O’Sullivan PP, Enniskeen

23. Reverend Timothy O’Donovan PP, Desertserges

24. John O’Neill MD, Fermoy

25. Reverend Charles Davis PP, Grenagh

26. William Galway, Kilcolman

27. Thomas St. John Clarke, Cornea (Skibbereen), one branch married to Mccarthy all Protestant prominent in Tasmania.

28. Michael O’Brien, Mitchelstown

29. John Callaghan, Midleton

30. John Mullally, Cloyne

31. Daniel Welby, Skibbereen

32. Daniel Dennehy, Fermoy ealy Catholic Magistrates.

33. Joseph Welby, Macroom

34. Richard V. Roche, Killuntin

35. John Deasy, Bushmount

36. Williams Adams, Shanbally Lodge

37. Thomas Callaghan, Midleton

38. James Hardy, Cork

39. Denis McCarthy Gallway, Greenfield one of family later Chief Justice Natal.

40. Nicholas Murphy, Midleton extended brewing distilling family.

Mr. Alexander McCarthy’s Committee: –

1. John McCarthy O’Leary DL JP

2. D. Cronin Colesman JP

3. Charles Sugrue JP

4. Reverend C. Buckley PP, Buttevant

5. James Morrough JP, Old Court

6. Reverend Mr. Dillworth PP, Kilworth

7. Reverend David Horgan PP, Ballincollig

8. James Miniher JP

9. Reverend Mr. Corkoran PP, Tracton

10. John McCarthy Esq., Rathduine

11. John Harold Barry JP

12. William Fagan MP, DL JP

13. Alexander F. McNamara JP

14. Patrick Barry Esq.

15. Samuel Oppington, HC, Orrery and Kilmore

16. David Cagney JP probably descendant of Sir Teague O’Regan of Leap to whose descendants land was restored by Chichester House early 1710s

17. John Sugrue MP

18. Henry Barry Esq.

19. Patrick Ford Esq.

20. Michael Cagney Esq.

21. Michael Hayes Esq.

22. James Murrough JP

23. Florence McCarthy Esq., Rosscarbery, attorney and seneschal.

24. Denis McCarthy Esq., Woodview

25. Robert McCarthy Esq., Kanturk

26. Reverend Mr. Cullinane R.C.A., Fermoy

 

 

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Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland's oldest Magistrate and Timothy O'Donovan early Catholic Magistrate, Rev A. Sealy, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855.

Mortimer McCarthy, Kinsale Co. Cork died New Zealand 1968 last survivor of Scott’s North Pole Expedition and his nephew Denis O’Donovan died 1970, England, torpedoed three times

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Courtesy Southern Star, Paddy O’Keeffe (Bantry) clipping:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6497011,-9.4265841,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

The Building of Barley Cove Hotel, Goleen, West Cork, 1968 Evidence of Lisbon Earthquake 1756?

When the swimming pool was being constructed it was necessary to go down to a depth of 16 feet through the sand to reach a hard surface. At the bottom was a ship’s anchor. Tis ties in with the theory that the nearby sand dunes wee created by the Tsunami after the Lisbon Earthquake of 1756

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Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

1st November 1755, 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.

Portrait of Dr. John O’Donovan (1809-1861), Scholar, National Gallery  on loan to Royal Irish Academy.

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The topographical poems of John O’Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh Ó h-Uidhrin. Edited in the original Irish, by Doctor John O’Donovan, Member of The Royal Irish Academy, Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin.

From MSS. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; with translation, notes, and introductory dissertations”

Thanks to Peter Evans.

https://archive.org/stream/topographicalpoe00odonuoft/topographicalpoe00odonuoft_djvu.txt