Sir Michael Henry Gallwey (1826-1912), Greenfield, Ardfield, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Leading Member of the Munster Circuit, Attorney General, Natal, South Africa, Chief Justice, Acting Governor, president Arbitration Commission of the Land Dispute between the Transvaal Republic and the Zulus, brother-in-law of James J. Murphy, Brewer, Cork.

In the King’s Inns admissions papers 1849 he is the oldest son of Henry deceased and Margaret McCarthy. Another example of the persistence of the Gaelic McCarthy Clan since they arrived in Carbery in 1232. he is listed an an alumni of Trinity College Dublin.

Margaret McCarthy 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…

Sir Michael Henry Gallwey (182-1912), mother Margaret McCarthy, Greenfield, Ardfield, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Leading Member of the Munster Circuit, Attorney General, Natal, South Africa, Chief Justice, Acting Governor, president Arbitration Commission of the Land Dispute between the Transvaal Republic and the Zulus, brother-in-law of James J. Murphy, Brewer, Cork

Henry Connor was admitted to Trinity in 1833 aged 15. He qualified at the Irish bar in 1839. He was the son of Rodrick Connor, Master in Chancery and may be connected to the Connor family of Bandon and Manch, west Cork.

Three major developments took place in Natal in the mid-1870s. First, on the death of Walter Harding in 1874, the Chief Justiceship passed to Henry Connor. During his tenure in office, Chief Justice Connor established himself as one of the finest judges in South African legal history. His three decades on the Natal Bench (including sixteen years as…

Professor Thadeus O’Mahony (1822-1903), Ballineen, West Cork, Church of Ireland Minister, Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin (1861-79), Botanist, and the Brehon Law Commission in the 1850s with Dr. John O’Donovan. His father was Cornelius O’Mahony Gentleman. He married Annabella Geoghegan of Rathmines daughter of Henry in 1856. The same year he was Treasurer of the Ossianic Society in TCD and the O’Donovan Rossa/James Stephens Connection

The Royal Irish Academy has a collection Graves of the papers between Doctor John O’Donovan and Rev Thadeus O’Mahony re the Brehon Law Commission. The eventual editions are now not hugely well regarded but were most important for the commencement os serious study into the topic. There is a Rev. Thadeus O’Mahony prize in TCD.

O’Donovan Rossa refers to his brother:

James O’Mahony of Bandon wrote to me that he wished to meet me to have a talk over Irish national
affairs. He…

Daniel O’Connell addresses Monster Meeting of 500,000? on Repeal in Skibbereen, June 1843, and Bandon, Skibbereen and Bantry connections with O’Connell with O’Donovan Rossa’ Recollections of ‘Wandmen’ at the Meeting.

O’Donovan Rossa’s recollections:

I told you I shook hands with O’Connell when he was coming from the great meeting in Skibbereen, in the year 1843. I remember the morning the Ross men were going to that meeting. Some of them had white wands. I see Dan Hart having one of those wands, regulating the men into line of march. Those wandmen were the peace-police of the procession. Paddy Donovan Rossa was prominent in command, giving out new Repeal buttons. Some years after, he was in New York with his wife and his six sons — all dead now: all belonging to him dead now, 1 may say. Meeting him here in the year 1863, I said to him — “Uncle…

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