Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.


Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.

Before Haughey as Minister for Finance in the 1960s introduced the scheme the spouses and children of deceased civil servants had to rely o the charity of others.

Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

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Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.


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Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.

From Galweys of Munster by Sir Henry Blackhall (a descendant) courtesy JCHAS, 1967.

Some branches of the Galweys conformed to the Church of Ireland and intermarried with the Townsends and other families.

Genealogy of David Gallwey, Bantry, West Cork, son of Henry and Mary McCarthy conformed to the Church of Ireland 1770, Adjutant Bantry Volunteers, Left for Lisbon, son Consul for Portugal in Cork ancestor of Galweys in Portugal, Brazil, Tenerife, USA, Peru.

Bantry, West Cork, Galweys, Gurteenroe, 1756, ‘Very Opulent Honest People Reduced in Recent Years of Frequent Seizures’ falling on hard times

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December 1765, Irish House of Commons Vote £2,000 to Improve Navigation on Bandon River between Innishannon and Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Money not Spent).


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December 1765, Irish House of Commons Vote £2,000 to Improve Navigation on Bandon River between Innishannon and Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Money not Spent).

This would have been some time after Sir Richard Cox westwards built Dunmanway and established the Linen industry.

Over the years various schemes including canals were mooted over the River Bandon.

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