Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 19th April 1947, Roll Call of Meeting at Skibbereen Courthouse 1879 at which the Drainage of the River Ilen was proposed to give employment, to cost £100,000 and dismissed as Utopian, Fred (Frederic Peel Eldon) Potter, his energy, willpower and keenness for businesses, Editor of the Skibbereen Eagle and Keeping an Eye on the Tsar, Founder of the Eldon Hotel.

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Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 19th April 1947, Roll Call of Meeting at Skibbereen Courthouse 1879 at which the Drainage of the River Ilen was proposed to give employment, to cost £100,000 and dismissed as Utopian, Fred (Frederic Peel Eldon) Potter, his energy, willpower and keenness for businesses, Editor of the Skibbereen Eagle and Keeping an Eye on the Tsar, Founder of the Eldon Hotel.

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 15th February 1947 additional article on Thomas Swanton (1812-), Farmer and petty Landlord, Crianliath, Ballydehob, Correspondence with John Horn, Neptune Engine Works, Waterford, Temperance Lectures based on the Beatitudes, delivered annually in Irish and in the Irish Script in Tig an Mhargig (Market House), Ballydehob, follower of Swedenborg Teachings Joining New Jerusalem Group, offering to write Evening Service in bandon in Cork Irish, Proposal for Parliament of each of the 4 provinces of Ireland, references to Phoenixmen (Fenians)

Ó h-Anracháin was for a period the editor of the Southern Star

Potter was a descendant of the Durrus Evanson family. Fred Potter/Skibbereen Eagle:
https://durrushistory.com/2013/06/18/ernest-blythe-editor-southern-star-skibbereen-co-cork-1918/

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 15th February 1947 additional article on Thomas Swanton (1812-), Farmer and petty Landlord, Crianliath, Ballydehob, Correspondence with John Horn, Neptune Engine Works, Waterford, Temperance Lectures based on the Beatitudes, delivered annually in Irish and in the Irish Script in Tig an Mhargig (Market House), Ballydehob, follower of Swedenborg Teachings Joining New Jerusalem Group, offering to write Evening Service in bandon in Cork Irish, Proposal for Parliament of each of the 4 provinces of Ireland, references to Phoenixmen (Fenians)

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Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 15th February 1947 additional article on Thomas Swanton (1812-), Farmer and petty Landlord, Crianliath, Ballydehob, Correspondence with John Horn, Neptune Engine Works, Waterford, Temperance Lectures based on the Beatitudes, delivered annually in Irish and in the Irish Script in Tig an Mhargig (Market House), Ballydehob, follower of Swedenborg Teachings Joining New Jerusalem Group, offering to write Evening Service in Bandon in Cork Irish, Proposal for Parliament of each of the 4 provinces of Ireland, references to Phoenix men (Fenians).

1902 meeting Desertserges, Father D. Bernard, C. C., Ahiohill introduced Mr. O’Houlihan, Gaelic League Organiser for Munster, said 4 years ago could not speak a word of Irish.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/01/26/peadar-o-hannrachain-cois-life-in-the-southern-star/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/10/peadar-o-h-anrachains-letter-from-dublin-cois-life-1947-southern-star-the-persevering-linguist-thomas-swanton-crianlarich-ballydehob-among-his-corespondents-james-h-dodd-d-d-trinity-coll/

Courtesy Southern Star, Skibbereen.

1937 Obituary of Dr. Michael McCarthy, Medical Officer of Health of Durrus, West Cork, native Drimoleague, Firing Party of Six Old IRA Men Fred Volley Over Coffin, Snapshot of Local Establishment.

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1937 Obituary of Dr. Michael McCarthy, Medical Officer of Health of Durrus, West Cork, native Drimoleague, Firing Party of Six Old IRA Men Fred Volley Over Coffin, Snapshot of Local Establishment.

Courtesy Southern Star, 21st August 1937.

Cork Southern Reporter 1st June 1820 on Calamity in Cork, Failure of Roches Bank and Stoppage of Leslies Bank.

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Cork Southern Reporter 1st June 1820 on Calamity in Cork, Failure of Roches Bank and Stoppage of Leslies Bank.

It was not an exaggerated headline. The economy was delicate after the end of the Napoleonic Wars but the failure was an unmitigated disaster triggering a wave of bankruptcies, mass unemployment emigration from which it could be argued that Cork did not recover until the late 20th century. In 1800 it had the same population Bristol by 1900 Bristol had a population five times that of Cork.

Roches’s Bank was the first ‘Catholic’ Bank the family were related to the Moylans who included the Bishop of Cork among family members.

The end of the Napoleonic Wars had a greater effect n Cork and its hinterland then any other centre in Europe.

The only Bank to survive was that of Pikes (Quakers) a successor of Hoares. The Pike family later lived at Bessboro in Blackrock which was bought by the Nuns in the 1920s, where they ran the notorious Mother and Baby Home. It had the distinction of being the only one whose Reverend Mother was fired By Dr. Deeney of the Department of Local Government arising from horrendous child mortality figures. He unfortunately was moved by Dr. Noel Browne who had the habit of getting on with no one. Dr. Deeney did much of the preparatory work on eliminating TB for which Browne is credited.

Banking Collapse in Cork in the 1820s Roches and Leslies Bank and House of Commons, London, Select Committee Query re Collapse, only functioning Bank left Pikes. First run 1820 Deputation including Messrs Crawford and Gerard Callaghan deputed to see Lord Lieutenant in Dublin to solicit loan o £100,000. 2nd failure of Leslies 1825.

Courtesy 1892 JCHAS

Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

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Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

Report on Popery, 1731 setting out Masshouses and Popish Schools in Co. Cork, Drinagh, Inchigeela 7 sheds, Killaconenagh (Castletownbere) swarms of Priests are constantly going to and from France, 600 families in Parish of whom 12 are of Reformed Church, , Kilmoe (Ballydehob), Friars frequently landing from France and dispersing throughout the country, copied from documents in Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle probably destroyed in 1922.

Forgotten Heroes: Jack Woodfull, Boilermaker, Inchicore Railway Works, Dublin, Brilliant but Simple Innovation during Emergency/WW2, Innovation, on the Mississippi River Boats, Secret British Government Cabinet Committee headed by Lord Cranbourne restrictions of Supplies to Ireland to Secure Treaty Ports, Comparison with other Neutral Countries Rail Systems in Sweden, Portugal and Argentine, near starvation in Holland, Todd Andrew’s assertion ‘In Ireland no one starved or went without heat to cook a meal’, closure of Schull to Skibbereen Railway, the Foresight of Dr. Thomas McLaughlin and Paddy McGilligan in the Shannon Scheme making Ireland uniquely almost self sufficient in Electricity.

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Forgotten Heroes: Jack Woodfull, Boilermaker, Inchicore Railway Works, Dublin, Brilliant but Simple Innovation during Emergency/WW2, Innovation, on the Mississippi River Boats, Secret British Government Cabinet Committee headed by Lord Cranbourne restrictions of Supplies to Ireland to Secure Treaty Ports, Comparison with other Neutral Countries Rail Systems in Sweden, Portugal and Argentine, near starvation in Holland, Todd Andrew’s assertion ‘In Ireland no one starved or went without heat to cook a meal’, closure of Schull to Skibbereen Railway, the Foresight of Dr. Thomas McLaughlin and Paddy McGilligan in the Shannon Scheme making Ireland uniquely almost self sufficient in Electricity.

A book by Dr. Peter Rigney, ‘TRAINS, COA; ADN TURF’ (IrishAcademic Press 2010) sets out the background to trying to run a rail service with restrictions on the supply of Welsh anthracite.

The British Government attempted to secure the return of the Treaty Ports by restricting the supply of coal. This secret committee had the support of Churchill. The Ambassador in Dublin advised against as he said the Irish would prefer to starve rather then give up the Treaty Ports of Cobh, Swilly and Berehaven. The policy was a failure and supplies were restored but not to a sufficient amount.

The innovation, simple was of considerable benefit and the author puts it in the realm of similar technical steps which go unrecorded. Jack Woodfull may be relate to the Woodfulls of the Music Group ‘The Wolfe Tones’ The Inchicore workshops were a centre of technical innovation and improvisation to struggle to maintain a transport system against the odds.

Very fewEuropean countries were self sufficient in electricity during WW2, Ireland was except when water level were low on the River Shannon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_hydroelectric_schemehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfe_Tones

In the popular imagination the rail service was terrible but this was compare to Britain which had some of the best coal in the world. Compared to other neutral countries the performance was in fact pretty good.

Todd Andrew headed Bord na Mona, the Turf Development Board, later Chairman of CIE the State Transport Company and RTE the State Broadcasting Company. Author of a very blunt and forthright two part. autobiography

Forgotten Contributions, Belfast in the 1880s the most ‘Irish’ City in Ireland, Bulmer Hobson Quaker and IRB Man, Alice and Seaton Milligan and the birth of the Irish Cultural Revival, Belfast as an Industrial Colossus 1850-1910

Forgotten Contributions, John Byrne and Young OPW Architects in 1937 Dublin Airport Terminal J J O’Leary Co-Founder of Aer Lingus ‘Grandfather’ of European Low Cost Aviation, Ryanair, GPA, Aircraft leasing

Criss-crossing the North Atlantic mid to late 18th century, and letter November 1752 by Rev. James MacSparran from Narraganset, Rhode Island, New England, to his friends back in Ireland including one to Paul Limrick, Rector Schull, West Cork, which commiserates with him about his son Robert marrying a Catholic. “Papists are Christians, and are to be preferred to many Protestant heretics I could name to you”

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Criss-crossing the North Atlantic mid to late 18th century, and letter November 1752 by Rev. James MacSparran from Narraganset, Rhode Island, New England, to his friends back in Ireland including one to Paul Limrick, Rector Schull, West Cork, which commiserates with him about his son Robert marrying a Catholic. “Papists are Christians, and are to be preferred to many Protestant heretics I could name to you”

Many of the Limricks from the Catholic side of the house of Irish ancestry are descended from this Robert.

MacSparran’s letters are found in the Appendix to The History of the Episcopal Church in Naragansett, Rhode Island, which is available to read on the internet.
https://archive.org/stream/historyofepiscop03inupdi#page/n107/mode/2up

It is often assumed that when people emigrated to North America in the 18th century they never came home. That is not entirely true. Some miles from Schull live many of the Swanton family some of whom were business people, miller, shop owners, land owners and professional people. Ginni Swanton in Seattle USA has done a lot of work on the family and has come up with correspondence showing that some faimily member spent a few years in North America before returning home.

Likewise the Evansnson family in Durrus has an association with the West Indies one marrying in Antigua before settling back to Cork. One branch in Barbados were sugar planters and were compensate as slaveowners in Barbrados in 1820.

Thomas Swanton (1812-1861), Crianlarich, Ballydehob, among his correspondents, James H.Dodd D.D. Trinity College, Seán O’Daluig, Anglesea St., Dublin,Editor of Poets and Poetry of Munster, John Windle Cork, Richard Mac Adam Belfast A Scholarly Citizen, John O’Donovan L.L.D. Translator of the Annal of the Four Masters, Rev. James Freke (Rector Durrus), Mrs Josephine Wright, Moreigh Cottage Dunbeacon/Durrus), Timothy O’Donovan. O’Donovan’s cove, Durrus, John Collins, (son of Seán Ó Coileáin (the Silver Tongue of Carbery) File, Dr. Goyder, Ipswich, Suffolk, I. Pittman, Shorthand Inventor. The article also deals letter from Rev Charles Bushe, Rector, Castlehaven to Dublin Castle 1847, seeking assistance to promote fisheries on the Cork Coast.

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Thomas Swanton (1812-), Crianlarich, Ballydehob, among his corespondents, James H.Dodd D.D. Trinity College, Seán O’Daluig, Anglesea St., Dublin,Editor of Poets and Poetry of Munster, John Windle Cork, Richard Mac Adam Belfast A Scholarly Citizen, John O’Donovan L.L.D. Translator of the Annal of the Four Masters, Rev. James Freke (Rector Durrus), Mrs Josephine Wright, Moreigh Cottage Dunbeacon/Durrus), Timothy O’Donovan. O’Donovan’s cove, Durrus, John Collins, (son of Seán Ó Coileáin (the Silver Tongue of Carbery) File, Dr. Goyder, Ipswich, Suffolk, I. Pittman, Shorthand Inventor. The article also deals letter from Rev Charles Bushe, Rector, Castlehaven to Dublin Castle 1847, seeking assistance to promote fisheries on the Cork Coast.

Thomas Swanton had spent some time in America, he was there in 1830 when 18. He returned to Ireladn in 1832n bad health. He may have been a nephew of Judge Robert Swanton of the NewYork Marine Court. He was a small landlord in Ballydehob, his homeplace was off the road from Ballydehob to Bantry.

Probably Death Notice:

https://durrushistory.com/2014/01/26/peadar-o-hannrachain-cois-life-in-the-southern-star/

Peadar Ó h-Anracháin was given Thomas Swanton’s papers by his elderly daughter before his death. Seán Ó Coileáin’s son also gave him family papers. Ó h-Anracháin’s daughter died at an advanced age recently in Dublin Tessa? Ní h-Anracháin?

Letter 6th March 1837, to ‘The Nation’, by Thomas Swanton, Crannliath, Ballydehob, re Distress East Schull and Irish Independence and correspondence with son of Seán Ó Coileáin, Poet

Advertisement, 1842, in Irish with Roman script, by Thomas Swanton for Ballydehob Fair every Thursday for Pigs, Sheep, Potatoes, Butter, Fish, Free of Tolls together with original handwriting on Etymology of West Cork Irish for coffin

Herbert Webb Gillman, BL, JP, Cork Antiquarian, in 1892 ‘The writer takes the opportunity of expressing his opinion that the greater part of our County Histories in Ireland can be, and indeed ought to be, rewritten in the light of the documents of late being made readily available by the Public Record Office. It is a Department of which any Nation ought to be justly proud; and the work done in arranging, indexing and editing by the able officers engage there, so well by their courtesy and ready help, afforded freely to all comers are beyond praise.

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Herbert Webb Gillman, BL, JP, Cork Antiquarian, in 1892 ‘The writer takes the opportunity of expressing his opinion that the greater part of our County Histories in Ireland can be, and indeed ought to be, rewritten in the light of the documents of late being made readily available by the Public Record Office. It is a Department of which any Nation ought to be justly proud; and the work done in arranging, indexing and editing by the able officers engage there, so well by their courtesy and ready help, afforded freely to all comers are beyond praise.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/11/24/herbert-webb-gillman-1832-1898-clonteadmore-coachford-co-cork-judge-ceylon-antiquarian-authority-on-castles-of-co-cork-and-author-of-index-to-the-licence-bonds-of-cork-and-ross/

Firstly the old Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle widely condemned.

Apparently one Irish Antiquarian ritually curses every morning, those who blew up the Public Records Office in 1922, destroying almost 1,000 years of records of Irish History.

Footnote No. 2

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/irish-records-burned.html

Genealogy of MacCarthys, Lords of Muskerry, Co. Cork, from 1380-1641.

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Genealogy of MacCarthys, Lords of Muskerry, Co. Cork, from 1380-1641.

By Herbert Webb Gillman BL JP, 1892.

Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, Judge Ceylon, Antiquarian, Authority on Castles of Co. Cork and Author of Index to the Licence Bonds of Cork and Ross.

Courtesy JCHAS 1892.

Genealogy of McCarthys of Glenachram from 1366 and history of Dunmanway, Togher Castle, West Cork.

https://durrushistory.com/2012/08/28/genealogy-of-mccarthy-family-of-gleannacroim-dunmanway-co-cork-from-c1150-ad-by-daniel-maccarthy-glas/

Genealogy of McCarthy (Muclagh/Clann Tadhg Ruaidh-na-Scairte) family of Scart (Durrus/Bantry), West Cork, later Cul-na-long, from 1185 AD including descendants of Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy from Samuel Trant McCarthy, High Sheriff Co.Kerry, Srugrena Abbey 1912 intermarried with O’Learys Incigeela, McCarthys Kilcoe, O’Donovans, O’Mahonys Dunbeacon, McCarthys Dunmanway, Blairs Bantry/Coolculaghta/Blair’s Cove among others, 18th century family members in France.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/10/25/probably-mccarthy-muclaghs-of-gearhamen-durrus-court-west-cork-cartie-daniell-mcteige-of-belamoyre-co-cork-4th-son-of-teige-of-same-married-honora-daughter-of-cormuck-cartie-of-kilcoe-c/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/11/22/genealogy-of-mccarthy-family-clan-dermod-skibbereen-west-cork-and-father-daniel-mccarthy-muclagh-parish-priest-of-durrus-1761-1826/