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Jeremiah (Jerry) Cotter, (1859-1915). Bantry born prominent Cork surgeon, Career 1915 Funeral in Clonakilty.
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Co. Cork, Magistrates 1838, From the Dublin Morning Register dated the 16th June, 1838 List of Magistrates for Co. Cork Richard Wallace Gould Adams Samuel Wallace Gould Adams Richard Oliver
William (Hare), Earl of Listowel,
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https://www.dib.ie/biography/griffith-sir-richard-john-a364
Griffith, Sir Richard John Contributed by Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse Griffith, Sir Richard John (1784–1878), public servant, surveyor, and geologist, was born 20 September 1784 at 8 Hume St., Dublin (the house is marked by a plaque), son of Richard Griffith (qv), MP for Askeaton, deputy governor of Co. Kildare, and director of the Grand Canal Co. of Ireland, and Charity Yorke (née Bramston; d. 1789) of Oundle, Northamptonshire. His father had made a considerable fortune with the East India Co., but lost a great deal of money during the building of the canals. Griffith spent much of his childhood at his father’s estate at Millicent, Co. Kildare. He was educated at a number of provincial schools, in Portarlington, Queen’s Co. (Laois), and then Rathangan, Co. Kildare, and at the age of 15 joined the Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery in 1800. His army sojourn was short; following the enactment of the act of union in 1801, Griffith resigned his commission (but continued to receive full pay) and went to London, where he studied geology, chemistry, and mineralogy at William Nicholson’s Scientific Establishment for Pupils. At much the same time he also studied chemistry under Robert Perceval (qv) of TCD. In 1806 he was in Edinburgh, where he attended the lectures of Robert Jameson, and moved in the city’s scientific circles, becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh the following year. Between 1809 and 1813 he served as one of a number of engineers appointed to investigate and map bogs for the Irish bog commissioners, and produced a valuable report on the bog of Allen. Recognising his newly acquired geological expertise, the Dublin Society in 1809 commissioned him to survey the Leinster coalfield; his report and map were published in 1814, and he followed this with similar reports for the Connacht coalfield (1819) and that of Co. Tyrone and Co. Antrim (1829). He served as the society’s mining engineer (1812–39), which required him to deliver a public course of lectures, and was engaged in road and bridge building in the south-west of the country (1822–36). During this period he was responsible for laying out 243 miles of roads and erecting eighteen bridges; his finest bridge is that of five arches which spans the River Feale at Listowel, Co. Kerry. Griffith is today mainly remembered for his work as commissioner of the general survey and valuation of rateable property (1830–64). He was responsible for overseeing two important surveys. The first general survey undertaken was the ‘perambulation’ or ‘boundary survey’, which mapped the extent of the 68,000 townlands in Ireland. The second tenement valuation survey, now known as the ‘Griffith valuation’, was established in 1846 and charged with estimating the value of land holdings, data that was then used to determine local taxation levies. From 1836 he was a commissioner of railways (the commission deliberated until 1838 on the most suitable routes for Ireland’s developing rail network), and later was appointed deputy chairman, and subsequently chairman, of the board of works, positions he held between 1846 and 1864. Through his own field observations and through those of a number of members of the valuation staff, most notably Patrick Ganly (qv), Griffith acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the geology of Ireland. He was determined to produce a geological map of the country that would match William Smith’s 1815 geological map of England and Wales, and in 1839 he persuaded the railway commissioners to publish such a map at the scale of a quarter of an inch to the mile; further revised versions appeared up till 1855. Griffith was very proud of his geological cartographic achievement but failed to acknowledge the major contribution of others in its genesis. His fossil collections were described in two monographs (1844, 1846) by Frederick M’Coy (qv), and these remain important sources for modern-day palaeontological research. Griffith was an active and founder member of the Geological Society of Dublin and its successor the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, serving on the council for many years and as its president (1836, 1840). He was elected an honorary member of the Geological Society of London (1808) and an MRIA (1819), and was president of the geological and geographical section at the 1835 Dublin meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. TCD conferred on him an honorary LL.D. (1849) and honorary MAI (1861). In 1854 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London. He was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (1850–55; 1861–63). Griffith had a remarkable, long, and varied career as a public servant, and he was rewarded for this work with a baronetcy in 1858. He died 22 September 1878 at his home, 2 Fitzwilliam St., Dublin (marked, like his birthplace, with a plaque), and is buried in a prominent position in Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. A marble bust by Sir Thomas Farrell (qv) is in the possession of the RDS. He married (September 1812) Maria Jane Waldie (1786–1865) of Kelso, Scotland. They had one son – George Richard (d. 1889), who later took the surname Waldie-Griffith on inheriting his mother’s family Scottish estate in 1865 – and four daughters. His eldest daughter Jane, was thought to have eloped to America at the age of 16, and was apparently never mentioned in the family circle again. Sources G. L. Herries Davies and R. C. Mollan (ed.), Richard Griffith 1784–1878 (1980); G. L. Herries Davies, Sheets of many colours: the mapping of Ireland’s rocks 1750–1890 (1983); G. L. Herries Davies, article in ODNB (2004); R. Griffith, ‘Autobiography’, MS dated 25 Aug. 1869 (copies in NAI and NLI) PUBLISHING INFORMATION
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The Rev Kyle said the all the Proctors were Protestant as well as the Advocates. However at least two senior Catholic Barristers Joseph Scannell and Francis Walsh appeared regularly.
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The basilica houses one of Rome's best-preserved crypts, where the relics of Saint Prassede rest.
However, the most emblematic part of the church is undoubtedly the Chapel of Saint Zeno, where the Column of the Flagellation is kept.
"This place is considered one of the most valuable examples of Byzantine art in Rome, entirely decorated with mosaics on a gold background. And it is here, in a niche of the chapel, that the Column of the Flagellation is kept, traditionally considered the column to which Jesus was tied and later scourged.
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Carbon
A trial involving thousands of flights between the US and Europe has found that planes produce fewer contrails if they follow flight paths recommended by an artificial intelligence to reduce their global warming impact.
The streaks of condensation triggered by soot particles produced by aircraft engines are thought to cause more warming than the carbon dioxide that planes emit.
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FIRST MASS:
On March 25th in 1634, on the Feast of the Annunciation, two ships appeared in the waters of the Potomac River
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On the morning of March 25, again the Feast of the Annunciation, pilgrims gathered once more on the island where the first Mass in the English colonies had been celebrated nearly four centuries earlier. The celebrant was Jesuit Father Mark Horak with Jesuit novice Andrew Lucas preaching the homily.
Among those present were Sheriff Steven A. Hall, the 135th Sheriff of St. Mary’s County, and Mike Hutson, Vice President of the St. Clement’s Island One Hundred, an organization deeply devoted to preserving the history and legacy of the island. Both men happened to be celebrating birthdays that day, March 25, the same date on which the first Mass in the colonies had been celebrated.
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World Vision
As a global Christian humanitarian organization working in some of the world’s most difficult places, World Vision has spent more than 75 years walking alongside families who choose hope despite hunger, conflict, poverty, and loss. This close, lived proximity gives us unique insight, not to spotlight ourselves, but to speak honestly about Christian faith and resilience, and the small, significant ways people rise again.
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Cancer
Each year across the UK, roughly 46,600 people receive a bowel cancer diagnosis, with approximately 17,700 losing their lives to the illness. The lifetime risk stands at one in 15 for men and one in 18 for women, reports Glasgow Live.
Research suggests that 54% of bowel cancer cases could be prevented through modifications to lifestyle factors, including diet, physical activity, and stopping smoking, particularly when identified at an early stage.
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Minister for Children, Disability, Equality
and Kerry TD Norma Foley has said she was
honoured to present Pope Leo with a little piece
of Kerry during her visit to the Vatican to mark St
Patrick’s Day.
She was the first Irish government minister to
meet with Pope Leo, who was elected last May
following the passing of Pope Francis.
Minister Foley presented Pope Leo with a
beautifully crafted Naomhóg Dingle Crystal
bowl and Ballinskelligs Shamrock at St Peter’s
Square in the Vatican during her St Patrick’s Day
visit to Italy last week
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WALKING TALL
A Profile of Michael O’Connor
By David Kissane, Kerry Athletics PRO
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The Way I See It
https://www.athea.ie/category/news/
By Domhnall de Barra
Alice Taylor, who comes from North Cork, not far from Rockchapel, wrote a book a few years ago called “To School Through the Fields”. It depicted life in rural Ireland when she was growing up, around the same time as me, describing how pupils had to walk, sometimes long distances, to get to school and took advantage of every short cut that was available. We did the same, especially the children from Knocknaboul who went to Cratloe School. It was a couple of miles but it was made shorter by travelling through the fields and you could see the paths that were made through the grass and heather. It was ok when the weather was fine but you could get drowned on a wet morning. Our clothes weren’t all that good either, most of them hand-me-downs from older members of the family, coats that had seen better days. We never seemed to mind and took it all in our stride. Around this time of the year we would start to take off the shoes and go barefooted. I say shoes but they were mainly boots and wellingtons at the time. The boots weren’t like the modern ones we have today, they were made of stout heavy, heavy leather with rows of nails in the souls for protection. They were always too big as well because they bought them that way on purpose so that we would “grow into them”. The wellingtons were lighter but we also had knitted socks that were inclined to sweat inside the rubber so it was no surprise that we wanted the freedom for our feet. We were told at home not to take the shoes off until the fist of April but sometimes we got really fine weather in March so we left the house fully shod and as soon as we were out of sight of the house we went barefooted and hid the shoes in a ditch because we would have to put them on again before we got home. I remember one time hiding the boots in the morning in a hole in the ditch but when I was coming home there was no sign of them. I searched all around where I had left them but to no avail. The boots were gone! What to do now – I couldn’t go home and admit that I had been hiding them but, then again, I couldn’t stay away all night so I plucked up courage and decided to face the music. My mother was waiting at the door. “Where’s your shoes?” she asked and I had to tell the truth. There was a kind of a smirk on her face as she watched me squirming and then she showed me my boots over by the fire. She had an inkling of what I was up to so she secretly followed me that morning and saw where I hid the shoes. I thought she was going to kill me but she only gave me a couple of slaps with the sally rod she kept behind the mirror and made me promise never to disobey her again. I learned my lesson. Going barefooted and walking through the fields to school was, in fact, very good for us. We got plenty of exercise and the morning dew was very good for the feet. Later in life I was told that Irish people had less problems with their feet than people in other nations and it was down to going barefooted. Noreen’s father, Jack Hannon, God be good to him, used to swear by walking in the morning dew with bare feet in the early morning. I never remember any of us ever having a problem with our feet. Children generally don’t walk to school anymore and are even driven short distances to buses that pick them up. Nobody would dream of taking off their shoes in Summer time either. I know times have changed and it is dangerous on the roads for young pedestrians but I think they are missing out on exercise that would stand them in good stead later on in life. Yes, the old days were very different to what they are today. On our way to school and back we would eat berries and leaves we picked off the ditches. One of these was what we called “sour leaves”. I believe it was “sorrel” Sorrel is highly nutritious. In addition to being low in calories, it’s high in fibre and micronutrients like magnesium and vitamins C and A. I often wonder how we knew that this leaf was good for us and we didn’t bother with others that would do us harm. It was a natural instinct that we have lost today. People at that time were very healthy in comparison to what they are today. The doctor was seldom called and if the “Croom car” was seen in the area, people blessed themselves with holy water because somebody was in a really bad way. Our mothers and grandmothers new how to treat us for most ailments with plants and herbs they would pick off the hedgerows. Now every surgery in every town and village is full every day and our hospitals can’t cope with the amount of patients that want to be admitted. This is not natural so there is something seriously wrong. It could be all the processed food we are eating or the particles of plastic that are everywhere due to bottles, wrappers etc. It may also be air and water pollution due to fossil fuel emissions and slurry spreading. Whatever it is, I am afraid that we are getting more unhealthy year by year. We can’t turn the clock back and go back to the simpler way of life that existed not so long ago, but we can ensure that our children get good, natural, healthy food and are given the opportunity to get plenty exercise. We are blessed in Athea with having wonderful sporting facilities that cater for our youngsters and, not too far away, there are the Greenways that are really safe for walking and cycling. Be fit, be healthy.
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GRAND MARSHAL: Michelle Cusack . with deep Limerick roots, served as the Grand Marshal for the 51st Annual Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York on March 7, 2026. Representing her Irish heritage as a descendant of a Limerick farmer, she led the parade in Rockaway Beach alongside her family. Michelle serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Northwell Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers. Her father, John Downey from Creeves Cross, emigrated to New York in 1960, leaving his family farm in Limerick to pursue other opportunities. John met his future bride, Mary Lee, from Mohill, Co. Leitrim, at an Irish dance in the Bronx. Michele and her family visit Ireland regularly to meet with her 21 cousins and numerous aunts and uncles to maintain the connection to their Irish roots. Michelle is married to Jim Cusack whose roots are in Clare and they have four children.
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by DomhnallDB under News
by Tom Aherne
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FUNDRAISING CÉILÍ: A Céilí will be held in aid of Templeglantine Community Development in the Devon Inn Hotel Templeglantine on Sunday March 29,2016, from 3-6pm. Music by Taylor’s Cross Céilí Band. Tea will be served and admission is €10.
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West Limerick native Denny Mulvihill – retired fitter turned undertaker, charity cyclist and lifelong adventurer – will launch his debut memoir The Bike, The Bog & The Graveyard on Saturday 13 December, 7–9pm, in the Con Colbert Memorial Hall, Athea.
The book will be officially launched by Billy Keane, much-loved writer and former Irish Independent columnist, known for such books as The Very Best of Billy Keane and The Ballad of Mo and G.
Denny, born in Shanagolden in 1945, grew up in a rural Ireland where hardships were frequent and opportunities limited. Those early experiences shaped the resilience, humour and grit that thread through his memoir. After an apprenticeship as a mechanic, he built a career as a heavy-duty plant fitter with companies such as Cunnane’s Forklifts in Foynes and Floyd Engineering, before moving to London to work with the legendary ‘Green Murphy’.
His working life carried him far beyond Ireland. In Nigeria with Amey Roadstone Construction, he experienced danger, conflict and moments of surreal adventure – stories vividly retold in the book. Later, in Saudi Arabia with Global Suhaimi, he encountered the strict rule of the Mutawa, offering readers gripping insights into life in the kingdom.
After retiring, Denny joined his wife Mary Theresa in the family business, Kelly’s Undertakers, which was in Mary’s family for almost 100 years. His reflections on guiding local families through loss are among the memoir’s most moving passages.
Well known across Limerick for his charity cycles – from completing the Mizen-to-Malin route eight times to cycling from Athea to Dublin and back for the local church – Denny and Mary T have raised vital funds for organisations including the Aislinn Addiction Centre and Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.
The Bike, The Bog & The Graveyard offers a unique portrait of an ordinary man with an extraordinary story.
Denny worked with local business JM Agency Publishing and Design in bringing his memoir to life.
All are invited to join Denny and his family in Con Colbert Memorial Hall, Athea, Saturday 13 December, 7-9pm. Light refreshments will be served.
https://www.athea.ie/category/news/
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The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
I don’t like the fall of the year. Everything is dying, leaves are falling from the trees and the weather gets colder week by week. Once November ends, it isn’t too bad because the Christmas season has almost started and there is something to look forward to. In a couple of weeks we will have the shortest day of the year and we will look forward to “a great stretch in the evening “ Looking forward to Christmas reminds me of our school days when there was no mention of the festival until the 8th of December which was a holiday of obligation and the day that some people started their shopping. Not so much around here because most of the shopping was left to one outing very near Christmas. This was a very special event. The ass or horse would be tackled and a box or tea chest placed in the middle of the cart. This would be filled with Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, vegetables, currant cake, jam, bottles of lemonade, a case of stout, a bottle of whisky and maybe a bottle of sherry or port. This was the day when the shopkeepers showed their appreciation to their customers for supporting th all the year by giving them a Christmas box. This could be a box of biscuits or a special cake but it was really appreciated. Presents would be bought by the women as the men gathered in a local pub to have their Christmas drink. This was special because, in those days, people in rural Ireland did not go to the pub on a regular basis. They would have a drink the day of a fair, wedding or funeral but outside of that they abstained. Nobody drank in the house, unlike today. Once the shopping was completed and the men were in a jovial mood , they made their way home. The next task was to decorate the house. The old box would be pulled out from under the bed and “streamers” would be unravelled and strung from one corner of the kitchen to the other. The man of the house would get a few turnips, one for each window, scoop them out and place a candle in each one. They would not be lit until Christmas Eve and I well remember my grandmother lighting the candles with the words, “the light of Heaven to the poor souls”. We would be sent out to get sprigs of laurel, holly and ivy to decorate the candle holders in the window and other parts of the house. The crib was then put together with all the figurines resembling the people and animals that were in the stable at Christ’s birth. It was a magic time for us as youngsters, especially on a fine night, to look out over the valley and see the lights in all the houses. We, of course, couldn’t wait for Santa Claus to bring us presents. Now, presents in those days were not as lavish as they are today. We might get a toy gun, a dolly, sweets , a lucky bag or something similar. It might not seem like much now but we were really excited and were very happy with our lot. It wasn’t all about material things either. The birth of Jesus was celebrated by praying at the crib and going to Midnight Mass. It was a time for caring and loving and goodwill to all. I can’t help but feel that we have lost a lot of that today. Christmas is no longer celebrated with reverence as it used to be. Commercialism has taken over and we are bombarded by ads from every quarter. It is still though a time when people like to be with their families and a time for being nice to others. I am looking forward to some of my own family coming home this year and I know we will have a whale of a time so, roll on Christmas and we’ll deal with January and February when they come and go as they surely will.
I was listening to a programme during the week and it was frightening , to say the least. It was about AI and what it will mean to us in the future if constraints and regulations are not put in place. It has the capacity to replace most of the manual jobs done by humans today. It has already taken the jobs of many in assembly lines in factories and most of the work on car manufacturing is done by robots. But it is not just manual jobs that can be replaced.. Customer service representatives, who account for nearly 2.86 million workers, writers, authors, journalists, editors, translators, interpreters and proofreaders.. It can also replace highly skilled workers like web designers and data scientists. It may even replace teachers in the classroom for certain subjects. Safe for the moment are skilled tradesmen who work in construction, plumbers, block layers, plasterers etc. The big question is: what do we do with all the people whose jobs will be gone? There is also the knock on effect for all the businesses that depend on the money spent by these workers. One suggestion is that there would be a universal wage for everybody, enough to cover the cost of living. But, where would the money come from? The profit from the use of AI will be in the hands of a few ultra rich business people who won’t take kindly to being taxed enough to cover the cost. Big business is interested only in making profit, not caring for the unemployed. It is not just the money though, most of us would go off our heads if we had nothing to do all day. There is great therapy in getting up in the morning and going to work. It gives a purpose in life and there is also the saying: “the devil finds work for idle hands”. I don’t know what is going to happen but I hope that the powers that be getb their heads together and come up with a roadmap for the future where Ai can be used with out making us all redundant.
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by Tom Aherne November 2025
MICK COPSE: The death has taken place of Michael (Mick) Copse Snr, Ballyloughane, Carrigkerry, Athea, peacefully on Monday November 24. Pre-deceased by his loving wife Nell. Reposing was held at St Mary’s Church Carrigkerry on Wednesday November 26, from 5pm to 6.30pm. The cortege arrived at St Mary’s Church Carrigkerry on Thursday for Requiem Mass at 11.30am. Life symbols were presented at the altar beforehand and received by Fr Raphael Okanumeh who celebrated the Mass. They included a work spade, family photograph, hedge clippers, sod of turf and rosary beads. Family members participated in the ceremony and the lovely choice of hymns and songs reflected Mick’s standing
Fr Raphael got to know Mick from his monthly visits bringing him Holy Communion. He spoke of hearing his numerous stories from his young days, his interest in the welfare of others and his great faith. Maureen on behalf of the family paid a lovely tribute to Mick who was a cherished husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother and uncle, whose gentle spirit, warm heart and kindness touched the lives of those who knew him. Born in 1930 Mick was educated at nearby Ballyloughane School and his early working life was spent in service with the farming community. He spent time working in the forestry and finished his working career with Limerick County Council. He met his wife Nell Sheehy at a dance in Upton’s Hall Old Mill, and they were blessed with their family of four. Mick was known for his early rising, hard work ethic throughout his life and his helpfulness to others. Mick and Nell enjoyed social outings, dancing in Stacks Lounge Bar, Moran’s Country Club and the Railway Bar in Abbeyfeale and Ardagh Social Club. He was very active all his life from walking and cycling. Mick never spent an overnight stay in hospital and was even footing turf up to four years ago.
Mick was laid to rest afterwards at Holy Cross Cemetery Athea. Sympathy to his daughter Nan, sons Michael, John and Patrick, son in law Mike, daughters in law Lilly and Fiona, sister Mary, grandchildren, great grandchildren, a wide circle of relatives, neighbours and friends. I knew Mick all my adult life and he was a regular at Mass in Carrigkerry up to the arrival of Covid. He would walk to the shop for his papers and be at the church well in advance of Mass time. Conversations were always interesting and amusing. He was one of the eldest members of our parish and his passing leaves a big empty space in our research into past times. Mick leaves behind a legacy of love, strength and treasured memories that will be held close forever. One of the songs during the ceremony was ”Remember Me” written by Christy Hennessy. We will definitely remember Mick, who helped to brighten up our lives and Sunday mornings. May his soul rest in eternal Peace.
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A rambling house will be held at Ballyhahill Hall on Wednesday December 10, 2025 at 7.00pm.
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TREATY: The reason why lies in the text of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in London on 6 December 1921. By the time that Sinn Féin and the British government began to negotiate a settlement after the Irish War of Independence, the new jurisdiction of Northern Ireland had been created. But Irish unity was a key issue for both sides in the Treaty negotiations. The Irish negotiators wanted, at the very least, a path to what they dubbed 'essential unity'.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1203/1547100-boundary-commission-1925-centenary-ireland/
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Despite the abolition of the Dublin parliament following the Act of Union in 1800, Ireland retained its own executive government, an anomaly which emphasised ‘Ireland’s incomplete integration into the enlarged United Kingdom’.1 The Irish executive was led by the Lord Lieutenant, or Viceroy, the king’s representative in Ireland. His immediate subordinate was the Chief Secretary who headed an office based in Dublin Castle, which was managed by his subordinate, the Under Secretary.
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President Connolly’s inauguration outfit was quite different to her usual attire.
The bright purple suit stood out among the crowd yesterday. According to The Irish Times, the outfit was from Irish designer Louise Kennedy’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, right.
Ms Connolly’s whole outfit cost a total of €5,680, and included a knee-length purple wool coat (€1,995), a matching purple silk blouse (€1,295) and purple wool wide-leg trousers (€995).
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BOOK: The Swimmer of Auschwitz
By Renaud Leblond
This propulsive new release tells the remarkable true story of Alfred Nakache, who overcame a fear of water to become an Olympic swimmer in 1936 Berlin — then survived imprisonment at Auschwitz during World War II. “Readers will be hooked” (Publishers Weekly).
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Today is the feast of St. Josaphat!
An Eastern Rite bishop, St. Josaphat was a martyr for Christian unity, as he died trying to bring the Orthodox churches into union with Rome.
Born in 1580 in western Ukraine to Orthodox parents, John Kuntsevych, as he was christened, was a youth when his branch of the Ruthenian Church accepted reunification with the Holy See while maintaining their Byzantine liturgy and traditions.
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A treasure chest of Dublin history
The Guinness Archive is one of the few corporate archives fully open to the public in Ireland. At times the single largest private employer in Dublin, Guinness kept meticulous personnel records from the 1880s onward - containing individual information about more than 20,000 employees.
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Honoring Veterans Day
Discover and share the life stories of veterans who've died this year, featured at our U.S. Veterans Memorial page.
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MAMDANI, NY:
political realities will likely limit which policies Mamdani can actually implement, even with a big mandate. As our Dispatch colleagues reported last week, he probably won’t fulfill his signature promise to raise income and corporate taxes because “under state law, New York City cannot raise the city income tax without Albany signing off,” and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has already rejected the idea (in part because she’s facing her own reelection in 2026). Other proposals, such as free buses and that $30 hourly minimum wage, also need state approval. And without new tax revenue, other parts of Mamdani’s agenda—free child care, tons of new public housing—-face major fiscal constraints because of an already-large budget gap (caused in part by the city attracting fewer American millionaires between 2010 and 2022 than places like California, Texas, and Florida
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/mamdani-policies-taxes-wealthy-child-care/
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PHAC released its strategy for 2024-25 to 2029-30 in December of last year. In it, the agency stated it was “strongly committed” to “address health inequities” and to decolonize science.”
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“Sixty years ago, nobody knew where Sandy Koufax was,” Cosgrove said, alluding to contested lore about whether Koufax attended synagogue that day. “But we know where he was not.”
Cosgrove, a Dodger fan himself, said he had studied the episode and determined that “the mythology that came to be associated with it” was more significant than Koufax’s decision not to play. What was most important, the rabbi said, was that American Jews learned that they could embrace their Jewish identity without giving up their hard-fought place in mainstream society.
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Women In World History
Jane Sheppard Crabbet Arabians in Australia
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It’s almost staggering to consider the world Lady Anne (Anne Isabella Noel Blunt) was born into. Her mother was Ada Lovelace, the brilliant and prophetic mind who saw the potential for computers long before the world had even conceived of them. To be the daughter of such a force must have been both an incredible inheritance and a daunting shadow. But Anne didn’t live in that shadow; she carved a path of her own that was just as bold, though in a completely different direction.
While her mother conversed in the abstract language of mathematics, Anne became fluent in the tongues of the world—French, German, Italian, Spanish, and even Arabic, a language that would later become the key to her life's passion. She wasn't just academically gifted; she had an artist's soul, expressing herself through the stroke of a pencil and the music of a violin. You get the sense of a woman who experienced the world deeply, through all her senses.
Her marriage to the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a union of two fiery, independent spirits. Together, they founded the Crabbet Arabian Stud, but it was Anne who was the true heart and expertise of their legendary travels through the deserts of Arabia and the Middle East. Imagine her, a Victorian gentlewoman, trading her drawing room for the vast, unforgiving desert. While Wilfrid wrote poetry, Anne did the real, gritty work. She was the one who could converse with Bedouin princes and Egyptian pashas in their own language, earning their respect not as a foreign curiosity, but as a genuine peer who understood the profound significance of their desert-bred horses.
She was the one who could look at a horse and see not just its form, but its history, its spirit, its asil—its pure, desert heritage. It was her keen eye and her unwavering standards that selected legendary animals like the mare Rodania and the magnificent stallion Mesaoud. She wasn't just collecting beautiful creatures; she was acting as a guardian, a preservationist at a time when the ancient bloodlines of the Arabian horse were at risk of being lost forever.
#fyp #womeninhistory #herstory #foryourpage
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Europe's largest outdoor event, the National Ploughing Association confirmed Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly as the venue for the 2025 National Ploughing Championships on 16th, 17th, 18th September.
https://www.transportforireland.ie/events/the-national-ploughing-championships/
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Sean Lyons
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As announced in the The Connaught Telegraph, I will be launching my autobiography at this years' Wild Atlantic Words festival. The event will be on Thursday 9th of October in Castlebar. Further events will take place in Kerry to share this 'account of a life journey across continents, professions and many near brushes with calamity.' Many more details to follow!
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THANK YOU!
We want to thank you! To celebrate our 20th Autumn in business at the Listowel Arms Hotel, the O’Callaghan family would like to treat one lucky winner to a weekend in this beautiful suite during Listowel Food Fair on November 11th and 12th next. Prize includes a two nights stay and tickets to attend the festival awards tasting dinner on Friday night. The winners can soak up the foodie atmosphere of this exciting Food Fair
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Differences Between Man and Woman
A woman’s brain shrinks 2.55 per decade. A man’s brain shrinks 5% per decade. 60% of women say their relationships affect their moods. 45% of men say their relationships affect their moods. In male-female relationships women look for a sense of connectedness which is often perceived by men as wanting to control them. Men seek independence which is often interpreted by women as not caring for them. These misinterpretations lead to unintelligent management of their relationships. Fr S
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Ploughing
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By CNA Staff
CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 04:00 am
Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, Pope Benedict XVI said in a general audience back in 2010 when he focused his catechesis on the life of St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast is celebrated Sept. 17 in the universal Church.
Benedict praised her as a model for modern women religious and noted that she benefited the faithful by her willingness to submit her supernatural visions to the interpretation of the Church.
Referring first to St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem on the role of women in the life of the Church, Benedict XVI noted that the letter “gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine ‘genius’ which have appeared in the course of history.” He then highlighted the figure of St. Hildegard of Bingen as one of the saintly women who stood out nearly a millennium ago.
Born into a noble German family in the year 1098, Hildegard began her studies in human and Christian formation at a Benedictine convent in the town of Bingen, took her vows to cloistered life and, 30 years after she began her formation, became a mother superior.
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Arts Events and Opportunities in Kerry and Nationwide
Kerry County Arts Office<[email protected]>
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Kerry County Arts Newsletter 10 July 2025
View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/b4672e9aec4f/arts-events-and-opportunities-in-kerry-and-nationwide-13878087?e=57e387efec)
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To find out about our annual programme of opportunities and events, go to our dedicated website.
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Breaking the Stigma Key to Battling the Growing Mental Health Challenge – IFA
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On September 22, 1663, thirty-six young women arrived in a French colony on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in a region that we now call eastern Canada. While the men of the colony greeted them eagerly, the women were whisked away by an order of nuns already living in the area. These sisters would protect and train the women for their calling as wives and mothers, soon to be matriarchs of all New France, as it was then known. Over the next decade, hundreds more women would make this transatlantic journey, and nearly all remained to marry and bear children.
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Do you wear a Saint Benedict medal?
The Saint Benedict medal is a powerful sacramental in the Catholic Church. It bears the image of Saint Benedict, a sixth-century monk known for his spiritual wisdom and contributions to monastic life.
The medal is rich in symbolism. Each part represents a particular aspect of Saint Benedict's life or has a specific spiritual meaning.
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Army Pictures
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Tralee Old
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Lane song
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Zelda Caldwell Books
The Way of Heaven and Earth:
July 10, 2025
In his new book, The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And (published by Word on Fire, 2025) author Matthew Becklo, publishing director for Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and a Register contributor, makes a case for Catholicism as an antidote to the polarization dividing modern society.
Drawing on works of philosophy, theology and Scripture, Becklo gives the readers a mini-course on the evolution of thought, from the ancients to the moderns, explaining that humankind‘s afflictions have always been rooted in “heaven-earth dilemmas.”
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The All-Ireland Men's Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is an annual series of games played in Ireland during the summer and early autumn, and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Contested by the top male inter-county football teams in Ireland, the tournament has taken place every year since 1887, except in 1888 when the competition was not played due to a tour of the United States by would-be competitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_finals
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Iron deficiency during pregnancy can cause a male mouse embryo to develop female features, a new study reveals.
The low iron disrupts the activation of a key gene that spurs the development of male sex organs. This causes embryos with XY chromosomes — the most common combination seen in males — to develop female sex organs instead.
"This is a completely new and totally unexpected finding," study co-author Peter Koopman, a professor emeritus of developmental biology at the University of Queensland in Australia, told Live Science. "It's never been shown before that iron can flip such an important developmental switch."
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ACI Africa Staff
By ACI Africa Staff
Maputo, 14 July, 2025 / 9:51 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God (SMIC), the first female Congregation in Mozambique, are risking their lives to care for hundreds of thousands of victims of religious extremism uprooted from their homes in the Northern regions of the Southern African country.
According to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, SMIC members have to endanger their lives every day by dodging the bullets of Islamist militants and by evading dangerous animals such as lions as they navigate the rough terrain to spread the Gospel.
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The Programme includes:
State-led Commemorative Event, Derrynane House, Wednesday, 06 August 2025
A State-led Commemorative Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 06 August 2025, in Derrynane House- O’Connell’s principal residence and now an OPW managed historic property.
This will be a combination State-led and cultural commemorative event. The event which will have a strong community element will serve as a symbolic act of national remembrance.
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By Walter Sánchez Silva
Holy Land
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 15, 2025 / 06:00 am
Friar Francesco Patton, the outgoing Franciscan custos of the Holy Land, reflected on his nine years in office and proposed a path to achieving peace in the face of war in the region. He also noted that being a Christian in the holy places, as a minority, is a special vocation and mission.
Patton, 61, is leaving the position entrusted to him in 2016. Friar Francesco Ielpo has now been appointed to the position, confirmed as the new custos of the Holy Land by Pope Leo XIV on June 24.
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Thomas Griffin Blogs
September 11, 2024
I was in fifth grade when the Towers fell.
I remember our teacher being asked to come out to the hall and she returned to ask the class if anyone had parents who worked in New York City. (I was raised on Long Island about 40 minutes from the city.) A few classmates raised their hands. We later found out that we would have a half-day and would be picked up by our parents even though we normally took the bus.
On the way home my dad told my brothers and me what had happened. The video loop on the news channel depicting the crumbling of the Twin Towers will be ironed into my mind forever. I remember seeing my dad sit in a chair outside staring into the sky, just thinking to himself. I went over to see him and all he said was, “Tom, you will remember this day for the rest of your life.”
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ATHEA
The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
Just back from a weekend in Liverpool. Noreen and myself went over to visit a great friend of ours, a remarkable lady who came into our lives when we moved from Coventry to Liverpool in early 1970. I had lived in Coventry for most of the ‘sixties and of course I got involved in the music scene. Through that I met an accordion player from Mayo called Tony O’Toole who used to visit the Irish clubs at the weekend. Noreen and I got married in February 1970 and we moved to Liverpool straight away because I had got a better job up there. I didn’t socialise much for the first few months but eventually I called into the Irish Centre and learned there was a fleadh cheoil on there the following Sunday. I entered the box competition and was lucky enough to win it. That night I was asked to play a few tunes at the centre and when I was finished I saw this beautiful, tall, black-haired woman in her forties coming towards me. She told me that she was Tony O’Toole’s sister, Celia and that he had written to her (as you did back in the day) to tell her I was moving to Liverpool. She said to me “ye will have to come to our house next Sunday, I will kill a cock”. That sense of humour she had hasn’t dissipated over the years and she had a knack of making you completely at your ease. We duly went to the house and met her husband John Kilgallon, another box player who had played with the Liverpool Ceili Band, and their three daughters, Maureen, Eileen and Celia and son Seán who was eight or nine at the time. We immediately felt very much at home as did our son Danjoe who was only a few weeks old and snuggled up in one of Celia’s fur coats. Celia and John were Danjoe’s godparents and the visits to the house became a regular thing. It was a house of music and laughter with people coming and going all the time. This last weekend we sat with Celia as she recalled many of the good times and some of the not so good we had experienced. She will be 101 years of age this April and still looks after herself. Members of her family who live locally call in and she has a cleaner who comes a couple of times a week but she does all her own cooking and washing and has the place clean before the cleaner arrives! Unfortunately she has lost her hearing so communicating with her can be difficult at times. A pad and pencil helps but somehow Noreen could get through to her when looking directly at her. She is blessed with a great memory and loves to recall funny things that happened when she was a young girl in Ireland and afterwards when she emigrated. In the early part of the last century, living on the western seaboard of Ireland wasn’t easy. There was no employment so most of the young people went to England or America to make a living. Sometimes whole families moved to make a better life for themselves. Celia has some great funny stories about characters that came into her life over the years. She remembers one about here brother Joe who played a prank on some of the neighbours who used to come rambling to their house at night. They had acquired a radio when they were very scarce and of course was a novelty to everyone. Joe, being a bit of an engineer, connected a wire to the back of the radio and through a hole in the wall into the bedroom at the other side and attached a mike so that the radio acted as a speaker. In those days the radio would only be turned on for the news, to spare the battery. At 10 pm the news was turned on but instead of the radio announcer it was Joe’s voice disguised that those in the kitchen heard. He proceeded to give fictitious local news including the following: “a big shark was washed ashore last night and ate a pit of spuds owned by a local man”. One of the two old boys in the kitchen turned to the other and said: “isn’t that awful. The poor man will have nothing now to feed his family for the Winter.” I am still laughing at some of the incidents she recalled as we sat and shared a couple of drinks. It is difficult to imagine the changes she has seen in her more than 100 years from the birth of the Irish state, with all the problems that created, through two world wars and the Irish Civil War. She was born into a time that had no electricity, tap water, motor cars, radios, phones or televisions. Though she has lived in England for the best part of her life she never lost one bit of her beautiful Mayo accent and she still uses the odd Irish word, especially when she is talking about the place she came from, Thullabawn, the Silver Strand, west of Louisburg. We have had the pleasure of visiting her there on many occasions over the years and it is one of the nicest places on Earth. It is such a pity that people like Celia had to leave their beautiful homes and cross the seas but, if she hadn’t, we would never have met her and had the pleasure of her friendship for such a long time. Please God it won’t be too long before we listen to a few more stories like the following: There was a man in Liverpool who went by the nickname “Red Nose Kelly” though never called it to his face. He was in the pub one day when a young man came in and was looking curiously at him. After a while he went up to him and asked him if he was Red Nose Kelly. He stared back at him and said: “if there was as much money spent on your education as what it cost to make this nose red, you might have better manners.”
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16-: From The Sunbury Gazette, and Miners’ Register (Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA) of Saturday 29th June 1839:
From the Christian Advocate.
An awful Providence. On the 29th of April, at a small village in this county, viz: Ellisville, a man named J. P. S. was killed suddenly. He was a profane swearer. He was in one of the stores, talking about moving his family to another house in the village, that day, though the rain poured down in torrents on the earth. A friend said, “Surely you will not take your family out in such a rain.” He swore by the “Lord Jesus Christ that if it rained pitch-forks with the prongs downwards, and if it rained hell-fire he would go;” so saying he sprang from the door, walked about ten steps, and was struck in the mouth by lightning—his head awfully mangled—and his lips still quivering with oaths, burned and swelled till it was distressing to see him. Nothing else was injured—the blasphemer only was killed.
N. G. Berrylan.
Lewistown, May 13.
Life in Cork in 1836
This story comes from the Durrus History Society. Durrus ia a small town in west Cork
1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher, Early Statistician, to Poor Laws (Ireland), Enquiry.
Muintir Bháire There are in these parishes about 50 and at least that number of individuals who endeavour to make out a livelihood by buying eggs here and taking them to Cork where they are bought for the English market. These individuals are generally young women of blameless morals and great industry the distance they have to travel barefooted with such a load as 300 eggs in a basket on their backs is to many no less than 50 miles. Some will take so many as 350 of these eggs others not more than 200 they generally bring as heavy a load back from the city. And make ten or a dozen such journeys each year. The time devoted to such a journey is generally a week, their profits are inconsiderable perhaps about £3 in the year.
From Listowel Connection;
I thought you might be as surprised as I was by this fact from Durrus History
While reading the evidence before a parliamentary enquiry into land tenure taken in Bantry in 1844 I came across a reference to a tenant paying his landlord with a £3 note. I never came across this before, I do remember the old orange 10 shilling note.
When I checked it out the history was interesting. Ireland apparently joined sterling in 1825 (currency fluctuations are not new) and the Bank of Ireland was given authority to issue notes. Included was the £3 and 30 shilling notes.
In 1844 a farm laborer was lucky to get 8p. per day and the salary of a Resident Magistrate started at £300 per annum. If you took a laborer now at a low €75 a day that would give the value of £3 at €6,750 or the pay of the modern equivalent of a Resident Magistrate a District Justice at €123K then the value of £3 would be €12,300. Obviously the differential between £1 and £5 was too much hence the £3 note!
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Thomas Driscoll Newtownsander 1904 22 Julia Driscoll Newtownsandes 1900 21 Bridget Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1908 18 Jeremiah Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1909 26 Kitty Driscoll
Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 18 Timothy Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 23 William Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1908 20
14. Richard Carr, born Abt. 1825 in Ahalahana, Murher, Kerry, Ireland; died Abt. 1887 in
Newtownsandes,Kerry,Munster,Ireland. He married 15. Joanna Welsh.
15. Joanna Welsh, born Abt. 1823; died Abt. 1887 in Newtownsandes,Kerry,Munster,Ireland.
Children of Richard Carr and Joanna Welsh are:
i. Edmund Carr, born Abt. 1842 in Alhalahana, Murher, Kerry, Ireland; married Hanora Stack; born Abt.
1842.
ii. James Carr, born Abt. 1843.
iii. Richard Carr, born Abt. 1844.
iv. Josephine Carr, born Abt. 1845.
7 v. Catherine Carr, born 05 Nov 1846 in Alhalahana, Kerry, Ireland; died 06 Jun 1914 in Omaha, Douglas,
NB; married (1) John Carr 02 Feb 1869; married (2) David Osborne 07 Apr 1869 in Maquoketa,
Jackson, Iowa; married (3) Moses Michael Kanouse 12 Feb 1908 in Florence Nebraska (St Phillips).
vi. Bridget Carr, born 1864 in Ballylongford, Munster, Kerry, Ireland; died 1954.
vii. John Carr, born 1846; died 07 Mar 1865 in County Kerry, Ireland; married (2) Catherine Carr 02 Feb
1869; born 05 Nov 1846 in Alhalahana, Kerry, Ireland; died 06 Jun 1914 in Omaha, Douglas, NB.
By Gerard O Carroll
The old name of Crotto is Stackstown. After the Stacks forfeited Crotto, it came into the hands of Henry Ponsonby, a younger brother of a colonel in Cromwell’s Irish army. The male line of the Ponsonbys of Crotto ended in 1762, with Henry’s great- grandson Richard Ponsonby of Crotta, MP for Kinsale, who had no issue by either of his two marriages, the second to a daughter of John Blennerhassett, Esq., of Ballyseedy. Richard Ponsonby bequeathed on his death in 1762 Crotta and all his estates to John Carrique, eldest son of his sister Rose Ponsonby by her husband John Carrique, of Glandine, near Kilgobbin, in West Kerry, on condition of his assuming the name and arms of Ponsonby in addition to his own. John Carrique was the grandson of William Carrique, an officer in Cromwell’s army, subsequently, like Sir William Petty, a surveyor of lands forfeited in 1649; and he, William Carrique, obtained for his services a grant of the forfeitures of the FitzGeralds at Glandine and other Anglo-Irish, including a portion of Sir Arthur Denny’s estate, who, like many more of the old Protestant families, royalists in 1641-60,
Name: Carol J. Culp
How do I list my GGGrandmothers emmigrant burial. Catherine Carr, daughter of Richard and Johana Carr Born Ahalahana,Murhur,Moyvane County Kerry on Nov 5, 1846 died 6 June, 1914 Omaha Nebr,
Usa.
Carol
Carrs of Newtownsandes/Moyvane/Murher
Surnames: Carr
Looking for additional information on
Richard Carr b. abt 1823 who married Johanne Welshe born abt 1823
both died abt 1887
...their parents, where they were born, marriage date...and confirmation of their childrens names and birthdates.
I show
Catherine Carr b. 5 Nov 1846 at Ahalahana
Additionally we believe are the following:
Edmund, John, James, Richard Jr., Josephine, Bridget (1864)
Family tradition is that one brother was a priest, one a doctor and both went to mission field abroad...perhaps China, where one or both died due to a plague. We show a sister as mother superior
of a convent. Not known which ones...or if these are the correct siblings.
Any info on the family appreciated.
Name: Tina Mattocks
Just looked again - wonderful site. My grandfather was Thomas White from Athea Limerick married to Mary Hunt of Knockanure (Kerry). Mary was the daugher of James Hunt and Bridget Carroll. There
are also Fitzgeralds and Nolans in the family. Been to Ireland 4 times now and will be going again!!
KOREA
Patrick Sheahan was born on March 3rd, 1928 in Newtown, Sandes, Co. Kerry. He attended Murhur National School from 1934 to 1942 were he reached the 7th standard. He came to the United States on May 31st, 1948. He attended my classes from January 16th to May, 1950, obtained his High School Diploma and was called in the army.
He was killed instantly on Cot. 4, 1951 by enemy fire. I received his letter the day he died. He received this citation:
"On June 8, 1951, near Sam Ywie, Korea, Company "A" was engaged in the assault upon Hill 736 when it was suddenly subjected to heavy enemy machine gun fire which cut off four men from their unit, wounding two of them before they could reach a place of cover. Private Sheahan, seeing his comrades fall, stopped to carry them, one at a time, to a position of safety and then remained with them while another went to locate a medical aid man. At this point a large enemy force commenced to assault his position, but he stood fast, firing into the attack with his rifle until his platoon broke through to rout the foe. Private Sheehan's unwavering heroism and determination were instrumental in saving the lives of two fellow soldiers and reflect great credit upon himself and the militar6y service. Entered the military service from the State of New York. Received the Bronze
Star Medal.
Manifest for Lucania
Sailing from Queenstown Arrived 20Aug 1904
007. Cronin, Kate F 32y M Irish Irish Newtownsandes 0008. Brandon, Lizzie F 22y S Irish Irish Newtownsandes 0009. Scanlon, Hannah F 20y S Irish Irish Newtownsandes 0010. ORourke, Edmond M 19y S Irish Irish Newtownsandes 0011. Hanrahan, John M 22y S Irish Irish Newtownsandes 0012. 0006. Hanrahan, Thomas M 24y S Irish Irish Listowel; 0005. Kennedy, Maurice M 22y S Ireland Irish Shanagolden 0006. Barry, Michael M 14y Ireland Irish Shanagolden;
Driscoll
Ellis Island
Catherine Driscoll Abbeyfeale, Ireland 1923 17 ; Kate Driscoll Abbylace, Ireland 1907 46 ;Kate Driscoll Ardfert 1898 18 Patrick Driscoll Ardfert 1903 24 Patrick Driscoll Ardfert 1903 24 Daniel Driscoll Ardfert, Ireland 1911 25 Nellie Driscoll Ardfert, Ireland 1907 31 Terence O'Driscoll Ardfert, Ireland 1923 23 James Driscoll Ardfield, Ireland 1907 26 Nellie Driscoll Ardfort, Ireland 1907 ;Jas. W. Driscoll Asdee 1899 17 ;Mary Driscoll Ballybunion 1904 19 William Driscoll Ballybunion 1902 21 Annie Driscoll Ballybunion, Ireland 1906 18 John Driscoll Ballybunion, Ireland 1910 27 Margt Driscoll Ballybunior 1900 22 ;Ella Driscoll Ballyduff, Ireland 1909 30 ;Nora Driscoll Knocknagoshel, Ireland 1921 18 ;Maggie Driscoll Listowel 1902 3 Michael Driscoll Listowel 1906 29 ;Thomas Driscoll Newtownsander 1904 22 Julia Driscoll Newtownsandes 1900 21 Bridget Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1908 18 Jeremiah Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1909 26 Kitty Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 18 Timothy Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 23 William Driscoll Newtownsandes, Ireland 1908 20 ;AHERN: Ahern, Miss Salowglin 1902 age 20;Andrew Ahern Listowel, Ireland1913 age 23;Annie Ahern Abbeydealg, Ireland 1917 age 29 ;Annie Ahern Athea1897@ 20;Bernard Ahern Abbeyfeale 1904 @3;Bridget Ahern Athea, Co Limerick, Ireland 1923 @21 ;Bridget Ahern Athea, Limerick, Ireland 1923@ 21;Bridget Ahern Glensharrold 1906 @19; Catherine Ahern Athea, Ireland 1910 @21;Catherine Ahern Tarbet1899@24; Catherine AhernTimoleague, Ireland 1907@18;Daniel Ahern Abbeyfeale 1904 @38; Daniel Ahern Abbeyfeale 1904 @8;Daniel Ahern Ballylongford 1904 @26;Daniel Ahern Lestowel 1901 age 21;Daniel Ahern Newtownsandes, Ireland 1909 age 24;Patrick Ahern Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 age21 ;Patrick Ahern Newtownsandes, Ireland 1912 age24;Michael Ahern Newtown Sandes, Co. Kerry 1905 age 22;Michael Ahern Tarbet 1899 age27;Patrick Ahern Athea, Ireland 1909 age28;
http://www.mulvihill.net/genealogy/direct/MulvihillsOfGlinDirect1a.htm
The earliest record of our direct Mulvihill ancestors in Ireland is a Christening entry in the Kilfergus (Glin)1, Limerick Church register. It is for Michael (II) Mulvihill, dated 2 Aug 18545, and lists the parents as Michael (I) and Johanna (McMahon) Mulvihill. They were apparently not married in Glin, suggesting that Johanna was not from the immediate area. Michael (I) was listed as a Farmer in Ballygiltenan.
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The marriage of Michael (I) was not his first. His first wife was Johanna's sister Catherine. They were married in about 1850. Michael and Catherine had two children (in Glin) - Mary (1850) and Ellen (1852). Catherine may have died in childbirth with Ellen, or shortly thereafter. Their child, Mary later married John Nolan of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry, on 31 Jan 1874 in Glin Chapel. There is some evidence that Ellen died young.
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Michael (I) and Johanna had at least seven additional children after Michael (II). They were (all in Glin):
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Patrick (8 Jun 1856)5; Godparents Patrick Walsh and Marie King; married Ellen Hunt of Kinard 22 Apr 187930 in Glin Chapel.
Margaret (20 Feb 1858)5; Godparents John Stackpool and Mary Nolan; married Patrick Dillane of Killeany 29 Jul 187531 in Glin Chapel.
Johanna (31 Dec 1859)5; Godparents Patrick McEnemy and Mary Hanrahan; died young (1865).
Ellen (24 Aug 1861)5; Godparents Daniel and Mary Hanrahan;
Bridget "Delia" (4 Nov 1863)5; Godparents Michael and Mary Mulvihill!; Immigrated to US 1885-6; married John Guerin abt 1885.
Catherine "Kate" (18 Nov 1865)28; Godparents Michael Hanrahan and Margaret McEnemy; Immigrated to US 1885-6; married Jeremiah Neville
Honora "Nora" (23 Jun 1868)29; Immigrated to US abt 1888; married John Neville
Ship Gipsey
Tralee, Ireland to New York
23 June 1852
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, John Grover do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the
District of New-York, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Br Ship Gipsey whereof I am Master, from Tralee,
Ireland, So help me God. John Grover.
Sworn to this 23rd June, 1852, Before me (illegible signature), Deputy Collector.
Sample list of Passengers
1 Patk Riordan 21 male laborer Ireland United States
2* Matu Riordan 38 male laborer Ireland United States
3 Mary Foley 11 female spinister Ireland United States
4 Mary Hackett 12 female spinister Ireland United States
5 Julia Hackett 15 female spinister Ireland United States
6* Honora Sullivan female Ireland United States
7 John Healy 30 male laborer Ireland United States
8 Mary Healy 25 female spinister Ireland United States
9* James Healy 7 male Ireland United States
10 John Healy 7mos male infant Ireland United States
11 Maurice Carroll 20 male laborer Ireland United States
12 Margt Carroll 22 female spinister Ireland United States
13 Daniel Costello 25 male laborer Ireland United States
14 Robt Mahoney 18 male laborer Ireland United States
15 Margt Lynch 18 female spinister Ireland United States
16 Bridget Dalton 36 female spinister Ireland United States
17 Henry Tyther 14 male laborer Ireland United States
18 David Tyther 35 male laborer Ireland United States
19* Main McKenna 20 male laborer Ireland United States
20 Richd Day 18 male laborer Ireland United States
21* Johan Csonan 20 female spinister Ireland United States
22 Betty Sullivan 35 female widow Ireland United States
23 Jery Sullivan 29 male laborer Ireland United States
24 Denis Sullivan 20 male laborer Ireland United States
25 Eugen Sullivan 18 male laborer Ireland United States
26 Cathn Murphy 29 female spinister Ireland United States
27 Denis McMehan 16 male laborer Ireland United States
28 Julia McMehan 14 female spinister Ireland United States
29 Johan McMehan 12 female spinister Ireland United States
30 Timy Sullivan 50 male laborer Ireland United States
31 Michel Durin 35 male laborer Ireland United States
32 Mrgt Durin 20 female spinister Ireland United States
33 Patk Greaney 41 male laborer Ireland United States
34 Francis Moore 33 male laborer Ireland United States
35 Mary Murphy 19 female spinister Ireland United States
36 Ellis Johnston 20 female spinister Ireland United States
37 Mary Shea 18 female spinister Ireland United States
38* May Griffin Clients 13 female spinister Ireland United States
39 Cathen Cournaus 16 female spinister Ireland United States
40 May Howe 64 female widow Ireland United States
41 Thos. Howe 29 male laborer Ireland United States
42 Wm Lyons 32 male laborer Ireland United States
43 Thos Manig? 34 male laborer Ireland United States
44 May Carroll 25 female wife Ireland United States
45* John Carroll 3 male Ireland United States
46 Pat Carroll 8mos male infant Ireland United States
47 Mary Neil 35 female wife Ireland United States
48* Thade Neil 5 male Ireland United States
49* John Neil 7 male Ireland United States
50 John Cornell 17 male butcher Ireland United States
51 Mgt Breen 14 female spinister Ireland United States
52 John Minahan 21 male laborer Ireland United States
53 Maurice Moriarty 20 male laborer Ireland United States
54 Magt Finn 25 female spinister Ireland United States
55 Julia Conway 19 female spinister Ireland United States
56 John Daly 50 male laborer Ireland United States
57* Patk Daly 19 female widow Ireland United States
58 Mgt Connor 35 female spinister Ireland United States
59 Ellen Connor 17 female spinister Ireland United States
60* Margt Connor 15 male carpenter Ireland United States
61 Thos Murphy 45 male laborer Ireland United States
62 Maurice Sullivan 35 male laborer Ireland United States
63 Thos Sullivan 21 male laborer Ireland United States
64 Bessy Clifford 19 female spinister Ireland United States
65 ????? Brien 26 female spinister Ireland United States
66 Cathn Connor 16 female spinister Ireland United States
67 John Connor 20 male baker Ireland United States
68 Cathn Clifford 22 female spinister Ireland United States
69 Jane Moriarty 20 female spinister Ireland United States
70 Mary Connor 18 female spinister Ireland United States
71 Ellen Long 28 female spinister Ireland United States
72 Mary Long 19 female spinister Ireland United States
73 Ellen Williams 3 female spinister Ireland United States
74 Timy Carroll 45 male laborer Ireland United States
75 Ellen Leary 16 female spinister Ireland United States
76* Morry Sullivan 19 female spinister Ireland United States
77 Johanna Burke 18 female spinister Ireland United States
78 Mary Hurley 10 female spinister Ireland United States
79 Cath Mahoney 22 female spinister Ireland United States
80 Patk Bolan 14 male Ireland United States
81 Mary Nolan 19 female spinister Ireland United States
82 Magt Nolan 21 female spinister Ireland United States
83 Mary Kelly 23 female wife Ireland United States
84 Cathn Kelly 2 female child Ireland United States
85 Patk Finuty 38 male laborer Ireland United States
86 Patk Dean 23 male laborer Ireland United States
87 Lucinda Egan 13 female spinister Ireland United States
88 Margt Huffman 23 female spinister Ireland United States
89 ?aul Shea 18 male laborer Ireland United States
90 Mary Lean 24 female spinister Ireland United States
91 Honora Lean 20 female spinister Ireland United States
92 Thos. Lean 17 male laborer Ireland United States
93 Timy Lean 15 male laborer Ireland United States
94 Patk Lean 11 male laborer Ireland United States
95 Johain? Lean 9 male laborer Ireland United States
96 Mary Leyne 22 female spinister Ireland United States
97 Humphrey Leary 32 male laborer Ireland United States
98* Cathn Leary 29 male laborer Ireland United States
99 Danl Leary 11mos male infant Ireland United States
100 Patk Joy 15 male laborer Ireland United States
101 Bridget Maning 23 female spinister Ireland United States
102 Danl Sweeny 23 male labourer Ireland United States
103 Cornls Mc????ndz 55 male farmer Ireland United States
104* Ellen Mc????ndz 46 male Ireland United States
105 Thos Mc????ndz 23 male laborer Ireland United States
106 Pat Mc?????ndz 21 male laborer Ireland United States
107 Dennis Mc????ndz 18 male laborer Ireland United States
108 Michl Mc????ndz 16 male laborer Ireland United States
109 Cornls Mc????ndz 15 male laborer Ireland United States
110 Mary Mc????ndz 13 female spinister Ireland United States
111* Eugene Mc????ndz 12 male Ireland United States
112* Ellen Mc????ndz 10 female n Ireland United States
113 Mary Foley 24 female spinister Ireland United States
114 Mary Sullivan 25 female spinister Ireland United States
115 Mary Godfrey 46 female widow Ireland United States
116 Ellen Clifford 16 female spinister Ireland United States
117 Cath Neil 65 female widow Ireland United States
118 John Neil 18 male laborer Ireland United States
119 Ellen Neil 16 female spinister Ireland United States
120 Ellen Mc????ndz 25 female spinister Ireland United States
121 Naino Leary 16 female spinister Ireland United States
122 Nancy Brosnan 19 female spinister Ireland United States
123 John Sullivan 21 male laborer Ireland United States
124 Mary Foly 17 female spinister Ireland United States
125* Johana Rrien 30 female spinister Ireland United States
126 Pat Sheehy 30 male laborer Ireland United States
127* Michl Shinhy 13 male laborer Ireland United States
128 Michl Wallow 14 male laborer Ireland United States
129 Mary Conner 60 female widow Ireland United States
130 Cathn Conner 16 female spinister Ireland United States
131 Ann Morarty 18 female spinister Ireland United States
132 Ellen Morarty 40 female spinister Ireland United States
133 Michl Lynch 18 male laborer Ireland United States
134 Thos Ash 50 male laborer Ireland United States
135 Danl Morarty 40 male laborer Ireland United States
136 John Cleary 18 male laborer Ireland United States
137* Ellen Shos 25 female spinister Ireland United States
138 Mary Doherty 16 female spinister Ireland United States
139 Ellen Kennedy 18 female spinister Ireland United States
140* Jerh Keerin 14 female spinister Ireland United States
141 John Kerry 45 male laborer Ireland United States
142 Edw Sheehey 25 male laborer Ireland United States
143 David Fitzgerald 23 male laborer Ireland United States
144 John Doiyan 27 male laborer Ireland United States
145 Kate Dioyan 26 female spinister Ireland United States
146 Mary Clifford 23 female spinister Ireland United States
147 Thos Banning 21 male blacksmith Ireland United States
148 Inft boy Clifford 11mon male infant Ireland United States
149 Thomas Keevan 35 male laborer Ireland United States
150 Margt Lonzo 19 female wife Ireland United States