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The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
Well, my worst fears from last week have been confirmed; Trump is back in the White House. Whatever spin our politicians put on it, and it is only right and proper that they congratulated him on his victory, this is not good news for Ireland. Our economy is dependent on direct foreign investment. Our lower corporate tax rates were attractive to the big multi-nationals and we have profited greatly both in jobs and tax revenue. Trump has promised to lower the corporation tax in America in an attempt to force companies to keep all their jobs in their own country. This will not only hit Ireland but Europe as well. He has also promised to put huge tariffs on imports which could start a tit-or-tat war with the rest of the world who supply goods to the States. Apart from that he has also vowed to deport illegal immigrants as soon as the gets into office. This is also bad news for the thousands of undocumented Irish, some of whom have been working over there for decades. Maybe he will be talked out of the most excessive of his wish list but he does not take advice too kindly and will surround himself with yes men who are loyal to him and will do his bidding. It is no surprise that one of the first to congratulate him was Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli war monger who has committed many war crime against both Palestinians and Lebanese citizens. They have been allies for many years and it is obvious that Israel will now have free rein to continue their massacres. Putin must also be rubbing his hands in delight knowing that Trump has promised to stop supporting Ukraine. This is just a sample of what he has up his sleeve and we can only wait and see what unfolds. One question that has come out of the election is: how did the pollsters get it so wrong? They said it would be close but most of them had Harris ahead in five of the swing states. How could they be so far off? Maybe they are not asking the right people. I know a man who used to do work for a company doing polls when he was in college. He told me that, on a day when the weather was bad, he would fill up the form himself ! Whatever is wrong it is obvious that pollsters continually get it wrong so what is the point? Our own election is now set for Nov 29th and no doubt we will have polls and experts telling us what the outcome will be. Take no notice of them. The answer is in your own hands. It is your vote that will decide who enters the Dail and, by not voting, you are giving that choice to someone else. Forget about parties and political spin, vote for the person you think will do you and your community the most good. Candidates will promise you anything and everything in exchange for your vote. Fine Gael are guilty of this already offering to permanently reduce the VAT rate for the hospitality industry to 11%. They have been in government for years and they had an opportunity to alter the VAT rate in the budget a few weeks ago so why did they not do it then? Don’t worry, the other parties will come up with their own appetisers to grab our attention. It is an insult to people’s intelligence that they think we will be so easily hoodwinked. Election promises are not worth the paper they are not written on so take no notice of them. By this time we have a fair idea of what they all stand for and we know what their track record is. It is up to everyone to make their decision as to who forms the next government. I have a feeling that it will be very close between the three bigger parties, the Greens will get a backlash from those affected by their measures and Independents will take more seats throughout the country. I could be totally wrong, we shall wait and see.
The Fair of Athea was on last Saturday and while the day was fine and there was a good crowd around there was little in the way of livestock to be seen. If it wasn’t for the traders with the stalls the place would be half empty. I often wonder how they all make a living, going from fair to fair and other gatherings in different venues. There was so much stuff on display that had to be put up and taken down again at the end of the day. I suppose there were bargains to be had for the keen buyer but there is a lot of competition with online shopping being very popular. One man said to me: “if you have your eye on something, wait until the end of the day and you will get it cheaper.” It reminded me of a time when I was in America, many years ago with a man from Kilbaha called Frank Thornton. Frank, God be good to him, was a policeman and a flute player. We were in a market and I saw a flute on a stall. I enquired about it and the man on the stall asked me to try it out. When I blew into it I knew it was a good flute so I asked how much he wanted for it. “$120” he said at a time when that was worth a lot more than today. I was about to make an offer when Frank told me to keep my powder dry. When we left he told me that we would come back first thing in the morning and get it at a much better price. The man, he told me, was a Jew and they had a belief that if they lost the first sale in the morning thy would have bad luck for the day. The morning came and we were waiting for your man to open up. Frank bid him $40 for the flute and, after much haggling, we got it for $60. Frank was a great organiser for Comhaltas in America and I stayed with him on numerous occasions
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Abstract
I examine Ireland's experiment with birthright citizenship between 1999 and 2004. Critics argue that birthright citizenship may induce higher migrant fertility and threaten national identity. I find that migrants arriving during birthright citizenship had lower fertility rates than those arriving before the policy was implemented and after it was revoked. These migrants were better educated and more likely to be employed, suggesting that birthright citizenship made Ireland a more attractive destination for high-skill migrants. I find evidence that non-UK migrants already in Ireland before 1999 increased fertility in response to birthright citizenship, though their fertility was still below that of natives.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20221025
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Deaths during 1847
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Church Records
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Townlands Kerry
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MIGRANTS: By Silas Isenjia
Nairobi, 02 October, 2024 / 8:02 pm (ACI Africa).
Catholic Bishops in Kenya are urging the government as well as international stakeholders to support initiatives seeking to address the “root causes of displacement”.
In a September 29 statement on the occasion of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR), the leadership of the Commission for Promoting Integral Human Development (Refugees, Migrants, and Seafarers Department) of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) advocates for compassion and “just responses to the plight of migrants and refugees”.
“We appeal to the government and all stakeholders to continue supporting initiatives addressing the root causes of displacement and also initiatives towards ensuring migrants and refugees are protected by domestic law guided by international best practices,” the Chairman of the Department of Refugees, Migrants, and Seafarers, Bishop Henry Juma Odonya, says.
Vulnerable groups, including women, children, the elderly, and people living with disabilities must be protected under the law, Bishop Odonya adds.
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IMAGINATION is the ability to form mental images and concepts that don’t exist or haven’t happened yet, think outside of current realities, and form connections between existing ideas to create something new and original.
If the number of movie sequels and the outsized popularity of music made decades ago is any measure, our current age is suffering from a deficit in imagination. And indeed, tests show that creativity, which takes the possibilities generated in the mind and produces something with them, has been in decline for many years now — a phenomenon that has repercussions for our personal edification, professional advancement, and societal flowering.
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EPA- search increase cost of new housing
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GENERAL NEWS.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7485, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
the house of a farmer named ?enis was entered by a party of men, to take his gun. said he would not let them to take it. and would prevent it the risk of his life. They then called daughter, and when the girl , appearance they cut the hair, reason is that she spoke to the police and gave information, Costello is a Bogranger for Lord Listowel -------------------------------
horse, the properly of a man who had paid his rent, was stabbed. The carcases of six bullocks recently • • from Mr. Fitzgerald, landowner ? Island, county Kerry, have been discovered in outhouses belonging to tanners Dunn and Lane. (Print damager see paper for more)
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Abortion Pill; Miller, 41, and Thurman, 28, both died from infection due to complications after taking the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol.
The left-leaning outlet ProPublica reported earlier this month that Georgia’s laws protecting unborn life starting at six weeks caused medical providers to delay giving Thurman the care necessary to save her life. In Miller’s case ProPublica said she chose to not even visit a medical provider “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.”
Several doctors, experts, and lawmakers, however, have debunked that claim by pointing out that Georgia law explicitly allows exceptions for abortion in cases in which the mother’s life is in danger. This means that Miller and Thurman could have legally been given the care they needed promptly.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259527/pro-life-group-launches-ad-debunking-false-claim-that-georgia-abortion-law-killed-women
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 12:00
This week, Dr. Ciarán Reilly, author and historian of 19th and 20th century Irish history at Maynooth University tells the story of 'remittances' - the money sent home by emigrants so their family could too make the emigrant voyage. The National Museum of Ireland estimates that $19 million dollars was sent back to Ireland between 1845 and 1854, much of it in the form of prepaid tickets.
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Date: 5th April 2022
M. Michael Corcoran's Photograph Albums Launch
The latest Digital Library collection, M. Michael Corcoran’s Photographic Albums, was launched at a research showcase and seminar entitled “Archives of Women Religious in Ireland: the Present and the Future”. The in-person and online hybrid event featured presentations on the significance of women religious archives from the perspectives of both archivists and research scholars. A recurring theme was the importance of digitising these archives to facilitate wider access and how crucial collaborative projects between religious archives and research institutes like UCD are.
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Foran Shanahan
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Fr. Philip Danaher was born and raised in St. Louis. He joined the Society of the Divine Word (Divine Word Missionaries) in 1975. After working two years with the Divine Word Missionaries in Japan (1976 – 1978), he returned to the United States and made his first profession of vows with the Society in 1979. He then attended Catholic Theological Union in Chicago from 1979 to 1983 and was ordained on December 10, 1983. He returned to Japan and, after two years of language studies, was associate pastor at a parish in Tokyo. In 1989, Father returned to the United States and was assigned to hospital ministry in Pittsburgh until 1992. From 1992 – 1996 he was associate pastor at St. Ferdinand Parish in Chicago. In 1996 he joined the Joliet Diocese where he served as associate pastor at St. Philip the Apostle, followed by service at St. Raphael Parish in Naperville from 1998 to 2002, also as associate pastor. Fr. Danaher was pastor of Christ the Servant Parish in Woodridge from June 2002 until January 2011 when he was named pastor of St. Philip the Apostle Addison. Fr. Danaher became the 5th Pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle in Naperville in June 2017.
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Kevin Danaher was born in New Jersey, on July 11, 1950.[2][3]
Danaher is from an Irish Catholic family and is the youngest of three children. His father, who was a bus driver, had immigrated from Ireland. He had an interest in politics and had been a messenger for the Irish Republican Army. In a 2003 article for Sfgate by Tom Abate, Danaher said that the stories he heard from his father about the IRA made him what he is today.
He graduated from high school in 1968, at which time he was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, but purposefully failed his physical in order to avoid being deployed. He then worked as a truck driver and bricklayer, as well as spending nights as a bass guitarist for a band (The Everlovin) that primarily played in strip clubs and topless bars. Eventually moving West, he met a woman in Los Gatos, California, where he settled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Danaher_(activist)
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Jeremiah O'Carroll
Jeremiah O'Carroll (1858 - Abt 1925) Jeremiah was a school teacher at Knockanure school in Moyvane, Co. Kerry. Events. Birth: 1858: Marriage: Abt 1889: Mary Gorman: Death: Abt 1925: Families. Spouse: Mary Gorman (1866 - 1947) Child: Catherine (Katie) O'Carroll (1890 - 1981) Child: Daniel O'Carroll (1893 –
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Jeremiah "Chris" O'Carroll
Birth6 Jan 1954 - Moyvane, Kerry, Ireland
Death3 May 2012 - Our, ladies, hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland
Mother Jane Mulvihill
Father Jeremiah O'Carroll
Born in Moyvane, Kerry, Ireland on 6 Jan 1954 to Jeremiah O'Carroll and Jane Mulvihill. Jeremiah "Chris" O'Carroll passed away on 3 May 2012 in Our, ladies, hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland.
Jeremiah O'Carroll1907 – 1970- Jane Mulvihill 1911 – 2002
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Mary O’Carroll with the address Knockanure Village Moyvane, County Kerry sadly passed away on 04/02/2021. On 06/04/2022 it was decided that a grant of probate be issued.
This means it’s likely a valid will was in place and an executor was appointed before death. The executors named are: Marguerite Gavin, John Gavin.
The declaration above was made by the Probate Office, Tralee, County Kerry some 426 days from the date of death.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1935-1936 - 0618.pdf
THE ADVOCATE SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1936
Rev. Jeremiah Buckley, P.P., Lixnaw, died at Tralee yesterday after a brief illness. Father Buckley was for many years President of the Jeffers Institute, Tralee, whence he was transferred to Castleisland as curate. Later he was made P.P. of Kilgarvan, and subsequently of Lixnaw.
Mrs. Julia O'Connor, Killarney, was appointed district nurse of Kenmare. P. McAuliffe, Listowel, was appointed clerk of works at Listowel Hospital.
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John O'Connor, Doon West, was at Ballybunion fined £10 for removing gravel from within the prescribed area at the foreshore.
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During the past few months a new road has been under construction, giving connection with Armagh and Lyre roads. Much employment has been given as well as the advantages derived by the farmers of the district.
The death has just taken place of P. Wallace, Ballyguiltenane, Glin.
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Centenarians are usually heard of at their demise, but Denis Lane, of Knockane, Abbeyfeale, in his 101st year, is still hale and hearty, carrying his century-odd with the virility of a man of 70. Almost since his boyhood he has walked to early Mass at Abbeyfeale regularly on Sunday mornings, winter and summer, scorning the burden of an overcoat on his hillside Journey of a mile each way.
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Sir Michael Keane, Governor of Assam (India), was among the hundred volunteer workers, including several priests, who fought in vain to save the Cathedral at Shillong, which w a s destroyed by fire. Sir Michael is an Irishman.
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The operation on his eyes having proved completely successful, Mr. De Valera will leave Zurich for home next week .
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Snow fell in Tipperary last night over a fairly wide area, and there were snow and hailstones in Enniskillen. S n o w also fell in Downpatrick and district. The Mourne Mountains were covered with it.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 1124.pdf
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934
Contingents of I. R. A. and Fianna Eireann Scouts, in uniform, from Listowel, Abbeyfeale and surrounding districts, paraded at Duagh (North Kerry) to honour the memory of Jerh Lyons, Christy Broder, Bob Walsh, Jack Sheehy, Jerh. O'Brien and Jack Nelihan, who were killed by Crown
forces. They marched from the village to the local cemetery, where the Rosary was recited and the Last Post sounded. D. Quille, Listowel, delivered the oration. J. J. Sheehy, Duagh, presided.
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San Francisco has lost one of its oldest and most popular priests in Rev. M. Kennelly, born in Newtownsandes, North Kerry, about 79 years ago.
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On the Sports Field, Foynes, last Sunday, Glin and Newtown Rangers met in the county senior football final, Glin being the winners by 1 goal 4 points to 1 goal for Newtown
Rangers.
The death of Michael Stackpoole, Ballyguiltenane, has occasioned deep regret. The deceased was in his early twenties and was a great favourite with all who knew him.
Miss Ellie O'Connell, daughter of W. P. O'Connell of Mountcollins, arrived home from New York, U. S. A., after an absence of seven years.
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Mr. Kenny, at Listowel, dismissed a case in which Wm. Lane, Listowel, charged J. Crowley, V.S., ex-T.D., and his son, Noel Crowley, with assault. A cross case by Mr. Crowley was also dismissed.
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His Lordship, Moat Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, received five young ladies into the Order of the Sisters of Mercy at the Mercy Convent, Ennis, on Monday. The new Sisters were Miss Rita Breene, Lisdeen, Kilkee; Miss Kitty Byrne, Ballyvalley, Killaloe; Miss Mairead Frawley, Kilmihlll; Miss Mary Mc-Mahon, Listowel, County Kerry; Miss Kitty Tubridy, Tulla.
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Mother Agnes Flynn, of the Sisters of Charity, daughter of the late Wm. Flynn, Main street. Abbeyfeale, died at St. Francis Hospital, Topeka, Kansas, U. S. A. Deceased went to Kansas In 1880. She celebrated her golden Jubilee two years ago. Three of her sisters are in the Order in U. S. A.
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The following marriages took place at Tournafulla recently: John Murphy of Cragg, Mountcollins, to Miss Ita Roche of Caherlevoy, Mountcollins; Michael O'Sullivan of Bawnard, Abbeyfeale, to Miss Annie Mulcahy daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Terence Mulcahy, Ballybeg, Brosna, Co. Kerry.
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Killarney U. D. C congratulated Rev. Hugh Flaherty, a native of the town, on his appointment to the Vatican Diplomatic Service. Father Flaherty is taking up duty at Haiti, San Salvador.
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The funeral of Sister Theophane (Buckley) took place to Glasnevin Cemetery. A native of Cahirciveen,
Deceased was 76, and all her religious life was spent in the care of the sick poor.
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Judge David D. Leahy, a veteran journalist of Wichita, Kansas, U. S.A., and who spent some years as a
draper in Wichita, has written an appreciation of the late Sister Agnes Flynn, who recently died in Kansas.
The death occurred at The Kerries ,Tralee, of David Dillane, at the grand old age of 90 years.
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Beacon News NY 18 July 1951
Regretful expressions heard on every hand on the death of Jimmie" Kennelly. Born
here, living here his entire life; educated here, becoming one of the leading and prosperous business men of the city and in the automobile branch of business of the county; a leader in civic affairs and one of the finest fellows Beacon ever raised, it is no wonder that his death cast shadow over the entire community. It has been our privilege to know the Kennelly family for well over half a century, know them to esteem. His brother, Thomas H., was a partner of ours in a newspaper venture here more than 55 years ago, when ''Jimmie” was a boy. Jim’s death takes another prominent man from
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Albany NY Evening Journal 1880 - 0868.PDF
Sept 8 1880
Physicians Register Patrick ? Fennelly born in Ireland.
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Brooklyn NY Standard Union 1918 - 4936.pdf
11 Oct 1918
MORRIS KENNELLY .
Morris Kennelly. born In Ireland s e v e n t y - one years ago, died on Wednesday at his home, 276 Lexington avenue, he is survived by a daughter, Mary; a turn, J a m e s , and a sister, Mrs. Norah Bernon. The funeral will be held to-morrow at 9 A. M., with requiem mass at St, Ambrose's
R. C. Church, DeKalb and Tompkins avenues. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery under direction of P. J. McCann, of 973 DeKalb avenue
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89-14 PARSONS- 1893 - FIFTIETH YEAR OF COMMUNITY SERVICE - 1943 y
The Wave Rockaway Beach NY APRIL 29, 1943
Rockaway Beach NY Wave Of Long Island 1943-1944 - 0144.pdf
The chapel of St. Rose of (Lima Church Was crowded with parishioners and friends last Tuesday
evening who came to honor the Rev. James Galvin on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination
into the priesthood, Unknown to Father Galvin, the parishioners, had planned to observe the event with a reception which he was not aware
Speakers at the reception were the Rev. John F . Stack, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church and the
Rev. Father Curley, curate of St. Camillus Church. On behalf of the parishioners and friends of Father
Galvin, Joseph Sweeney presented him with a purse. Father Galvin acknowledged this gift in a brief
address in which he thanked the donors.
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Advocate SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1946
FATHER GALVIN'S COMM
Rev. Donald M. O'Callaghan, speaking a t the Father Galvin Committee meeting, Thursday last, was eloquent in praise of the Irish Missionaries, and especially those t h a t are labouring in "The White Man's Grave" in Africa. Ye are not all called, he said, to make such sacrifices as are being made by
these noble priests in Nigeria, where Father Galvin's struggling Mission is located, but we can share in------------------------------
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1946-1948 - 0174.pdf
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VOL. U 9 - N O . 127. PHILADELPHIA, M O N D A Y , NOVEMBER 26, 1888
Philadelphia PA Inquirer 1888 - 2256.pdf
...that the wedding- should take place at the house of Father Galvin, in Corona. The house of Mr. Babcock's mother ...
Three months ago Nellie and John were to be married by Father Daly, of St. Angustine's Church, in Jersey City, and at the house of Nellie's father a feast was spread and the guests assembled, with Father Daly in their midst. Ei g h t o'clock was the hour set for the wedding, b u t neither at that hour
nor at any hour subsequent that night w a s anything heard from the expected groom.
A t 11 o'clock the bride divested herself of her white dress,, h a v i n g retired in tears, while the more hard-hearted men made havoc of the feast. N e x t morning a telegram was received from Babcock, saying: Nellie—Very sorry couldn't come." Important business. See you soon. JOHN.
Two weeks later Mr. Babcock called on Miss Callahan. Mr. Babcock was explanatory; Miss Callahan was cold. After a proper interval of rebukeful chilliness Miss Callahan consented to smile once more on Mr. Babcock and set another day for the wedding. The d a y she set was Thursday, November 22, and s h e agreed at Mr. Babcock's particular request that the wedding- should take place at the house of Father Galvin, in Corona. The house of Mr. Babcock's mother is only a city block distant
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1946-1948 - 0150.pdf
many others are working hard on behalf of the far-flung
Mission of FATHER THOMAS GALVIN, which will hasten the return of the Irish Sisters to the work which was suspended when their Convent was destroyed by a tropical hurricane. It is
to assist FATHER GALVIN in the building of this convent, as well as other essential centres in his Nigerian Mission, that a representative committee of Irish and Irish-American friends
of the Irish Missions in Africa are staging the Testimonial and Dance which will be held at Star O'Munster Hall in the Bronx on Saturday evening,
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28 Sept 1935 ?
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1935-1936 - 0352.pdf
A N o r t h K e r r y Family Q u a r r e l
Two further witnesses—a sister of the dead man and an employee of the accused—were examined when the hearing was resumed, at Tralee on Saturday, of the charge against Stephen Galvin, Lixnaw, of murdering his brother-in-law, James Lyons, at Gortacloghane, on the night of June 30 or morning of July 1. Ellen Lyons, having given evidence of searching for her missing brother throughout the morning of July 1. Edward Hickey, a farm servant, stated that on the night of June 30 he was at a dance, returning about 12:30 a.m., old time. --------------------------------------------
When I told Mr. Galvin later that I had seen a man outside the wire paling, he said: "It must be Lyons, and he must not have been able to go in. Isn't It surprising that his wife is not coming for him?" Mr. Macaulay, solicitor, Listowel, gave evidence of a will of the late Father Galvin, brother of the accused, and of the widow of the deceased, which, he said, was being contested by the accused.
Under the will, Father Galvin made Lyons's wife his sole executor. After making some small bequests to his niece, Maureen O'Connor, and three others, he bequeathed the remainder of his property to Mrs. Lyons. ------------------Dr. R. O'Connor, Tarbert,
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11 March 1965
Rockaway Beach NY Wave Of Long Island 1965 - 0088.pdf
Rev. James Galvin, Superior of the Columban Fathers Mission House in San Diego, California, died in San Diego, on March 3, following a brief illness.
He was assistant pastor of St.Rose of Lima Church in Rockaway Beach from 1920 to 1946. At that time, he left for San Diego and the Columbian Fathers Mission House. He assumed the duties of Superior in 1952.
Father Galvin was a familiar sight to residents of the Rockaways during the years he was here as he took his daily stroll along the boardwalk with his dog, "Rory." Born In County Cork, Ireland,
71 years ago, Father Galvin studied philosophy in Paris, France, he was ordained and for the
priesthood at Maynooth Seminary, in Ireland, in 1918 and later served a year with a mission in
China.
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April 16 1921
Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1921 Grayscale - 3444.pdf
The following officers of the Maynooth .Alumni Association of America, composed of 400 priests, were elected at t h e Annual reunion at the Hotel Astor, April 6: President, Rev. Daniel Lavery D,D., St. Louis; vice president, Rec –Timothy J Shanley New York treasurer, Rev. Denis Duggan, Red
Bank, N. J . ; Secretary, Rev. John Stack, Rockaway Beach.
After t h e meeting the annual banquet was held. Dr. Lavery was toastmaster ' and addresses were- delivered by Right Rev. Mons, Dunn, Right Rev. Monsignor. Livingston, Right Rev Mons. Chadwick and. Rev. Patrick J. Barry of Brooklyn.
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Patrick Griffin
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume], May 31, 1939, Page ELEVEN, Image 11
About The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946
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The commoner. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, August 05, 1910, Image 11
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PARK SLOPE — It wasn’t all corned beef, step dancing, and music at the 42nd Great Irish Fair held Sept. 16th on the campus of Holy Name Parish in Park Slope.
Organizers of the fair boast that it’s about keeping alive Irish culture and tradition. So, this year, they added two educational events, lest they forget.
After its usual opening Mass, awards celebration, and music had begun, two seminars were held in Shepherd Hall to recall the work of a Cuban immigrant with Irish immigrants and commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that is helping put an end to internal strife in Ireland.
Father Christopher Heanue, director of the diocesan outreach to the Irish, presented a video and talk about the life of Father Felix Varela, an exiled Cuban scholar, among Irish immigrants in New York City in the mid-19th century.
Father Heanue explained that Father Varela’s life was one that identified with the alienated and downtrodden. “He lived an exemplary life and fought for the rights of those who had no one else to speak for them,” he said.
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Older than Egypt's pyramids: The history and mystery of ancient Irish burial tombs - Irish Star
Read and re-read this article as it is fascinating and with your background in architecture you would be deeply interested in.
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/nostalgia/older-egypts-pyramids-history-mystery-30217343
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 1361.pdf
...will be present to show their appreciation of a gallant Kerryman and soldier. t* « RICHARD J. STACK Pres. Kerrymen's Ass ...
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 0657.pdf
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https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1930-1931 - 1056.pdf
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Miss May Stack, Beale, Ballybunion was united recently in the holy bonds of matrimony with Michael Carmody, of Cuss, Newtownsandes
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Ellen O'Riordan
Sun Jun 20 2021 - 18:13
In the early morning of June 3rd, 1944, Maureen Flavin (21) dispatched a weather report from Blacksod, Co Mayo, that would change the course of the second World War.
The barometer at the remote weather station showed pressure was dropping rapidly, indicating a major Atlantic storm was due to arrive and blow right across western Europe. Based on Ms Flavin’s readings, US general Dwight D Eisenhower postponed the D-Day landing by 24 hours.
On Saturday, the 98-year-old, now Maureen Flavin Sweeney, was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for her part in the war. Her role was recognised at a ceremony held at Tí Aire nursing home in Belmullet, Co Mayo, where she now lives.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/us-honour-for-98-year-old-woman-whose-mayo-weather-report-changed-d-day-landing-1.4598678
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It's no secret that the tragedy of the Great Famine (1845-52) had a profound and devastating effect on Irish society. A natural part of any Irish family history journey leads to wondering about what an ancestor bore witness to during this period. Such was the trauma to the Irish psyche, few survivors spoke of it. So how do we go about piecing their story together for the next generation?
We know from census data that in the space of 10 years (1841–51) many parishes along the Wild Atlantic Way lost more than half their population. Hidden by this big data are the personal stories of devastation that each community experienced. However, a lot of the famine is inaccessible at local level for those just getting into Irish history or genealogy.
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https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1919-1921 - 1239.pdf
Oct 1st 1921?
For saving the lives of 20 persons in danger of drowning at Limerick baths, the name of M Clancy, attendant, was ordered by the Corporation to be brought before the Carnegie Hero Fund, and the Royal Humane Society.
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Rev. J. Madden, a priest of the Diocese of Limerick. died in San Diego, Calif., whither he had gone to recouperate.
Rev J Hayes C.C Limerick, brother of Rev M Hayes, C C Newcastlewest, and Dr. R Hayes, T D., has left for Cobh, en route for China. He attended the late T Keane executed in the New Barricks, Limerick, and was and ardent Gaelic Leaguer.
Tralee Harbor Board voted condolence to the relatives of the late M J Kelliher, late chairman of the board.
Glinn D. C. voted sympathy to Mr. Doone. M. C C, on the death of his aunt. Miss M. Fitzgerald.
Kate Flynn of Churchtown, Newcastlewest, was found drowned at Robertstown.
Funeral of M Fuery RDC and Listowel Guardians and once a famous athelete, was very large.
Knockanure IFU Newtownsandes, Kerry, voted sympathy with the relatives of the late Jeremiah O Connor, Gortdromagowna.
Since the advent of Republical police on night duty in Rath Luirc formerly Charleville, a check has been put to roberries, which were prevalent in the district.
Glin Cattle Fair very poor; Bonhams from £3-10s to £4-10s; Price of eggs in Glin 2s a doz. Potatoes 1s-6d a stone; Bacon ½ per pound; butter1/6 per pound.
Said to be 12,000 ex servicemen in Cork.
Advertisment; JEREMIAH D. BUCKLEY, successor to Denis Buckley undertaker,, 547 Tenth Avenue.
Member of the Kerrymans, P&B Association and Regina Coeli Council; No 423 K &C.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1919-1921 - 1240.pdf
October 1 1921
Information wanted of Petnr Houlihan , who left Tralee , County Kerry,
Ireland, about fifty years ago. Add r e s s J o h n P . Bradley, 1204 E v e r g r e e n
Avenue Bronx, New York City
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1919-1921 - 0214.pdf
Yesterday I received a postal card from Frank Moran, who is out at Toledo. Here's what Frank says
Toledo, June 11.
Friend Liam :
Willard looks great. In fact, as good as when fought him. He'll "take " Jack if his Improvement continues in remaining weeks. Will look for you here before fight as promised. Your old friend,
FRANK MORAN
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1935-1936 - 0068.pdf
2 Feb 1935
Feb. 9 at the Roscommon-Tuxedo Ballrooms, Madison avenue, corner
50th street, there will be the scene of a benefit dance for St. Brendan's Church, Leon, Down; this is a yearly event and a real Kerry night, for the pastor, Rev. John O'Connor, is a native of Kenmare and, if it was not for his friends holding this event the dear Father would often go hungry. You can rest assured of a packed house; it was never anything else; Fr. O'Connor has many friends.
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John Moran. Ballybunion, Kerry. Jan. 19, John, husband of Nora (nee McAuliffe), father of Mary T.,
William, Francis and James; brother of Mrs. Nellie Dippold, Mrs. Mary Walsh, Margaret, Patrick and Michael ; native of Ballybunion, County Kerry, Ireland. Late residence 227 St., St Annes Ave, Bronx.
A high equiem Mass at St. Luke's R. C. Church, Interment at St. Raymond's
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D. J. O'Connor, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Jan. 23, at his residence, 209 West 97th street, Daniel J., husband of Mary B. O'Connor (nee Larkin); native of Listowel, County Kerry; father of Mary, Neil, Theresa, and
brother of Mrs. T. Barrett; brother of Rev. P. J. O'Connor. Requiem Mass Church of Holy Name, 96th
street and Amsterdam avenue, Saturady, Jan. 26. Interment St. Raymond's Cemetery.
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Margaret Cotter Sullivan, Kerry. Suddenly on Jan. 24, Margaret (nee Cotter), native of Mein Knocknagoshel, County Kerry; wife of John J. and mother of Mary and Jeremiah, sister of Helen, Maurice, Jeremiah, John and Mamie. Late residence, 714 Union avenue, Bronx.
A Solemn Requiem Mass was offered for the repose of her soul Monday at the Church of St. Anselm.
Interment Calvary Cemetery.
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BITS OF IRISH HISTORY
(1) What internecine conflicts arose among the Anglo-Irish in 1329?
(2) Did the Irish take any advantage of these English feuds?
(3) What about the rise of the famous Ormond and Desmond families?
(4) How were the territories known as counties palatinate governed?
See paper for much more.
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Thomas Keneally
The Friday Night in Castleisland with Thomas Keneally
Posted on February 28th, 2023
Members of the Castleisland District Heritage (CDH) group and guests before their big event at the River Island Hotel on Friday night. Seated, from left: Johnnie Roche, group chairman; Frank Lewis, event compere; Thomas Keneally, author and Jimmy Deenihan, guest speaker. Back from left: Janet Murphy, project manager with CDH members: John Downey, Maurice O'Connor, John Galvin, Jerry Flynn, Noel Nash, Steve Wilson and Rita McCarthy. ©Photograph: John Reidy
Author and guest speaker, Thomas Keneally signing copies of his books for Aona O'Shea, Killorglin (left) and John Flynn, Castlemaine before his talk on his life and work with Radio Kerry broadcaster, Frank Lewis at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday night. ©Photograph: John Reidy
The faces of Australian author Thomas Keneally during his talk with Radio Kerry broadcaster Frank Lewis at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday night.
Desire and respect are the ingredients of a successful, happy marriage according to Australian author Thomas Keneally, who paid tribute to his wife Judy during a talk given at the River Island Hotel, Castleisland on Friday evening.
By Project Manager Janet Murphy
The couple, who have spent the best part of sixty years together, are enjoying an extended stay in Ireland while Thomas researches for a book with a Cork/Kerry flavour to add to his extensive repertoire.
Graceful Responses
His considerable schedule has included a meeting with President Michael D Higgins, who in 2021 signed into Irish law the posthumous pardon of John Twiss of Castleisland.
Friday evening’s event was presented by Radio Kerry’s Frank Lewis who delivered the imperturbable Thomas Keneally a series of direct questions, including one about the role of his grandfather in the murder of James Donovan of Glenlara. ‘I’ve been asked that question twice before,’ said Thomas, whose good humour helped to dilute uncomfortable questions which he nonetheless responded to with grace.
Giving Away Storylines
His discourse was broad: he spoke of his love for Australia but affinity with Ireland. He shared his knowledge of native plants and admiration of Mungo Man. Irish history, which forms the subject of a number of his books, was covered in many stories not least Young Irelanders Thomas Francis Meagher and John Mitchel. At one point Frank Lewis suggested to Thomas that nobody would read his books if he continued to give away the story-lines. Inevitably, conversation turned to Schindler’s Ark, and the audience learned how its genesis was in the author’s purchase of a leather briefcase.
The Life of The Liberator
Moving on to Spielberg’s treatment of the novel, Jimmy Deenihan, who joined Castleisland District Heritage in welcoming Thomas Keneally to Castleisland, had his own story to tell about the film producer.
Jimmy met Spielberg in Dublin ten years ago, and tried to convince him to make a film about the life of The Liberator, a movie still waiting to happen.
Jimmy, whose speech drew the evening to a close, informed the audience it was almost a decade since he had stood in the same room of the River Island Hotel to launch the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project, and there he stood again, welcoming an internationally acclaimed author to the town, drawn there thanks to the work presented by the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project, now known as Castleisland District Heritage, on its website.
Acknowledgements to Many
Acknowledgement is due to many, including Jimmy Deenihan and Frank Lewis, master of ceremonies, the River Island Hotel for facilitating the occasion, and to all those who attended and supported it.
Many thanks to the voluntary committee of Castleisland District Heritage who gave their time in organisation; to Craggeen Employment Ltd, and Donie and Noreen Ring, Castleisland, ongoing supporters of Castleisland District Heritage.
A word of thanks also to the Treasure Chest, Castleisland, for assistance in preparing a souvenir gift for our distinguished visitors.
Funds raised will help to keep Castleisland District Heritage, which has no other financial support, up and running.
http://www.mainevalleypost.com/2023/02/28/the-friday-night-in-castleisland-with-thomas-keneally/
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWkZdL-6EdFvJCzl6S83eN5zhML2ON6Llguuzi80Xis/edit?pli=1
1905 The O’Dalys of Muinteiravara, Kilcrohane, West Cork, by Dominick Daly, Barrister of The Inner Temple London.
Background, p. 1
1905 History, p.2-41
Probate, Kings Inns Entrym, p. 42
Dalys Distillery, Cork, p. 42-44
West Cork Daly clusters, p. 44
Marriage Licence Bonds, p. 44
TCD admission, p. 46
Daly Cork Magistrates, p. 47
Memorials of Daly Deeds, p. 47
In memory of Vincent Daly, businessman and genealogist of the O’Daly family of Dromnea, Kilcrohane. Vincent spent an enormous amount of time tracking worldwide their descendants and comparing their DNA. He had got back as far as 1740.
In relation to Dominick Daly’s history his legal training made him careful where possible to rely on verifiable and primary documentary sources. A lot of this will come as a surprise to family members. Such as the descent of the O’Dalys from Niall of the Nine Hostages as do quite a number of West Cork families such as the Crowleys, Gallaghers, Hegartys, O’Donnells, O’Neills.
He was descended from James Daly who died in 1776 in Carrigtwohill a trader and landowner and was locally regarded as head of the Sept and claimed ownership of the family tomb in Kilcrohane he in turn was the grandson of Cornelius Cam O’Daly, Chieftain of the Sept in the 17th century. HIs son James established the successful Daly Distillery in Cork about 1820.
He put it himself aptly ‘These fragmentary records and memoirs will not survive my lifetime if I did not make an effort to preserve them for posterity. Hence this production of 50 copies.
New post] 1905 The O’Dalys of Muintiravara, Kilcrohane, West Cork, by Dominick Daly, Barrister of The Inner Temple London.
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By Fr Aedan McGrath (1906-2000)
Composed during his captivity in China between 1950 and 1953.
I have one little friend within this jail,
Who comes each day to visit without fail;
And which he loves — just me, or what I give
I should not like to be too positive.
He flies in through the outer window bare,
And nears my cell with eyes like twinkling stars,
He whispers "Chirrup, Chirrup" from his heart
And promptly do I 'Cheer up' for my part.
His appetite for rice that has been dried,
And which must swell on reaching his inside,
Did quite alarm me when I saw it first,
In dreading that my little friend might burst.
And when there is no rice, not e'en a bit,
I therefore do not move from where I sit.
He tries his best to make his presence felt
With antics that would cause your heart to melt.
He visits other friends along the line,
In case you think the privilege was mine.
But still I think he comes to me the most.
— Without intending to deceive or boast.
0ne day, I know not what gave him a fright
For I could not see anything in sight;
But rushing in, his body all aquake
He perched beside me for protection sake.
I often wonder what he thinks of me,
He must know I'm encaged and not too free.
For he comes very close beside my cell
And yet he feels that everything is well.
I know what shall always think of him
So free, so cheery and so full of vim:
Recalling Jesus and His words about
The birds and Man's solitude and doubt.
‘They do not sow and neither do they reap,
Nor gather into barns a stock to keep;'
And yet they fare so well just to and fro
Without a single care, God loves them so.
Ah ye of little faith: Christ's words were due,
For truly trusting souls are still so few.
Ah here's the bird again, how he trusts me:
‘Dear God, please teach me how to trust in Thee.'
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Open Your Heart, Listen to God
https://wau.org/
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An Angel of Hope. Sr. Ignatia was motivated by an understanding of the dignity of people struggling with addiction. Looking beyond the labels and outward appearance of hopelessness, she once said, “The alcoholic is deserving of sympathy; Christlike charity and intelligent care are needed so that with God’s grace he or she may be given the opportunity to accept a new philosophy of life.”
https://wau.org/archives/article/the_anonymous_angel_of_alcoholics_anonymous/
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Reflection
President Kenyatta, an alumnus of Loreto Convent Valley Road, had announced the government’s approval and support for the construction of a school in a special mass held last year. He also made a donation of Sh10 million for the scholarship programme.
The school will admit its first students from needy homes in May this year. Loreto Eastern Africa Province Leader, Sister Lucy Nderi, said that through the school, they are hoping to curb early marriages, teenage pregnancies and drug abuse.
The Irish Catholic sisters, who laid the foundation for the existing community of sisters, were Dolores Stafford, Raphael Gordon, Borgia O’ Shaughnessy, Catherine Beauvais, Francis Teresa Murphy and Sixtus Naughton.
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/loreto-sisters-celebrate-100-years-of-service-in-kenya-3698902
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The Irish Abroad
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In 1916, a young poet, journalist and patriot called Joe Plunkett was marched to the lonely execution yard of Kilmainham Gaol…
The taste of his new bride, Grace Gifford's, last kiss still on his lips. The lovers had married only hours before, an all too brief humble service in the prison chapel.
The patriotic romance and tragedy was immortalised in the song "Grace" by the Wolfe Tones.
As Plunkett, the youngest signature of the Proclamation faced the firing squad he said:
“I am very happy I am dying for the glory of God and the honour of Ireland". No doubt Grace's dark eyes were the last thing he saw as the bullets flew.
But there was even more darkness to this romantic image. An artist and political activist in her own right, Grace's life as a widow would be marred by loneliness and poverty. Rather unfairly Plunkett had made her promise to never remarry, lest it tarnish her image as a martyr's wife. Also, Grace didn't receive anything from his inheritance for years. Technicalities of the Will being hastily drafted before the wedding, and there being only one witness in the chapel, created a loophole which Plunkett's parents exploited.
The woman who had already suffered and sacrificed so much for her country was forced to endure more. She initially struggled with poverty but eventually carved out a successful life for herself in the arts and politics. She passed away on 13th December 1955, her name still attached to the melancholy mystique of her widow. Yet by the end of her life, she was very much also an artist and activist in her own right.
#theirishabroad #grace #history
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A Seasonal Poem from 1927
Butte Independent, Saturday, June 11, 1927;
CHRISTMAS EVE IN KERRY
“Tis Christmas Eve in Kerry, and the Pooka is at rest
Contented in his stable eating hay;
The crystal snow is gleaming on the mountains of the West,
And a lonesome sea is sobbing far away;
But I know a star is watching o’er the bogland and the stream,
And ‘tis coming, coming, coming o’er the foam;
And ’tis twinkling o’er the prairie with a message and a dream
Of Christmas in my dear old Kerry home.
‘Tis Christmas Eve in Kerry, and the happy mermaids croon
The songs, of youth and hope that never die;
Oh never more on that dear shore for you and me, aroon.
The rapture of that olden lullaby:
But the candle lights are gleaming on a hillside far away.
And peace is in the blue December gloam;
And o’er the sea of memory I hear the pipers play
At Christmas in my dear old Kerry home.
‘Tis Christmas Eve in Kerry, oh I hear the fairies’ lyre
Anear the gates of slumber calling sweet.
Calling softly, calling ever to the land of young desire,
To the pattering of childhood’s happy feet;
But a sleepless sea is throbbing, and the stars are watching’ true
As they journey to the wanderers who roam —
Oh the sea, the stars shall bring me tender memories of you
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MY CHRISTMAS WISH
Oh Lord, when we give this Christmas time,
Do teach us how to share
The gifts that you have given us
With those who need our care,
For the gift of Time is sacred~
The greatest gift of all,
And to share our time with others
Is the answer to your call,
For the Sick, the Old and Lonely
Need a word, a kindly cheer
For every precious minute
Of each day throughout the Year,
So, in this Special Season
Do share Your Time and Love
And your Happy, Holy Christmas
Will be Blessed by Him above
Junior Griffin
Listowel
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Christmas in an Irish house in Kentish Town in the 1960s
Maurice Brick Irish Central December 2021
I was wiping the mud from a 20-foot length of half-inch steel reinforcing bar with a wire brush and cursing the frost from the night before, which made it harder. I had, by then, passed the “barra liobar” (frozen fingers) part and the blood was circulating well despite the freezing cold. Steel is about the coldest thing you can handle in freezing weather.
It just didn’t seem like Christmas at all. I received a card from home the day before and Mam said how they were looking forward to Christmas and going to Dingle for the day with Dad. The lads were fine, she said, and they were wondering why I wasn’t coming home and she told them work was tight in England and maybe I wanted to put a bit of money away. Poor Mam, she always thought the better of me.
Today was payday; at least there was something good about it. Tomorrow, Friday, was Christmas Eve, so we had money for a good booze-up if nothing else for the weekend. There were six of us staying in a boarding house in Kentish Town and since we were all from the other side the mood, to say the least, was somber.
There were two from Donegal and they worked in the tunnels and made tons of money. The work was hard but, I’ll tell you, they were harder. There were three of us from West Kerry and we worked straight construction – buildings, shuttering (concrete formwork) and the like. That was hard work, too, but not as tough as the tunnels with the compressed air. The other fellow was from Clare, a more respectable sort of chap and he worked for British Rail as a porter.
I tried the tunnels myself once. I persuaded one of the Donegal fellows to get me a start and to tell the truth it was the money that enticed me outright. But my venture was a disaster. I started and descended into the tunnel and while there the compressed air hit me like a shot after an hour and my ears screamed with pain.
They were worse again when I entered the decompression chamber and I couldn’t wait to get out. I gained a great deal of respect for the Donegal fellows after that. They both wore a medal-type apparatus around their necks that gave the address of the decompression chamber of their tunnel.
On Christmas Eve, we worked half a day. The foreman was a sly bastard. He was as Irish as we were, but when the “big knobs” from the Contractor’s office appeared on site he affected such a cockney accent that you’d swear he was born as close to “Petticoat Lane” as the hawkers plying their trade there on Sunday.
Anyway, we all chipped in and gave him a pound each for Christmas. This gesture did not emanate from generosity but rather preservation. Our erstwhile foreman could be vindictive and on payday, he would come by and ask for a light and you would hand him the box of matches with a pound note tightly squeezed in there and all would be well with the world. Not a bad day’s take as there were twenty in our gang. But the job paid well and no one complained.
When I got to the house on Christmas Eve, I paid the landlady and took a bath and dressed in my Sunday best. I waited for the others and we all sat down to dinner. It had some meat and lashings of mashed potatoes, “Paddy Food” they called it. It didn’t bother us much for we knew we would have steak in a late-night café after the pubs closed anyway. The six of us were dressed and ready to go at half six and we headed straight for the “Shakespeare” near the Archway.
After a few pints, there we went to the “Nag’s Head” on Holloway Road. However, we encountered a group from Connemara there and rather than wait for the customary confrontation – for some reason there was animosity between those from the Kerry Gaeltacht area and those from Connemara, which was also a Gaelic speaking area in Galway – we decided to forego it on Christmas Eve. But we assured each other that the matter would be taken care of in the very near future. Just as I was leaving one of the Connemara chaps said, “láithreach a mhac” (soon, my son) and I responded, “is fada liom é a mhac” (I can’t wait, my son).
We ended up in the “Sir Walter Scott” in Tollington Park and I barely remember seeing a row of pints lined up on the bar to tide us over the period between “time” called and when we actually had to leave. This period could last an hour depending on the pub governor’s mood.
We ambled, or rather staggered, into the late-night café sometime after midnight and the waitress gave us a knowing glance and said, “Steak and mash Pat, OK” and we all said “yes.” Some of us said it a few times just to make sure we had said it. It was then I thought, Jesus, I never went to Midnight Mass. That bothered me. I had always gone to Midnight Mass, but it was only last year I started drinking and it went completely out of my head.
We had our feed of steak and left and we decided to walk to the “Tube” at Finsbury Park and that would bring us to Kentish Town Station. Somehow, we made it and truthfully I don’t remember a moment on that train.
We arrived home at two and as quietly as possible reached our rooms. One of the Donegal fellows pulled out a bottle of Scotch and passed it around and we just sat on the beds and took turns taking swigs descending deeper and deeper into the realm of the absence of coherence of any sort.
I remember thinking again about missing Midnight Mass and I must have voiced my disgust a number of times to the annoyance of the others and one of them asked me to “shut the hell up.” I approached him and hit him right between the eyes and he crumpled to the floor and fell asleep.
The others struggled and lifted me onto the bed and everything just blanked out and I remember awakening on Christmas Day and the fellow I hit was nursing a bruised cheek by the window. I asked him what happened and he said he didn’t know and that he thought he bumped into something in his drunken state. I told him that I thought I hit him and that I was sorry.
He came by my side and sat there and I thought I detected a tear or two in his eyes. He looked at me and said, “You know, this is no friggin’ way to spend a Christmas, is it?” And I said, “You’re right” and I shook his hand for I thought he was a better man than I.
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A Christmas Poem from an Emigrant
KNOW SANTA’S ON HIS WAY
GRANDPAW, Will you tell me the story, of how Christmas came to be
About the baby Jesus, the presents, and the tree
Why the stars all seem to sparkle, up yonder in the sky
And why there’s so much laughter, amongst every girl and guy
Can you tell me why the candles, seem to have a beacon light
Will it be like this forever, or is this a special night
Cometo me my little sweetheart, and climb up on my knee
And I’ll tell you the story, just the way ‘twas told to me
It started back many years ago, in a land far, far away
In a little town called Bethlehem, or so the people say
By a manger in a stable, so cold and all forlorn
There on the hay, that December day, Jesus Christ was born
You ask me of the presents, and what meaning they may hold
I guess it’s called affection, should the truth be ever told
They’re little gifts that are bestowed, and we all understand
On that special day we just want to say, God bless the giving hand
Now, I know what you are thinking, by the way you look at me
You want to hear the story, about the Christmas tree
Well, every day in His own way, God sends us from above
Some hurt, some joy, some strength and pain, but He does it all with love
He gave us gifts like mountains, the deserts, and the sea
And mankind enhanced this beauty in the form of a tree
My little girl with golden curl, about the candle glow
Should we get lost, by day or night, as on through life we go
When we’re in doubt, as we sometimes are, as on and on we roam
It’s the twinkling stars and candlelight, that will lead us safely home
Well, now I believe I’ve come to the end, I have no more to say
So go to sleep my sweetheart
I KNOW SANTA’S ON HIS WAY!
By Richard Moriarty of
Ballydonogue, Lisselton
and San Diego, California
Christmas 2022
https://listowelconnection.com/
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New Home, Same Traditions Celebrated at 41st Great Irish Fair
September 26, 2022- By Ed Wilkinson
Bishop Robert Brennan made an unscheduled visit, biking to the fairgrounds from his residence in Clinton Hill. (Photo: Ed Wilkinson)
WINDSOR TERRACE — Faith, Family, and Catholic Education were the themes at the 41st annual Great Irish Fair at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Brooklyn.
From the homilist at the opening Mass to the acceptance speeches of the honorees, all the talk was about families’ sacrifices and the value of attending a Catholic school, as trademarks of the Irish.
Msgr. Sean Ogle, the main celebrant and homilist at Mass, recalled how hard his father worked to raise his family and how he insisted on preserving the Irish traditions at home.
“Irish food, Irish music, Irish friends — these made up the matrix of our lives growing up,” said Msgr. Ogle, the diocese’s vicar for clergy and consecrated life. “We were very much connected to a network of people who shared many of the same values we did.”
“The thing he was most proud of was that he had never missed Sunday Mass in his life. I was a little surprised,” he added. “I knew he always went to Mass, but I didn’t realize what a point of honor it was for him.
“It was only after he died that I found out about his participation in the Nocturnal Adoration Society. For a man who worked double night and day shifts and couldn’t get much sleep anyway with three children running around the house, I never knew the additional sacrifices he was making for his faith and prayer life.”
That’s typical of the Irish, said Msgr. Ogle. They “were forged in the matrix of values that we celebrate today, values that were embodied by my parents and your parents and grandparents and forebears. Yesterday’s Irish built a new world from the ruins of famine and oppression. Today their descendants and their friends are rebuilding a society that has been physically attacked and in some ways is morally bankrupt.”
After a long run at different sites in Coney Island, Brooklyn’s Great Irish Fair was held Sept. 24 on the parish grounds of Holy Name. Two large yards and the parish’s baseball field became an outdoor concert venue, a vendors’ market, and a children’s play area.
Originally fair organizers hoped to use Prospect Park, but red tape caused delays, so they decided to use nearby Holy Name.
“We have all these properties, why not use them,” said Marty Cottingham, director of the Fair.
Following breakfast and Mass in Holy Name Church, the fair honored some outstanding members of the community in a ceremony in Shepherd’s Hall.
Reagan Grace Murphy, who reigned as Colleen Queen, spoke about how her late father, Joe, enrolled her in the O’Malley School of Irish Dance just a few weeks after her birth. She lauded her mother Patricia’s efforts to raise her in the Catholic faith and for sending her to Good Shepherd School, Marine Park, and St. Edmund’s H.S., Sheepshead Bay, where she is a junior.
She also thanked her co-honoree, Maureen O’Malley, for passing on Irish traditions through the O’Malley School of Dance.
Holy Name native Msgr. John Vesey was presented with the Father Mychal Judge Memorial Award, even though he was reluctant to accept it.
“I told them that I didn’t need an award,” Msgr. Vesey said, but Cottingham and committee member Jim O’Dea persuaded him to accept it in honor of the contributions of his mother and father to their family and community.
Msgr. Vesey, who serves at Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish, Jamaica, explained that he works with today’s migrants who, like the Irish, came to America simply wanting to work and provide for their families.
Local community personality Jim “Hooley” Houlihan became the first person to be honored posthumously as Chief Brehon, the fair’s highest award. Houlihan, co-owner of Farrell’s, a legendary neighborhood bar and grill, died one week before the fair at the age of 83.
Hooley’s longtime friend, Mike Coyne, accepted the award. He said Houlihan was totally dedicated to his job, his neighborhood, and his church. He added that he was “untiring in his efforts to raise money for local projects.”
Msgr. Vesey recalled Houlihan as “a gentle, humble and generous man. He was a unifier in the neighborhood.”
At about 7:30 in the evening, before the Canny Brothers took the stage as the final act, Bishop Robert Brennan made an unscheduled visit, biking to the fairgrounds from his residence in Clinton Hill. He circulated among the crowd, thanking people for attending and organizers for their efforts.
“He was so gracious,” Cottingham said. “We walked him around the fairgrounds, and people were overjoyed to see him and to realize that he had made time for us. He told the crowd that he intends to join us next year and spend even more time with us.”
During the afternoon entertainment, a symbolic check for $30,000 was presented to Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, the diocese’s vicar for development.
The funds will be used for assistance to St. Joseph the Worker School at Holy Name, as a scholarship in memory of the late firefighter Thomas Phelan to St. Michael Catholic Academy, Sunset Park, and for the Futures in Education “Be An Angel” program.
Early entertainers included popular Irish singers, Susan and Gerard, as well as the Screaming Orphans, an all-female rock group. Also featured in the program was the Buckley School of Irish Dance.
Rounding out the afternoon and evening were The Hambones, the Canny Brothers, and the O’Malley School of Dance.
Despite the late decision to use Holy Name’s grounds, Cottingham declared the Fair a success, explaining that more than 1,000 people passed through the gates. He said the decrease in overhead would mean that another check would be made available to Futures in Education before the end of the year.
Cottingham hinted that the Great Irish Fair just may have found a new home.
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The national Catholic newspaper, the New Zealand Tablet, was founded by Bishop Moran in 1873. It has continued to tell the Catholic story in New Zealand for the last 138 years. It also kept us up to date wite News for back home. Here's a little about Listowel.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 11 April 1890, Page 9
Kerry.— Edward Sheehy, pig-buyer, of Rock street, Tralee, died from the effects of a beating given him by the police when in the Tralee Barracks. The deceased stated to his father, previous to his death, that the police drove blood through his mouth, nose, and ears. This is a most brutal case, but being peelers and patriots, of course Balfour will not punish the perpetrators. During the investigation at W. Mahoney's public-house, Rock street, the father of deceased deposed as follows: My son told me at his bedside three or four nights before his death that Head-Constable McNamee and Constable Kennedy, Listowel, were his murderers, assisted by other police that he didn't know, and added that they drove blood out of his mouth, nose, and ears. Deceased told him that this occurred in the day-room of the barracks when he went to go bail for a man named Jeremiah Callaghan. He told him that he got three strokes on the temple from Constable Kennedy. Coroner— When he made that statement was he aware that he would not recover? Witness- No, he always thought he would recover. Coroner— Well, that is not evidence unless he thought he was dying. Witness— One policeman put his head in through the door and said, "He has enough now give him no more." The Coroner said this was not evidence When did he make the statement? Witness— Three days before he died. He knew he was dying at the time he said this.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 53, 18 April 1890, Page 9
Judge Curran, at the Tralee Sessions, recently sent a woman named Anne Pierse to penal servitude for five years for stealing two pence from Bridget Brien in Listowel. At same time John Moriarty and Patrick Shea were charged with stealing £13 from John Scanlan. The former was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and the latter to five years'.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 7, 20 November 1891, Page 9
Kerry.— The death is announcad of Rev. J. L. Heffernon of South Melbourne from congestion of the lungs, brought on by a severe cold. The deceased was born in Ballylongford and received his early education at a classical school in Listowel, afterwards entered All Hallows College, Dublin, where, for six successive years, he carried off the first prize in his class. He was ordained in 1878 and was offered a professorship in All Hallows, but he declined, preferring to join the Australian mission. At college his career was a most distinguished one, and his masters freely admitted that he was the most brilliant student that ever passed through the college. In 1878 he arrived in Melbourne and was for some years attached to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 49, 6 April 1894, Page 9
The following recently appeared in the Kerry Post.
A young man named Lynch, a native of Listowel, is reported to have very cleverly effected his escape from Cork gaol a few days ago. Lynch was arrested on a charge of desertion from the Munster Fusiliers, and was temporarily detained in the gaol pending the arrival of a military escort. While the warder was inspecting Lynch's cell the latter slipped out, and almost got out to the corridor when the warder sprung upon him. Lynch, then getting the better of his gaoler, pushed him back into the cell, and having in the twinkling of an eye shut the door, quickly turned the key, and thus locked the warder securely in the cell. By the means of a pass key, Lynch gained the open air, free. He then made for Listowel, where, however, he was again apprehended and conveyed to Dublin under a military escort from his regiment.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 52, 24 April 1896, Page 6
FIRE AT LISTOWEL.— The steam mills, with large stores and other offices connected therewith, at Listowel, owned by J. P. Enright, were burned to the ground.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 17, 21 August 1896, Page 17
The news of the death of Jeremiah Enright, which took place at Nightcaps on the 14th inst, was received with general regret in this district. The deceased, who was a comparatively young man, was born (writes an occasional correspondent) at Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, and came to this Colony about twenty years ago. He resided for the last twelve or thirteen years in the Wrey's Bush district, where he was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. He complained of a cold about ten days before his death, and, notwithstanding all that medical skill and careful nursing could do, he succumbed to his illness on the 14th of August. His funeral was one of the largest seen in the district. He was buried in the Wrey's Bush cemetery. The Very Rev. Father Walsh officiated at the grave.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 50, 9 April 1897, Page 15
THE LATE REV. FATHER O'CONNOR.
(From our Christchurch correspondent.)
Very great and widespread regret is felt at the demise of the Rev. Father Daniel O'Connor, who died somewhat unexpectedly at his late residence at Rangiora at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, 31st ult. The rev gentleman, who was parish priest of Rangiora, had not been in robust health for some time. Yet no serious results of his indisposition were anticipated until he visited Wellington in the early part of the year in order to consult Dr. Cahill, who informed Father O'Connor that his malady was a hopeless consumption. In accordance with the doctor's advice Father O'Connor abandoned his projected visit to Napier and returned home. He became rapidly worse and succumbed to the desease. He was going about on Tuesday last and apparently fairly well. On the night of the same day he retired at eight o'clock but became restless and unable to sleep. Father Tubman, Miss Kellier and the Rev. Mother and the Sisters of St. Joseph were with him to the end. Father O'Connor, who was approaching forty years of age, was born in l858 at Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. He studied at St. John's College in Waterford, and was ordained priest on the 18th of June, 1882. Immediately after his ordination he came to Christchurch, under Archbishop Redwood, who appointed him to Greyniouth. Thence he came to Port Lyttleton, where he remained several years. For the administration of that parish he received warm praise from Archbishop Redwood. Ten years ago Father O'Connor was appointed parish priest of Rangiora, where he has done most excellent work. He was always most generous in supplementing from his own pocket the funds for the maintenance of the schools, and in every way sought to promote the cause of education. The whole parish is left absolutely free of debt. During his residence in the Rangiora and Kaiapoi districts he has endeared himself to all classes of people. His house and all that it contained was open to every one. As an instance of the warm affection of his people for him, some of the ladies of the parish waited upon him a few days before his death in order to present him with a purse of sovereigns wherewith to meet the extra expenses of his illness. This thoughtful action made a deep impression upon the dying priest, and he was most anxious to acknowledge the gift through the newspapers. This he did not live to do.
THE FUNERAL.
On Friday last the funeral of the late Father O'Connor took place at Rangiora. On the forenoon of that day the remains, encased in a handsome polished coffin, were conveyed from the presbytery to the church, and a large number of the Rev. Father's parishioners and the townspeople visited the church to take a last look at his features. The sanctuary of the church and the high and side altars were draped in black, and the coffin was placed on a dais in front of the altar railing. At 10 am a procession, headed by the cross-bearers and acolytes, started from the presbytery to the church. In the procession were the Right Rev. Dr. Grimes. Canon O'Donnell. Fathers Bowers, Chervier, Marnane, Tubman, Malone, Aubrey. Foley. Ginaty, Tracy, Quirk and Melu. On arriving at the church the office for the dead was chanted in the presence of a large congregation assembled from all parts of the district. When this part of the service was concluded, a Solemn Requiem Mass wasa said. Father Chervier being the celebrant. Father Marnane, deacon; Father Quirk, sub-deacon; Fathers O'Donnell and Malone, Cantors; Father Bowers, master of ceremonies and Father Aubrey, organist. After the Mass Bishop Grimes delivered an eloquent address from St. John, chaper ii., and the 11th and succeeding verses. He said, referring to the deceased, that it was not necessary, nor would it be seemly, for him to add much to the obituary notices which had appeared in the public press. He remarked upon the late Father's devotion during his time of illness and the extraordinary grace which availed him during his last moments. He referred also in grateful terms to those who had devoted themselves to caring for him during his last illness and also to the kindness of the parishioners who had only a few days before his death gave tangible proof of their sympathy for him The Bishop then gave the last absolutions, which concludcd the service in the church. The funeral profession was then formed, the children of St. Joseph's School, with draped banners, being in the front. The coffin, was borne from the church by Messrs. M. Linskey. E. Anderson, T. McGrath and Thomas Power. The interment at the cemetery in Rangiora took place in the presence of a large concourse of people, a great proportion of whom had not found room in the church. The ceremony at the grave was conducted by the Bishop and concluded at one o'clock. Numerous wreaths were sent by friends and public organisations. Among others who sent these floral tributes of sympathy were Mr. and Mrs. Shorland, the Rangiora Athletic Association. Mr. and Mrs. M Scott. Miss K. McDonnell (Ashburton) Mr. and Mrs. B. Flynn, Miss Foley, Mr. and Mrs. T. Ross and family. Misses Lizzie and Annie Lynskey. Miss Hums and Miss Doherty (Christchurch) Telegrams expressing regret at the rev. Fathers death came from all parts of the Colony, including one from Bishop Verdon (Dunedin), Bishop Lenihan (Auckland) and the Very Rev. Father Devoy (Wellington). The sad news of the death reached Bishop Grimes when on a visit to Mount Cook, and he travelled night and day to be present at the funeral. Among those present were the Mayor of Rangiora (Mr. C. I. Jennings), the Rev. F. P. Fendall, Messrs. H. C. Bailey, W. Buss, D. R Good, G Cone, J. Sansom, A. Parsons, H Flynn, B. Blackett, A. C. Clarkson, T. Roebuck, T. Green, of the Kaiapoi pah M. Duncan and Messrs. McNamara, Gaffrey, W. Heyward and Barrett, of Christchurch.— R.I.P.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume 04, Issue 6, 4 June 1897, Page 16
The Rangiora Standard has the following. The following was received by a private letter at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Ireland, when a cable message was received there of the death of the Very Rev. Father O'Connor, at Rangiora, N.Z., this church presented a most mournful appearance on the 3rd of April, when Requiem Mass was celebrated, and thirty-five priests with their bishop, were present. Also at Listowel, a Requiem Mass was held at the church in which the late lamented priest said his first mass. This indeed was the most impressive, as all the relatives of the deceased priest were present.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, 24 December 1897, Page 9
Bartholomew Dowling, the writer of "Life's Wreck," was born at Listowel. County Kerry, about the year 1822. While still a child his parents emigrated to Canada, where his father died. Later the mother and children returned and settled in County Limerick, He wrote several poems for the Nation after its foundation. In 1848 he proceeded to California, where, after spending some time as a miner, he lived on a farm at Crucita Valley. In 1858 he was appointed editor of the San Francisco Monitor. In 1863 he met with an accident while driving, and soon afterwards died from its effects in St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco. Dowling's best, and best known poem is probably "The Irish brigade at Fontenoy."
New Zealand Tablet , Issue 41, 11 February 1898, Page 9
KERRY— A Klondyke Millionaire-— Mr Patrick Galvin, one of Klondyke's millionaires, has arrived in Listowel, whence he emigrated over twenty years ago to America, and where he experienced varying fortunes until he struck for Klondyke, where he became immensely rich. He refused £200,000 for some land he owns there and sold one of his claims for £20,000 before starting for Ireland. His account of the journey from the new gold country is most interesting. Mr Galvin, who was accompanied by his wife, travelled by the Dalton trail and had to tramp 374 miles, and Mrs Gaivin had to walk 150 miles during the journey. When starting from Klondyke they had eleven pack horses, and at the journey's end they had but four. The provision's too, ran scarce, and they had to subsist on flour and water for a considerable time.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 16, 26 August 1898, Page 9
Deaths Amongst the Clergy.— Death has been particularly busy among the priests of Kerry latterly. Following closely on the demise of Canon O'Sullivan, of Dingle the Very Rev. T. Sullivan, Administrator of Tralee the Rev. J. Fuller of Castlegregory the Very Rev. J. Quille, of Bonane the Rev. J. Kielik. of Ballyferriter, comes that of the Rev. Michael Godley, pastor of Glenbeigh. The deceased was 55 years of age, and was about 28 years on the mission. He was a native of Ballyheigue, and received his education in the Irish College, Rome, where he had a very distinguished career. He has been stationed at Lixnaw, Listowel, Ballybunnion, and Dingle. From the latter parish he was transferred about 12 months ago to the pastoral charge of Glenbeigh, in the room of the late Rev. T. Quilter.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 7, 16 February 1899, Page 9
Death of a Kerry Man.— The death occurred recently at Lynn, Massachusets, of Mr. Thomas O'Connor, in the 73th year of his age. Mr. O'Connor, who was born at Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland, was the brother of Very Rev. Dr. O'Connor, Missionary Apostolic, and of the late Dr. Morgan O'Connor, Knight of St. Sylvester, Wagga Wagga, Australia. A brother and sister survive him Mr. James F. O'Connor, Lynn, and Mrs. M. Gertrude O'Connor, Presentation Convent, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.
New Zealand Tablet , Issue 43, 26 October 1899, Page 9
KERRY.— Death of a Venerable Nun.— The death of Sister Mary Gertrude O'Connor (known for upwards of a generation as Mother Gertrude), of the Presentation Convent, Listowel, is an event deserving of more than local or ordinary notice (says the Daily Nation.) For nearly 51 years this truly excellent lady occupied a prominent and honoured place in the religious life of her native county. Entering the Listowel Convent on the 15th of August, 1849, her religious life may be said to have synchronised with the life of that distinguished branch of the great Presentation Community, and the remarkable growth of that Convent, both in usefulness as a educational institution and in size, is in no small measure due to her influence and labours. Mother Gertrude was born in Tralee about 76 years ago. Her father held a commission in the British Army, served with distinction under Moore and Wellington, and the hero of Corunna is said to have died in his arms. The Very Rev. John O'Connor. D.D., who, for many years occupied a prominent place in the clerical life of his native diocese, and was one of the organisers of that brave band of Irishmen who went to the assistance of Pope Pius the Ninth in the early stage of his struggle with the infidel makers of modern Italy, and who, led by his fiery missionary zeal went abroad while yet a young curate, where he died some years ago, was a brother of Mother Gertrude. Another distinguished brother was Dr. Morgan O'Connor who died universally respected and regretted a few years ago in Wagga, New South Wales.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 7 December 1899, Page 18
OBITUARY.
MR, JOHN MULVIHILL, KUMARA.
An old and respected resident of Kumara passed away on Saturday week, in the person of Mr. John Mulvihill. The deceased (reports the local Times) was a native of Listowel, Country Kerry. Ireland, and was 67 years of age He arrived in Victoria in 1854, and worked as a miner on the Woolshed, Ovens district, Victoria, and was one of the first pioneers of the Otago goldfield. He arrived in Hokitika early in 1864. The deceased was amongst those who established the Hibernian Society in Kumara. Mr. Mulvihill took an active part in local affairs, and was for a number of years member of the Borough Council and the Hospital Board. The deceased leaves a wife and grown up family, a son and daughter, to mourn their loss.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 11, 4 April 1901, Page 10
A correspondent of Mr. T. P. O'Connor's weekly writes as follows regarding the present Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South Africa. Let me set you right about Lord Kitchener's natal spot, regarding which I happen to know a good deal, having myself been born within a couple of miles of it. He was born at Gunsborough Cottage, which was lent to his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchener, by the father of the well-known ci-devant Irish M. P., Mr. Peirce Mahony, of Kilmorna. Gunsborough is within three miles of Listowel, the capital of North Kerry. He was baptised at the little Protestant Church hard by now in ruins, I believe by the late Rev. Robert Sandes, a representative of the family of which the late Mr. George Sandes, of Grenville, Listowel, was a well known member. The Kitcheners subsequently went to live at Crotto House, which Colonel Kitchener afterwards sold to Mr. Thomas Beale Brown, a near relative of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. The true history of the whole vexed question of the connection of the Kitchener family with Kerry was told during the late Soudan campaign in the columns of the Irish Times by Major Kiggell, of Cahnra, Glin, County Limerick, whose son, Major Lancelot Kiggell, is now on Lord Kitchener's staff.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 30, 25 July 1901, Page 9
Religious Profession. At the Presentation Convent, Listowel, on May 14, Miss Mary Donnelly made her vows and became a professed member of the Order. The young nun is a daughter of Mr. Eugene Donnelly, of Dublin. Her name in religion is Sister Mary Anthony. The ceremonies, which were carried out with great solemnity, were conducted by the Very Rev. T. Canon Davis, P.P., V.F., assisted by the Rev. Father M'Carthy. C.C and Rev. Father Byrne, C.C. A number of the relatives and friends of the Sister were present.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 47, 21 November 1901, Page 5
The Rev. Father James P. O'Connor, a young priest, who is to labor in the diocese, arrived in Christchurch from Ireland via Sydney by the Monowai on Friday. He celebrated early Mass on Sunday, and at Vespers preached an impressive sermon in the Pro- Cathedral on the 'Holy name of Jesus.' Father O'Connor, who is a native of Listowel, County Kerry, was educated at Carlow College, and, together with the Rev. Father McGuinness, who accompanied him to New Zealand, and who is destined for the Auckland diocese, and others, was ordained in June last by the Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. As fellow passengers in the Omrah to Australia were ten priests for various dioceses in the Commonwealth.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 6 February 1902, Page 9
KERRY.— Death of a Religious.
The death is reported of Rev Brother George, O F M. who passed away in the early part of December at the Franciscan Convent, Killarney. Brother George, who was a son of Mr. John Buckley, Listowel, was born in 1833, and entered the Order at Killarney 30 years ago, where he remained, except for a few years spent in Manchester, London, and Glasgow.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 26, 26 June 1902, Page 9
KERRY. A Nonagenarian.
The death is announced of Mrs. Maurice Leonard, which occurred recently at Liselton, at the ripe old age of 90 years. The deceased, who was much respected in the district, leaves a large family to mourn their loss. Some of her sons are in this Colony, one being resident in the Temuka district. Her funeral was one of the largest seen in the district for years. Mrs Leonard was a consistent and practical Catholic, and she died fortified by the rites of the Church.
Death of a Priest.
Much regret will he felt by Kerry priests and Kerry men all over the world at the death of the Very Rev. Father Timothy Crowley, lately president of St Michael's College, Listowel. Father Crowley was a native of Kilsarken, and received his earlier education at St. Brendan's Seminary, Killarney. Going thence to Maynooth, he had a distinguished career, and was made on his ordination president of the Kerry Diocesan Seminary. Subsequently he made a tour in America collecting for the O'Connell Memorial Church, and on his return was appointed to the presidency of St. Michael's College, Listowel. Failing health overtook him, and he passed away in his 54th year, to the great regret of his confreres in the diocese, who deplore the loss of so able a colleague.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 33, 14 August 1902, Page 9
KERRY.— Death of a Priest.
A painful impression was created throughout North Kerry by the sudden and wholly unexpected death of the Rev. Matthew Dillon, who for the past fifteen years has been in charge of the Newtown parish, which extends to within a few miles of Listowel.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 45, 5 November 1903, Page 31
The Sydney Freeman's Journal learns with regret of the death of the Rev. John Brosnan, Professor of St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, Manly, which occurred at the residence of his parents, near Listowel, County Kerry, on September 17. Father Brosnan had for several years developed a wasting malady, for which he in vain sought relief in various sanatoria of New South Wales. A few months ago, feeling the end approaching, he left for Ireland on sick leave, and however grieved, his many friends are not surprised to learn that he survived the voyage but a short time. Father Brosnan had a very brilliant course at Carlow College, where he was ordained. He also graduated M A in the Royal University, Dublin. On his arrival in Sydney 11 years ago he was appointed Professor of Church History at St. Patrick's College, Manly, a position which he held while his health permitted.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 48, 1 December 1904, Page 31
The Rev. J. H. O'Connell (Carlton) received a cable the other day informing, him of the death of his sister, a member of the Presentation Order, Listowel, Ireland. Sister Brendan died at the convent on the 5th ult.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1905, Page 3
An Irish Missionary
The missionaries in Shanghai are mostly of French nationality, a few countrymen of the saintly martyr of Molokai, and one worthy son of St. Patrick. The Rev. F. M. Kennelly, S.J., was born about forty years ago at Listowel, North Kerry, and belongs to a highly respected family still represented there. One of his brothers is parish priest at Clunes, Victoria. (Father Kennelly of Clunes is a personal friend of the editor of the N.Z. Tablet). Two members of the family are Sisters of Mercy in Sacramento, Cal., and two brothers reside in New York. Father Kennelly, like the saintly Brendan of Clonfert, was early imbued with the missionary spirit. He came to China in 1885, and has not seen the land of his birth since. He was ordained a priest in 1890 and had been engaged for six years teaching in Shanghai. The field of his missionary activity is immense and also extends to visiting men-o-war, hospitals, prisons, police stations, and the many other arduous duties of a priest, which are known only to himself and Almighty God. From his busy life, however, he snatches moments to contribute articles to the local press and the New York Messenger. His name is on every tongue from Hong Kong to Chefoo, and many a poor, hard-up sailor he has befriended. Being an eminent lingiuist, speaking French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and several Chinese dialects he still is proud of the Gaelic tongue of his beloved Eire, which he regards as an invaluable auxiliary in the acquisition of languages. Father Kennelly is rather difficult to catch, but if you happen to be occasionally lucky you are introduced to a plain room with a bare floor, a crucifix on the wall, a picture of our Lady, a portrait of the Pope, a few books on a shelf, a secretaire, and the only other chair in the room is offered you with a hearty cead mile failte. Though a little beyond the prime of life and a few silvery hairs discernible, the intellect and vigor of the Gael is at once apparent in the ample forehead, the firm lips and chin, the hearty hand shake, the natural smile, the twinkling, kindly eye, the sympathetic expressions of the priestly heart, and the magnetic versatility polished by culture and the touches of that rich accent alone peculiar to those born under the shadows of the hills that inspired vigor and eloquence in The Liberator. Father Kennelly intends shortly to publish, probably in the New York Messenger, an interesting history of the Catholic missions in China, which promises to be a literary as well as a historical treat.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 9
KERRY— Death of a Priest.
At Glenflesk, Co. Kerry, on November 15, Rev. Maurice O'Flaherty, P.P., died in his 61st year, for 18 years of which period he was pastor of the district in which he ended his days. Father O'Flaherty was a native of Listowel, and was educated at Louvain. By his kindly nature he endeared himself to all classes.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 25 January 1906, Page 9
KERRY— Death of a Religious.
In the cemetery attached to the Presentation Convent, Listowel, on December 2, the remains of Sister Mary John, who had spent forty-six years in religion were laid to rest. Deceased lady was a daughter of the late Mr. John Grant, Listowel, and a grand-daughter of the late Mr. Maurice Dalton, who was one of the first Catholics appointed to the magistracy after the relaxation of the penal laws.
New Zealand Tablet , 8 November 1906, Page 27
Death of a Listowel Man.
The death recently occurred at his residence killerin House, Listowel, of Mr. Maurice O'Halloran. Deceased, who had attained his 53rd year, was a member of an old local, family, and his loss is deplored by a large circle of friends and relatives.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 18 July 1907, Page 27
KERRY— A Venerable Religious.
Rev. Mother Austin, of the Presentation Convent of the Holy Cross, Listowel, who has just died, was 84 years of age, and had been a nun for fifty-seven years.
New Zealand Tablet , 27 August 1908, Page 23
MISSING FRIENDS
REIDY, Martin, native of Listowel, County Kerry left home many years ago, last heard of in Australia, heard of recently as being in South Island, New Zealand most anxiously sought. for by his father.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 855
Otahuhu
An old and highly respected resident of this district (writes an Otahuhu correspondent) passed away recently in the person of Mr. John Mulvihill, at the age of 94 years. Deceased, who was a native of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, arrived in New Zealand nearly half a century ago, and settled almost immediately in Otahuhu, where he has since resided. He has always been noted as a fervent and zealous Catholic, and his generosity in church matters was unsurpassed. He died fortified with the rites of the Church.— R.l.P.
Old Limerick Paper
Limerick Chronicle, 13 July 1786, We are assured by a gentleman just returned from Philadelphia, that the United States are scrupulously watchful in preventing Night Houses ; and as some Irish emigrants have commenced that dangerous establishment there, an edict has been published, subjecting all housekeepers embarking in that business to the severest penalties that Congress can inflict. For say the American legislators, youth is thereby initiated into all the mysteries of profligate vice ; servants pillage their masters, and the unthinking masters themselves too often bring bankruptcies on their families by frequenting these houses of infernal notoriety! — What a salutary example to this country where these dwellings are become so numerous?
The Limerick Chronicle, 22 September 1802;The Public are hereby required to take Notice that I will not pay any Debts my wife Catherine Grace shall henceforth contract, as she and I do not cohabit. Patrick's-Well, near Loughgur, September 22, 1802,Thomas Davorn; The Limerick Chronicle, 2 August 1800; A few days ago, died in the island of Guernsey, William Spiers, Esq; Captain in the Loyal Limerick Regiment of Fencible Infantry, Amongst the Bequests he left 200l. to the Light Company which he commanded; FAMINE Records Listowel area, Capt JM Horne, chairman, stating that the committee had been buying 10 to 25 tons of Indian meal each week, but have only been able to purchase 5 tons the previous week. Enquires if the government can supply the deficit from the depot at Tarbert. Richard Harnett, secretary, enclosing certified subscription lists and requesting a soup boiler. Thomas Carmody, Medical Hall Listowel, wanted instructions on the use of rice. Document Date: 25 Nov 1846
www.irishstatutebook.ie/1932/en/act/pub/0007/print.html (EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 1932. The 1932 Eucharistic Congress was the largest and most complex public event organised to-date in Ireland. The Irish Free State even went as far as passing legislation empowering the various authorities to carry out their duties in preparation for the event. Note the specific ban on the sale of alcohol. The primary reason for this was not one of religious or moral conviction but the very real fear that drunkenness and serious fights between brawling rival factions could break out, as was common for other large religious gatherings during the 19th century).
Fr Kennelly of Woodford Listowel in China
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1905, Page 3
An Irish Missionary
The missionaries in Shanghai are mostly of French nationality, a few countrymen of the saintly martyr of Molokai, and one worthy son of St. Patrick. The Rev. F. M. Kennelly, S.J., was born about forty years ago at Listowel, North Kerry, and belongs to a highly respected family still represented there. One of his brothers is parish priest at Clunes, Victoria. (Father Kennelly of Clunes is a personal friend of the editor of the N.Z. Tablet). Two members of the family are Sisters of Mercy in Sacramento, Cal., and two brothers reside in New York. Father Kennelly, like the saintly Brendan of Clonfert, was early imbued with the missionary spirit. He came to China in 1885, and has not seen the land of his birth since. He was ordained a priest in 1890 and had been engaged for six years teaching in Shanghai. The field of his missionary activity is immense and also extends to visiting men-o-war, hospitals, prisons, police stations, and the many other arduous duties of a priest, which are known only to himself and Almighty God. From his busy life, however, he snatches moments to contribute articles to the local press and the New York Messenger. His name is on every tongue from Hong Kong to Chefoo, and many a poor, hard-up sailor he has befriended. Being an eminent lingiuist, speaking French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and several Chinese dialects he still is proud of the Gaelic tongue of his beloved Eire, which he regards as an invaluable auxiliary in the acquisition of languages. Father Kennelly is rather difficult to catch, but if you happen to be occasionally lucky you are introduced to a plain room with a bare floor, a crucifix on the wall, a picture of our Lady, a portrait of the Pope, a few books on a shelf, a secretaire, and the only other chair in the room is offered you with a hearty cead mile failte. Though a little beyond the prime of life and a few silvery hairs discernible, the intellect and vigor of the Gael is at once apparent in the ample forehead, the firm lips and chin, the hearty hand shake, the natural smile, the twinkling, kindly eye, the sympathetic expressions of the priestly heart, and the magnetic versatility polished by culture and the touches of that rich accent alone peculiar to those born under the shadows of the hills that inspired vigor and eloquence in The Liberator. Father Kennelly intends shortly to publish, probably in the New York Messenger, an interesting history of the Catholic missions in China, which promises to be a literary as well as a historical treat.
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2022;
Records show Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official residence spent more than $12,000 on groceries, dining, a chef and boutique goods in one single month last year.
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The Man from Clare who started Australia’s Biggest Gold Rush
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By Martin Gleeson
Patrick (Paddy) Hannan was born at Gorteen, near Quin, County Clare in April 1840, the son of John Hannan and Bridget Lynch. It is thought that he attended school in Kilmurry. He grew up during the bleak Famine days in Clare and many of his family emigrated to Australia from 1852 onwards.
Bust of Paddy Hannan in Ennis Library
Paddy sailed to Australia when he was 22, arriving in Melbourne at the end of 1862 aboard the Henry Fernie from Liverpool. He was the first of six brothers and six sisters to leave Ireland. He joined his uncle William Lynch who was mining at Ballarat, Victoria, and for a while he worked in the goldmines. During those heady days of gold prospecting, Paddy became determined to discover gold for himself.
https://tintean.org.au/2022/08/10/the-man-from-clare-who-started-australias-biggest-gold-rush/
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its formation. The initial work in Irish ethnography was
undertaken in rural areas of County Clare in the early 1930's
and published in two books by the American anthropologists,
Conrad Arensberg and Solon Kimball. 20 The picture of peasant
families that one gets from these volumes has at first glance
little to distinguish it from other descriptions of agrarian
small landholders anywhere in Europe. The people of rural
County Clare are devout Catholics and, at the same time,
deep believers in various "pagan11 spirits and myths which
lend a supernatural significance to any unusual event.21
The work and recreation of male and female adults is rigidly
separated by custom with a division of labor agreed to by
both parties:
Each feels a right to expect good work from the other,
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Listowel Connection
Martin, Michael and John Sheehy were the three of the five Sheehy brothers who emigrated to the U.S. They all did well in their adopted homes but their hearts never left Listowel. Martin and Michael came back more often than John and I met both men more than once. Yet John Sheehy is the Sheehy I knew best,
If it were not for John Sheehy there would be no Listowel Connection. He encouraged me and defended me against trolls when we didn’t even know what they were. We were on Boards.ie back then. I checked just now (In truth about an hour ago) to see if the Listowel Thread was still there. It is and if you have an hour or two to spare and you love Listowel I’d highly recommend it
I’m now going to perform an act laced with the sweetest irony. I’m going to post a link to the Listowel thread on Boards.ie When I started my blog I used to post a link to it on Boards. The administrator threw me off because I was driving traffic away from Boards. So here I go driving traffic back to Boards. All is forgiven.
Listowel
Most of the photos are gone and some of the links are broken. Many of the contributors, including all three Sheehys and my own husband, Jim, have passed away. May they rest in peace.
We all had pen names on Boards. John Sheehy was Sandhill Road.
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Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival.
The 2022 edition is organised by Alliance française Limerick in partnership with the Limerick Civic Trust and will be held as usual on the weekend closest to Bastille Day, the French national day (15-17 July).
This year's edition will begin on Friday 15th July with an open to all two-day Wild geese Conference bringing together some of the best experts on the Wild Geese and Irish migrants in early modern Europe. The first day will take place at Mary Immaculate College and the second day in St. John's Church, John’s Square. The event is free for all
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Schuylerville NY Standard 1898 - 0330.pdf
28 Sept 1898
—Jeremiah Kennelly, Jr. , 17 years of age, received a shook from an electric lamp at Maenner Quartette hall, Albany, Saturday night, which resulted in his death five minutes later. The hall was full of men w h o were singing a n d listening to piano music when t h e accident occurred. He reached the wire, saying he wanted a light for his cigarette, and fell quickly to t h e floor. H e
was carried t o t h e dance hall where he breathed for a few minutes, b u t never regained consciousness.
https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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By Jessica Easthope and Allyson Escobar
QUEENS VILLAGE — Call it the century-long luck of the Irish: Sister Mary Monica, L.S.P., a member of the Little Sisters of the Poor for almost 80 years and a native of Ireland, will turn 100 on Feb. 22.
“It’s like I’m dreaming,” Sister Mary Monica said on Feb. 4, when she celebrated her upcoming birthday with her fellow nuns and with the staff and other residents of Queen of Peace, a senior living center in Queens Village that’s run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
“We are ever grateful to God that He has chosen Sister [Mary Monica] to be one of us, a missionary from Ireland,” said Sister Celine Therese, L.S.P. “She’s led an exemplary life and has been an inspiration to all of us Little Sisters of the Poor, who celebrate the culture of life … Even in her 100 years of life, she has always been very thoughtful, attentive to the needs of one another.”
The celebration in Queens Village started with a Mass in Queen of Peace’s chapel. That was followed by an Irish-themed party, complete with green punch, cake, a bagpiper and Irish dancers. Queen of Peace residents and about 60 Little Sisters of the Poor from across the East Coast joined the festivities. Sister Mary Monica’s little sister Phyllis and her niece surprised her by Skyping from Ireland.
The whole afternoon, Sister Mary Monica, who wears a hearing aid, danced and waved at everyone in her wheelchair.
https://netny.tv/episodes/currents/a-little-sister-of-the-poor-turns-100/
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In 1844, an Irish priest, Father Sylvester Malone, planned the parish’s first church building on Wythe Avenue. Completed in 1847, Saints Peter and Paul Parish’s new church was the third in Kings County, according to parish history records. Meanwhile, the diocese acquired the building, known as the Henry McCaddin Hall, and used part of it as a school until 2002.
By the late 1950s, the old church needed renovations, but a fire sealed its fate, and the parish demolished it. A few years later the congregation was worshiping in a provisional church on South Second Street.
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Octavio Cisneros attended Tuesday’s dedication and shared a special recollection of his best friend, Msgr. Augustin Ruiz, who was the parish’s pastor in the early 1970s.
Bishop Cisneros, a native of Cuba, said he had just been ordained, and Father Ruiz of Spain — not yet a monsignor — befriended him. He said he loved to visit Williamsburg, but sometimes it was scary; more than once he had to dodge bullets as gang members shot at on each other.
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Seneca Village was made up of mostly free Black Americans, but was also a sanctuary for immigrants from Germany and Ireland. Over the years excavations have told the story of what life was like in Seneca Village — a story often skewed by racism.
“This area was labeled as squatters, vagrants, shanty towns, houses that are barely standing up, but as we look at work done by the Central Park Conservancy and New York Historical Society excavations and digs and seeing the foundations of these buildings, it was a stable and thriving community,” said Ranger Ashley.
In the late 1850s the residents of Seneca Village were kicked out so the city could build Central Park. Many were fairly paid for the land they owned.
The rich history of Seneca Village can tell us a lot about the world we live in today.
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Bishop Sweeney
The middle child of three born to the late James and Agnes Sweeney, both immigrants from County Mayo, Ireland, he credited his upbringing to a strong faith-filled family life.
“Any good that I can do is due to them,” said the Bishop in his remarks after the ordination Mass.
He also praised the education he had received at St. Luke’s School, Whitestone; Cathedral Prep, Elmhurst; St. John’s University, Jamaica; and Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington.
He introduced three members of the Cathedra Prep faculty in the congregation, Msgrs. John Maksymowicz, Richard Marchese and Philip Reilly, and his seminary rector, Msgr. John Strynkowski.
https://netny.tv/episodes/currents/from-brooklyn-to-paterson-a-new-bishop/
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by Marian Duggan
Knockmore is looking forward to having a bishop with strong ties to the area celebrate Mass in Church of Christ the King later this year after Fr Kevin Sweeney was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Paterson in New Jersey.
Bishop Kevin Sweeney
Fr Sweeney, a priest in Brooklyn, visits Mayo every year to catch up with his many Irish relatives. His late parents, Agnes Blewitt and Jim Sweeney, hailed from Calladashin in Knockmore and Straide respectively. They met in the United States, settling in New York where they raised a family of three while never losing touch with their relatives at home in Mayo.
https://westernpeople.ie/2020/04/29/new-us-bishop-has-strong-mayo-roots/
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Saint Colmcille (Columba) – Feast Day: 9th June. Saint Colmcille also known as Saint
Columba was born in Garton, Co. Donegal, on 7th December 521 and was of royal
lineage. He studied under Saint Finnian of Moville and Saint Finnian of Clonard. He
founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow and possibly Kells in Ireland before leaving
Ireland. He left Ireland in 563, either for penance or to be a pilgrim for Christ and
settled on Iona off the west coast of Scotland. There he founded a monastery which
has become world famous! From that monastery, missionaries undertook the
conversion of Northumbria in England. Saint Colmcille (Columba) is noted for his
love for people and for all living creatures. He died on 9th June 597.
Saint Colmcille (Columba) is to be distinguished from Saint Columbanus (543 – 615),
another great Irish missionary, who spread the Gospel on mainland Europe around
the same time in France, Germany and Austria before founding his greatest
monastery at Bobbio in the north of Italy. His Feast Day is 23rd November.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1916-1918 - 0054.pdf
Released in 1944, and set in the period between the 1920s to the 1940s, The Fighting Sullivans is a true story about an Irish family in Waterloo, Iowa. The Sullivan parents were blessed with six children — five boys and a girl.
In their service during World War II, the Sullivan boys made military history by serving together on the same ship. That was their deal with the Navy: “If we go, we go together.” This was a band of brothers in truest and noblest sense, and the movie helps us understand how and why this loyalty came to be.
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-fighting-sullivans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=catholic_news_benedict_xvi_was_a_prophet_of_church_s_future_pope_francis_tells_malta_s_jesuits&utm_term=2022-04-14
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https://listowelconnection.com/2022/02/
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, 24 December 1897, Page 9
KERRY— A Klondyke Millionaire-— Mr Patrick Galvin, one of Klondyke's millionaires, has arrived in Listowel, whence he emigrated over twenty years ago to America, and where he experienced varying fortunes until he struck for Klondyke, where he became immensely rich. He refused £200,000 for some land he owns there and sold one of his claims for £20,000 before starting for Ireland. His account of the journey from the new gold country is most interesting. Mr Galvin, who was accompanied by his wife, travelled by the Dalton trail and had to tramp 374 miles, and Mrs Gaivin had to walk 150 miles during the journey. When starting from Klondyke they had eleven pack horses, and at the journey's end they had but four. The provision's too, ran scarce, and they had to subsist on flour and water for a considerable time.
Galvin Listowel Klondyke 1898 | northkerry
https://northkerry.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/galvin-listowel-klondyke-1898/
Aug 26, 2014 - 18 Jan 1898 Morning Bulletin Rockhamption MINING NOTES. story from Queenstown -Patrick Galvin, his wife, and sister have reached here ...
18 Jan 1898 Morning Bulletin Rockhamption
MINING NOTES. story from Queenstown
-Patrick Galvin, his wife, and sister have reached here from Klondyke, having travelled from Now York by the Canard Liner Lucania He is described as the 'Irish Millionaire,' and is possessed of immense wealth He says he declined an offer of £200,000 made to him before Leaving Klondyke for the purchase of some land there, and that be disposed of one of his claims for £20,000 when coming over here to spend the winter with the old people in County Kerry His party travelled by the Dalton trail They started with eleven pack horses and arrived with four Galvin walked 574 miles and his wife 150 miles of the journey Their provisions ran low, and they were compelled to live on flour and water, which he described as being most sustaining and nourishing Speaking of the climate, be said nobody need be afraid of it, for although he had seen a temperature registered of 87° below zero, the climate on the whole is clear and healthy, and the weather from April to June is the finest be ever saw He emigrated to Klondyke four years ago a poor man, and now returns to his native land a rich one He brings a large nugget of gold, which he is exhibiting, for his father in Listowel, County Kerry
MORE: Pat Galvin- Galvin was a one-time town marshal from Helena, Montana who sought fame once he had found his fortune in gold. Galvin spent his gold freely on everyone, and it was said that he was good for two thousand dollars a night in the various Dawson saloons. The free-spending Galvin sunk the profits of his Bonanza claim into a steamboat company which failed miserably. An even heavier millstone around Galvin's neck was his financial manager, who embezzled forty thousand dollars and, when forgiven by Galvin, promptly forged a cheque and set out for South Africa. Upon learning of the defection, Galvin merely said "he was a good fellow."
http://yukonalaska.com/klondike/bystate.html
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Born: November 14th, 1939
Died: October 23rd, 2020
Kevin O’Rourke, who has died aged 80, was a Cavan-born missionary priest, poet and scholar, and a highly regarded translator of the poetry of his adopted home, Korea. By the time of his death last month in Seoul, he was the recipient of numerous literary awards, together with a Korean presidential citation and honorary citizenship of his adopted country.
He arrived there in 1964 as a 24-year-old newly ordained priest of the Missionary Society of St Columban and was quickly enthralled by the culture in which he became immersed and wished to share with others.
“I set out to put out the entire Korean poetry tradition in English,” he told this newspaper’s David McNeill in 2009. In the event, he translated some 2,000 Korean poems, from the 12th century to contemporary times, and came to be regarded as the world’s foremost translator of Korean poetry.
Korea
On arriving in Korea as a young man, his initial impression of the country was that it was a place full of insim, which he translated as meaning “human heart”.
But his attachment to Ireland – and to gaelic football in particular – remained undimmed by a lifetime spent in the Far East. Home for the last time in September 2019, nieces and nephews from around the world gathered for a family celebration to show their love, admiration and respect for him . . . and together watch the Dublin/Kerry football final replay.
“Where Kevin went, there was always fun and laughter,” a niece recalled after his death.
Kevin Laurence O’Rourke was born in Francis Street, Cavan town in November 1939. He was educated in the local De La Salle primary school and St Patrick’s College.
In 1957, he enrolled in Dalgan Park, Co Meath, the home and seminary of the Columbans in Ireland, and was ordained a priest six years later. The Columbans have a strong presence in east Asia and, the year after his ordination, O’Rourke went to South Korea to study the language, later becoming curate at So Yang Ro church in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province.
The linguistic proficiency he achieved was such that friends said it was impossible to detect that he was not, in fact, a native born speaker and writer.
In 1967, he returned to Seoul and began a long association with academe there.
He was awarded an MA by Yonsei University in 1970 and a PhD in Korean literature (the first foreign national to achieve doctoral level in the subject) in 1982. His dissertation was on the influence of English poetry on Korean poetry of the 1920s.
From 1977 to 2005 he was a professor of literature at Kyung Hee University.
Throughout these years, O’Rourke’s stature grew as he translated more and more poetry and prose. Translations included The Dream Goes Home, the poems of Cho Byung-hwa, The Book of Korean Shijo, The Square, a novel by Choi In-hun, Our Twisted Hero, a novel by Yi Mun-yol, and A Thousand Years of Korean Verse (an anthology of classical and modern Korean poetry).
He also published The Book of Korean Poetry, poetry by Silla and Goryeo, Poems of a Wanderer, selected poems of Seo Jeong-ju, and Looking for the Cow, a comprehensive anthology of modern Korean poems.
Awards
For his translation Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon (poems from Goryeo, Joseon and contemporary Korea), he was awarded the 1989 Korean National Literature Prize. In 2017, he received the Daesan Literary Award for his translation of The Book of Korean Poetry: Choson Dynasty.
In 1995, O’Rourke received the East Asia Korea Literature Prize from Cornell University in New York. In 2001, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by NUI Maynooth and in 2005 was made professor emeritus of Kyung Hee.
In 2007, he was made an honorary Korean citizen for his services to the country’s literature. In 2010, the Irish embassy in Seoul named its 800 volume library in honour of O’Rourke.
He could be self-deprecating, saying on one occasion “translation is something I do for fun” when in truth, it was a lifetime’s devotion undertaken with huge commitment and seriousness.
He is remembered by friends for his genial company and full-throated laugh. His weakness, outside of literature and his faith, was golf, a sport he pursued with enthusiasm.
Though renowned for his academic work, O’Rourke remained a fully active and committed member of the Columbans, saying Mass whenever the opportunity offered itself and delivering thoughtful and perceptive homilies.
In his latter years, he lamented at times many of the changes that made Korean society faster and more intricate. “In the 1960s,” he told the Seoul Times, “folks were much easier going even when they had less. And nobody got angry if you parked your car in the wrong place.”
His love of Korea, its people and nature, is evident from In The Blood, a poem from his own volume, The Music of What Happens
If you wonder why Korea is in your blood,
look to the heart, to friends who endure,
to loyalty green as pine and bamboo,
to flowers that have bloomed in the snow.
O’Rourke died in Seoul on October 23rd, 2020 and was laid to rest there. He was predeceased by his parents, Francis and Teresa O’Rourke, and by his brothers Frank and Joe. He is survived by his brother Charlie and by his Columban family in Ireland and Korea.
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Lives Lost to Covid-19: Fr Tom Cunningham – a good listener who had the mind of an engineer
Tyrone priest spent more than a decade in Nigeria after he was ordained in 1955
Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 01:00 Updated: Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 14:32
Ronan McGreevy
Lives Lost: Fr Tom Cunningham from Omagh, Co Tyrone, 1929-2021
Lives Lost: Fr Tom Cunningham from Omagh, Co Tyrone, 1929-2021
This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. You can read more of them here. If you would like a friend or family member included in the series, please email liveslost@irishtimes.com
Fr Tom Cunningham
1929-2021
Fr Tom Cunningham was one of 11 Spiritan priests who died in January 2021, most of them as a result of Covid-19.
His brother Fr Colum Cunningham, also a Spiritan priest, died with the virus last April. In December his sister Sr Breid (Maura Cunningham) died at the age of 99 in Kenya where she was a missionary nun for 73 years.
Fr Tom, as he was known, was born to Isabella (née O’Neill) and Patrick Cunningham of Strathroy, Omagh, Co Tyrone, on May 12th, 1929.
It was a religious family of 12 siblings, 11 who lived to adulthood; four became priests and one a nun. “Now to say you were a religious family is a no-no, it is unfashionable, but they [his five siblings who became clergy] did fantastic work. They considered themselves to be the lucky ones because they had a vocation,” said Fr Tom’s brother Eamonn.
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Having attended CBS Omagh for three years, he moved to Blackrock College in 1945. After his Leaving Certificate in 1947, he entered the then Holy Ghost Novitiate in Kilshane, and was professed the following year.
Ordained in 1955, Fr Tom was appointed to Nigeria. He spent more than a decade in Aba and Osu parishes. During the Biafran civil war, he was part of Caritas International’s team in Säo Tomé that sustained an essential airlift of food and medicine to the starving population of then Biafra. Two of his brothers were in Biafra at the same time.
Gripped by war
He spent the next six years in Chiulo, Angola. Pastorally minded, he was a parish priest with many out-stations in the vast desert area. He did hospital construction for the MMM Sisters, maintaining generators for X-ray machines, operating theatre and post-natal incubation.
He spent two years in Brisbane as a priest and then he moved to Lese Parish in Papua New Guinea, ministering there in a pastoral role for a decade.
After a sabbatical, he was appointed to New Barnet parish (Diocese of Westminster) in 1990. Eschewing an easy life closer to home, he moved back to southern Angola, still gripped by war. This time he assisted a younger group of Irish Spiritans based in Huíla, near Lubango. Technically gifted and skilled in agriculture and construction, he soon had water, light, transport and farm-irrigation running.
In 1998, more than 40 years after he had first gone on overseas mission, he returned to Ireland. He was maintenance manager in Kimmage until September 2003. He served in Ardbraccan (October 2003 - 2006) and then in St Patrick’s Academy in Islandeady, Castlebar, Co Mayo. By now in his early 80s, he joined the Rockwell Community in April 2010.
Eamonn Cunningham says his brother was “quiet and attentive” and a good listener, who was physically active into his 80s, chopping wood in Rockwell and sending it to St Vincent de Paul in Dublin. He had the mind of an engineer and could turn his hand to anything, he says.
“He was never idle and healthy up to the very end, but Covid-19 took him very quickly,” Eamonn says.
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Lives Lost to Covid-19: Fr Leo McGarry – educator and inspiration
‘He was a brilliant teacher and ... is fondly remembered by hundreds of past pupils’
Sat, Mar 13, 2021,
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Fr John Nolan
Born - 1936 Died - 2020
A native of Wexford town, John Nolan was born on March 1st, 1936. His mother died when he was child, leaving two small children. John and his older sister were reared as part of their aunt’s family; their father had to find work in England to support them. When John spoke of his early life, he marvelled at the goodness of his aunt who treated his sister and himself as she did her own children. He remembered a happy childhood and young adult years. John entered Cahermoyle, the Oblate Novitiate in Co Limerick, in 1955...
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Fr John Murphy
Born - 1926 Died - 2020
John Murphy was born on April 1st, 1926 in Termonfeckin, Co Louth – “the cultural capital of the world”, as he himself would say. After his secondary education was completed, he entered the Oblate Novitiate in Cahermoyle, Co Limerick in September 1944. He made his final profession as a missionary oblate of Mary Immaculate at the Oblate Scholasticate, Piltown, Co Kilkenny in 1948, and was ordained a priest there in 1951. After ordination, he was appointed to parish ministry at Corpus Christi parish, Leeds...
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Msgr James Cassin
Born - 1947 Died - 2020
It is perhaps significant that following his death at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, on June 5th, what people immediately recalled about Msgr Jim Cassin was his warm, understated personality rather than what has been accurately described as his “outstanding contribution” to Catholic education in Ireland. This was reflected at his funeral Mass where Bishop of Ossory Dermot Farrell remembered him as “a wonderful person in so many ways. He was a good pianist. He combined a good intellect with great humility and benevolence...
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- Fr James Hurley
Born - 1926 Died - 2020
Fr James Hurley was immensely proud that his birthday was on China’s National Day, October 1st. The Jesuit priest, known to his community as Jimmy but as James to his family, had spent 58 years of his life in Hong Kong before returning to live in Ireland in 2014. “He began working with secondary students in 1962 and became closely involved in the student movement there,” says his nephew Dick Lincoln. He was also a founding member of Amnesty International in Hong Kong...
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The Presbytery, Abbeydorney (066 7135146)
abbeydorney@dioceseofkerry.ie
23rd September 2022, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Dear Parishioner,
The funeral Mass for Fr. Micheál O’Doherty, the oldest
priest in our diocese, at the time of his death last Sunday in St. Joseph’s
Nursing Home in Killorglin, was celebrated in his native parish of Glenbeigh.
(When the news of the death spread, it is possible that some of those who
heard the news, might have concluded that the one who died was the Fr.
Micheál, whose place I took in Abbeydorney Parish in the summer of 2011,
when he retired prematurely because of being affected by Parkinsons
Disease.) When Bishop Ray Browne, main celebrant of the funeral Mass,
said that Fr. Micheál was ordained a priest in 1954, three years before he
himself was born, one got a sense of how long, he had been a priest of Kerry
Diocese. After he spent some years in active retirement, Fr. Micheál, went
to stay in St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Killorglin. May he rest in peace.
It was not my intention to have this front page concerned with priests only
but that is how it has turned out. I think many parishioners would have
known Fr. John O’Donoghue from Boherbee, Tralee, a member of the Mis-
sionaries of Africa. (This missionary society used to be known as the White
Fathers.) After returning from Africa a couple of years ago, Fr. John was in-
volved in promotion and administration work for the society in Ireland. He
was getting ready to return to Africa, when Covid 19 upset his plans. It so
happened that his mother (now deceased) was being cared for in a nursing
home at that time and he spent a good amount of time in Kerry. He was
very happy to give a helping hand anywhere in the diocese and that is how
he came to celebrate Mass both in Abbeydorney and Kilfynn. A few
months ago, Fr. John took up a new appointment in Malawi in West Africa
and you can read a short report about his life since his arrival there.
Fr. Jim O’Connell, is a member of the Mill Hill Fathers – one of four from
Kerry, ordained in St. John’s, Tralee, a week after I was ordained in the same
church. He worked in Kenya for some time, but he has been back in Ireland
for a number of years and has been editor of the Mill Hill Missionary
Magazine – The Advocate – for part of that time. (Fr. Denis O’Mahony)
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I am at peace - for the most part - in my new setting in Malawi. I am part of
a team of four Missionaries of Africa, entrusted with the running of one of
our houses of formation (seminaries): our house caters for young men from
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and potentially from South Africa, who are
doing their initial three years of discernment - preparation for becoming
Missionaries of Africa and either priests or brothers. We have 31 students
this year in our house, and if statistics are in any way reliable, about a quarter
of them will become Missionaries of Africa. I believe that all is not lost in our
efforts with the others as many of our former students play constructive
roles in their societies. A further dimension to our set-up is that we are one
of five missionary groups who have pooled resources to form an institute
for the academic formation of our students.
They each have their own houses where they pass on the traditions of their
missionary group while all of us send our students to the one college for
studies in philosophy, the human sciences, and religious studies. There are
about 128 students in all. I live an almost monastic style of life - up very
early and to bed early. I have a number of responsibilities: library, teaching
a course per semester, caring for the health of the community - this was
demanding over the Christmas period as many in the community developed
Covid – and taking my turn in animating the liturgy. However, the most im-
portant aspect of my life here is my relationship with our students: they
come across as so sophisticated and confident but, beneath that façade,
they carry insecurity and a certain fear. The challenge for me is to be com-
passionate rather than competent.
We live in an oasis of, what I term, comfortable frugality, while immedi-
ately outside our compound people are still subsisting solely on what they
gain from their few acres - farmed with hoes and dependent on the vagar-
ies of the weather. Hopefully our work with our young men will bear fruit
that will contribute towards the political and social - as well as spiritual and
religious - evolution of African societies. I'll end here now as a student is
coming for help with an essay. Keep me in mind, occasionally, when you’re
before the Lord! (Fr. John O’Donoghue)
A Life to Live (Awakening to God’s Abiding Presence) Fr. Jim O’Connell MHM.
The piece on the back of this ‘Dear Parishioner’ is part of the introduction to
a book of reflections by Fr. Jim O’Connell MHM from Scartaglen.
Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel John Byrne osa
1. The scene in the synagogue marks the launch of the public ministry of
Jesus in Luke. Jesus was filled with the Spirit and sent. He came bursting
with a message to communicate. When have you had the experience of
being enthused by something in that way? Who have been the people you
met who had that kind of enthusiasm?
2. His message was addressed to those who were poor, oppressed, blind, or
captives. Who are these today? In what ways have you been, or are you,
among these? How has the message of Jesus been good news for you, freed
you, given you new sight, or revealed God’s favour to you?
3. The message Jesus had was one of liberation and he told his listeners that
it was being fulfilled even as they listened. It is being fulfilled even as we
hear it NOW. If this does not resonate with you right now, when has the
gospel given you an experience of liberation?
4. This is the Sunday of the Word of God, the word that gives life. The
written word of God is not always easy to understand. What has helped you
to be more at home with the Bible so that you could find, there, hope,
encouragement, inspiration, meaning and purpose in life?
Points to Ponder (Both items on this page from Intercom, January 2022.)
‘The Holy Scriptures are our lesson from Home.’ (St. Augustine)
‘Love Sacred Scripture and wisdom will love you; love it tenderly, and it will
protect you; honour it and you will receive its caresses. May it be for you
as your necklaces and your earring’ (Ep. 130, 20 - St. Jerome)
‘A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person and a
good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to be-
come saints.’ (Pope Benedict XV1)
The life of a teacher, as I know from personal experience, is very challenging
and demanding, but it is also profoundly satisfying. It is more than a job, for
it is rooted in our deepest convictions and values. To be intimately
concerned in the development of a young person, of hundreds of young peo-
ple, is a highly responsible task. As teachers, you kindle in your students a
thirst for truth and wisdom. You spark off in them a desire for beauty. You
introduce them to their cultural heritage. You help them to discover the
treasures of other cultures and peoples. What an awesome responsibility
and privilege is yours in the teaching profession. (Saint John Paul 11)
As we rush through life....... (Fr. Jim O’Connell)
On a cold January morning in 2007, a youngish man entered a metro station
in Washington D.C. and stood near the wall inside the station. He was
wearing jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a baseball cap. From a small case,
he carefully removed a violin. Placing the opened case at his feet, he threw
some change into it and began to play. At a metro station, it is not unusual
to find a musician performing but this was a performance with a
difference. The musician played six famous pieces of classical music in a
performance, that lasted around 45 minutes. During the performance, over
one thousand people entered the station, most of them on their way to
work. Only seven people stopped and listened for a short while. Among
them was one person, who recognised the musician and she threw $20 into
the case on the ground in front of him. Twenty six others gave money,
bringing the total in the open case to $32. The musician finished playing and
there was silence. No one noticed and no one applauded. The violinist was
Joshua Bell, ‘one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some
of the most elegant music ever written, on one of the most valuable violins
ever made.’
Two days earlier, he played the same music at a sell-out concert in Boston,
where the tickets cost $100. The Washington Post newspaper had arranged
Joshua Bell’s performance at the metro station. He was playing a violin,
that was handcrafted by Antonio Stradivari in 1713. It had been acquired
by Bell at a cost that was reported to be in the region of $3.5 million. What
happened in Washington that January morning makes one wonder how
much we miss as we rush through life. We are left to ponder the great need
to be more reflective and more in tune with the beauty and mystery around
us. In the busy hectic lives we live, we can miss the pearl of great price, the
treasure hidden in the field of our daily living.
Of course, people have to work and get things done, but it is unfortunate,
when too much haste and too much activity close out the deeper aspects of
life that are revealed in music, poetry, art, creation, friendship and religious
faith. Any or all of these can awaken the heart and help one to engage with
mystery – the mystery of God – but it calls for time and effort on our part.
St. Augustine wrote, ‘What calls for all our efforts in this life is the healing
of the eye of the heart, with which God is to be seen.
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Poetry
A Poem for our Exiles
Shared by the poet on Facebook
AN EXILE’S CHRISTMAS
It was Christmas Eve in London,
And an Irishman, called Joe.
Stood by an upstairs window
That looked on the street below.
He could see the shoppers passing by,
Their voices filled with cheer.
As they shouted Happy Christmas,
And a prosperous new year.
As he looked around the little room,
That for years had been his home.
He was fifty years in London,
Since he crossed the ocean foam.
His youthful days behind him now,
And his working days long gone.
In retirement, his days were spent
On his own, to carry on.
He could hear a church bell ringing,
On the street across the way.
Where mass was celebrated, on
The eve of Christmas day. |
Then a choir started singing and
The strains of silent night,
Came drifting through the window.
Into Joe’s old flat that night.
As he listened to the singing,
He began to shed a tear.
For he always felt emotional,
On Christmas Eve each year.
When old memories came flooding back,
And his thoughts began to stray.
To his childhood days in Ireland,
Long ago and far away.
He could see again the old thatched house,
At the corner of the lane.
Oh what he’d give to be a lad,
and be back there once again.
The candle in the window,
To light a welcome way.
For the virgin and the Christ child,
On the eve of Christmas day.
The holly and the ivy,
and the cards Around the fire.
And his mother’s Christmas cooking,
That would fill you with desire.
The boxes left for Santa Claus,
In the hopes that he would call.
With the toys to play on Christmas day,
The happiest times of all.
As his memories began to fade,
reality Set in.
He was back once more in London,
In his little flat again.
And he drew his coat around him,
as he sat back in his chair.
And for all those in his memories,
he began to say a prayer.
And he asked the Lord, to grant them rest,
In the land beyond the sky.
All the folks he once shared Christmas with,
In the happy years gone by.
Tomorrow at the Centre, he will meet o
His old friend Jack,
an Irishman just like himself.
That never made it back.
They will have their Christmas dinner,
and a glass or two of beer,
As they join their old acquaintances,
And the friends they love so dear.
Everybody has their party piece,
To raise a bit of cheer.
At their Christmas get together.
In the Centre every year.
So to all our Irish exiles,
in lands far off and near
The blessing of this Christmas time
we wish you all this year.
And although we are divided,
by land and sky, and foam,
A very Merry Christmas,
from the Irish Folks at home.
Martin O’Hara © 29/11/2021
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Bishops call for a special parish collection on 6 and 7 November to support Trócaire’s work to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in East Africa
Bishops are asking parishes throughout Ireland to undertake a special Church collection on 6 and 7 November to invite the public to support Trócaire in its work to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in East Africa. Bishops made the request following discussions at their Autumn General Meeting which concluded in Maynooth on Wednesday 6 October.
Bishops noted with deep concern the increase in the number of people worldwide threatened by humanitarian crises, which are driven by the triple threat of the Covid-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change. Bishops expressed particular support for the people of East Africa, where up to 30 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are currently face life-threatening food shortages.
Trócaire, as the overseas development agency of the Bishops’ Conference, is currently addressing this and many other crises worldwide.
Bishops also discussed that in the countries where Trócaire works, less than 5% of the population have been vaccinated for Covid and infection rates are up to 50%. An additional 200 million people have fallen into poverty globally as a result of the Covid crisis. Bishops highlighted that wealthier countries, while protecting their most vulnerable citizens, also have a moral responsibility to ensure that the populations of developing countries have equal, rapid and effective access to Covid vaccine coverage.
For more on Trócaire’s East Africa appeal see www.trocaire.org.
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Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland
August 1992 - Historical Working Paper0039
Author(s) - S. Nicolas & Richard H. Steckel
This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other parts of Europe.
https://www.nber.org/search?page=1&perPage=50&q=ireland
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Irish Poor and Height
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/h0039/h0039.pdf
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Pilot, Volume 21, Number 4, 23 January 1858
OF JEREMIAH DANIEL NOLAN, of Tarmons Hill ? Parish Tarbert, who came to this Country about 2.5 or 3 years ago. Information will be thankfully received by his cousin Joseph Nolan, Company C, 6th Regiment of U. S. Infantry, Fort Laramie, N T.
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30 Dec 1943 Barrier Miner Broken Hill NSW
Victoria Cross For Queenslander
CANBERRA--The award of the Victoria Cross to Private Richard Kelliher for bravery in New Guinea in September was announced by the Governor General (Lord Gowrie) yesterday. Kelliher, who enlisted in Queensland, was born In County Kerry, Ireland. The citation revealed that when Kelliher's platoon was attacking an enemy position at Nadzab it came under heavy fire from a concealed machinegun post. On his own initiative Kelliher dashed forward and hurled two grenades which killed some of the gun crew. Then he returned to his own section. There he seized a Bren gun and again went forward alone and silenced the post. He next went forward alone under heavy rifle fire from another enemy position and rescued his wounded section leader.
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I am Terry, descended from Bryan McMahon b. 1831 or 1837 who came to New Zealand circa 1855, and married Margaret Devane in Australia on Dec 17, 1866. Bryan had brothers Patrick, John and Owen, and daughter Ellena b. Jan 13, 1839 and another daughter. John m. Ellen Tangnay on May 22, 1864. All are believed to have left Co. Kerry (Molahiffe, Mile Height or Ballyseedy areas), some to the USA and some to Australia for the gold rushes. Bryan's father was Thade (Timothy) who m. Margaret Hannafin. He had brothers Jermiah (Darby) who d. April 16, 1857, and who m. Mary Murphy who d. Jan 31, 1878; Terence who m. Johanna Murphy Jul 14, 1839; Owen who m. Catherine O'Sullivan; Denis; Brian who m. Catherine Enright; Charles who m. Ellen O'Sullivan and Daniel. Their father was Terence who m. Margaret Moriarty and he d. Dec 10, 1840. His brothers were John who m. ? Flynn; Owen who m. Nora Stack in 1810; and Timothy who was a half-brother. Their father was Darby (we believe it could have been Dairmaird or Jeremiah) who d. 1778 and who m. firstly M. O'Sullivan the mother of Timothy; darby m. secondly Eleanor O'Mahony who was mother to the other three. Darby had 9 sisters whose details are not known. Darby's father was John McMahon who m. Catherine Moriarty. John's brothers were Brian, Jeremiah, Timothy and Terence. John would have been b. circa 1710. His father was Terence who was b. circa 1680. We believe he was one of four brothers who came to Co. Kerry from Co. Clare, and he settled in Molahiffe. Two of the others are believed to have gone, one to Knockanure (north of Listowel in Co. Kerry) and one to Kilmoiley. A fourth went to Co. Limerick, where one line included the French connection through Jean-Baptiste de MacMahon (John MacMahon) b. 1715. Terence stayed in the Molahiffe area, and his grandson Darby (and probably Terence and his son also) are buried in the ruins of the old Molahiffe abbey near the church at Fieries.
Someone in the area may have better knowledge of the graves and their inscriptions. We would dearly like to hear from anyone with this knowledge. We would also like to hear from anyone with any interest in any of the people mentioned above. Unfortunately the older records in the Molahiffe parish were destroyed by fire, but the family were Catholics, and leased land for potato farming. Terence's G/G/Grandson Jeremiah (Darby) leased land at Bushmount off Daniel C. Coltsman, and Jeremiah himself sublet land to Timothy Cahill. This was in 1853.
Please send all information/inquiries to me at larmac@xtra.co.nz and we can swap information. We believe we came from the Co. Clare MacMahon/McMahon family who descended from the O'Brien Kings from Brian Boru.
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“George tried to liven up politics,” says MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews, who wrote for the first issue of George about the ways in which Congress is like high school. “I personally think you don't have to colorize politics anymore. I think [Kennedy] probably thought the stiff shirts have to be colorized, that they needed to give it some MSG.
“Today we know we've got plenty of that. We're not looking to sexy it up.”
Kate Storey is a Writer-at-Large for Esquire covering culture, politics, and style.
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For two and a half centuries Carlow people have distinguished themselves throughout the world in politics, religion, business, the arts and science and the following is an account of a Nolan who did just that. Source: Nationalist & Leinster Times, April 17th, 1897
DEATH OF A REMARKABLE CARLOW WOMAN - Well known as a Writer, Artist and Dramatic Reader The St. Louis Republic of the 25th March says - yesterday morning at 10 o 'clock Miss Mary Nolan, writer, artist, dramatic reader, chemist and inventor, died, at her home at 1211 Washington avenue, after an illness of 20 years, at the age of 61. Such is the brief history of the passing of one of the best-known women in St. Louis. Miss Nolan was born in Carlow, Ireland, December 5, 1835. She was born in the seat of the Nolan family, for generations past, it being a common saying that everybody in Carlow is a Nolan, from the hangman to the Bishop. Her father, James Nolan, was at that time quite wealthy and Mary grew up amid all advantages for culture. The education of the Nolan children was entrusted to private masters. Financial reverses drove the family to America, when Mary was 10 years old. The four years they resided in New York she attended St. Joseph's College on Sixth Avenue. The family then removed to St. Louis, Mr. & Mrs. Nolan opening a select school at Eighteenth and Morgan streets, in which Mary served as teacher. She was subsequently made principal of the Carr School and was acting in this capacity at the outbreak of the war. Miss Nolan was an ardent sympathiser with the South. Because of her strong sympathies, she was subjected to the indignity of arrest. An inmate friend of hers was implicated in some political matters, and Miss Nolan was told she must tell what she knew of the circumstances or to go prison rather than prove false to her friend she went to prison. During these years, Miss Nolan gave her attention to many subjects, coming into special prominence as writer for the magazines and daily press, having been a frequent contributor to the columns of the Republic. She wrote on every subject, her versatility being something remarkable. In 1872, she founded and edited the Central Magazine. She was not only editor, but contributed articles of every nature over various noms-de-plume. In 1876, she was appointed by the Governor to represent Missouri women at the Centennial Exposition. Her departure was delayed by the last illness of her mother, who died on March 24th, 1876. It will thus be seen that Miss Nolan died on the anniversary of her mother's death, 20 years later. Her manner of representing the interests of Missouri earned for her the lasting gratitude of the women of the State. About this time Miss Nolan brought out a fire-proof building material, which she called Nolanum, and which furnished the inspiration for many similar devices. While at the Centennial Miss Nolan became a victim of the unsanitary conditions prevailing there, contracting blood poisoning, which developed into ostitis, from which she never recovered. For ten years past she has been entirely helpless, her joints having become united. During all these years that she lay helpless her patience never became exhausted, nor was she ever known to enter a word of complaint. The only surviving member of the family, Miss Theresa Nolan, declares that she never heard her sister utter a hasty word. The last years of her life were spent in constant reading. Miss Nolan was strikingly beautiful as a girl and even at the age of 60, after an illness of nearly 20 years, all her beauty had not departed. Her funeral took place from St. John's Catholic Church on Thursday morning, March 25.
Submitted by Sarah Jane Nolan, Carlow
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Bannack Association is with Blake Ball.
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June 17, 1881 Frontiersman Jim Bridger died: Jim Bridger was one of the most able and influential mountain men. The words on his large headstone summarize his life: “Celebrated as a hunter, trapper, fur trader and guide. Discovered the Great Salt Lake 1824, The South Pass 1827, visited Yellowstone Park and geysers 1830, founded Fort Bridger 1838, opened Overland Route by Bridger's Pass to Great Salt Lake. Was Guide for U.S. exploring expeditions, Albert Sidney Johnston's army in 1857 and G. M Dodge in Union Pacific survey's and Indian campaigns 1853 - 1865.” Later Jim purchased a farm near Westport, Missouri, but soon became ill and blind. Jim was born 17 March 1804. Jim Bridger is buried in the Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, Missouri. TL
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Bannack Association
Jan 29, 1863 The Bear River Campaign ended in a battle north of Salt Lake City. General Patrick Connor force marched 700 volunteers of the 3rd California Infantry through Idaho Territory in order to attack the Shoshone encampment of Bear Hunter located across the Bear River in Cache Valley. Between 224 and 350 Shoshones, including Bear Hunter, were killed. 164 women and children were taken prisoner. The army had 21 dead and 46 wounded. This ended the Indian attacks along the California Trail as well as Indian control of southern Idaho and northern Utah. The miners at Bannack breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the news as almost everyone knew people that had died at the hands of the Indians. General Patrick Connor photo. TL
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Bannack Association
June 9, 1911 The famed, hatchet wielding, prohibitionist Carry Nation died at age 64 at Leavenworth, Kansas. When Carry went to Butte she wasn’t successful in her crusade. She burst into the Irish World, a well-known parlor house, and met her match in madam May Maloy. The two got into a scuffle, and Maloy booted Mrs. Nation out the door with a well-placed kick. She emerged with her bonnet askew, suffering from a wrenched elbow. It was a moment Maloy’s patrons savored, and they celebrated with drinks all around. Carry was a fire ball and not too popular with the men “Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.” She said. TL
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Colmcille (Columba) –Feast Day: 9thJune. Saint Colmcille also known as Saint Columba was born in Garton, Co. Donegal, on 7thDecember 521 and was of royal lineage. He studied under Saint Finnian of Moville and Saint Finnian of Clonard. He founded monasteries in Derry, Durrow and possibly Kells in Ireland before leaving Ireland. He left Ireland in 563, either for penance or to be a pilgrim for Christand settled on Iona off the west coast of Scotland. There he founded a monastery which has become world famous! From that monastery, missionaries undertook the conversion of Northumbria in England. Saint Colmcille (Columba) is noted for his love for people and for all living creatures. He died on 9thJune 597.Saint Colmcille (Columba) is to be distinguished from Saint Columbanus (543 –615), another great Irish missionary, who spread the Gospel on mainland Europe around the same time in France, Germany and Austria before founding his greatest monastery at Bobbio in the north of Italy. His Feast Day is 23rd November. Since 2021 is the 1500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Colmcille special celebrations are taking place this year, particularly in Co. Donegal and Derry and Iona. For more information go to www.colmcille1500.com.
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Words To The Wise – “Nothing can be politically right, that is morally wrong.”
– Daniel O’ Connell (1775-1847)
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Trócaire; Bishops thanked the public for its continued generosity to Trócaire which works in support of people affected by poverty, conflict and injustice worldwide. Bishops noted that Trócaire’s support brought positive change to the lives of 2.7 million people in 25 countries over the course of the last challenging year. Bishops acknowledged that the Lenten campaign is essential to enabling Trócaire carry out this work and, in expressing their gratitude, noted that Covid-19, combined with the threats of climate change and conflict, have put many more millions of lives at risk of extreme poverty. Bishops encouraged all individuals to make their Lenten return either through their parishes, or by donating by post, phone or online at tro-caire.org/donations/now/
The amount sent to Trocaire on your behalf was €12, 491 in Abbeyfeale.
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My guest has written a book that deftly combines both of these elements into a thoroughly memorable tale. His name is James Sullivan and he’s the author of Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the U.S.S. Plunkett. Today on the show, Jim shares the story of the Plunkett — the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre — as well as the stories of a group of men who served on this destroyer. We begin with the personal connection Jim has to the Plunkett, and how he got interested in learning more about the ship. Jim then explains the role the Navy’s destroyers played during WWII, before getting into the backstories of some of the men who served aboard the Plunkett. From there we delve into the escorting and landing operations the Plunkett was involved in leading up to its arrival along the Italian coast at Anzio, where a dozen German bombers bore down on the ship in one of the most savage attacks of the war, and how the ship yet lived to fight another day. We end our conversation with what happened to the men Jim profiled, how the war affected their lives, and how their lives affected Jim.
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Mary Ellen Connington/Advocate Community Providers
As chief operating officer at Advocate Community Providers, the largest Performing Provider System within the New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Program, Mary Ellen Connington is responsible for, among many things, strategic visioning for quality, value-based healthcare payment. Prior to ACP, she served as senior vice president for quality and medical management at Oscar Insurance Company.
Mary Ellen earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Hudson and an M.A. in nursing administration at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University, though her most profound learning experience was as an accordion player in a wedding band with her brother and classmates. “I learned the art of taking the temperature in the room and learning how to react,” she says. “Don’t play a polka when they want to waltz!”
A second-generation Irish American, Mary Ellen has maternal roots Ballyguiltenane, County Limerick, and Knockanure, County Waterford, while her father’s family comes from Cork. She upholds the traditions of her heritage with her husband, Kevin William, who is himself a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and children, Dr. Kevin William, Jr., Tara, and Sean Michael.
https://irishamerica.com/2017/08/mary-ellen-connington/
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Richard J. Shanahan April 20, 2021 Richard J. Shanahan, age 90, February 4, 1931-April 19, 2021, Pennellville, NY. Loving father, husband, and friend to all. Brewerton native. Former member of the NY Army National Guard and Knights of Columbus. Retired Heating Repairman from Agway, Brewerton, NY. Preceded in death by his wife Louise Shanahan, grand-daughter Alayna Robinson, and sister Joan Scott. Survived by his sister Maureen Davison, his son, daughter, their spouses and four grandchildren. Calling hours are Friday April 23, 2021 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Harter Funeral Home, Inc. 9525 S. Main Street in Brewerton, NY. Interment will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 24, 2021 in Hillside Memorial Cemetery Park, Central Square, NY. Please share memories and condolences at www.harterfuneralhome.com
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Bóthar is well known for sending livestock overseas to impoverished communities across the world, through receiving donations from the public.
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Happy 101st. Birthday Sr. Rosarii
Sr. Rosarii O’Sullivan, Our lady of Apostles, Cork, displaying her medal received from The President, Michael D. Higgins on the occasion of her 101st birthday. Pictured with her are her niece Marian and Jeremiah O’Connor, Upper Athea.
Sr. Rosarii’s extended Dalton and O’Connor family.
Special wishes to Sr. Rosarii O’Sullivan, on her 101st birthday, celebrated on 28th March. A native of Upper Dirreen, Sr. Rosarii attended National School in Knocknagorna. The youngest of three, she joined her sister (Sr. Liam) in 1944 as a Missionary sister of Our Lady of Apostles, Cork.
A gaeilgoir to this day, Sr. Rosarii is a lifelong academic having completed a Diploma in National School teaching in Mary Immaculate College, followed by a Bachelor of Arts in UCC. Touching down in Lagos on November 21st, 1951, Sr. Rosarii would spend 40 years serving as a Missionary in Nigeria. Her first position was teaching in Sacred Heart College, Kaduna, one of the first colleges in the region to train Primary school teachers. Sr. Rosarii believes in enabling women through education. Her goal was to provide these young women with new self-awareness and an ability to express their personal and national hopes in their own rich cultures. Following this, Sr. Rosarii spent 6 years in QAC Kakuri, part of the less developed North, preparing indigenous girls for secondary school. These girls would become the first educated women in their community and the nucleus of Christian homes. This took dedication as Sr, Philomena Woulfe, Clash, discovered one morning on entering an empty dormitory, uncovering as she did, that the girls had decided to happily trek home along the railway lines!
It is with great fondness that Sr. Rosarii remembers the warm welcomes she received in the various villages she visited, delighting in sharing in the family pot whilst listening to elders pass on their traditions, customs and family values through story, play, music, song, and dance. It was during this time that Sr. Rosarii saw Queen Elizabeth on her 1956 tour of Nigeria, a moment she describes as exhilarating. She wondered at the time if HRH had ever seen such a splendid variety of richly embroidered ceremonial attire; did she marvel at the rich cultural heritage shown in the endless procession of spectacular displays?
The following years were spent educating secondary school students in Marymount S.S., Benin, as well as teacher training in Akwanga, to the backdrop of the Nigerian- Biafran war. The violence associated with the civil war put Sr. Rosarii, her peers and her students in grave danger. Despite this, Sr. Rosarii maintained her unwavering faith. Priority was given to protecting her students, disguising those at risk and journeying 100 miles with them to the safer territory of Jos.
In 1968, Sr. Rosarii was called upon to assume leadership in O.L.A. Cork as Provincial Sister, a role she has been credited with bringing a distinctive kindness and gentleness to. Returning to Nigeria in 1973, she spent another twenty years between Kaduna, Jos, Asaba, Barakin-Ladi and Zawan, teaching as well as working in religious formation and in religious education. Her final foreign mission was spent in the archives in Rome before returning a final time to Ardfoyle in 1994. Here, she has offered various services both in the province and in the community.
Sr. Rosarii is a much-loved aunt to Marian O’Connor (Upper Athea), Paddy Dalton (Dirreen) and Jimmy Dalton (Ardagh). Until recently, Sr. Rosarii has spent many happy holidays in Athea, in addition to her annual trips to Inchydoney and Castletownbere with her late sister Mary Dalton (RIP). Since her return to Ireland, she has rejoiced in celebrating family occasions and maintaining links to her close-knit family and friends in her beloved Athea. In return, she is celebrated by her community, her family and her many friends for her faithful camaraderie, her gentleness, and her unwavering Christian spirit. Sr. Rosarii has survived civil wars, fever, Malaria, Hepatitis and very recently Covid 19. She remains hopeful, calm and appreciative through it all. We wish Sr. Rosarii a deservedly happy 101st birthday.
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Home Thoughts from Abroad
https://tintean.org.au/2015/11/06/home-thoughts-from-abroad-with-apologies-to-robert-browning-and-clifford-t-ward/
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Kerry man Maurice Shea, was the last survivor of the Battle of Waterloo. After returning home, he would be forced to emigrate during Black 47, the worst of the Famine years. He lived to be 97 and died in 1892, lauded a hero in Canada. Historian Lieutenant Dan Harvey discusses his story and a book he has written called A Bloody Day: The Irish at Waterloo.
https://www.radiokerry.ie/kerry-man-survived-battle-waterloo-march-26th-2021/
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St. Patrick’s Day By Fr. Brendan Duggan
According to “Ireland’s Own” magazine the first recorded Parade to honour St. Patrick was in St. Augusta, Florida on 17th March 1601, where Spanish people marched to honour St. Patrick under the direction of the Irish P.P. Richard Arthur.
The first Boston Parade was on 17th March 1737 followed by New York 15th March 1762. During the Great Famine of 1845-50 many Irish people emigrated to England, the USA and Canada for work and better living conditions. There were many Irish Aid Societies which developed in New York. 17th March celebrations became widespread in Boston, Chicago, Savannah and Philadelphia. The New York Parade was led by the 69th Regiment serving in the British Army from 1762. the NY Parade was a show of strength for Irish Americans, both Protestant and Catholic as well as a “must attend” for political candidates. The “Friendly Sons of St. Patrick” and the Hibernian Society decided to unite the parades to form one official New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The Ancient Order of Hibernian became the official sponsor of the parades as individual Societies merged under a single Grand Marshal. Captain Patrick Kerrigan, an officer of the Irish Dragoons was the first NY Parade Grand Marshal in 1851.
In 1903 St. Patrick’s Day became an official public holiday in Ireland and the first Irish Parade took place in Waterford in 1903.
On 17th March 1916 the Easter Rising Volunteers organised 38 local parade3s in Ireland, a month before the 1916 Rising.
The first official State sponsored Parade was in Dublin on 17th March 1931. In 1927 the Irish Free State Government banned the sale of alcohol on 17th March although it remained legal in Northern Ireland. The ban was not repealed until 1961.
In Ireland the biggest parade apart from the Cities are in Downpatrick, Co. Down where St. Patrick is said to be buried. The shortest St. Patrick’s Parade formerly took place in Dripsey, Co. Cork. The parade lasted just 23.4 metres and travelled between the Village’s two pubs. The annual event began in 1999 and lasted 5 years until one of the 2 pubs closed.
St. Patrick’s Day Churches
In the USA 461 Parish Churches are dedicated to St. Patrick, including the five Cathedrals of New York, El Paso (Texas), Lead (S. Dakota), Rochester (NY) and Corpus Christi (Texas).
In Baltimore, Maryland (1792) the first Mass there was celebrated by Bishop John Carroll with 12 people in 1795 St. Patrick’s Church was built.
The Old Cathedral in New York was built in 1809. It still exists. New York has two Catholic Cathedrals. The New St. Patrick’s Cathedral began in 1878. It was recently renovated at a cost of almost $180,000,000 by Irish construction companies in NYC.
In Canada 65 Churches are dedicated to St. Patrick including one Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario.
In Ireland St. Patrick’s Protestant Cathedral in Dublin was formerly a Catholic Cathedral before the Reformation. St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral is in Armagh. There could be up to 150 Catholic Parish Churches in Ireland and also many Protestant Churches dedicated to St. Patrick. The largest St. Patrick’s Parades are in New York and Chicago, then followed by Savannah in Georgia, Cleveland.
Bill Clinton from Little Rock, Arkansas was educated in primary school by Irish Mercy Nuns from Naas who had an Academy and College in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Nun teacher in Naas got a Christmas card each year from Mr. Clinton.
The Catholic Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados, Caribbean is St. Patrick’s. This refers to a time when Irish people were sold as slaves by Mr. Cromwell in the middle 17th Century.
Irish names + Patrick’s are common in many Caribbean Islands.
The Island of Montserrat also has a St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
The Catholic Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan is called St. Patrick’s. The best known Boys School there was St. Patrick’s Academy in Karachi. An Irish Christian Brother’s School which educated the elite of Pakistan, all Muslims.
Benazir Bhutto their only Lady President was educated by Irish Nun Missionaries as was the Empress of Japan educated by the Irish Sacred Heart Sisters in their Tokyo School Academy.
In the Diocese of Limerick, we have St. Patrick’s Churches in Tournafulla, Limerick City, Ardpatrick, Ballysteen, Bruff, Donaghmore, Garrienderk, Parteen. St. Patrick is more popular than St. Ita or St. Munchin.
In Cashel and Emily Archdiocese we have St. Patrick Churches in Doon, Golden, Anglesboro, Kilteely, Patrickswell, Knocklong, Cullen and Boher.
In Kerry Dioceses we have St. Patrick Churches in Ballydesmond, Kilgarvan, Millstreet, Sneem, but none in North Kerry. St. Patrick seemingly is not so popular in North Kerry. I heard it said that when St. Patrick reached near Athea, he was discouraged by the landscape so he never entered Kerry.
Enjoy Our National Feast Day
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U.S. Federal Census 1930
The place of birth of five of the staff is recorded as ‘Ireland’. We know that three of them were from north Kerry – Katherine “Kathy” Buckley (44) who was White House Head Chef and her two colleagues, relatives by marriage, Mary (36) and Hannah Heffernan (32) of Moyvane, a village six miles from Listowel.
Kathy Buckley in Rose Garden at the White House
Kathy Buckley was the daughter of Laurence and Ellen Buckley, Upper William St., Listowel. She was the eldest of eight children, her father was a cooper by trade. He was also a Town Commissioner & founder member of the Listowel Total Abstinence Association and leader of the Temperance Society Band.
Kathy’s path to the White House started in Waterville, Co. Kerry where she was employed in the Butler Arms Hotel as a cook. In 1903 the well-known banker and financier JP Morgan, stayed at the Butler Arms. JP Morgan was an immensely wealthy man, with interests in banking, steel production, and railroads, one of the most powerful men in the United States at that time. With a home also in London, he was visiting the picturesque village of Waterville for a spot of fishing in the nearby famous sea trout waters of Lough Currane. Impressed by the quality of the food in the Hotel, he approached Kathy Buckley, then sous chef, with an invitation to come and work in his family home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Kathy had first to convince her father that this was a good idea. Laurence , an upright member of the community, who described himself (and all of his family) in the 1901 Census of Ireland as ‘Holy Roman Catholic’ was reluctant to allow Kathy to leave a good job in Waterville for the unknown temptations of the United States. However, Laurence had seven more children to consider so permission was given eventually on the understanding the ‘Mr. Morgan’ would arrange for her to return home if she was not happy.
Leaving Queenstown [Cobh] for Boston, in 1906, Kathy arrived in the U.S. and shortly was working in the kitchen brigade as second in line to the French-born head chef in the Morgan family mansion. Here Kathy was trained in the classic dishes of French cuisine and kitchen management. Soon she became an expert on the production of pâtés, soufflés, sauces, soups, elegant fish dishes, and show-stopping desserts as well as the management of the kitchen brigade.
Vincent Carmody, a Listowel local historian, and author and a relation of Kathy’s, tells us that her next step on the ladder was again a lucky break. “Calvin Coolidge, who was a close friend and relative of J.P Morgan Jnr., dined at the Morgans just weeks before taking the oath of office as President of the United States in 1923. Coolidge was also very impressed by Kathy Buckley and invited her to become head of the White House kitchens”.
Kathy retained her place in the White House under subsequent presidents, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also arranged employment in the White House for the Heffernan sisters, relatives by marriage. She retired to Listowel in the early 1950s and lived with her sisters Nora and Tessie, who had a small sweet/grocery shop at 24 Upper William Street, next to their old Buckley family home. Kathy died in 1969.
Vincent has a fund of stories relayed to him by Kathy during her retirement, regarding her time in the White House. She also brought home with her from the U.S., mementos, and letters from her life with the Presidents and their families. Vincent has Kathy’s recipe books and menu cards that she collected during her career. “She was always looking for new dishes to serve the Presidents,” he says.
Vincent also has the key to the City of Fort Worth. This key, a gift to Kathy, from President Coolidge to whom it was originally presented on the occasion that he was given the freedom of Fort Worth/Dallas.
The people of Listowel remembered ‘Kathy White House’ as she was known when a plaque was erected in her honour outside her home, in June 2015, celebrating the life of a cook whose culinary talent took her from humble beginnings in north Kerry to the bustling kitchens of the American White House.
Thank you to Vincent Carmody https://listoweloriginals.com/ and Sharon Ni Chonchúir
See Sharon’s interview at https://irishamerica.com/2015/12/kathy-white-house/
https://mykerryancestors.com/kerry-girls-in-the-white-house-1930/
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Schull Burials:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaIpcG9x-C8FBr62aJXcDlQ-jd3_sVtRU-HlkW5OmGM/edit#gid=0
Post 1823 Letter from William Hull, Lemcon, Skibbereen, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to his former letter, emphasising the need to provide a simpler and less expensive means for the lower classes to recover small debts owed to them. Encloses, in support of his claim, a document entitled ‘ “a Manor Court Decree” taken by Richard Connell against Edward Butler, both of Kealfada, County Cork, demonstrating that the legal costs far outstrip the amount of the original debt; decree originally signed by John Sweetnam, seneschal [of Aghadown and Schull Manors], 4 October 1823. Chief Secretary Papers
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Mark Holan writes a great Irish- American blog. He recently wrote of happenings in Kerry in 1921
On Jan. 24, 1921, widowed farmer John Ware of Killelton townland, Ballylongford, mailed a hand-written letter from the rural County Kerry community on the south shore where the wide mouth of the River Shannon empties into the sea. It was addressed to his same-name, bachelor son, a streetcar motorman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a noisy, smokey manufacturing city of more than a half million people, a hub of Irish immigrants, including two of his sisters, with a brother on the way.1
The 87-year-old father2 began the letter by thanking his 35-year-old son for an earlier postal order for £3, equivalent to about $200 today.3 Such remittances from immigrants were vital to the Irish economy and perpetuated still more departures.
Your prosperity in America is a great consolation to me. Your generosity and kindness since you left home.....
Read the rest of the article here; https://www.markholan.org/archives/9654#respond
Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog
A journalist's blog dedicated to Irish and Irish-American history and contemporary issues.
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George Sandes appointed agent for the Kerry lands of John-Walsh.
FEBRUARY 14, 1858:
John Foran (32?) of Liselton marries Mary Stack of Shroneagraga at Moyvane.
Record link
FORAN CHILDREN BIRTH YEARS:
John, 1860; William, 1863; Catherine, 1865; Nora, 1867; Edward, 1868; Joanna; 1870; Patrick, 1872; Michael, 1873; Tim, 1877; Dennis 1878.
Honorah Foran of Shrone (Ballybunion parish) born/baptized Feb. 12, 1867 (assumed). This date means she would have been 21 at time of her father’s murder; or 16 based on 1895 passenger record; or 12 based on 1910 census; or 16 in 1920 census; or 15 in 1930 census.)
Record link (birth)
“They know the price of shoes and what spuds are worth at market, but it is beyond them to recall the date of their birthday or what the present month may be.” from “Going Through Ellis Island.” Comment by U.S. public health inspector Dr. Alfred Reed, Jan. 1913. Story link.
SEPT. 12, 1860:
https://www.markholan.org/forhanscanlon-project/foran-timelinelinks
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rebelbreeze says:
11 March, 2019 at 3:20 pm
[…] 3The Belgian state engineered a breakaway of Katanga Province from the new Republic of the Congo which, led by Patrice Lumumba, had declared independence in 1960 and was intending to protect the state’s natural resources. Katanga had copper mines. The Belgian state armed a rebel army run by a warlord and also supplied military expertise in the form of European mercenaries and seconded officers. The USA supported the breakaway (as did France) and the UN brokered a very imperfect ceasefire which the rebel army and the Belgian state had no interest in observing. The Irish Army were deployed there as part of the UN peacekeeping force, undermined and badly supported. Nine Irish soldiers were killed in ambush by tribesmen who did not support the secessionists and had seen their villages burned by European mercenaries as a result. More about it here: https://www.theirishstory.com/2016/10/07/the-irish-army-the-un-jadotville-and-the-congo/#.XIZa1SOLRsM […]
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John_Dorney says:
8 August, 2019 at 8:01 pm
Hi Jessica, you’ll find plenty of pictures here, mostly from the Defence Forces Archive. https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=onuc%20congo
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https://youtu.be/t8tn2QsGtIE
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THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS: Anyone wishing to look at The Lady Of All Nations prayer day with Fr. Paul Maria Sigl can do so by visiting www.gebetstag.info
FREE POST: An Post has announced a free delivery service for residents of Nursing and Care homes in Ireland to run up to January 31, 2021. FREEPOST must be written where the stamp is normally placed.
FOUND: Matt and Nellie Kennelly, contacted Billy Keane recently having discovered his father's long-forgotten copy book of poems, the outline for a play and handwritten notes.
TREE of remembrance will be in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Abbeyfeale, for the month of the Holy Souls.
FEAST of All Saint of Ireland on First Friday.
LOVELY red berries cover the Holly bush at present. Heavy and constant rain, has made land saturated.
COVID-19 SUPPORT LINE FOR OLDER PEOPLE ALONE manage a national support line and additional supports for older people who have concerns or are facing difficulties relating to the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Professional staff are available to answer queries and give advice and reassurance where necessary. The support line is open seven days a week, 8am – 8pm, by calling 0818 222 024.
ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR THE PARISH CANTOR: The diocese will host a second online workshop for parish cantors on Wednesday, November 4that 7:30pm.which will provide music resources for remembrance and the month of November. We will also look at practical suggestions on how the cantor can lead liturgical song in the current situation. Please contact Tomás Kenny at tomaskenny@dioceseofkerry.ie The zoom link for this workshop will be forwarded to participants before the workshop.
SHOEBOXES: Christmas shoeboxes due to covid-19 restrictions. Shoeboxes will not be sent from Ireland this year. They are asking you instead to please donate a gift-filled shoebox online for €20 on www.teamhope.ie anytime until December 23rd.
DINGLE TG4 on 19/11 @ 20:00; ‘Dúiseacht’ features publicans, builders, musicians, hairdressers and educators through the gradual re-opening of society in May to the re-opening of schools and the more recent changes in early October.
DE GAULLE on TG4 on 11/11 @ 21:30; For six weeks in 1969, Ireland played host to Charles de Gaulle, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon. Broadcast to commemorate the 50th anniversary of de Gaulle's death,
TRALEE CHURCH: Monday Nov. 09th to Friday Nov. 13th we will have a Novena of Remembrance nightly at 7.30pm. This Novena will include a Liturgy of the Word with a Guest Speaker who will address some aspects of Grief & Loss followed by a litany & prayers for all our faithful departed at our Remembrance Tree. This will be followed by a solemn Expression of Grief through the medium of the creative arts – music, song, poetry & art etc. We will conclude with a Solemn Blessing. We are inviting people who have experienced loss/grief in their life to journey with us over these 5 evenings. Our Guest Speakers for these evenings include; Teddy Linehan – Chaplain Kerry Regional Hospital; Elizabeth Doherty – Rainbows Kerry; Margaret Naughton – Chaplain Bons Secours Hospital Tralee; Amber Kavanagh – Pieta House Tralee, and Brigid Quilligan – Kerry Travellers Health & C NOVEMBER –A TIME TO REMEMBER: Online for three Monday nights, Nov 2nd, 9th and 16th, 8.00 p.m. –8.30 p.m., Martina Lehane Sheehan, Fr Jim Cogley and Elizabeth Garry Brosnan will invite us to find hope as we journey through the month of November. Each night will invite us into a time of reflection, prayer and music, offering us a chance to rest and pray as we remember our loved ones who are with God, as we pray with our sorrows and find ways of living with grief and loss. To register, check out www.dioceseofkerry.ie
LECTIO DIVINA ON ZOOM DATES: 29th October Thursday 5th , 12th , 19th November (6 weeks) Time: 7.30 – 8.30 p.m. We will begin each week by watching a short video which corresponds with the upcoming Sunday’s gospel, which is from the gospel of Matthew this liturgical year. If you are not familiar with Lectio Divina you could watch the following 6-minute YouTube video which explain it very well – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSp_s04sVg To participate, please email: alphakerry2020@gmail.com
LIBRARY services available online with library cards, including Borrowbox, Pressreader and Free magazines. Details at https://www.limerick.ie/council/services/community-and-leisure/libraries/library-e-services
ALONE: Further information: email hello@alone.ie or call ALONE on 01-679 1032.
Many are feeling the effects of the lockdown, out of sight of the general public. There is plenty vocal groups all making as much noise as they can, beating their own drum, but who remembers those who suffer in silence.
COMPETITION: The Mental Health Ireland Art & Photography Competition open for entries to all Secondary School, Special Education and Youthreach students! The deadline for entries is 5pm on November 12.2020.
BOOK by Kay Caball, called The Fall of the Fitzmaurice’s is in the shops. An intriguing tale of three generations squandering the family wealth. In shops in Listowel, Lixnaw, Ballyduff, Causeway and O'Mahonys & Polymath Tralee.
ART: Submissions for the Catholic Arts Institute’s Sacred Art Prize 2020 will be accepted until through Dec. 2, 2020, with Prize Awards being announced Dec. 15
https://www.catholicartinstitute.org/competition
BOOK: Black Abolitionists in Ireland – Book Launch – Wednesday, 28 October, 6pm. Celebrating the launch of Professor Christine Kinealy's new book Black Abolitionists in Ireland, celebrating the 175th anniversary of Douglass's historic Irish visit.
WORKHOUSE: Bridget (Biddy) Ryan who gave her address on arrival in Sydney as ‘Bruff’ is one of the intriguing stories of the Earl Grey Orphans and one we have not solved entirely.
When Bridget was originally ‘selected’ by Lieutenant Henry in Listowel Workhouse, her address on the Minutes of the Board of Guardians, on 11 September 1849 was ‘Listowel’. However, when she arrived in Sydney on the Thomas Arbuthnot on 3 February, she declared her native place as Bruff, Limerick, age as 16, her parents as Anthony and Johanna, and that her father (a Soldier) was living in Sydney. She was able to read and write. It was noted ‘State of Health, strength and probable usefulness: Poor’. https://mykerryancestors.com/the-kerry-girls-earl-grey-famine-scheme/
GRAVEYARD: Visiting a Graveyard; May perpetual light shine upon the faces of all who rest here. May the lives they lived unfold further in spirit. May all their past travail find ease in the kindness of clay. May the remembering earth mind every memory they brought. May the rains from the heavens fall gently upon them. May the wildflowers and grasses whisper their wishes into light. May we reverence the village of presence in the stillness of this silent field. John O'Donohue.
PAPERS:
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 0981.pdf
Feb 3 1934
The death has occurred of Edward Fennell. late assistant in Ballyguiltenan Boys' Schools. He was a native of Glin. He retired some years ago owing to falling health.
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Friday the shades of death closed over one of God's most faithful servants on earth, Mrs. Mary O'Connor of Lyreacrompane, Listowel. She was the wife of Patrick O'Connor, and mother of Rev. Maurice O'Connor, Minnesota; Rev. Patrick O'Connor, Brooklyn; Michael O'Connor, N. T., Lyreacrompane; Gerald O'Connor, University College, Cork, and Thomas, Daniel, William and Margaret, who are at home.
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Miss Bridie Crawford, Ballylanders, was professed at The Convent, Houston, Texas. Her name in religion is Sister Mary Vera. She is the youngest daughter of William and the late Ellie Crawford, Knocklong road, Ballylanders.
The Rev. Father Cremin, who has been spending holidays with his sister, Mrs. J. O'S. Listen, Ballinoe, sails for his Australian mission next week. The people of Knockaderry and Clouncagh wish him bon voyage.
The death occurred In St. Mary's Convent, Limerick, of Sister Mary Lorenzo Hallinan, sister to the late Most Rev. Dr. Hallinan, Bishop of Limerick. The deceased was aged about 78 years, and was a native of Coolcappa, County Limerick.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 0822.pdf
30 Sept 1933
Co. Kerry—While cycling from Ballybunion to Listowel, Patk. Reidy, Charles street, Listowel, was struck by a motor car and thrown against a ditch. He sustained leg Injuries.
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The religious profession took place at the Presentation Novitiate, Oakpark, Tralee, of Sister M. Philomena McElligott, Rathea, Lixnaw; Sister M. Philomena O'Neill, Castleisland; Sister M. Therese Scanlon, Chute-hall; Sister M. Frances Therese Ashe, Dingle; Sister M. Angela O'Donnell, Dingle; Sister M. Gertrude Kelliher, Kanturk, Co. Cork. At the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, Drishane, of Madame St. James (Cissle), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Conheady, Newmarket-on-Fergus. At the Convent of the Poor Clares, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan, Sister M. Bernardine (Miss Clarke), a native of Dublin.
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Rev. W. Behan, PP., Ballyheigue, celebrated Mass at Our Lady's Holy Well, near the village, on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady, in presence of a large gathering of parishioners and visitors from Tralee and various parts of North Kerry. There is a tradition that a beautiful church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin once stood on the grounds where the Holy Well is, and that In the old times many
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62 TEARS' GOOD WORK. There was a remarkable demonstration of public regret and sympathy at the obsequies of Mother M. Teresa Shanahan, Presentation Convent, Lixnaw, one of the founders of the convent. Mother Teresa was a daughter of the late David Shanahan, Whitestown House, Co. Waterford. She entered the Order at Castleisland in 1811, and in 1877 she was sent by Most Rev. Dr. Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry, to found the convent In his native parish, Lixnaw. By her efforts the new convent and schools were completed In 1881, and an Infant school was added later. Mother Teresa took an active Interest in every pupil all down the years, and helped and followed their careers through life. Her sister is the present Rev. Mother at Lixnaw, and another sister was the late Sister Rosalie, Brentford, London. Her brother Is Very Rev. D. Shanahan, IL.D., Pittsburgh, U..S. A., who is at home on a holiday. Two cousins, Sisters Dominic and Benignus, are In the community.
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Lourdes; James McCrea, of Walker's Place, Berry, on returning from the Lourdes pilgrimage, astonished his friends by walking down the railway platform carrying his crutches. An ex-soldier, he served all through the Great War, was twice wounded and, after a year in Salonika, was invalided home with malaria. For the last eleven years he has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, believed to have been contracted in the war. He was bedridden in 1922 until 1926 and ever since has used crutches.
Cured at Lourdes Miss Anne Powell, Nenagh, a very serious spinal case, has discarded her spinal jacket after her third bath In the Lourdes water, and Is now walking. Miss Anne Powell, daughter of the late John Powell, Curraleigh, Dolia, Nenagh,
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About 70 past pupils of the Convent of Marie Reparatrice, Laurel Hill avenue, Limerick, were entertained by the Reverend Mother and the members of the community on the Union Day.
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Saturday evening Rev. Fathers Nugent (San Francisco), O'Donoghue (Fargo), Lynch (Seattle), and Keogan (Concordia), who are at present on visit to their respective homes, were "at home" at Virginia to a large party of clerical and University students.
https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1932-1934 - 0774.pdf
19 Aug 1933
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There was a huge and representative gathering of parishioners from Knockavilla, Innishannon, as well as of deceased's friends from Bandon and Cork City, at the obsequies of Rev. Bro. Kane, O. C, St. Patrick's, Upton. The Requiem Mass was said by Very Rev. T. Hickey, O. C, Prov., and the Interment took place in the school cemetery. Brother Kane had been 24 years at Upton.
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James Enright, merchant, Church street, Listowel, who has died, was father of Rev. M. Enright and Rev. J. Jr Enright of the American Mission; Dr. J. Enright, Dalkey; Dr. F. Enright, Brighton; W. Enright, dentist, Listowel, and of Dr. T. Enright, who was killed in Gallipoli.
Rev. Mother Margaret M O'Leary, who died at the Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen, aged 78, after 55 years in the Order, was a sister of Very Rev. James Canon O'Leary, P. P., Dunmanway, and the late Rev, C. O'Leary, P. P., Inchangella. She
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? der the late General Liam Lynch. The deceased's three other brothers, Denis, William, now in the U. S. A., and Eugene, in the U. S. A., were also prominent I. R. A. officers.
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The announcement of the death of Sister M. Benignus O'SuIlivan at the Convent of Mercy, Clonakilty, during last week came as a great shock to her large circle of relatives and friends in Freemount and surrounding parishes. Aged 86 years, she had been in religion, for 64 years, having joined the Clonakilty Convent in 1869, the first of four sisters to enter there.
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Although Father McGivney died two days after his 38th birthday in 1890, he’s considered a saint for our times.
“Father McGivney had a great love for the needs of the family. The unity of the family was very important to him,” Father James Sullivan, rector of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, Connecticut, Father McGivney’s hometown, told the Register.
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https://youtu.be/IKL9GEwJ3zQ
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Current ICUs pose immediate danger to Covid-19 patients, medicos: Scientists The deficiencies of ICU design became first glaring during the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in the early 2000
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Maureen Kennelly, a native of Ballylongford become Director of the Arts Council on the eve of Covid 19 which brought that sector to a standstill.
Read the full story in The Kerryman: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/
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Buckley is the recipient of this year’s Maureen O’Hara award from the Kerry International Film Festival
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40054913.html
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Irish Times interview with Mr. Scanlon to give you a flavour of what the Brosna native is up to now: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/could-kerry-be-ready-to-leave-behind-its-cheese-and-ham-roots-1.4076774
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Kathleen (Kelly) O'Sullivan
March 13, 1930 ~ September 12, 2020 (age 90)
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Born on March 13, 1930, Kathleen was number nine of ten children to Matthew and Elizabeth Kelly in County Clare, Ireland. She grew up on a family-owned farm where all were taught at an early age to be obedient, respect others, live their faith, love the work ethic, and to be generous in helping those who needed help. She was four years old when her mother died, leaving her father to raise 10 children alone. At the age of 16, she decided to join her five older siblings who had moved to London.
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Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, B.A., T.C.D., Greenfield, Clonakilty, Later, Attorney General, Chief Justice Natal, South Africa, Commission to Investigate Abuses of Indian Indentured Servants, Natal, South Africa 1872. Died 1912 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
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Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, B.A., T.C.D., Greenfield, Clonakilty, Later, Attorney General, Chief Justice Natal, Commission to Investigate Abuses of Indian Indentured Servant, Natal, South Africa 1872. Died 1912 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
1826 or 26th October 1828-1912 Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, TCD Kings Inns 1849, Q.C., Attorney General and Chief Justice adn Acting Governor Natal, Arbitrator between Transvaal and the Zuus. Died 1912, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1st son , 10 siblings, Henry Greenfield, Margaret McCarthy Co. Cork in Kings Inns Admissiones 1849, Greenfield, Ardfield. Practiced Munster Circuit, father Henry mother Margaret McCarthy her father Denis Rathroe "Margaret McCarthy, Millstreet, Married Henry Gallwey of Greenfield, Clonakilty c1824, they had eleven children. Their eldest son, Sir Michael Henry Gallwey ‘was admitted to King's Inns entitled to practice as a Barrister-at-Law. He graduated from Trinity College in 1851 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (15). He held the office of Chief Justice of Natal between 1890 and 1901. He was Deputy-Governor of Natal in 1897. He held the office of Administrator [Natal] in 1898 (15). " Blackhall on Munster Gallweys. ‘He held the office of Member of the Legislative Council (M.L.C.) [Natal] between 1857 and 1890. He held the office of Attorney-General [Natal].He was invested as a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1883. He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in 1888.He was invested as a Queen's Counsel (Q.C.) in 1888.’ The eldest son of Henry Gallwey of Greenfield House, Ardfield, nr. Clonakilty, Co Cork, b. 1794 was, Michael Henry (MHG) (Sir), KCMG, QC, b. 26 Oct 1826, educ TCD, Attorney General Natal 1857-1890, MEC, MLC, Chief Justice 1890-1901, Acting Governor or Administrator for several terms, m. 23 Aug 1861 Frances Cadwallader (known as Fannie CampbellTown,Tasmania 5 Dec 1840, bapt 5 Dec 1840 - Ref.. RGD 2; Yr 1840, Reg. No. 1150, d. 23 Sep 1914, Isle of Wight), eldest daughter of Lt- Colonel the Honourable David Erskine, Colonial Secretary of Natal (third son of the second baronet and grandson of ''the great defender of the rights of man",
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Paddy Waldron
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Many of my Facebook friends and followers will be familiar with my research into various nineteenth century chain migrations from specific parts of County Clare (and Kerry) to specific parts of North America (and elsewhere), e.g. from the Loop Head peninsula to Newtown, CT, and other parts of Fairfield County; to Jersey City; to Davenport and other parts of Iowa; and even to Argentina and Shanghai.
I have recently been looking at another chain migration from the Moveen and Lisheen townlands in Carrigaholt parish to the Germantown area in the north of Philadelphia, PA. This may have been seeded by three couples married around the 1850s who all migrated with young children around the early 1860s and all had later children born in Germantown. The six parents comprised two Collinses, possibly brothers; two O'Connells, possibly sisters; a Galvin; and a McMahon. The McMahon mother was one of four McMahon women, possibly all from Glascloon near Doonbeg, possibly three sisters and their niece, who all married into farms in Moveen or Lisheen, of whom the other three still have descendants in the area.
DNA comparisons, or oral or written family traditions, or marriage or death records in Philadelphia, may confirm the relationships, if any, between the O'Connells, between the Collinses and/or between the McMahons. These possible relationships go back too far to be confirmed in surviving records in Clare, but are hinted at by the DNA comparisons to which I currently have access.
I have added all the details in comments on a long discussion from last summer about an O'Connell family and other related families from Moveen and Lisheen:
https://www.facebook.com/waldronp/posts/10156401016563947…
Please add your own comments there if you have any additional evidence (DNA or oral or archival) to confirm the possible relationships.
PATRICK WALDRON
AS the son of a probate officer and an assistant probate officer, I am possibly uniquely disposed to be fascinated by wills. The anti-proverb “where there’s a will, there’s a relative” neatly sums up the value of a good will to the genealogist or family historian.
FAMINE:
In 1998, a group of Melbourne locals realised a dream to erect a standing stone on Williamstown’s foreshore – the Famine Rock – in memory of the Irish Famine orphan girls.
As the Great Hunger of 1848-1852 decimated the population of Ireland, with over one million deaths and two million emigrants forced to flee starvation, the Earl Grey Scheme contrived to bring orphan girls aged 14-19 from workhouses (poorhouses) across Ireland to Australia, to work as servants and help populate the new colony. During the years 1849-1851, some 4000 girls participated in the scheme, 1700 of whom came to Melbourne on six ships; Lady Kennaway, Pemberton, Diadem, New Liverpool, Derwent and Eliza Caroline.
https://tintean.org.au/2019/11/07/famine-rock-sentinel-stands-for-21-years-at-hobsons-bay/
June 27, 2020 at 10:42 pm
Bronwen Davis
Hello from Brisbane, Australia.
I am researching my 3rd great-grandparents who were married in Moyvane in early 1833: Florence McAuliffe (? born 1796) and Ellen Healy (? born 1814). Information shows their denomination as being RC and Ellen was noted to reside in Kilmeany at that time. Marriage witnesses were Patrick McAuliffe and Martin McAuliffe. They then resided in Listowel with Ellen passing in 1870 and Florence passing in 1874. Many of their children emigrated from Listowel to Australia in 1860s. I have not been able to find earlier information for Florence and Ellen.
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who might have further information on either Florence or Ellen.
Enzo Farinella - Italy and Ireland:
Links between two stars of Europe - ties between two stars of Europe -, Amazon, 2020
The historical, cultural and artistic ties between Italy and Ireland are the subject of this new book.
The first of the New Horizons Necklace, with a guide to Italian itineraries in Ireland and Irish itineraries in Italy, also has a wide chapter on the medieval contribution of Irish "Pellegrini" to Italy and Europe and the various twinning towns of the two countries aim to build a more humane and more supportive Europe.
Dante, whose " Divine Comedy " depends on visions of the afterlife promoted by medieval Irish monks, authors of the Renaissance, Christopher Columbus, who sailed from Galway to America, William Marconi, rooted deeply in the land of Ireland " for mother and bride " and whose first transatlantic radio links took place from Valencia Island, Comasco Carlo M. Bianconi, who organized the Irish transport system and several others are among the Italian protagonists of this new work.
S. S. Colomban di Bobbio - "the Patron Saint of those who want to build a United Europe" according to Robert Schuman - and a stuolo of Irish monks committed to reintroducing culture and values in Italy and throughout Europe in the years that followed the ruin of the Roman Empire, lead personalities like W. B. Yeats, J. Joyce, R. Mallett, Iris Origo... within the framework of the ties between the two nations..
The book, called " very interesting " by the Italian Ambassador to Dublin, Paolo Serpi, offers a valid contribution " to the study of historical, cultural and religious links between Ireland and Italy ", according to Colm ó Floinn, Irish Ambassador to Rome. Both wrote introductions to the book.
You can find it on: www.amazon-kindle-enzo flour.
by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner
Pick up an anthropology textbook from the late 20th century and it will tell you that prior to the arrival of Europeans, the South Atlantic Coast was occupied by Siouans, Cusabos, Creeks and Timucuans. Of these four, only the Cusabos called themselves by that name . . . and it was the name of an alliance, meaning . . . “strong – place of” in the Panoan language of Peru!
During my journeys through a stack of 18 dictionaries, I found something very interesting. There was a branch of the Taino People in Cuba, named the Yamasa. That is terribly close to the name of a tribe in the southern tip South Carolina and southeastern Georgia, named the Yamasee. Yama is the name of a Taino and Carib deity. Yamacora (Yamacraw in 18th century English) also means Yama People. In other words, the part of Georgia below the Fall Line was originally occupied mainly by people from the Caribbean Basin and South America.
Armed with a stack of new dictionaries, I was able to translate surviving “Native American” place names from the North-South Carolina line down to the tip of Florida. There were a lot of surprises. It seems that the first History of the State of Georgia (1843) by Dr. William Bacon Stevens was far more accurate ethnologically than modern texts.
Stevens book opens up by stating that early settlers on the South Carolina and Georgia coast encountered light skinned Indians, who spoke a dialect of Gaelic, which Irish immigrants could understand. They were the Duhare (Du H’Aire) or Early Medieval Irish colonists. Stevens said that the Norsemen from Dublin and Wexford, who ferried the Irish over in their Scandinavian ocean-going boats, settled to the north of the Irish in South Carolina. Indeed, that is what I found. He also said that peoples from the Caribbean Basin settled to the south of them. Indeed, that is what I found.
Many of the Irish place names were “no brainers.” Kialege (written Kiare-ge) is what the people of County Kerry are called today. It is also a Creek tribal town in Oklahoma. Many place names were the same in both Georgia and locations “South of the Border.” For example, there was a Satipo Province in Peru and Satipo Province in Southeast Georgia. Both were ruled by a Sati-uriwa (king). There were orata (village chiefs) all over the place in South Carolina and Peru. There were heneha’s all over the place in the Maya lands and Georgia. Guadaquini was the indigenous name for Jekyll Island, GA. That’s the Taino word for a circular ceremonial space for dancing and feasting.
Going from north to south, here is a list of the ethnic groups that I was able to identify:
Siouan with some Irish words
Santee – Panoan from Peru
Winyah Bay Estuary – Early Medieval Norse
Charleston Bay – Muskogee-Creek tribal names
Cusabo – Panoan from Peru
Itsate-Creek tribal names
Port Royal Sound – Carib tribes from Venezuela
Uchee Water and Raccoon Clans
Kiawah and Daufuskee Islands – Early Medieval Irish Gaelic
Savannah – Apalachicora from Peru, plus Uchee
Savannah – Yamacora from Cuba
Tybee Island – Itza or Chontal Maya salt traders
Osabaw Island – Panoan from Peru
Ogeechee River – Duhare and Uchee
Wassaw Island – Polynesian with Maori DNA markers ???
Sunbury Sound – Carib from Venezuela
Canoochee River and Blackbeard Island – Tupi from South America
St. Catherines Island – Taino from Antilles
St. Simons Island – Southern Arawak and Taino
Jekyll Island – Taino from Antilles
Sapelo Island – Tupi from NE South America & Panoans from Peru
Alekmanni – Anglisk from Scandinavia (Yes! Really!)
Satilla River – Satile (Panoans) from Peru
Cumberland and St. Mary’s Sound – Mocama from Venezuela
NE Florida – Wareo from Venezuela
East Central Florida – Ciboney from Cuba
SE Florida – Tequista – Tequis Caribs from Venezuela
SW Florida – Tequista – Tekesta Caribs from Veracruz
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Unravelling the past of the Americas, while preserving that past for the future.
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USA 1938 video. Bowman GA
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On few days later, an army officer, who was buying beef cattle and food supplies from the Georgia Creeks stumbled upon the massacre scene. On April 30 Major General Thomas Glascock sent a report to General Jackson, which stated the basic facts, but claimed that only seven men, two women and one child had been killed. Actually, the town’s population had been exterminated, except for a young man captured outside the village before the attack, who was herding cattle.
Apparently, the descendants of two ancient civilizations, who had been burned to death, were considered what is called today, “accidental collateral damage,” and therefore were not recorded as battle casualties. Jackson was furious because he was dependent on his Creek soldiers to lead dangerous guerilla warfare attacks into the Florida swamps. However, no charges were ever placed against Captain Wright.
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May 31st, 1863. Went to Burnley with our Sarah. Called to see if
Sister Maryann from Waterside was going to Burnley but she had
gone.
Saturday night. Met with the Saints. Afternoon there were but few
Saints there. One confessed his sins and requested baptism. We had
a good time. I told the brethren I would go with them to preach
anywhere out of doors or otherwise.
July 5th/63. Sunday. I with our Maryann and Abraham went to
Burnley. We got there by quarter by 2 o'clock p.m. The day was
very warm. In the afternoon we met with the Saints. Maryann and
Abraham returned home. I remained till night meeting. President
Myers spoke at night stating that President Young had told some of
the brethren to marry some of the single daughters as things were
going first rate in the valley at present. There is much
excitement going on here in relation to America. The reports are
very conflicting every day so that all are at a loss for the want of
truth. Trade is very bad with us for three months. There are many
emigrating from England and Ireland this year.
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November 30, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Chris Robertson- Hello Moyvane!
I am looking for some genealogy assistance with the Mulvihill’s (Mulville). My wife and I met several wonderful people and the Pastor when we visited Moyvane in August of 2017 as our daughter was the 2017 Washington DC Rose of Tralee and we were in Tralee for the festival.
We are looking for relatives of Michael Mulvihill and Honora Mullins who were pioneer settler of Newton (Sandes?) . They had a son Timothy, born 1831 who came to America in 1853 via Canada. They also had a son John ( my direct line), who was born around 1814 and ended up in Edina Missouri, USA and died in 1895. He was married to Margaret Roach from County Limerick. We don’t know if they were married when the immigrated to the US. We have hit a brick wall in getting past this point. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
A simple search of the England and Wales Census returns on MyHeritage shows that in 1851, there were 466,000 people living there that were born in Ireland. This compares to just over 280,000 Irish-born residents recorded ten years earlier in the 1841 Census. The England and Wales Census of 1841 is the earliest Census that has survived in its entirety.
https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/news/irelandxo-insight-irish-famine-resources-revealed
11 Thomas O'Connor and Ellen Rahilly 1. Thomas O'Connor,a Emigrant Ancestor Thomas O'Connor, born 25 Mar 1890 in Ballarkane, Kerry, Ireland;3 4 died 22 Dec 1955 in Springfield, MA.5 He was the son of Michael O'Connor and Mary Finn.6 He married 2. Ellen Rahilly 28 Jan 1914 in Springfield, MA.7 Notes for Thomas O’Connor Thomas O’Connor’s father was a farmer and a mason in Ireland, so Thomas grew up in a laboring family. He had seven brothers and sisters. In 1905, one of his older brothers, James, decided to build a new life for himself in America. A year later another brother, Michael, followed. They must have written home good things about the United States because in 1910, Thomas himself decided to make the voyage. He travelled on a ship called the SS Invernia that sailed from Queenstown, Ireland (now called Cobh) and arrived in Boston on May 5th. SS Invernia Thomas was lucky to have family to help him get established in his new life. His brothers were living in Spring-field, MA. When Thomas signed his Declaration of Intention in November of 1910, he said that he was an iron worker in Springfield. a See Appendix 1 for an ancestor tree of Thomas O’Connor. b Photo uploaded to the Wikipedia Commons from the Municipal Archives of Trondheim. The SS Invernia carried 164 first class passengers, 200 second class passengers and 1600 third class passengers. The Invernia was used as a troop transport during WWI, and on 1 Jan 1917 it was torpedoed by a German submarine near Greece. One hundred and twenty people were killed.
Golden Jubilee Congratulations Brother Ned Shanahan, Ahaneboy who is celebrating the Golden Jubilee of his profession on Saturday 21st September 2019. It will be celebrated in the Franciscan Friary, Killarney at 1.30pm.
Irish Examiner 1841-current, Tuesday, August 16, 1864; Page: 2
Mr Maguire has received the following from the Right Rev. Dr. WILSON, the venerable Bishop of Tasmania :— Hobart Town, Tasmania.
My DEABR Sir,—Pray excuse the liberty I am taking, being personally unknown to you, in thanking you heartily for producing that admirable book, the " Life of Father Mathew." You have, my dear air, done a great and good service to religion. Oh, that this volume could be in the hands of all men ! God will bless you for this good work. What an extraordinary man was the great Apostle of Temperance! May his reward be in eternal glory—and your lot with him. You have placed him in a proper light. With the greatest respect, I have the honour to be, dear sir, your faithful servant, R. D. WILSON, Bishop of Hobartown.
J. F. Maguire, Esq., M.P., &c.
PS. The Rev. Peter O'Meara, brother to the gentleman mentioned in your charming book, is living with me. He is a good pious man. Pray excuse my hasty scribbling—the English post day is a very busy one here. You will pardon it, I trust.
Fig. 4. Birth Parent Census. Once I knew names, dates and places of birth, parents names, retrieving the rest of the data helped complete the records I had for both birth parents.
Following this reunion, the biggest blank left to fill on the research side was, of course, my birth father’s name. My birth mother’s lifelong best friend was my birth father’s first cousin. Though she never again communicated with my birth father after her ordeal, she still knew about his life—including his whereabouts, roughly— because of her friendship with his cousin. My research consisted of looking up my birth father in the phone book and sending him a note and a photo. We met a few days later, and one of the things I most remember about that day was him telling me how much I resembled his Irish-American mother, who had died in 1976 without ever knowing of my existence. For me to have lived my whole life up to that point looking like no one I knew, what a revelation to finally see myself in another person’s face.
Mary Josephine Mangan, my birth father’s mother,
in her early 20s. Her parents, Daniel Mangan and Kate Finnell left Tarbert, Co. Kerry, in the early twentieth century.
Your correspondent. “The Mangan is strong with that one,” said Darth Vader. Shown
here in my early 20s, the same age as my grandmother Mary.
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MEET BRENDAN GERAD O’BRIEN
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OK, OK, I admit it I have a soft spot for Irish writers, the land of my birth, though I have long since lost the accent. While we may speak the same language as the English, Welsh, Scots, Americans and the Australians, I maintain we have poetry and words flowing through our veins. Have you guessed that this week’s guest is also from Ireland? What a surprise! Welcome, Brendan Gerad O’Brien. He now lives in Wales, but you can never take the power of words away from the Irish – not that I’m biased of course. Over to Brendan.
When I won my first writing competition I was so excited I ran all the way home. I was about eight years old. The Fun Fair was coming to Tralee – our little town on the West coast of Ireland – and apart from Duffy’s Circus which came in September, this was the highlight of our year. Our English teacher asked us to write an essay about it and I won the only prize – a book of ten tickets for the fair.
So writing was in my blood from a very young age. My uncle Moss Scanlon had a small Harness Maker’s shop in Listowel – a bus ride from Tralee – where I spent some wonderful summer holidays. The shop was a magnet for all sorts of colourful characters who’d wander in for a chat and a bit of jovial banter. One famous storyteller who often popped in was John B Keane, and I asked him once where he got his ideas from. He told me that everyone has a story to tell so just listen to them. I was there when John B’s first story was read out on Radio Eireann. I can still remember the buzz of excitement.
But it was only when I got married and the children came along that I made any serious attempt to write a book.
The result was Dark September,
The Notebook Fr Bernard Healy
https://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/2019/05/fr-bernard-from-rome/
The whole Catholic world comes on pilgrimage to Rome, but where do the Romans themselves go on pilgrimage? Many head to Lourdes, Fatima and San Giovanni Rotondo like the rest of us, but the pilgrimage site that has a special place in the hearts of many Romans is Divino Amore, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love at Castel di Leva, a little under 10 miles from the centre of the city.
Devotion to the image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus with the Holy Spirit at the shrine [pictured] began in 1740; a pilgrim on his way to Rome got lost in the countryside. Spotting the tower of Castel di Leva, he made his way towards it in search of directions.
Drawing near, he was set upon by a pack of wild and angry dogs. Fearing for his life, his eyes fixed on the sacred image painted on the tower and he cried out to Our Lady for help. Immediately and miraculously, the crazed hounds stopped their pursuit and withdrew, whilst some nearby shepherds came shortly afterwards to put the pilgrim on the right path.
He spread the story of his escape as he made his way to Rome, and people began to flock to the site which quickly obtained fame for graces received. Eventually a chapel and a shrine would be built.
Pilgrimage
From the Second Sunday of Easter until October, there is a candlelit pilgrimage on foot from the city to Divino Amore, departing at midnight and arriving at the shrine in time for 5am Mass.
It begins with the noise of the city all around, but a few minutes’ walk brings us to a quiet and ancient stretch of Roman road leading under the Arch of Drusus, through the city walls and onto the famous Appian Way, flanked by old Roman Villas, pagan sepulchres and the catacombs where the early Christians were laid to rest. We stop at the Ardeatine Caves and remember the 335 Italians shot there by the Germans; later we pause outside a hospital to pray for the sick.
With a night-time pilgrimage, there’s no sightseeing or idle conversation – you have just enough light to negotiate the next step or two in front of you. All you hear is the sound of prayer, the tramping of feet and the noise of birds, livestock and dogs from nearby fields and woods.
The farmsteads, villages and suburbs that make up the surrounding world slumber whilst the band of pilgrims makes its way through the night, praying and interceding, intent on a designation it cannot see, sustained by the quiet comradeship of a shared goal. The beauty of it is that one is both alone with God and yet supported by the presence of fellow pilgrims and the intercession of Our Lady.
The Second Vatican Council is fond of using the image of a pilgrimage to describe what it is to be part of the Church – a night-time trip to Divino Amore certainly gives reality to that image.
Like Knock’s Msgr Horan, the name of Fr Umberto Terenzi must be mentioned when discussing the Sanctuary of Divino Amore. Aged 30, he was appointed as Rector and first parish priest at the shrine in 1930 after decades of neglect. He found the little chapel in a disgraceful state, so uncared for that he couldn’t even find a clean purificator for the celebration of Mass.
Downhearted, in early 1931, Fr Umberto hopped into his car to drive back to Rome with the intention of never returning to the shrine again. As he left, his car overturned and was utterly wrecked, whilst he escaped without a scratch. He took that as a sign!
He would serve at the shrine until his death in 1974, and is largely responsible for the shrine becoming an extraordinary place of prayer, evangelisation and charitable works.
Our Lady doesn’t mess around.
One of the most unusual churches in the world is to be found at Divino Amore. Despite being open-air, the chapel of Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla is officially recognised by the Diocese of Rome as a church.
The ground plan resembles the wheel of a horse-drawn caravan because it is the church of the gypsy people.
Blessed Ceferino was a member of the Romany people who lived in Spain and served the church as a catechist.
During the Spanish Civil War he was arrested by Republican Forces for attempting to defend a priest from them and was executed with the words “long live Christ the King” on his lips.
MALONEY
MALONE, Dorothy Dorothy Malone passed peacefully into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Friday, January 19, 2018, days before turning 94. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend. She will be dearly missed. Born Dorothy Eloise Maloney on January 30, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois to Robert and Esther Maloney. Dorothy was the eldest of five children born into a loving, Christian family. When Dorothy was a baby, her family moved to Dallas, where her heart would remain throughout her life. She attended Ursuline Academy of Dallas for nine years and was a part-time boarder at their convent with the Ursuline nuns while her parents traveled the country to try to find a cure for her two younger sisters stricken with polio. Both her sisters tragically passed away at five and eight years old. Her youngest brother was struck by lightning on a golf course and died at age 16. Dorothy graduated from Highland Park High School with Honors in 1941. She had wonderful high school memories and was voted School Favorite and Queen of the ROTC, and began to discover her talent as an actress when she won first place in a UIL One Act Play. Dorothy earned an academic scholarship to Hockaday Junior College. She then attended SMU, where she was named a Rotunda Beauty. While at SMU, Dorothy was performing in the campus play, Starbound, when an RKO Studios Talent Scout discovered her. It was the start of her extraordinary career and life. Dorothy was a part of the Golden Age of Hollywood and first lived at the iconic Hollywood Studio Club for Girls. Early on, she made her decision to dedicate her career to God and would sign every autograph with "May God Bless You Always!". She made her first major film breakthrough in 1945, captivating audiences as a bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart. Throughout the next two decades, she went on to star in over 70 films, in addition to numerous TV guest appearances and commercials. In 1957, Dorothy won an Academy Award for her role as Marilee Hadley in Douglas Sirks' Written on the Wind. In her acceptance speech, she dedicated her Oscar to her late brother, Bill. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for that role. Some of the more notable films included Young at Heart, Man of a Thousand Faces, Tarnished Angels, Too Much Too Soon, Battle Cry, Artists & Models, Beach Party and The Last Voyage. Dorothy starred alongside such iconic leading men as Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan, to name a few. In 1960, her star was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame for outstanding work in Motion Pictures at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Landing the starring role in TV's first nighttime continuing drama series, Peyton Place, Dorothy achieved her widest popularity yet. It was a smash hit and aired in prime-time three nights a week over the next five years, from 1964 to 1969. This was another pivoting point in her career, as she was among the first film stars to transition from movies into television. In 1965, Dorothy suffered a near-death experience as 33 blood clots moved through her lungs. While on the critical list fighting for her life for over a week, the world stood by as her vital signs and updates were reported and displayed above Times Square. After a dramatic recovery, she resumed her role on Peyton Place. She was nominated twice for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role as Constance McKenzie. Dorothy and John Wayne were recognized in 1965 with the Golden Apple Award as the "Most Cooperative Male and Female Actors" of the year. Dorothy also received the Photoplay Award for "Most Popular Female Actress in a TV Series" in 1966. Dorothy's career offered amazing life experiences. In 1946, at age 22, she was invited to travel via the Queen Elizabeth to be presented to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. In the late 60's she was granted a private audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. She was also a White House guest for three sitting U.S. Presidents. She married Frenchman Jacques Bergerac in Hong Kong in 1959, which led her to the most cherished and fulfilling role she would have in her life, as mother to her two beloved daughters, Mimi and Diane. They had a contentious divorce four years later that spanned the next ten years. She would forevermore put her daughters' needs before everything. In 1969, at the peak of her career, she decided to move from the Hollywood spotlight to raise her girls in Dallas, so they could experience a more normal childhood. Over the next two decades, Dorothy continued to work from Dallas, as schedule permitted. In 1992, after 50 years in the motion picture industry, Dorothy retired. Dorothy's career and accomplishments did not define her. She dedicated herself to her craft, never motivated by fame or fortune. She felt blessed to be able to work in an industry that she loved. Dorothy appreciated and was deeply humbled by her fans from around the world, who have continued to contact her and keep in touch over the past 70+ years. Her love and generous spirit touched so many. To her friends and family, Dorothy was known for her deep faith, strong character, big heart, sharp wit and fun loving spirit. She had many trials and tribulations throughout her life, but always pulled from her inner strength and was able to face any obstacle with her family close by and God in control. We thank God for blessing her with a long and beautiful life, which she so gracefully used to reflect His love. Dorothy is preceded in death by parents Esther Smith Maloney and Robert I. Maloney, as well as siblings Patsy Jane Maloney, Joan Maloney and George William (Bill) Maloney. Dorothy is lovingly survived by her two daughters Mimi Bergerac Vanderstraaten and Diane Bergerac Thompson and their respective husbands William Vanderstraaten and John P. Thompson, Jr. and six grandchildren Caroline Thompson Richards, John Thompson III, Emily Vanderstraaten, Lauren Thompson, Will Vanderstraaten and Crawford Thompson all of Dallas. She is also survived by her brother, The Honorable Robert B. Maloney and his wife The Honorable Frances Maloney, of Dallas. The family would like to acknowledge their deep appreciation to her wonderful and loyal caregivers for the love and joy they brought into her life. Memorial Mass will be held at 1:00 PM on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at Christ the King Catholic Church, 8017 Preston Road, Dallas, Texas 75225. In lieu of flowers, and honoring Dorothy's lifelong love of dogs, donations can be made to SPCA of Texas 2400 Lone Star Drive, Dallas, TX 75212 or www.spca.org. or to the .
Published in Dallas Morning News from Jan. 24 to Jan. 25, 2018
SANDES: https://knockanure.jimdo.com/volunteers-100-yrs-ago/
FLORA SANDES; She was demobilised in October 1922, and found the transition to civilian life more difficult than becoming a solider: “It was like losing everything at one fell swoop, and trying to find bearings again in another life.”
SANDES: At the outbreak of the First World War, Flora Sandes volunteered to become a nurse but was rejected due to a lack of qualifications.
Sandes nonetheless joined a St. John Ambulance unit raised by American nurse Mabel Grouitch and on August 12, 1914 left England for Serbia with a group of 36 women to try to aid the humanitarian crisis there.
They arrived at the town of Kragujevac which was the base for the Serbian forces fighting against the Austro-Hungarian offensive.
Sandes joined the Serbian Red Cross and worked in an ambulance for the Second Infantry Regiment of the Serbian Army.
During the difficult retreat to the sea through Albania, Sandes was separated from her unit and for her own safety enrolled as a soldier with a Serbian regiment.
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Flora was imprisoned by the Gestapo - the German political police - and was freed after a week, but had to report to a Gestapo officer every week, her beloved husband died of heart failure in 1941.
She moved around several times before settling again in Suffolk. After a brief illness, she died at Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital on 24 November 1956 of ‘obstructive jaundice’, aged 80.
Miss Sandes in Wicklow
On a recent visit to Belfast, while flicking through a volume in a second-hand bookshop, I found myself looking at photographs of pre-World War I British army camps in Co Wicklow. The book, Enlisted, was the autobiography of Elise Sandes, a Kerrywoman who established a network of soldiers’ homes, and an organisation which survives to the present day.
Sandes was born in Tralee in 1851, and had a happy and conventionally religious upbringing.
http://www.countywicklowheritage.org/page/miss_sandes_in_wicklow
(Was Daniel O’Connell in correspondence with another Sands from South America)
Sandes, Arthur (1793-1832), commander of the Rifles Battalion in the South American wars of independence, was born in 1793 in Dublin or Kerry and fought at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium. He left the British army in 1815 and two years later joined Colonel Frederick Campbell's Regiment of Chasseurs (Rifles). This was a unit recruited in London for service in Venezuela by Luis López Méndez, Bolívar's representative.
The Rifles sailed for Venezuela in January 1818 as part of the 'Expedition of the Five Colonels' (800 men) but virtually dissolved in the West Indies, before ever reaching the battlefield. There were no ships readily available to take the soldiers of fortune to the mainland and no money to honour the false promises made in London. Fatal illnesses, duels, resignations and desertions took a heavy toll. When his son Duncan (an officer serving in his unit) died of a fever, Colonel Campbell had had enough. He resigned his commission and returned to Britain accompanied by his second son, who had fallen ill. Major Robert Piggot, an Irishman, assumed command and finally reached Angostura with between 30 and 60 men on 23 July 1818. In August, the mercenaries, now reduced to 10 or 11 officers and 8 other ranks, went with General Anzoátegui to Misiones del Caroní. There, Piggot, who had since been promoted to Colonel, recruited and trained 400-500 indigenous people and created the '1st Rifles Battalion', also known as the 'Black Rifles'. He led this unit at the battle of Gamarra on 27 March 1819, which was its baptism of fire, but left the army shortly afterwards because of ill health.
He was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Sandes, who commanded the regiment for the rest of the war. The Rifles fought at virtually every theatre of operations and although the troops changed (1818-1819 Venezuelans, 1819-1821 New Granadans, 1822-1825 Ecuadoreans and Peruvians) the backbone of Britons and Irishmen remained constant and ensured continuity. It has been argued that the Rifles, a South American unit organised along British lines and led by a mixed cadre of European and criollo officers, was the best regiment in Bolívar's army.
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_sandesa.htm
(Was Daniel O’Connell in correspondence with another Sands from South America)
AWARD: Received his Emmy award in multi media journalist Malachy Browne from Broadford, Co. Limerick.
His Listowel Connection?
He is the son of David Browne, Director and former chair of Listowel Writers' Week.
"Malachy and his team were presented with the prestigious award exactly one year to the day after the massacre took place in which 58 people attending a concert were gunned down and slain. Called 10 Minutes, 12 Gunfire Bursts, 30 Videos, Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre, the film won the Outstanding New Approaches: Current News award.
It is an investigation which tracks the timeline of the shootings, using mobile phone footage and CCTV footage and puts viewers right at the heart of the rampage, knowing how it felt with nowhere to go to escape.
Malachy was the senior producer on the documentary film along with Drew Jordan, Nicole Fineman and Chris Cirillo. He has been with the New York Times since 2016."
Limerick Leader
Diocese of Hartford.
Boston Pilot (1838-1857), Volume 16, Number 22, 28 May 1853
Diocese of Hartford. LAURENCE A. T. MANGAN, Sec.
Gleason’s Pictorial.
The Bishop will visit Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sunday the 5th of June; on the 8th, he will visit Danbury ; on the 10th, he will visit Stamford; on Sunday the 12th, he will visit Hartford; on the 14th, he will visit New Brittin ; on the 16th, he will visit Windsor Locks ; on Sunday the 19th, he will visit Middleton ; on the 21st, he will visit Meriden ; on Sunday the 26th, he will visit Norwich. The Bishop will administer the Holy Sacrament of Confirmation in these congregations, at half past seven, a.m.
The Sacred Heart Review, Volume 18, Number 5, 31 July 1897
THE CHURCH IN TORRINGTON.
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Mass was said here for the first time in 1835 by Rev. James Fitton, then pastor of Hartford, in a brick building (now O'Brien's bakery) on South Main street. He came once or twice. Rev. John Brady, who succeeded Fr. Fitton in Hartford in 1837, came to Torrington in 1842, officiating in the house of Richard Hennessey in Wolcottville, there being at that time only five or six Catholic families in town. Mass was offered up here about once a year thereafter until 1847, when Rev. Michael O'Neile was given charge of the Catholics of the Naugatuck Valley. Fr. O'Neile came more frequently, officiating in the academy
building; and when, in 1851, the parish of Birmingham was erected, Rev. James Lynch of that borough came up to Torrington, saying Mass here once or twice. On the appointment of Rev. Thomas Quinn, in 1852, as resident pastor of Minsted, (ten miles north), Wolcottville was assigned to his jurisdiction ; and this arrangement continued through the pastorates of Frs. Gillick, Hendricken, O'Gorman, Mangan, Mullen, and Sheridan. It was Fr. Mangan who, in 1859, began to build the old church here on a lot secured some years before. This lot is part of the present church property. The church was completed during the ensuing year. In 1866, Fr. Leo of Winsted enlarged and beautified this structure; and in 1869 be purchased eleven acres on the east branch of the Naugatuck River, this property being dedicated in 1871 to cemetery uses, by Bp. McFarland.
The Sacred Heart Review, Volume 18, Number 5, 31 July 1897
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
In 1856, Rev. Lawrence Mangan came from Middletown ; and, after a pastorate of four years, he was drowned while traveling in Europe. Rev. Daniel Mullen assumed charge in 1860, relinquishing it, at the breaking out of the civil war, in order to accept the chaplaincy of the Ninth Connecticut Volunteers. (Note Fr. Mullen came back from the South in 1864 and put in charge of Winsted)
Photo of Hughie The Pub Brosnahan who immigrated from Gurrane Currans in the 1860s to Kerrytown, South Canterbury. Taken from the wonderful website of the Brosnan Ceann Fine (Tribal Leader) Sean Brosnahan, see http://ceannfine.wordpress.com/
This is a collection of useful genealogy and ancestral research links, relating to Ulster and Northern Ireland.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/links.html
Going to Australia.
"We are employed in the Governor's botanic gardens ... we could reach almost off our scaffolds to the lemons and oranges, fig trees, pomegranates, peaches, etc, and the parrots sitting on the trees beside us in flocks ... all differing
from the northern part of the globe."
(David Fairley, a carpenter from Londonderry who emigrated to Australia in the mid-1830s)
Australia emigration, as a mass organised movement did not get going in a major way until the 1820s, after the disruption of the Napoleonic Wars. The distance involved, and the logistics of the journey, meant that the numbers going to Australia as compared with North America were much smaller. For the same reasons emigration to Australia was much more controlled. Regulation was applied at points of departure in Britain and Ireland and at entry points in Australia.
There were also government-assisted schemes such as the emigration of workhouse inmates to Australia. Labour had become extremely scarce in Australia around the time of the Famine in Ireland and the colonists in New South Wales and Western Australia pressed the Colonial Office to secure more settlers.
Arrangements were made with the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners for a scheme of assisted emigration and the first 5,000 adults were sent in 1847.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/newsletter-content.php?id=912
May 20, 2018 at 3:26 pm
Donna McGreevy
Mary Anne Buckley (birth around 1866 in Kerry)
I hope someone might be able to help me in a search for the family/homeplace of Mary Anne Buckley. We don’t know who her parents were (trying to find out) but she was in Chicago with Ellen O Connor nee Buckley from Kilbaha (father Timothy Buckley, Mother Ellen Walsh), wife of Jeremiah O Connor from 1890 onwards. The sponsors/ witnesses at family events were Timothy Buckley, Robert Buckley, James Buckley, Mary Griffin, Nellie Keegan, Hannah Buckley, John Buckley and Michael Buckley. I think they were cousins. If anyone has any pointers, it would be great. Have looked at Genealogy.ie, Parish records etc. Can’t seem to find Mary. Many thanks
May 19, 2018 at 12:00 am
Anna Culhane
If the person who posted the comments below (Knockanure Notes – 6th July, 2009) is still wanting information on its the contents, please contact me by email
“INFORMATION Wanted on; Patrick Culhane, of Adrian, Mich., died Sept. 4th, 1908. He was born 1848 and went to America in 1870. Patrick was survived by three children, Thomas and Mary Culhane of Adrian, Mich., and Mrs. William O’Brien of Rochester and siblings Daniel, Michael and John Culane, and Mrs. William Bunce of Ireland, Miss Catherine Culhane and Mrs. Charles Reeling of Rochester, Mrs. Michael Windle of Honeoye Falls and Mrs. John Bunce of Victor. Details from the Victor Herald New York.”
April 22, 2018 at 5:32 am
Colin J Kelly
My mother’s maiden name
was Mary Stundon
Born: October 31, 1905. In Moyvane, Kerry . My Grandmother’s maiden was Fitzgerald, Anistasa. My Grandfather ‘s name Patrick Stundon. The farm was turned over to my mother’s sister who was married to an Enright.
Ned Harrigan (b. Edward Harrigan, 26 October 1844, New York City, New York, USA, d. 6 June 1911, New York City, New York, USA) and Tony Hart (b. Anthony Cannon, 25 July 1855, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, d. 4 November 1891, New York City, New York, USA) were immensely popular in the late nineteenth century. Their partnership brought to New York’s theatre audiences hints of the real world that lay beneath the surface of the city. Of Irish descent, Harrigan wrote plays featuring the street people he observed in the city’s seedier neighbourhoods.
Artist Biography by AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/harrigan-hart-mn0001008840
Comparing Fr Ahern with Harrigan and Hart and snippet of Siamsa Show.
https://youtu.be/6UNbiAtdEHM
Fr Pat Ahern
https://youtu.be/UBOA5Sldaho
At the heart of the National Folk Theatre lies a professional core group of full-time performers, led by Artistic Director, Jonathan Kelliher and supported by selected artists drawn from the local community but trained in the unique Siamsa Tíre style and idiom.
The aim of the National Folk Theatre is to protect, explore and develop traditional art forms in music, song and dance. These aims are delivered through numerous activities: Folk Theatre stage productions from the Siamsa Tíre repertoire, the development of new work, as well as training and education.
The origins of Siamsa Tíre and the National Folk Theatre of Ireland go back to the first ‘Summer Season’ of performances in 1968 directed by founder Pat Ahern. In 1974, Teach Siamsa in Finuge was built and officially opened, the first General Manager, Martin Whelan was appointed, the first Board of Directors was formed, and the training of young people in the unique Siamsa style, began.
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Home For Christmas
Adapted from a story by Ray Fennelly
Domhnall de Barra
John was born in Upper Athea in 1939. His parents were small farmers who eked a meagre living from the land. He was one of a large family and, like many a young man at the time he left school at the age of 14 to work a day here and there for local farmers. There was no other work available and the money wasn’t great but it kept him going for a few years. Eventually, a cousin of his father’s sent the money for the fare to America so he emigrated to New York to get a better life for himself. John was a good worker and he was soon in good employment in the building industry where he quickly made a name for himself as a man to be relied on. Most of the workers on the building sites were from Ireland so when work was finished for the evening it was the custom to go to the nearest bar for a couple of beers before going home. John liked the beer and soon got a taste for it as well as whisky and brandy. As time went on he spent more and more time in the pub until he was drinking all the spare money he had . He was young and strong so he was able to do his work every day as usual.
He wanted to go home for Christmas so each year he would give up the beer in October to save enough for the trip home. Alas he never quite managed to stay on the wagon. Something always happened to trigger a return to the booze so eventually he gave up trying altogether and resigned himself to the fact that he would never see his home again. Year followed year and, as his body aged, he was no longer able to hold down a job. He lost his flat but was lucky to get a bed in a hostel each night. By day he roamed the streets and financed his drinking by doing odd jobs around the local bars.
One evening he was walking through Central Park when a great weariness came over him and he had to sit on a park bench. It was a couple of days before Christmas and the snow had just begun to fall. He closed his eyes for a moment but he woke suddenly, as if he had been shaken, to find a slip of paper on the bench beside him. It was a lottery ticket so, hoping that his luck was in he took it to the nearest store to find out that he had just won $5,000. He took it as a sign from above so, stopping only to buy new clothes and shoes, he headed for the airport and booked on a flight to Shannon. Soon he was winging his way over the ocean and in what seemed like a flash he was in Shannon hiring a car for the journey home. He drove in a kind of a daze through Limerick and on the road to the Pike where he turned off for Carrig and Athea. As he neared the village memories of his youth came flooding back. He passed the High Field where he had togged out many times for Athea. Scanlon’s dance hall brought Nancy, a girl he was courting before he went away, to mind. Up the street he remembered the great nights in the pups with the creamy pints of Guinness, the games of 41 and the sing-song on fair days. Finally he turned in the short passage to his parents house. As he entered the yard the house, with its welcoming candles lighting up the windows stood before him. He was overcome with emotion and he closed his eyes saying “I’m home for Christmas at last”.
Back in Central Park the paramedics searched through the clothes of the tramp on the bench looking for some kind of ID. They found nothing. The policeman who had called them when he found the man slumped on the bench in a bad way asked the if they had any idea who he was. “I, don’t”, one of them replied, “but I know he was Irish”. “How do you know that”, the policeman asked. “Because, just before he died ho opened his eyes for a split second, closed them again and in a lovely Irish brogue said: I’m home for Christmas at last”
From Listowel Connection Nov 2017
A Correspondent with a Very Interesting Ancestor
God only knows what you will come across if you go delving in the family history. This lady who wrote to me recently sure found a fascinating relative among her ancestors.
Hi
I’m descended from a convict Edmund Elliott who was convicted for crimes against the English. He was a dance master and a senior Whiteboy . He was given a life sentence at the Kerry assize in the early 1820’2 and sent to Australia on the Brampton. Apparently he was caught leading a raid on the house of the person who had employed him to perform for some local function. His family had a long connection with Kerry and in particular Listowel. His ancestors were part of the Roger McElligott 51st Foote that fought for the King at the Battle of the Boyne .
I’m a retied teacher and am planning to visit Ireland next September. So far the plan is to go to Cork to see where the paternal line of O’Keeffe/Cotter came from and then on to Shanagolden and Listowel for the Elliott and lastly to Raheen in Clare to visit the home of the Bradys’.
My cousin sent me your blog because at present we are fossicking about in the Boyne to discover if Valentine and Thomas Elliott did porridge with Roger McElliogotte in the Tower. Unfortunately, I think our generations have become somewhat anaemic when compared to the exploits of our ancestors.
Cheers
Roz Scharf
More on Roz Scharf's Fascinating Ancestors
Hi Mary
Edmund’s line came out with Cromwell. They pop up as serving in Roger MacElligottes 51st Foote in the Kings’s Army.I know that they fought at the battle of the Boyne and there is some rumour that Valentine and Thomas followed Roger into the Tower when he was incarcerated. Edmund lived in Ballyhallil in Limerick but as a dancing master he travelled around the country. It was this that prompted the senior legal at the time to give him life because he used his role as a dancing master to sign people up to the Whiteboys. I’m attaching a couple of items sent me by my cousin which detail the incident which eventually led to his capture.
I found it hard to reconcile his actions with a life sentence. He was 51 when transported. I have three other convicts all of whom were Rockites. William Smith, a weaver from C. Monaghan, Thomas Maher who was implicated in the Holy cross incident in Limerick and Thomas Lysaght a Rocket from Limerick. All three only got 7 years. Eddie is my favourite. He was transported on the Brampton which was a ship with Irish rebels. The guys looked after him, even reporting him as dead so as to keep him from the arduous voyage. Luckily for me he was resurrected like Lazarus wgen he reached Sydney cove. He was not a model prisoner and ended up in irons twice. The final time he was released into his wife’s custody. He also did a stint on the treadmill for being lazy but they did not take into consideration those calves of iron - conditioned from years of leaping as an Irish dancer. I have written a chapter on Eddie which I can forward to you if your interested. I have found that most people tend to glaze over when I start with my obsession but if I can weave things into a bit of a story, they come alive. I try to be clear on whether its a good story or a true story. (trained as a historian)
The O’Keeffes were in service on an estate called Lottaville. My Great grandfather was baptised at St Patrick’s Cork in 1833. His father was Cornelius O’Keefe and mother Mary Milliwick - the only information I have is a parish entry for their marriage and that reads Cork and Ross - Glanmire 1828-1841. William married Julia Cotter on 15 October 1859 in Mayfield Ballinamought East, St Anne’s Shandon Cork. They were both in service at Lottaville. they had 2 daughters and 5 sons. The youngest - my grandfather in1873. Julia died 10 days after my grandfather died. Luckily, the master of Lottaville (Capt Grey?) kept the family on. Even when William left for Australia as a self funded emigrant, he allowed the family to stay on at Lottaville until William could send the money for the fares for the children who came to Australia one year later. Needless to say, English kids travelled free. I have so much respect for William because he made sure that his family didn’t go into the poor house but he worked to earn the money to bring them all out together. It was difficult to track the family because of the English requirement that O’ was dropped from the name. My aunt was most particular that the O’ was used and that the name was spelledlt with a double ff. I have some photos from my great aunt’s album with photos taken in Cork. Pretty amazing that people who did not have much took the time and effort to have a photo to celebrate their existence and this was continued in Australia.
Bray’s of Raheen - my great grand mother X2 are a hoot. They trace back to Hugh Brady Arch bishop of Meath. Needless to say a tad more posh than the others. But the brother E.J Brady has titled himself the grandfather of Australian socialism. He was also connected with the kibbutz like settlement Ralaheen which was set up in Clare to try to give Irish farmers a shot at being self sufficient - not having English landlords or being require to tithe to the protestant church.
They were such an interesting lot. I really have to acknowledge the research of my cousin Joanne who has been doing this for years and most of the wonderful insights have evolved from her hard work.
We’ll definitely have to catch up when I arrive. I think with all the rebel connections, I might even ask for a passing parade from the lads.
Cheers
Roz
Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950) Sat 16 Aug 1930 Page 13
PAPAL CONGRATULATIONS CABLED congratulations . from the Pope, sheaves of telegrams, and personal good wishes from Archbishop Mannix down, were received by Father J. J. Gallivan, of-Northcote (Vic.) when he -celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination recently. Born in County Kerry, he arrived in Melbourne in November, 1880.: Forty-three of the "fifty years- have been passed in the Kllmore district. Three nephews are P.P.s in N.S.W.
Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) Fri 2 May 1884 Page 2
Family Notices; GALLIVAN—SMYTH.—On the 22nd April, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Father O'Dowling, S. J., Mortimer, fourth son of the late James Gallivan, Patch Duagh, County Kerry, Ireland, to Margaret, third daughter of Bernard Smyth, Pine Creek, Laura. Home papers please
Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Sat 7 May 1910 Page 33 Family Notices
GALLIVAN.—On the 28th April, at Port Pirie, Mary Ann (Molly), the dearly-beloved daughter of
Mortimer and the late Margaret Gallivan, aged 24
Tribune (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1918) Thu 30 Mar 1916 Page 4
MR. DANIEL GALLIVAN, MELBOURNE.
By the death through heart failure of Mr. Daniel Gallivan, of the Manchester Arms Hotel, Elizabeth street North, on the 23rd March, the St.Patrick's Society of Melbourne loses one of its most esteemed ex-presidents and a sterling member who had faithfully served the society for
many years as a member of its committee. Mr. Gallivan usually represented the society on the St. Patrick's Day Fete Committee and at other national functions. He took part in the recent procession and sports only five days before his death. Of a quiet, unassuming nature, and a faithful worker in any cause that appealed to his national or religious sympathies, Mr. Gallivan will be missed by his co-workers and by a large circle of other friends. He was a native of Duagh, Co. Kerry, where he was born 68 years ago. Two of his brothers, John and Timothy, are well known residents of Melbourne; Michael, another brother, belongs to New Zealand; and Garrett, a fourth brother, resides in
Ireland. His sisters are Mrs. Ellen Horgan (Melbourne West), Mrs. Greenaugh (North Melbourne), and Mrs. Doody (Ireland). The deceased was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery, the funeral being a very representative one. The Rev. J.H. O’Connell, his parish priest, read the burial service at the graveside, assisted by the Rev. J. J. Gallivan of Sunbury (first cousin of the deceased), Rev. Michael Galvin, Very Rev. Wm. Quilter of St. Francis', and Rev. G. A. Robinson, B.A., of Camberwell. Mr. Dan Hayes, manager of Alfred Allison's establishment, ably carried out the funeral arrangements. Mr. Gallivan leaves a widow (Mrs. Mary Gallivan), and four children,
viz., Mrs. J. C. Bentley, Hannie, Dan and Nora, to mourn the loss of a good husband and devoted father. May his soul rest in peace.
October 2017
Biography
Jérôme aan de Wiel was born in Enkhuizen in the Netherlands in 1966. His mother was French and his father Dutch. In 1975, he moved to Etampes, in the southern suburbs of Paris. He studied in the Sorbonne nouvelle and later in the University of Normandy in Caen and the College for Education in Amsterdam. His interests are twentieth century Irish and European history. He is fluent in Dutch, French, English and German, and has a good reading knowlege of Italian.
Jérôme is married and has two sons.
Research interests
20th century Irish history and European history with an emphasis on political, military, Church, WW1, Cold War, espionage and European integration history.
Project: “From Normandy to Tirana, 1945-1950; Ireland’s relief operations for the continent”
This study –well in progress- seeks to analyse Ireland’s relief operations for devastated post-war Europe, from Normandy to Tirana. 184 archives at national, regional, local, institutional and ecclesiastical levels were contacted in Ireland, the European continent (mainly), Britain and the United States. Many original documents, photographs and drawings have been unearthed. The study shows Irish involvement from running a hospital in Saint-Lô in France to distributing clothes in the destroyed streets of Budapest and Warsaw and providing food and medicine to German and Albanian school children. The following chapters are envisaged:
PART ONE: Two worlds poles apart
1) Destruction, extermination, demoralisation, 1933-1945; 2) A crypto ally called Ireland, 1939-1945
PART TWO: Relief to the continent; 3) Handshake debacle amidst humanitarian crisis; 4) ‘A drop in the ocean’, decision to send relief; 5) Reaction of the people and organisation of relief; 6) Cooperation with the International Red Cross in Geneva,; 7) Irish aid to individual countries,
8) On the ground; Irish helpers, refugees and displaced persons,; 9) 1947: second phase of relief,
10) The Catholic network, and 11) Thanking Ireland.
Temperance Hall, Hamilton Ave at Hicks 1865 - 1881, seating 1,500
Temperance Hall was a 94 feet by 22 feet Doric style brick building with brown trim build by James Ashfield and P. M. O'Brien. It consisted of two large rooms - one in the basement and the other on the main floor. There was a stage at the end of the main floor room. The building's insides were unadorned except for two paintings. A description written in 1867 of "two very excellent paintings" "representing in tragic contrast the home of the drunkard and that of the total abstainer." The painting on the left showed a middle aged drunkard, with "startling eyes and unkempt locks" with his wretched family, his wife and children, attired in rags, surrounding an empty table. The opposing image is of a well clad, handsome man and his family at a well ladened table. The suggestion being that abstinence makes one "happy, wealthy, younger, and better looking."
Temperance Hall was used for Fenian meetings in 1865, Land League meetings in 1881 to 1883. Many political meetings were held in Temperance Hall. Plays were presented. Lectures were given. In 1872 it was used to hold mass for the German Catholic population of South Brooklyn. It was also the home of worship for other dominations and sects. In 1880 it was the venue of a boxing exhibition by Mike Donovan, a middle weight champion. It was the site of numerous benefits and fairs. Temperances meetings were also held in the hall.
http://www.maggieblanck.com/BrooklynRedHook/Liquor1870RH.html
PRESENTATION: In September 1853, Mother Bernard Kirwan, the founder of the Presentation Order in Newfoundland, with four other Presentation Sisters, established at Admiral's Cove, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Convent. Mother Bernard died on 27th February 1857 and was laid to rest in Admiral's Cove. In 1960, this amazing Irish Nun was honoured when the name of Admiral's Cove was changed to Port Kirwan.
We Newfoundlanders have our own special connection to Our Lady of Fatima. Back in May of 1955, thousands of Portuguese fishermen walked in procession from the Harbour to the Cathedral (now Basilica) of St John the Baptist. Through the streets of St John's, these devout men bore on their shoulders beautiful statues of Our Lady of Fatima and the three little seers. The old City rang with the voices of the fishermen as they praised Our Lady in song. Upon reaching the Cathedral, they reverently deposited the statues in a niche near the altar where they remain loved and honoured, to this day.
http://stpatricksconventschool.blogspot.ie/
Connection between Portuguese fishermen and Newfoundland Basilica's Fatima statues
In 1955, 4,000 Portuguese fishermen walked in procession from the waterfront to the steps of the Roman Catholic Basilica. The Basilica was marking its centenary.
Rose Contestant Tralee Aug 2017 from Florida
Greeting from sunny Florida where I am still enjoying the excitement of being crowned the Florida Rose!! At age 22, I am thrilled to be traveling to Ireland to participate in an event representative of my Irish heritage of which I am immensely proud!
My grandfather, Tom O’Donoghue, grew up in Listowel and my great grandparents hailed from Mayo and Cork. My grandfather’s legacy is an inspiring one as he arrived in the United States when he was 19 with a cardboard suitcase, $35 and one change of clothes. Through simple determination and hard work, he achieved success as a businessman in Pittsburgh, PA. One of his business ventures was opening the Blarney Stone Restaurant where I would perform with my siblings, singing Irish songs and Irish step dancing. My Pappap was a loyal Kerry Man until the day he passed and I know that he is smiling down as I prepare to travel back to his beloved Ireland for the Rose of Tralee!
Performing with the Irish Echos in Orlando, working at Walt Disney World in the entertainment department where I routinely work with Make-A-Wish and special needs families, and acting as the Production Director of the children’s ministry at my church, are what keeps my days busy and my heart fulfilled.
I am also inspired to volunteer my time to the Special Olympics because of my brother, Michael, who is severely mentally and physically disabled due to a rare syndrome. Although Mikey is nonverbal and totally dependent on my family for his daily care, he has taught me to enjoy the simple things in life. Growing up with Mikey also has created a passion inside of me to interact with other families with special needs children. I will carry Mikey in my heart as I travel to Ireland to compete for the prestigious title of Rose of Tralee!
She is the granddaughter of Tom ODonoghue of Tannavalla, Listowel
News May 17 2017
By Peg Prendeville
I said that travel broadens the mind so mine is expanding rapidly every day. Darwin, which is named after the famous Charles Darwin, is a much more modern and green city than I had expected. It is kept very clean and tidy, with no sign of rubbish on streets or roads. People are paid to recycle their bottles and cans! It is much hotter than cities like Sydney or Brisbane which are further south; therefore many of the houses are rather dark inside to keep out the bright sunlight. At night we sleep with a ceiling fan going non stop and sometimes the aircon turned on also! Mind you we are getting adjusted and do not find it as hot as the first days. 33 seems to be the normal day temperature and it goes down to 23 by midnight.
We have most meals outdoors and watch the beautiful sunsets for which Darwin is well known. I am amazed that the sun sets so rapidly around 6.30pm. I still have not found out why so I must do some more research on that! Many people sit out on the beaches or cliffs to watch it and take many photos. It is beautiful. I am aware that it is just as lovely at home in Glin or Ballybunion but it is guaranteed here every evening. That’s the difference.
As I write, I am listening to a bird which sounds a bit like the cuckoo but is not. His note is cuckooo-cuckuh, cuckooo-cuckuh and he/she loves to sing all day. It is not as melodious as the cuckoo we hear at home.
The people here in shops etc seem very friendly and laid back. No stress here. But it must be very hard to do physical work in the heat. There are positives and negatives to everything I suppose. The greatest negative to me is the distance from home and family but maybe the lifestyle and fine weather makes up for that. Sean’s and Bernie’s friends seem to be happy anyway. Many of their friends are Irish but not all. We met Daniel Hynes who seems quite happy here so far. Talking to those who live here they tell me that the lifestyle is just perfect but that they miss family. Other than that life is good.
Speaking of family all mothers were asked to stand for a special blessing at the Sunday morning Mass as it was Mother’s Day in Australia last Sunday. Each was presented with a little bookmark as a token. Nice touch.
The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954) Sun 26 Mar 1944 Page 2
Casey s Cambridge marathon. From Our Special Correspondent.
LONDON, Saturday. MR. R. G. CASEY, of Australia, now Governor of Bengal, in 1919
walked 56 miles from Hyde Park, London, to Cambridge University in well under 13 hours,
This has been, recalled by the "Chocolate King','" L. J. Cadbury, In a letter to "The Times," following a spate of correspondence on the feats of former Oxonians and Cantabrians in long walks and spectacular jumping feats. The correspondence started when General Montgomery, visiting Oxford, mentioned that his father had jumped to the top of Trinity Great Hall steps. (See paper for more)
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Saturday 13 July 1929 p 8
LATE SISTER MARY CASEY.
The funeral of the late Sister Mary Brendan Casey, who died at the Presentation Convent, Launceston, on Wednesday morning, took place yesterday morning. A Requiem Mass, which was
attended by all the children of the Roman Catholic Schools, as well as a goodly proportion of adults, was held in the Church of the Apostles at 9 a.m. The Mass was said by the Very Rev. Dean
Hennessy, P.P., who also made appreciative reference to the work of the deceased, who, at the time she was overtaken by illness, was in charge of St. Mary's School. She had, said the-Dean, been on the teaching staff at Launceston, Hobart, and Longford, and was beloved by the other sisters as well as the children. The late Sister Casey, who was 43 years, of age, was also a very capable woman, and her place as head of St. Mary's School, would be hard to fill. Her demise was all the more sad as
she was the second sister lost by death In a week. The visiting priests were the Very Rev. Denis Murphy (Bishop Capitular, Hobart), Rev. Fathers Kent (Hobart), Monaghan (Deloraine), O'Donnell
(New Norfolk), Fitzpatrick (St. Marys) Fitzgerald (Derby), Dowling (Ulverstone), and Barry (Oatlands). After the Mass the interment took place at Carr Villa Cemetery, where Dean Hennessy officiated at the grave. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Mr. Arthur Doolan.
Pilot, Volume 37, Number 34, 22 August 1874
Of Hanora Doling, daughter of Patrick and Ellen Doling, of the parish of Ballydonoghue, county Kerry; when last heard from, seven years ago, she was in New York. Any one knowing of her whereabouts will confer a favour on her brother, Thomas Doling, care of John Carroll. 21 Armstrong’s row, Spring alley, between 27th and 28th streets, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Sacred Heart Review, Volume 44, Number 19, 29 October 1910
THE IRISH DOMINICANS IN LISBON.
The Irish Dominican Convent in Lisbon, which remains untouched by the anti-Catholic Republicans of Portugal because of the British flag which flies above it, has something of a history. Eugene Davis, in his "Irish Footprints in Europe" gives as its founded Father Dominic O'Daly of Kerry. Father O'Daly also built the convent for Irish Dominican nuns, which also escaped harm during the recent revolution. This Irish Dominican, Father O'Daly, otherwise known as Friar Dominic of the Rosary, was a man of remarkable scholarship as well as of ability in other directions. When the Portuguese flung off the Spanish yoke in 1640 and raised the Duke of Braganza to the throne, the Irish Dominican was appointed confessor to the new Queen, and was on frequent occasions employed by the King in diplomatic missions abroad. In 1655 he was sent as ambassador to Louis XIV of France to negotiate a league between the two Crowns. O'Daly died in the French capital in 1662. According to Davis, Cardinal Baronius, writing of the Irishman, says: "He came a youth from Ireland to Spain, where, being received into the Dominican Order, he pursued his studies in the Province of Castile, and became in due time the admiration of Louvain, Madrid, France, and almost of all Europe." When Father O'Daly founded this house in Lisbon, he did so because it was impossible on account of the anti-Catholic laws of England, to educate young men for the priesthood anywhere in the United Kingdom. He could hardly have foreseen the queer turn of events whereby this college is now saved from expropriation by the flag of a country which once had on its statute book the most drastic laws against the Catholic priesthood.
Pilot, Volume 37, Number 47, 21 November 1874
Deaths of Clergymen.
Rev. Patrick Fitzmaurice, Jersey City, A. J. The Rev. Patrick Fitzmaurice. aged 52, a native of Listowel, county Kerry, Ireland, was buried On Friday, Oct. 30th, from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Patrick Dwyer, No. 341 Henderson street, Jersey City. "On the 8th ult. the reverend gentleman was thrown from his carriage at Blossburg, Tioga County. Pa., and received a fracture of the leg, besides other internal injuries. He was brought to St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City, where the best medical aid was procured for him. All did not do; mortification set in in the injured limb, and on Tuesday night, Oct. 27, death put an end to his sufferings. The deceased was a graduate of the Irish College in Rome
Pilot, Volume 37, Number 16, 18 April 1874 PDF
KERRY. Of Charles O’Donoghue, parish of Cool, Casilelsland, county Kerry; he is wanted as soon as possible In Philadelphia to receive his share of a legacy left by his cousin Charles, who died a year ago; it is understood he was in Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas, last September. Information of him will be received by his brother, Denis O'Donoghue, 731 Guilford Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Information Of Catherine Connor, a native of Graug, parish of Ardfert, county Kerry, who left there about 20 years ago, and came to New York with her uncle. Pat McCarthy; she went to live with her uncle, Jeremiah McCarthy, in Brooklyn, alter her uncle Pat died. Her father’s name was Patrick O’Connor, and her mother’s name was Mary McCarthy. Information of her, dead or alive, will be received by her brother, Jerry Connors, Lima, Allen County, Ohio.
The Right Rev. Richard A. O'Connor, D. D., Bishop of Petersborough, Canada, recently celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. Bishop O'Connor was born at Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, April 15, 1838. He went to Canada in 1841 with his parents, and settled in Toronto.
The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919) Sun 15 Oct 1899 Page 6
Kennelly (Martin, and sister Mary and her husband, Thomas Twyford) ; they sailed from London on September 15,1854, for Melbourne, and afterwards went to Hobart.
O'Connell (Michael), left County Kerry, Ireland/20 years back for Queensland, and later went to Cairns ; supposed to have gone to South Africa.
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) Sun 17 Aug 1902 Page 3
O’Donnell (Michael).Left Knockalonga, Dunagh, county Kerry, 23 or 24 years ago for New Zealand. Last heard of in Canterbury.
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) Sun 10 Dec 1916 Page 13
SHEEHEY.-Wanted information, Thomas Sheehey, son of Daniel and Kate Sheehey, of Lixnaw, Co. Kerry who came to Adelaide about 29 year ago. Any information will be thankfully received if sent to "'The Sunday Times."
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) Sun 28 May 1911 Page 19
LEEHY, News wanted of Patrick Toomey Leehy, a native of listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland, who left Limerick City about twenty-two years ago for Australia; last heard of In Melbourne about twenty years ago.
The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919) Sun 3 Nov 1901 Page 7
Regan (Daniel), left co. Kerry, Ireland, for Australia 23 years back ; last heard from in 1885 at Saltern Creek station, via Aramac, Queensland.
Missing Friends ; http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=missing+friends+kerry&s=20
San Francisco Call, Volume 112, Number 67, 6 August 1912
ST. JOHN CLERGYMAN IS APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP
VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 5 1912, — It is announced that Bishop Casey of St. John, New Brunswick, has been appointed archbishop of Vancouver to succeed Archbishop McNeil, who Is to be transferred to Toronto diocese.
Thomas R. FOLEY(1918 - 2016)
News Death Notice
FOLEY, Thomas R. Age 98, lifelong resident of Franklin, Ohio passed away on Friday, July 29, 2016 at Otterbein-Middletown Skilled Nursing & Rehab Neighborhood. Tom was born in Franklin, Ohio on January 13, 1918 to the late Louise and John P. Foley, Sr. Tom was a 1936 graduate of Franklin H.S. and 1940 graduate of the University of Dayton. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII for 40 months. He retired from ARMCO as Chief Engineer after 37 years. He co-authored The Foleys from County Clare, Ireland c1994. Tom was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church where he ushered for 69 years. Vice President of the Conover Health Center Board of Directors, named Citizen of the Year in 1994 by the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, member of the Franklin American Legion and a life member of the Middletown Post #218, Franklin Area Historical Society life member, former President and treasurer. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers, John P. Foley, Jr. and Matthew J. Foley and nephew, Dennis J. Foley. Tom will be missed by his loving wife of 46 years, Harriet Foley; sister-in-law, Wanda Fealy; 11 Foley nieces and nephews; 4 Fealy nieces and nephews; 24 Foley grand nieces and nephews and 33 Foley great-grand nieces and nephews. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 6, 2016 at St. Mary Catholic Church, 115 S. Main St., Franklin, Fr. James Manning, Celebrant. Burial in Woodhill Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Friday from 5-8 p.m. with a Catholic prayer service at 7:45 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, 1357 E. Second St., Franklin. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Franklin Area Historical Society or the St. Mary Capital Campaign. Please visit www.anderson-fh.com to send an online condolence.
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Published in Journal-News on July 31, 2016
July 8, 2016 in Moyvane, Ireland
Tom and I met in 2011 at Bishop Kelly High School - where we both currently work. I had just gotten a job teaching Spanish and Tom was teaching PE and was the head cross-country and track coach. We got to know each other a bit that school year through playing pinochle with coworkers periodically. The next fall, we happened to be hanging around school a bit together at sporting events and just began chatting. A few weeks later we went out on our first date to grab a drink at The Ram - it was a big deal for me because it was a school night! And the rest was history, well sort of. We kept things pretty well under wraps at school. By January of 2013, most of our coworkers knew but we still weren't public with the relationship. When you work with 700 high school students, public means VERY PUBLIC. We went to our first Bishop Kelly function together around St. Patrick's Day and word spread pretty quickly! It was both exciting and terrifying to have many teenagers anxiously prying about my personal life. They've been actively involved ever since. One student even called the engagement. I was convinced that we wouldn't get engaged for another couple of months, but when I mentioned that I was going home for Easter and that Tom would be coming with me, she just called it! "What if he proposes! Has he met your parents? Do they like him? Will he ask your dad?" While I was convinced it wasn't going to happen for a while yet, she somehow knew!
The Engagement
Last spring, I wanted to go home to Oregon for Easter and Tom decided to join me. As mentioned above, my students were convinced that he was going to propose, I wasn't so sure. On the way down to Klamath Falls (a 7 hour drive), we talked about all sorts of things and the topic of rings came up. He said "Well maybe we should start looking. Where should we go?" I said something about asking my brother-in-law Ryan where he went and it was met with a sharp, "But then it wouldn't be a surprise!" So we dropped the conversation. Later he mentioned wanting to go to Crater Lake National Park. Crater Lake is up there on one of my most favorite places and I said "Oh yeah! I bet my dad would love to come too!" Me thinking that my recently retired Dad would enjoy a trip up there as he always does. Tom said "Well, I think it would be nice if it was just the two of us. I've gotten to show you some special places in Ireland and I'd like to do the same here." Being that we had just talked and ended discussion about rings, I was none the wiser.
That next morning we got back in the car and headed up. We ended up going earlier than planned so that the weather would still be beautiful (clouds were headed in - and Crater Lake is just not as impressive on a cloudy day). In April, Crater Lake still has quite a bit of snow, so the park is open for free and pretty calm. It is one of my favorite times to visit. We got up to the rim and parked the car. As we walked around, Tom wanted to keep going a little farther and was trying to shake another couple who was following us a bit. We finally found a beautiful little look out just the two of us. He said, "I'm so happy to be here with you." To which I responded, "Ohhh babe, me too!" "But that's not all" he said. It was as if the universe stopped for a second and shifted course! I think I couldn't stop giggling and saying "Oh my God!"
As far as engagements, he nailed it for me - it was one of my favorite places, with just the two of us. He'd asked my dad the night before, but other than that, no one else knew about it! We enjoyed a few hours in the park exploring a bit and enjoying the feeling. My mom was pretty blown away when we got back home!
BEST WISHES to Tom Shanahan of Kilbaha and Gina Gailis of Oregon who were married at Moyvane Church on July 8, 2016. They met in 2011 at Bishop Kelly High School - where they both currently work.
PAPERS on Irish
Protecting Irish Immigrant Girls.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 47, 20 November 1902, Page 3
Protecting Irish Immigrant Girls.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZT19021120.2.6&srpos=1&e=-------10-NZT-1----0girl+guides--
Since its organisation, 19 years ago, it has been the custom of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary, for the protection of Irish immigrant girls, New York, to issue an annual address to its patrons and supporters. The statement given out this year by Rev. M. J. Henry, the zealous director of the mission, is of the most interesting character. You are aware, he says, that New York, Boston, and Philadelphia are the three ports on the Atlantic seaboard through which Irish immigrants enter the United States. From the record of three landing places we learn that during the year ending June 30, there came from Ireland into the realm of Uncle Sam 28,846 immigrants of both sexes. Naturally, you will be anxious to know how this report compares with that of last year. The comparison is— for year ending June 30, 1901, 30,257 for the year ending June 3O, 1902, 28,846. This record shows a falling off to the extent of 1,411.
lt would be interesting to find a cause for this decrease. Admittedly, this has been a very prosperous year for the United States. Intending emigrants from Europe are nowadays kept well informed of the industrial conditions of this country. The more prosperous the times, the larger the immigration. In proof of this I may state that 100,000 more immigrants landed at New York this year than the year previous. In the face of such conditions, we must trace the decrease in the number of immigrants from Ireland to some great and potent influence. It may be that the dwindling of the Irish population for years past has had an appreciable effect upon emigration. Perhaps with the improved condition of labour in Ireland, young men and young women are not so anxious to leave their homes as they used to be. We would rather find the cause in the movement against emigration, which the Irish bishops, the Irish parliamentarians, and the Irish press have inaugurated. The result of their united efforts is the check that was put upon reckless emigration during the past 12 months. We have always been in sympathy with such a movement. We welcome the day when Ireland, with her industries resurrected, will be able to maintain her own children, and when there will be no further need in the land of the stranger of a home for the Irish exile. The port of New York admits by far the largest number of immigrants. The total for the year was 493,262, or nearly half a million. To this aggregate Ireland contributed 19,391. Of this number 10,650 were females, mostly young girls. There are many, I presume, who will hear of the mission's existence for the first time. On their account we will briefly summarise the extent of its charity. First.— lt exercises a moral influence over steamship lines to protect the immigrant on board of their vessels Second. It watches over, guides, and assists at the landing depot those immigrant girls who intend to proceed by rail or steamboat to their destination. Third. It examines the claims and fitness of relatives and friends who call for the immigrant. Fourth.— lt provides a home free of charge for those girls whose friends do not call on the day of arrival, or who have no friends at all, or who are unable to proceed on their journey. Fifth. It tries to locate relatives of those who bring indefinite addresses. Sixth. It secures positions in good families for those ready to go to work. From this you will see that the work allows plenty of room for the exercise of charity. The fathers of the mission, together with Agent Patrick McCool, are at Ellis Island on the arrival of the Irish girls. Every attention is given to their guidance and comfort. It is wonderful how a cheery welcome or a kind word from a priest will lighten the weight of care and anxiety from young Irish hearts. 'All Irish girls left over at the landing depot are in the evening brought to a pleasant home provided for them, where they are welcome to remain without paying for board and lodging. Of these there were 1,835 during the year. They remained with us some for a night and some for a week. Connected with the home is a free employment bureau. Positions in good families were secured for about 400 girls during the year. The unprecedented demand upon us for servants is a silent but eloquent tribute given by the public to the purity, the honesty and the fidelity of the Irish girl.
A Bloody Step On The Road To Irish Freedom
March 13, 1988|By June Sawyers.
It was a great place for a murder-an old cottage in an open area in what was then suburban Lake View and now the Uptown neighborhood. There, on the night of May 4, 1889, Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, a 43-year-old prominent Chicago physician, was bludgeoned to death. His attackers were allegedly members of the Clan-na-Gael, a secret organization working for Irish independence, and for months the murder was the talk of the town.
The clan, according to historian Michael F. Funchion, was founded in New York in 1867 and established a branch in the Bridgeport neighborhood in 1869. Its local head was a lawyer, Alexander Sullivan, and Cronin`s troubles with the clan began when he accused Sullivan and others of misappropriating clan funds and threatened to bring his charges to the press. Sullivan, in turn, accused Cronin of being a British spy.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-03-13/features/8802290577_1_clan-cottage-buggy
Martin Hogan, who was born in Limerick in 1833, first became a British soldier, later joining the Fenians. Fennessy said he suspects that he joined the British Army only because he couldn't find other employment. Hogan served six years with the Royal Dragoons, a mounted infantry, before becoming part of the Fenian movement. But before the Fenians could strike, their plan was uncovered, and in 1866, the men were court-martialed and sentenced to death.
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GREAT FENIAN DEMONSTRATIONS; One Hundred thousand Irishmen at Jones' Wood--The City Railway Cars Crushed Under the Multitude--Fenian Delegations from Abroad--Speeches by Justice Michael Connolly, John O'Mahony, Capt. John McCafferty, B. Doran Killian, George Francis Train, William E. Robinson, and others. THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS IN IRELAND. The Action of Parliament--Important Debate-Protest of Mr. Bright against the Suspension--Reply of Messrs. Horsman and Roebuck--The Motion Carried by a Majority of 358. The Fentans in Troy--A Large Amount of Arms and Ammunition said to be concealed. The Fenians in Vermont-An Exciting Meeting-A Sisterhood Organized.
Notwithstanding the circular which the Archbishop of New-York sent to the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday, and caused to be read in all the churches yesterday, admonishing Catholics, and counselling them to regard the mass meeting at Jones' Wood as " an open profanation of the Lord's day, an act of public scandal to religion, and an outrage to the feelings of all good Catholics, especially in this holy season of Lent,"
Published: March 5, 1866. Copyright © The New York Times
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Listowel Blog Jan 2016
A Visitor Who Fell in Love with Listowel
Berenice Holmes sent me this account of her very enjoyable trip to Ireland in 2015. It's lovely to hear a first hand account from a visitor who had a great time here.
My name is Berenice Holmes and I get your Listowel Connection every day and enjoy reading through it. I thought it was about time I managed to share my wonderful trip to Ireland and Listowel with my husband Lionel last September 2015..
I started out a few years ago now asking on your blog how I could find out about my ancestors from Listowel. My Mum was always telling me all my life I needed to go to Ireland to see where her Grandmother came from in County Kerry which she was told was the most beautiful place on earth.
For a long time I had no idea where in County Kerry she came from but gradually I got more information and getting my Great-Grandmother’s Marriage and Death Certificate they both said born in Listowel. (Abt.1850). My Great Grandmother was Mary McKenna and she emigrated to Australia around 1871
and married William Ives in Queensland in 1877. My relatives are the McKenna’s of Listowel. My ancestors go back to Thomas McKenna and Joanna Foulkes who have some stories written about them and the uprising around 1879.
I have always had a longing to come to Ireland but could not make the trip as I needed to look after my Mother who passed away on the 1st November 2014 at 94 yrs. She would have been 95 in January 2015.
STACK/ FOULKES; Message: Just curious if anyone can assist me in finding the parentage of my great great grandmother Ellen Stack who married Edmund McKenna, the son of Patrick McKenna and Jane Foulkes. I know of Ellen Stack as my great great grandmother as she and Edmund McKenna are named as parents on the death certificate of my great grandmother Ellen McKenna Flood in Manhattan in 1924. Just want to find Ellen Stacks mom and dad. Maurice is a name used frequently in descendants and a Maurice Leon McKenna, brother to my Great grandmother Ellen. He came to America in 1865 and settled in New Orleans as a train engineer.
http://www.moyvane.com/knockanure-notes-22nd-february-2015/
Old Limerick Journal, with Bryan McMahon.Jane Foulkes
http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/pioneer%20of%20traditional%20music.pdf
LEAHY: William Leahy of Knockanure, born 1800 son of Tim Leahy and Mary Enright married Mary McKenna c 1826 she was a daughter of Tom McKenna and Jane Foulkes. Family still live in Knockanure and ancestors buried in Old Knockanure Churchyard, just in front of the old ruined church
Irish Abroad
O DONNELL
Gerald Francis O'Donnell, 98, of East Syracuse, passed away peacefully, with his loving family by his side, on Saturday, March 21, 2015.
Gerald was born on December 15, 1916 at 101 Second Street, East Syracuse. He was the son of George O'Donnell, Lisselton and Katherine (Dillon) O'Donnell of Tarbert who immigrated to USA from Ireland. Not until he met Genevieve (Whipple) O'Donnell in 1937, did he realize he and his future wife were born in the same house.
Gerald grew up on Winton Street, Syracuse, and moved to East Syracuse when he married Genevieve in 1939. He began working at the New York Central Railroad in East Syracuse in 1949. He worked there for 30 years, retiring in 1979 from what later became known as Conrail.
He was a devoted son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. He took great joy in his large family, six children, 12 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. At 97 he travelled to Houston, TX, to celebrate the marriage of his great-granddaughter, Sarah. His marriage to Genevieve had been the perfect example of what marriage and family should be all about. Their greatest legacy is the loving family they leave behind. They taught all of us to always love one another. He was a great man but the type of man who was humble and did not realize how very special he was. We are so thankful to God for his beautiful life and certain he is rejoicing in heaven with his wife, Genevieve, and all those he has loved and lost.
He had been a devout member of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, having been baptized there in 1916. Gerald had been a life member of the East Syracuse Fire Department for over 75 years. He and his wife lived on Frederick Street in East Syracuse since 1942.
He was predeceased by his loving wife of 71 years, Genevieve (Whipple) O'Donnell, 2010; a son, Daniel D. O'Donnell, 2008; daughter-in-law, Carol Ann O'Donnell, 1995; grandsons, Lewis O'Donnell, 1998 and Richard DeLing, 2004; a sister, Mary (O'Donnell) Mallette, 1997 and a brother, William O'Donnell, 2011.
Survived by three sons, George (Bettie) of Canyon Lake, TX, Robert (Melanie) of Jupiter, FL, Gerald (Frances) of Canastota, NY; two daughters, Kathleen (David) Farsaci of Naples, FL and Mary Alice (Richard) DeLing of Indian Land, SC; one daughter-in-law, Sally (Previtire) O'Donnell, Clay, NY; 11 loving grandchildren, George O'Donnell, TX, Kevin O'Donnell, TX, Heather Livingston, TN, Danielle Gerard, Canastota, Bonnie Martin, LA, Gerald O'Donnell, Syracuse, David Farsaci, SC, Tamara Dyckman, NC, Rob DeLing, NC, Kristen Blayer, NJ and Ryan O'Donnell, FL; 24 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 31 2015 at St. Matthew's Church in East Syracuse. Arrangements by Delaney-Greabell-Adydan Funeral Home, 241 Kinne St., East Syracuse. Burial in Collamer Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to AVOW Hospice, 1095 Whippoorwill Ln., Naples, FL 34105 or St. Matthew's Food Pantry, 229 West Yates Street, East Syracuse, NY 13057 would be appreciated. To offer condolences please visit delaneygreabelladydanfh.com
Emigrant Support Programme Grants
in Australia and New Zealand
The Ambassador of Ireland to Australia Noel White
has announced the decision of the Government to allocate financial support to 15 organisations across Australia under the Emigrant Support Programme. Total funding this year for organisations in Australia alone amounts to over AU$590,000, an increase of over AU$100,000 on that provided in 2012.
This is our blog detailing our research http://ballyduffodonoghue.blogspot.co.uk/2012_08_31_archive.html We are looking for O'Donoghues, Boyles, Flahive, Ferris, Nelan, Dee, Ryle and then of course there are the (O’)Connors! It is relatively recently, after over twenty years of research, that I discovered that my ggggrandparents were James Donoghue and Juliana Boyle from Ballyduff; my gggrandparents were Thomas Donoghue (b.1806) and Ellen Connor (b.1808). In March I spent hours pulling all the references to Donoghue, Boyle and Connor in Ballyduff and the townland in which it lies, Benmore, off the online parish records on irelandgenealogy.ie. I laid out the probable siblings for my ancestors and their related families. The earliest records are for 1782 but they are missing for 1786 to 1806. I have now learnt that the parish priest for those years had the habit of writing disparaging remarks against some of his parishioners, such as drunkard, layabout etc. When he was leaving he regretted his actions and his solution was to burn the parish register! I recorded all entries up to 1851 when Thomas and Ellen left for London.In April my sister, two sons and I set off to follow the trail. One of the pilots for a new initiative called Ireland Reaching Out was North Kerry (see http://www.northkerryreachingout.com/). I have firsthand experience of their excellent support. They introduced me to two local Ballyduff historians, one of whom spent a whole day with us and the other half a day. Many thanks Rod and Davina O'Donoghue
ROOTS WEB
8TH JANUARY 1870: OF CORNELIUS SCANLAN, a native of PULLOCH,
parish of
LISTOWEL, county KERRY, IRELAND. His father's name is
TIMOTHY SCANLAN,
and his mother's maiden name MARY MULVIHILL. Any
information concerning
him will be thankfully received by his cousin, JAMES WALSH,
OTTAWA,
ILLINOIS.
12TH MARCH 1870: OF DANIEL MULVIHILL, parish of
NEWTOWNSANDS, county
KERRY; when last heard from, two years ago, he was in the
state of N.Y.
Anyone knowing his whereabouts will confer a favor by
addressing JOHN
KENNEDY, REESE GRAFF AND DULL FORT PIT IRON and STEEL
WORKS., Twelfth
Ward, Pittsburg Pa.
17th DECEMBER 1870: OF DANIEL and MARY MULVEHILL, brother
and sister,;
their mother's name was MARY KENNELLY, from the parish of
NEWTOWNLANDS,
co KERRY. Information of them will be received by their
cousin JOHN
KENNELLY, care of REESE, GRAFF, and CO, THIRTY SECOND
STREET,
PITTSBURG PA.
(NOTE: AD OF 31/12/1870 CHANGES: PARISH OF NEWTOWN SANDS co
KERRY)
From: Joan Mary Williams <jwilliams@standard.net.au>
Subject: MULVIHILL
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:50:56 -0700
The following advertisements were placed in the BOSTON PILOT;
I have copied them exactly as they appeared - there are some obvious
errors -
most are KERRY people:
INFORMATION WANTED OF:
29thDECEMBER 1866: OF TIMOTHY THORNTON, a native of the
parish of
KNOCKANURE, county KERRY, who came to this country about
seventeen years
ago; when last heard from he was in CONNECTICUT. Any
information
concerning him will be thankfully received by his friend
JOHN MULVILLE,
box 239, WATERBURY, Conn.
3rd AUGUST 1867: OF MARY, JOANNA, AND DENIS MULVIHILL, or
either of
them, but especially of the last named DENIS. MARY came
to AMERICA in
1848, JOANNA in 1858, and DENIS in 1864, at which last
time all were
living in or near ALBANY, NEW YORK, where they are still
supposed to
reside. They are the children of PATRICK MULVIHILL, of the
parish of
NEWTOWNSANDS, county KERRY, IRELAND. Whoever will have the
kindness to
furnish to the undersigned, by letter at an early day, any
tidings of
the foregoing persons, shall be repaid his trouble, and have
the thanks
of their brother, whose address is PATRICK J MULVIHILL,
MEMPHIS,
Tennessee.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IRL-KERRY/1999-08/0935049056
Rusheen estate Ballylongford. Edward Scanlon claimed in 1887 in Pittsburgh, to have been disposed of his family farm by Colonel Crosby. Crosby said that Scanlon was the illegitimate son of a widow whom he had terrorised and to get rid of him, he gave him £25 to emigrate to America.
Taken from Trinity College Estates 1800-1923 by Robert McCarthy
Shanahan Stamp Auctions. in 1954, Paul Singer linked up with the Shanahan family in buying and selling stamp collections. All appeared well till on May 9, 1959, a robbery occurred in Shanahan's, with over £300,000 worth of stamps stolen. Then all the investors tried to cash out and the company failed. Singer was arrested on fraud charges, freed on a technicality and left the country.
Bob Tisdall won a gold medal for Ireland (and beat the world record) in the 400-metres hurdles at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics - an event for which he prepared by retiring to bed for much of the previous week? "I was afraid of getting stale," he explained. His training programme had ended with two weeks' running on Ballybunion Strand in County Kerry,
The first Irish-born winner of an Olympic gold medal was John Pius Boland, a native of Dublin, who won the Tennis Singles at Athens in 1896?
The Boot Inn at Cloghran is the oldest pub in Dublin(1593), rather than the Brazen Head (present building dated 1710)? Source: The Little Book of Dublin by Tom Galvin
PRESIDENTS AWARDS on 30th Oct 2014
Here’s the full list of recipients, with a short bio on each provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs:
Arts, Culture and Sport
Fionnula Flanagan (US)
In 2012, Fionnula Flanagan celebrated almost 50 years of stage, film and television work and received a life-time achievement award at that year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, presented to her by President Higgins. She is considered one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Joyce.
Since moving to the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles in the early 1970s with her husband Garrett O’Connor, she has mentored and supported many Irish looking to succeed in the entertainment business in the US. She is a strong supporter of the Irish language and of the Irish arts in the US. She has assisted the Irish Film Board and the Consulate in their work to promote Ireland as a location for US film and TV productions and to promote Irish productions in the US. She has opened the doors of her home to host events on behalf of the Irish community in Los Angeles, in particular the annual Irish Film Festival.
Thomas Keneally (Australia)
Thomas (Tom) Keneally is a well-known Irish-Australian novelist, playwright, author and commentator. He has published more than 30 novels, dramas, screenplays and books of non-fiction. He has won numerous prizes including the Booker Prize for Schindler’s Ark. Born in Sydney in 1935, Keneally identifies closely and proudly with his Irish background. His grandparents came from Newmarket in Co Cork.
His work has spanned many countries and peoples but Australians and the Irish are recurring subjects. In 1992 he published Now and In Time to Be, a travelogue reflecting on Ireland and the Irish. In 1998 he published The Great Shame, his non-fiction work covering an 80 year period and charting the history of the Irish who were dispersed around the world during and after the Famine. Three Famines: Starvation and Politics, published in 2011, looks at the Great Famine in Ireland, the Great Famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines in Ethiopia during the 1970s and 1980s. In 2013, he wrote the book for a musical entitled Transport which tells the story of the impoverished Irish women and young girls (the so- called “undesirables”) who were deported on The Whisper, a prison ship, to the Australian penal colonies.
Charitable Works
Fr PJ McGlinchey (Korea)
Arriving in Jeju, Korea in 1954 Fr Mc Glinchey, a priest with the Missionary Society of St Columban, was faced with a society that was deeply traumatised and ravished by poverty. Lead by his faith and knowledge in agriculture he set about helping to pull thousands of Jeju citizens out of poverty.
His model of development and profitable farming encouraged use of underused farm land and new farming methods. St Isidore farm was founded to include pigs, sheep, cows and now a stud. A textile factory employed up to 1,700 Jeju women in a time when jobs on the island were scarce. His forming of a credit union changed the economy of the island and helped the citizens emerge from poverty.
Fr Mc Glinchey never forgot the island people setting up Isidore Nursing home, hospice, kindergarten and a youth centre, which benefited more than 18,000 young people from all over Korea. These welfare activities, some funded completely from donations and profits from the farm, take care of Jeju’s most vulnerable.
Irish Community Support
Mary Allen (Britain)
Mary Allen has been a key community worker for the Irish in London since she arrived in 1948, playing an active role in the London Irish Centre since its foundation in 1954. She has also supported the community through her work as a member and officer of both the Waterford Association and the overall Council of Irish Counties Association, raising thousands of pounds to help vulnerable Irish people and others in need.
Considered by the community as a “lay ambassador” for Ireland, for a number of years she was heavily involved in celebrating positive Irish culture through the London Irish Festival.
Avril Conroy (Russia)
Since moving to Russia in the early 1990s, Avril Conroy has been a central figure in both the Irish and wider business community in Russia. As chair of the Irish Club in Moscow, Ms Conroy has played an integral role in the celebration of St Patrick’s week, organising the annual St Patrick’s Day Ball (with all proceeds going to charities in Russia), and the St Patrick’s Day parade in Moscow city centre, the only such event of its kind permitted there. She also organises the annual White Ball in December, the Santa Claus Christmas event for Irish community kids, a book club, running club and various other events to bring the Irish community closer together. She is also seen as the media “go-to” spokesperson for Irish related stories. In 2013 she became director of regional sales at Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil company.
Peace, Reconciliation and Development
Niall O’Dowd (US)
Niall O’Dowd is one of the founding members of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, established in 2005. He is also the founder of IrishCentral.com, Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice newspaper, and publisher of The Irish Emigrant newspaper in Boston.
Mr O’Dowd has created numerous business networks through his publications. He founded the Wall Street 50, Top 100 Irish Americans, Business 100, Top 50 Women in Business, Irish Legal 100, Science and Technology 50 and the Irish America Hall of Fame. He co-founded the Silicon Valley 50 with the Irish Technology and Leadership Group. He also established the US-Ireland Forum.
Mr O’Dowd was a founder of the Irish Americans for Clinton campaign in 1991, supporting candidate Bill Clinton for president. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin for his work on the Northern Ireland peace process. In 2002, he published a book Fire in the Morning, about Irish people at the World Trade Center during the September 11th attacks.
Kevin Cahill (US)
Kevin Cahill is a medical doctor with decades-long record of service to the Irish community in New York. He is president-general emeritus of the American-Irish Historical Society and has been active on its behalf for more than 40 years.
Dr Cahill has not only treated patients including Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, but has offered his expertise to a number of national and international organisations including the United Nations and the New York Police Department. He began his medical career in 1961, studying tropical disease in the slums of Calcutta beside Mother Theresa. His relief efforts have since spanned the globe and include treating refugees in Sudan, serving concurrently as the special assistant to the governor of health affairs, chairman of health planning commission, and chairman of the Health Research Council of New York State.
From 1969-2006 he was chairman of the department of tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In addition, he has been director of the tropical disease centre at Lenox Hill Hospital, clinical professor of tropical medicine and molecular parasitology at NYU Medical School, and the consultant in tropical medicine for the United Nations Health Services. He has written many influential works that chronicle his experiences as a tropicalist and a physician, as well as articles and essays on his love for Irish literature, art, culture, humanitarian efforts and international diplomacy.
As the president-general of the American Irish Historical Society, Dr Cahill has refurbished its prestigious townhouse home on New York’s Fifth Avenue and has continued the effort to raise the awareness of Irish Americans of their cultural history and ancestry. Raised in an Irish immigrant home in the Bronx, Dr Cahill has maintained a strong connection to Ireland both through his professional and personal work.
Business and Education
Jim Flaherty (deceased, Canada)
The late Jim Flaherty, Canada’s federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014, was an exemplary supporter of all things Irish. He supported many Irish related projects in Canada including the establishment of Ireland Park, the restoration of O’Connor House in Toronto, funding for the Darcy McGee centre in Carlingford Co Louth, federal funding for ICUF, the restoration of the famine graveyard on Partridge Island and the Irish Festival in Miramichi. Mr Flaherty grew up in a Catholic family in Montreal, and was of part-Irish descent.
Catherine Day (EC)
In her role as European Commission secretary general since 2005, Catherine Day has influenced the EU landscape through her championing of the enlargement of the EU to 28 Member States and her central role in shaping a coordinated response to the recent economic and financial crisis.
Colm McLoughlin (UAE)
Over the past 30 years, Colm McLoughlin has been an integral part of the Irish community in the UAE. Both in his highly successful professional career with Dubai Duty Free (DDF), and in his leadership roles across almost every Irish organisation, he has played a hugely positive role in the promotion of Irish interests.
From Moyvane.com
September 25, 2014 at 5:08 am
Barry Conway
Hello: Though I now live in California as a retired journalism professor, I’m originally from the Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada and a direct descendant of Michael Conway from Glin, Limerick and Margaret Mulvihill of Newtownsandes, Kerry, and who were part of what we refer to in Canada as the Kerry-Limerick Chain (i.e. hundreds of West Limerick/North Kerry families who emigrated to the Ottawa Valley between the 1825 and 1850s).
As such, I’m hoping to visit Moyvane next March to continue my research into the family of Nicholas Mulvihill and Mary Kennelly, and whose daughter, Margaret (1834-1901) was my great grandmother. I’m hoping you can help me with two things:
1) A recommendation for local accommodation — I can’t seem to find any bed & breakfasts, hotels, etc. in Moyvane on the Web; any suggestions would be helpful; and
2) wondering if you could direct me to any Moyvane genealogists/local historians who might be able to meet with me between March 23-27, 2015.
I have assembled a considerable amount of documented research on early to mid-19th century families from you area (e.g. Costello, McMahon, etc.) and would be happy to share some books/papers with anyone (e.g. local librarian) in Moyvane who might be interested.
Anyone can reach me by e-mail at btconway@scholar-gypsy.com. Thanks for any help you can provide
September 26, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Mary Beth Gannon-Keegan
Does anyone in Moyvane do genealogy research? If not, can you let me know how to get church records pre 1855 for that area. I have tried online church records for Kerry but can’t find anything that old or older for Moyvane/Murhur. I lost my mother to cancer and I promised her that I would continue her quest. Any help would mean the world to me.
Looking for anything possible marriage record of my great-great-great grandparents Edward Mulvihill and Catherine Shea. His father may have been a Dennis Mulvihill circa 1700s. I believe Edward’s brother was a Michael Mulvihill who married Mary Cregan. My Edward came to America during the famine and ended up in LaSalle County, Illinois. He and his wife died mysteriously and left their son an orphan at a very young age.
My mother and I went to Ireland not long before she died. We went to Listowel which we enjoyed so much. The priest at the church was not very helpful but the one in Ballybunion was, as was a kindly Teddy Flaherty at the Old Galey cemetery. We didn’t realize until we got back to America that we should have been looking in nearby Moyvane. My mom was so proud to be a Mulvihill, it meant the world to her. I even named one of my sons Mulvihill. Any help finding records on my ancestor Edward Mulvihill and his wife Catherine Shea would truly be appreciated. My name is Mary Beth Gannon-Keegan, I live in the Chicago area. My email is jfkiii_fiction@hotmail.com
Regiment: 24th Marines
Division: 4th Marine Division
Silver Star
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Awarded for actions during the World War II
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain Joseph Jeremiah McCarthy (MCSN: 0-11098), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Commanding Officer of Company G, Second Battalion, Twenty-fourth Marines, FOURTH Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Saipan, Marianas Islands, 4 July 1944. With his company in a defensive position and receiving intense and accurate enemy rifle and machine-gun fire, Captain McCarthy gallantly left cover to answer the cries of the wounded after two hospital corpsmen had been shot in quick succession while attempting to aid a wounded officer. Finding one of the men still alive, he attempted to remove him to safety despite the withering enemy fire, but during this endeavour the wounded man was shot through the head and died in Captain McCarthy's arms. His outstanding courage, unselfish efforts and gallant devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
General Orders: Commander in Chief, Pacific: Serial 78
Action Date: July 4, 1944
Service: Marine Corps
Rank: Captain
Company: Company G
Battalion: 2d Battalion
Regiment: 24th Marines
Division: 4th Marine Division
Catholic Press NSW 30 August 1923
Dr William Leahy. Must be of Knockanure.
The death occurred at Wagga on' Thurs day last of Dr William, Leahy, one of the best-known professional men in the Eiver ina district. At the beginning of the month the doctor had a sudden seizure, and although his condition, for some days was very' serious, his health improved, and his death was unexpected. Half-an-hour before his death he was fullvconsmnnn. ond xmn
conversing with his daughter. Dr. Leahy was 63 years of age, and was born at Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. He studied medicine at Dublin University, graduating from there with the degree of M.D. Later he secured diplomas at Edinburgh and Glasgow, in both of which towns he practised. In 1896 he came to Australia, and for three years engaged. In his profession at Crookwell. He then purchased the practice of Dr. Morgan O'Connor at Wagga, and had resided there since. Eighteen years ago he married Miss Nellie Donnelly, a daughter of the late James Donnelly, of Cunningdroo, Wagga. Besides his bereaved widow, he leaves a, family of one son Brendan, a student 'of St. Ignatius' College, Rivciview, and one daughter, Pauline, a pupil of Mt. Erin Convent, Wagga. He was a brother of the late Father Leahy, of Koorawatha.' The late Dr. Leahy's ability as a physician and surgeon was generally recognised, and his courtesy and keen interest towards his patients had won his way into the hearts of the people. He was particularly loved by the children, on account of his kindly disposition, and by no one will he be more greatly missed than by the hundreds of those who, in the course of his years of practice, have been his patients. The news of his death was received with sorrow in many families who had benefited by his professional skill and his kindness of heart. During the whole of his term in Wagga Dr. Leahy had been medical officer to the H.A.C.B. Society, and was on the hon. medical staff of the Wagga District Hospital. He was also hon. doctor to the racing clubs, and medical officer to several insurance companies. For the past five years he hail also filled the position of Government medical officer. His professional career brought him in contact with all classes o£ the community, and he won the esteem and respect of them all. It was in this respect that his truly noble character was manifested. Every case that came under his care he was helpful and took no notice of personal sacrifice. In private life Dr. Leahy was a model of Christianity. He was a staunch supporter and a regular attendant of the Church, and never lost an opportunity of assisting in any movement for its welfare. In charitable, appeals always ever ready to assist. He was a perfect type of an Irish . gentleman, and took a keen interest in the welfare of his native land. He was possessed of a genial nature, had not an ill-word far anyone, and always found the best in a person's nature. A more kindly gentleman it would be hard to find, and his loss will be sorely felt by his numerous friends in the Wagga district. ' A. Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the deceased's soul was celebrated in St. Michael's Cathedral on Saturday morning by Eight Rev. Dr. Dwyer (Bishop of Wagga). Very Rev. Dean O'Connell (Junee) was assistant priest; Rev. Father T. Ryan (Wagga), deacon; Rev. Father P.Gahan (Coolamon), sub-deacon; Rev. Father T. Mullins (Ardlethan), master of ceremonies ; Rev. Fathers T. Barry (Wagga) and P. McVeigh (Junee), chanters. There were also present on the sanctuary Rev. Fathers M. Hoyne (Wagga) and O. Clarke (Ganmain). His Lordship spoke feelingly of the deceased, whom, he stated, had led a saintly life. The funeral took place from the Cathedral in the afternoon. Every public body in the town was represented, and the cortege was a very lengthy one. The ceremonies at the graveside were conducted by his Lordship the Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Fathers Ryan, Barry and Hoyne. — R.I.P.
DEATH; Michael Lane of Kings Park, peacefully in his sleep, in his 90th year on July 26, 2012.Native of Rockchapel Co. Cork, Ireland. Beloved husband of Bridget. Devoted father of Michael (Mary), Kevin (Colleen), Kathleen (Russell) and the late Maurice (Lynn). Cherished grandfather of 15. Mass of Christian Burial was offered at St. Joseph's Church, Kings Park. He was laid to rest at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Hauppauge.
by Pat Brosnan
Loneliness of Exile
With emigration now at its peak again and young well educated and talented boys and girls one of our biggest exports, the situation crises when the question of how it affects those who are directly involved, the families and the emigrants themselves. In former times it was mostly the young who took the emigrant ship and left the parents at home to keep the fires burning and looking forward to the time when their family members would visit them for a holiday or perhaps return home for good when they had earned and saved enough money to do so. Of course there was a lot of loneliness involved when this was happening, the sadness of the parents and the call of the homeland for the young people who were doing the best they could to make their way and settle in a new and often alien environment. In those days some of the countries to which the young people emigrated were for distant places to where none of the fast modern transport that is available today was in evidence. If people wanted to come home from New York for instance it meant a voyage of seven days in a ship, from California it took twice as long. From Australia it took six weeks and with those long trips home for the exiles they were only able to come on visits very rarely and another factor of course was the high cost of those trips home. Even England in those now far off days was distant enough. For the Irish abroad the loneliness of exile was constantly with them and for many who emigrated in those days the prospect of seeing home again became a remote possibility and for some it remained just a dream.
But in this latest phase of emigration from our country since the advent of this present recession the whole pattern has changed. Where in the old days it was the sons and daughters who left home leaving the heartbroken parents behind it is the reverse that is now occurring. The fathers and even sometimes the mothers of young families who have been made redundant and cannot find alternative employment here and who do not like the idea of trying to manage on the dole or Social Welfare handouts have joined the emigration trail leaving the wife and children, or in more rare cases the husband and children to manage as best they can at home. These are very brave and caring people who endure not alone the loneliness of exile but also the constant worry of the loved ones they have left behind. From personal experience some of us are fully aware of the heartbreak of watching children crying when the father or mother is leaving them to go to work in another country. This is all very sad but unfortunately that is the way that things are and if the austerity that we are now experiencing is likely to continue that is the way that things are likely to be. During the late period of the last century and into the early years of the present one when the country was comparatively prosperous there was also a trickle of emigration among young people. But these were people who wanted to work abroad for the experience and not because of any economic necessity and was very different from present circumstances when unemployment is rife and there are no jobs available even for capable able-bodied people or the well-educated and qualified. Perhaps the young people who are now forced to emigrate may no longer have the same nostalgia attachment for the homeland that we had in our time when we were away or perhaps they do not feel the same loneliness as exiles that previous generations felt when they were absent from home. No doubt this country has become far more materialistic and less sensitive since we joined the European Union and perhaps this type of culture has its adverse offshoots on the Irish who go abroad as well. In former times we used to hear many songs and ballads bemoaning emigration and the loneliness and hardships of the exiles. But strangely enough many or at least some of the finest of these songs on emigration and exile were written by composers who had little or no practical first hand knowledge of what it feels to be an exile if they never worked abroad themselves. However this did not detract from the sentiments expressed in these songs some of which are very old but others of much more modern origin. These songs on emigration were all part of our National Heritage as most generations down the years had its quota of Irish people who went to work and live in foreign lands. At the present time the country’s greatest asset is its young talented people are leaving in their thousands and the saddest about it is that nobody particularly those in authority appears to be in any way concerned. The pace of emigration has not yet reached its peak but if and when it does our country will be much the poorer because of it.
By Aine Fitzgerald
Published on Saturday 12 January 2013 06:10
A CHANCE discovery of an old postcard sent from New York to Bruff by an Irish emigrant in the 1940s has prompted one local man to organise an exhibition of old letters, telegraphs and postcards to coincide with The Gathering celebrations.
Retired principal of Bruff National School, Tom Bulfin, got the brainwave as he was sifting through old photographs he was preparing to submit for a photographic display in the town last December.
In looking through the photographs, Tom came across a postcard that his granduncle had received years ago from a friend in America.
The post card was sent in the 1940s to Patsy O’Brien and the final lines read: “Give one of these to Mrs J and say a Hail Mary for me, at least one a week when you learn of my death”. The Mrs J reference was to Tom’s grandmother Mrs John O’Brien (Mary), and the post card was sent by a school friend of Patsy her brother-in-law, Richard Mulcahy, who was originally from Camass, Bruff and immigrated to New York.
2013;
TADHG Kennelly said that the defection of Ciaran Kilkenny from the paid AFL ranks back to Gaelic football is a "setback" for his recruitment drive for AFL .
by James Cross, Newmarket
I remember old Jimmy when I was a lad. He was still old Jimmy when I was a man and he hasn't changed in any noticeable way. Jimmy Cronin was his proper name, and he was the shoemaker in our town. He was the most interesting man that I have ever know. I used to rush home from school to sit up on the corner or the spare seat, near the window, and listen to him talk, as he worked. He had many hobbies. He was a very good trombone player, he fished and he had played football in Kerry in his young days. He was a great huntsman and he always kept two greyhounds and two or three fox terriers at the back.
It used to gladden his heart to see a fall of snow. He was sure to be off, early in the morning, tracking hares is in the fresh snow. He seldom killed one of them but he loved the chase.
2013
Detective Inspector Paul Gillen, who was head of the Garda’s computer crime unit in recent years, has been appointed head of operations at Europol’s Cybercrime Centre in the Hague. He was on the case against Sharon Collins, who went on-line for a hit man to kill her partner. PJ Howard Detective Inspector Gillen was also an external examiner for the masters degree in computing at Limerick Institute of Technology and helped set up a degree in forensic computing and cybercrime at UCD.
New Zealand Tablet , 27 August 1908, Page 23
MISSING FRIENDS
REIDY, Martin, native of Listowel, County Kerry left home many years ago, last heard of in Australia, heard of recently as being in South Island, New Zealand most anxiously sought. for by his father.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 855
Otahuhu
An old and highly respected resident of this district (writes an Otahuhu correspondent) passed away recently in the person of Mr. John Mulvihill, at the age of 94 years. Deceased, who was a native of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, arrived in New Zealand nearly half a century ago, and settled almost immediately in Otahuhu, where he has since resided. He has always been noted as a fervent and zealous Catholic, and his generosity in church matters was unsurpassed. He died fortified with the rites of the Church.— R.l.P.
2011
Ceol Luimnigh Night
On the Wednesday night before Christmas some members of the Ceol Luimnigh Traditional Group entertained the patients of St Ita’s Hospital, Newcastle West with music, songs, poetry recitals and dancing which also included the customary visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. The event was as usual sponsored by Newcastle West Red Cross Society Branch represented by Pat Dalton, Chairman and Josie O’Keeffe. The Ceol Luimnigh performers visited all the various wards where the entertainment provided was much appreciated by both patients and staff. The following members performed on the night- Tom O’Donoghue, Martin Enright, Mary O’Keeffe, Irene Quaid, Con Warren, Con Fitzgerald, Con Herbert, Brian Murphy, Pat Dalton, and Josie O’Keeffe. MC – Pat Brosnan.
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WILLIAM SHINE, who is living in retirement at No. 923,
Church street, Indianapolis, was born in county Limerick,
Ireland, about 1833, a son of Cornelius and Ellen (Enright) Shine
— the Shine family tracing their lineage to France. Cornelius and
Ellen Shine passed the greater part of their lives in their native
county of Limerick, although they died in county Kerry. They
reared a large and respected family, named, in order of birth, as
follows: David, William, Michael, Cornelius, Margaret, Ellen, and
Johanna. These children all still live in Ireland, with the excep-
tion of William, whose name opens this paragraph, Margaret, who
died in her native parish, and Johanna, who died in Kansas City,
Mo., all good and true Catholics.
\\'illiam Shine was married in his native county, in February,
1 86 1, by Rev. Father Morochty, in the parish of Knockanure, to
Miss Bridget Sullivan, a daughter of Eugene and Katherine
(Connell) Sullivan, natives of the western part of county Kerry,
Ireland, and who died on the farm on which they had passed all-
their life. They were the parents of si.x children, Mrs. Shine bemg
the eldest, and the others being named Mary, Thomas-, John, Eugene,
and Thomas (second). The sons all passed away in Ireland, and
the daughter, May, is now Mrs. Daniel McCarty, of Indianapolis.
The marriage of Mr. and Mr. William Shine was blessed with
thirteeen children, whose names are all given in the sketch of
of John W. Shine.
William Shine had been preceded to America by his son, Johiv
W^, and a daughter of about two years, and in 1886 he disposed
of his lease on the farm in Ireland and brought the remainder of
his family to Indianapolis, where he has prospered and now owns
considerable real estate. The family are all members of St. John's
church, and the parents are also members of the church sodalities,
Mrs Shine being also a member of the league of the Sacred Heart,
and the daughter, at home, a member of the Young Ladies"
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF INDIANA.
sodality. No family in the parish is held in higher respect, and
personally Mr. and Mrs Shine are especially esteemed for their
many christian virtues.
JOHN W. SHINE, patrolman, and one of the most efficient
members of the Indianapolis police force, was born in the par-
ish of Knockanure, county Kerry, Ireland, June 24, 1864, and is a
son of William and Bridget (Sullivan) Shine, both natives of the
same county.
William Shine was a farmer in the old country, but on com-
ing to America, in 1886, entered the employ of the Indianapolis
Belt Railroad company, with which he remained six years, and
then retired. He and wife had born to them a family of thirteen
children, of whom nine still survive and reside in Indianapolis, viz:
Mrs. Mary Mulehill; Cornelius, employed at Kingan's packing-
house; William, a bartender; Thomas, an upholsterer; Katie, a
dressmaker; Michael, a porkpacker; Eugene, a sawmaker, and
Maggie, a student, beside John W. , the subject, who is the eldest.
John W. Shine passed his earlier business years in the employ
of John Stack, a member of parliament and a dry-goods merchant
in the town of Listowell, county Kerry, Ireland. He preceded
his family two years to America, and for one year worked for D.
J. Sullivan, a dry-goods merchant of Indianapolis, and was then,
for six years, steward in the dining-room of the Central Insane
hospital of Indiana, having under his charge about 500 patients.
He was next employed for two years as assistant superintendent
of the Prudential Life Insurance company. During the two terms
that Mayor Sullivan was at the head of the city administration,
Mr. Shine was a foreman on street work, and December i, 1897,
was appointed a member of the city police force.
Mr. Shine was united in marriage April 17, 1888, at St. John's
church, by Rev. Father Bessonies, to Miss Katie Sheridan, a
native of county Cavan, Ireland, and a daughter of Bernard and
Kate (Maher) Sheridan, who also had one son, Michael, who
served sixteen years in the British army. Mr. and Mrs. Shine
have been blessed with two children, viz: William, who was born
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March 26, 1889, and Katie, born October 12, 1S91. The family
are devout members of St. John's church, contribute hberallv
toward its support, and poHtically Mr. Shine is a sound-monev
democrat. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
and was a charter member of the Celtic club. Mrs. Shine is a
member of the Ladies' Auxihary society of the A. O. H., and both
he and she are greatly respected by a large number of sincere
friends.
MICHAEL FRANCIS KENNEDY, deceased, was born in
Cambridge City, Wayne county, Ind., October 25, 1870, a
son of Martin and Mary (Dillon) Kennedy, highly respected resi-
dents of the same ciiy, but natives of county Kerry, Ireland.
Michael Francis, the deceased subject of this memoir, was educated
primarily in the public schools of his native city, later passed one
year at St. Meinrad's college, and still later studied two years
under the private tutorage of Rev. Father Spelman, and was by
him so well instructed that, on entering St. Charles college at
Baltimore, Md., he was assigned to the second (or sophomore)
class, or, in other words, advanced one class higher than the first
(or freshman) class. \N'hile pursuing his studies at St. Charles, and
in his senior, or graduating class, he was called away from earth,
a victim of that insidious and fell disorder, consumption, and died.
MICHAEL LAHEY, deceased, was born in county Kerry, Ire-
land, in 1852, and came to the United States in his young
manhood. On June 14, 1868, he was married at St. John's Cath-
olic church, by Rev. Father Bessonies, to Miss Hannah Neenan,
also a native of county Kerry, and a daughter of John and Mary
(Davis) Neenan, both natives of the same county in which they
lived and died, being at the time of their death about sixty years
of age. Mr. and Mrs. Neenan were the parents of eight children:
Bridget, wife of John Rice, residing in Indianapolis; Hannah, who
married the subject of this sketch; Annie, widow of Patrick Cro-
nin, who died of yellow fever, is now residing in Memphis, Tenn. ;
Margaret, wife of James Mahoney, still lives in Ireland, where she
has a family of grown-up children; Nora, wife of Patrick Harvey,
resides in Memphis, Tenn. ; Timothy left Indianapolis about ten
years ago and has not been since heard from; Bartholomew, who
came from Ireland to the United States and located in Memphis,
Tenn. , with the view of locating there permanently, is unmarried.
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF INDIANA.
Michael Lahey was a shoemaker by trade, and at this trade
he worked from his manhood until his death, which event occurred
in 1890. Timothy Lahey, a brother of the subject, and a laborer,
now resides on Georgia street, in Indianapolis. Michael and
Hannah Lahey were the parents of the following-named children,
viz: Timothy, now employed at Kingan's packing house, and liv-
ing with his mother; Mary, now Mrs. Wilbur Ryan, and living in
Elmira, N. Y. ; Kate, living at home; Johnny died at the age of six
3ears, and Johnny, the second, died at the age of nine months;
Hannah, and Bridget, the latter deceased. The family has always
been in Indianapolis, and most of the time of their residence here
have been members of St. John's Catholic church, to the support of
which, Mr. Lahey, while living, was a liberal contributor. He died
as he had lived, a devout Catholic, and highly respected by all that
knew him. While not a wealthy man at the time of his death, yet
he left his family in comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Lahey and
her children are all active workers in their church, and for the
cause of Catholicism, she being a member of the Living Rosary
society and of the Sacred Heart. Mr. Lahey was a member of
St. Patrick's Total Abstinence society, and Timothy is a member
of the Young Men's institute. Timothy Lahey is a 3'oung man of
excellent character, industrious, frugal and studious, and, being
the only son, it falls largely to his lot to care for the family,
which he is doing in a most commendable manner so far as possi-
ble, and thus is his mother's pride and his sisters' wise counsellor.
Too much credit cannot be given him for the course of life he is
pursuing and for the success with which he is meeting.
JOHN HENRY SCANLON, councilman from the Eleventh
ward, Indianapolis, was born in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio,
December 23, i860, a son of Michael and Margaret (Lynch) Scan-
Ion, natives of county Kerry, Ireland.
Michael and Margaret Scanlon were married in their native
county and in 1852 came to the United States, settling in Somer-
set, the oldest Catholic settlement in the state. The father was a
farmer, and to his marriage with Miss Lynch were born seven chil-
dren, yiz: Michael, a raiload section foreman on the Baltimore &
Ohio road; John Henry, whose name opens this article; James A.,
a liveryman; Thomas Joseph, a professional bookkeeper; Mary,
wife of Richard McGonigle, a machinist at Junction City, near
Somerset; Margaret, wife of Samuel B. Dittoe, and Kate, house-
keeper for hei brother, John Henry. Both parents of this family
were called to rest at Somerset in 1888 and 1889, respectively.
John H. Scanlon graduated from the high school of his native
city in 1882, and then entered the law office of e.\-Congressman
William E. Finck, under whom he pursued his legal studies two
years. In 1884 he came to Indianapolis on a visit, but was offered
a clerkship by the American Express company, which he accepted
and filled. one year, and then entered the employ of the Sarven
Wheel company, with which he remained nine years; in 1894 and
1895 he served as deputy county recorder, and for the p.ist two
years has conducted a sample room in Parnell Hall, at the corner
of Maple and McCarty streets.
At the October election of 1897, Mr. Scinlon was elected, on
the democratic ticket, a member of the city council from the
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF INDIANA.
Eleventh ward, and entered upon the discharge of the duties
of his office on the 14th day of the same month. Mr. Scanlon
is a young man of fine business capacity, is well informed,
and something worthy of note will be heard from him at no distant
time. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, in
which order he has served as county president for two years, and
is popular and respected wherever known.
JOHN JOSEPH McCarthy, a well-known and substantial
business man of South Bend, Ind., was born in county Kerry,
Ireland, June 24, 1843, and is a son of John and Jane (Lother)
McCarthy, natives of the same county, and born, respectively, in
1796 and 1S13.
John McCarthy, the father, was educated in the parochial
school of Abbeydorney, and completed his schooling at the age of
fourteen years. He was a freeholder, was a farmer all his life,
and was married in his native parish, in 1835, ^^3' Kev. Father
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF INDIANA.
Thomas Fitzgerald. His marriage was* blessed with si.\ children,
viz: Jeremiah, now a resident of Harrisburg, Canada; Johanna,
still living in county Kerry, Ireland; Margaret, wife of Daniel
O'Haley, of the same county; Mary, wife of Dennis O'Conners;
Thomas, of South Bend, Ind., and John Joseph, whose name
opens this sketch. The mother of these children was called to
rest in 1848, and the father in 1871, both dying in the faith of the
Catholic church, and their remains now lie side by side in the
Catholic cemetery of their native parish in county Kerry.
John Joseph McCarthy was educated in the parochial school of
his native parish, which he attended until he reached the age of
si.xteen years. At his majority he came to the United States, via
Quebec, Canada, where he landed in June, 1864, and thence, via
Detroit, Mich., he came to St. Joseph county, Ind., and for two
years was employed at Notre Dame. In 1866 he made atrip to
Canada, remained there two years, and finally settled in South
Bend, in 1868, and engaged in the grocery trade, in which he was
very prosperous and which occupied his time and attention for
eight years; he then engaged in the wood and coal trade, and in
this he also met with splendid success and acquired considerable
property, and finally relinquished trade altogether, in order that
he might devote his attention solely to his real estate interests.
Mr. McCarthy was first married April 17, 1868, to Miss Julia
Murphy, the ceremony taking place in St. Patrick's church. South
Bend, with Rev. Father John Louth as the officiating clergyman.
Of this union there was no issue, and Mrs. McCarthy passed away
April 27, 1889, her remains being laid to rest in Cedar Grove cem-
etery. Mr. McCarthy, shortly after this sad event, made a trip to
his native land, visited his relatives, and after a surcease of sorrow
returned to South Bend. June 13, 1892, at St. Patrick's church,
he was again united in matrimon}-, the bride being Miss Mary E.
Donovan, and the ofificiating clergyman the Rev. Father Spellard,
and this happy union has been blessed with three children — Mary
Ellen, Monacha Jane and John J.
Mr. McCarthy and family are devoted members of St. Patrick's
church, and it is needless to say that Mr. McCarthy is very liberal
in his financial contributions towards its support. Through his
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THE CLERGY AND CONGREGATIONS,
business sagacity and prudential management, he is now the owner
of twelve dwellings and one fine store, and is regarded as one of the
most useful citizens of South Bend and respected by every one for
his sterling integrity and many good qualities of mind and heart.
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CORCORAN LEGION
( Connell may be Michael O Connell son of James Connell and Ann Hennessy, James was buried at Knockanure in 1868.)
Lieuts O'Connell 155th and Michael Egan 170th N.Y.V.
We extract the following passage relative to the deaths of the above officers who both commenced their military careers in the Pope's Irish Brigade from a letter by Captain Michael Doheny to his father [this must be a typo because the older Doheny died in 1862].....
**** Near Petersburg, Va. June 17, '64
"We had a very heavy engagement last evening which lasted 'till about 11 o'clock. Our regiment suffered severely. I got out of it all right, thank God. I have now only six men in my company.....
"Tell Colonel O'Mahoney that Lieutenants O'Connell and Egan were both killed. We buried Egan on the field. There were several more of the Fenians killed or wounded but these are all I am aware of. I haven't seen my brother Morgan [serving with the 42nd NYV] for two weeks. This is written quite close to the enemy and within range of their guns. I must close now as we are about to be relieved.
Yours affectinately ,
[Captain, 155th] MICHAEL DOHENY
CEMETERY: Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky From: Bob Francis http://www.shawhan.com Date: Mon, 07 February 2000 MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY Paris, Bourbon County,
KERRY PEOPLE
Carmody, Ellen, w/o Patrick Carmody, native of Tilmore, County Kerry, Ireland, died August 20, 1863 age 35 Carmody, John, s/o Patrick & Ellen Carmody, died October 1, 1865 age 2
Gregory, Ellen, w/o Geo. Gregory of New Townsans, County Kerry, Ireland, died November 4, 1871 - age 65 years 6 months Gregory, Ellen, w/o Geo. Gregory, born on County Kerry, Ireland, died June
1, 1864 age 45 Gregory, George, born in County Kerry, Ireland, died May 18, 1914 age 80 Gregory, Margaret, d/o Ellen & Geo. Gregory, 1873 Gregory, Thomas, born 1,877 - died 1903
Healy, Frank, s/o T. & M. Healy, died July 24, 1883 age 18 Healy, Hannah, born 1852 - died 1893 Healy, Maggie, born 1864 - died 1893 Healy, Mary, born 1828 - died 1910 Healy, Thomas, born in
County Kerry, Ireland, died February 29, 1876 age 50
Higgins, Jas., died August 21, 1875 age 40 native of County Kerry, Ireland
McCabe, Dennis, born in Tipperary, Ireland, died March 16, 1880 age 51 McCabe, Hanna, his wife, born in County Kerry, Ireland, died September, 1874 age 40 McCarthy, Ellen, died August 13, 1866
age 21 years & 7 months McCarty, Dennis, born in County Kerry, Ireland, died March 14, 1882 age 58 erected by his brother John McCarty McCormick, John, born 1833 - died 1902 McCormick, Maria,
his wife, born 1834 - died 1902
McQuinn, Bridget, died September 2, 1854 age 9 McQuinn, Catherine, born in County Kerry, Ireland, died December 15, 1884 age 75 McQuinn, Catherine, w/o James McQuinn, born 1809 - died 1885
McQuinn, James, of Newtown Sans, County Kerry, Ireland, died May 13, 1861 age 63 McQuinn, James, born 1798 - died 1861 McQuinn, Margaret, died September 3, 1854 age 2 years & 6 months
Murphy, Catharine, d/o D. B. Murphy, May 19, 1870 age 3 years, 9 months, & 4 days Murphy, Ellen, of Prior, County Kerry, Ireland, died February 13, 1870 Murphy, Mrs. Hannor A., born in
Dungoly, Parrish Carrigon, County Kilkenny, Ireland, died February 25, 1882 age 75 Murphy, James, died 1893 Murphy, John C., of Parrish Bumblin, County Rosscommon, Ireland, died April 16,
1863(5?) age 40 erected by his wife Ann Murphy Murphy, Martin, s/o Ellen Murphy, died March 16, 1855 age 22 Murphy, Mary, of Parrish Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, died June 11, 1866 Murphy,
Patrick, of Parrish Mo Ankoin, County Kilkenny, Ireland, died July 12, 1863 age 45 years, 3 months, & 25 days
O'Connor, Daniel, born 1864 - died 1907 O'Connor, Dennis, s/o Edmond & Catharine O'Connor, died April 12, 1848 age 4 O'Connor, James, of Castle, County Kerry, Ireland, died May 11, 1866 age
38 O'Connor, Katherin, died February 18, 1900 O'Connor, Mary, born February 14, 1859 - died September 1, 1873 O'Connor, Mike, born November 18, 1856 - died November 14, 1888 O'Connor, Thomas,
born October 24, 1857 - died September 1, 1873 O'Connor, William, s/o J. & D. C. O'Connor, died August 23, 1867 age 7 months O'Connor, William, born October 24, 1865 - died September 2, 1873
O'Donnel, Bridget, born February 7, 1868 - died April 12, 1872 O'Donnel, Daniel, born July 19, 1868 - died October 20, 1876, s/o J. & M. O'Donnel O'Donnel, Ella, born May 19, 1802 - died
September 8, 1872 O'Hearne, born in County Limerick, Ireland, 1821 - died April 12, 1881 O'Neil, Daniel, s/o Owen & Ellen O'Neil, age 24, native of County Kerry, Ireland O'Neil, Patrick, born
February 2, 1825 died January 25, 1874, native of County Kilkenny, Ireland
Shea, Daniel, born 1851 0 died 1872 Shea, Daniel, born in County Kerry, Ireland, Parrish Vallentia - age 73 Shea, Elizabeth, w/o Daniel Shea, born in Parrish of Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland,
died - July 30, 1893 Shea, Ellen, w/o John Shea, died 1873 Shea, Gertrude, born 1885 - died 1900 Shea, James, born 1858 - died 1886 Shea, Joanna, born 1854 - died 1873 Shea, John, born 1810 -
died 1894 Shea, Katharine A., born 1876 - died 1879 Shea, Katharine, born 1869 - died 1870 Shea, Katharine George, w/o P. Shea, born 1858 - died 1923 Shea, Mary, born 1855 - died 1872 Shea, Nora,
born 1859 - died 1880 Shea, Patrick, born 1854 - died 1891 Shea, Richard, born 1862 - died 1872 Short, Mary, d/o John & Margaret Short, born September 23, 1800 - died January Sweeney, Martin,
died May 13, 1899 age 81 a native of County Tipperary, Ireland Thompson, John, born in Killglass Parrish, County Rosscommon, Ireland, died January 1876 age 52 Toolen, Mike T., born 1872 died 1906
Toolen, John H., born January 15, 1859 - died October 27, 1886 Toohey, Frank, born 1865 - died 1910 Walsh, John, born 1820 - died 1896 Walsh, John R., native of Newtown Sandy, County Kerry,
Ireland, died September 24, 1865 age about 53 erected by son Patrick Walsh Walsh, Patrick, born 1834 - died 1896 Welch, John, native of County Kerry, Ireland, born 1856 - died 1886 Welch, John
M., a native of County Kerry, Ireland, born 1839 -died. 1889 Welch, Julia, native of County Kerry, Ireland, born 1848 - died 1914 Welch, Willie, s/o J. M. & J. Doyle, born 1889 - died 1889
Welsh, John, born 1842 - died 1903 Welsh, Mary, born 1843 - died 1912 Welsh, Mary, d/o T. & B. Welsh, born October 10, 1866 - died September 20, 1877 Welsh, Timothy, born March 15, 1825 -
died March 6, 1908 Welsh, William, born in County Limerick, Ireland, March 15, 1350 - died March 11, 1885 Welsh, Bettie, born 1872 - died 1906
grandfather was Jeremiah Mulvihill married to
Sarah Clancy - she was from Limerick but they
lived in Listowel. My great-grandfather was
Cornelius Mulvihill from near Moyvane who was
disinherited when he married Annie Slattery from
Waterford. (He was 40 and she was 16). They
had 14 children, my grandfather being the only
one to stay in Ireland. I have no knowledge of
how they fared during the famine, but certainly
in my great-grandfather's time (early 1900s and
before), they were huge landowners out in
Moyvane or Ballylongford or where they lived.
Did they profit from the deaths of their
neighbours? I am not sure. They may have
always owned that land, because I know some
Cunningham people returned from the States
before the famine so maybe they had bought the
land way back.
Thanks and take care,
Elizabeth Stack
Co. Kerry and New York City
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Thanks to Vintage College Girl
Letter from Thomas Rafael O'Connor to Auntie Catherine Marie Dore
vintage_collage_girladded this on 29 Nov 2009
August 26, 1918
France
Dear Auntie-
I received your welcome letter yesterday. I have just arrived back off leave to Ireland. Well, Auntie, I reached my heart's desire when I stepped ashore and saw Uncle Willie (William Dore) on the 24th of July. I had a lovely time with him. He is grand man, he is so jolly, a full box of tricks. We went out to the races for two days at the Curragh, and it was great sport. He showed me all around Dublin and we went south to Limerick and stayed there one night and it was lovely to stand on the banks of the lovely Shannon, it brought back to me the times when the boy in New Zealand used to sing of it.
We arrived out at Shanavaugh on the 27th of July, and met Auntie (Bridget Dore Walsh) and Grannie (Johanna McEnery Dore), Joe (Joseph P. Walsh), Mary (Maire Walsh), and Mrs. Walsh and I was so pleased to be with them, it was a chance of a lifetime. Poor old Grannie said to me it was 37 years to-day since your Mother left me, and it seemed so strange that I would arrive back to them on the Anniversary. She is a dear soul, and very interesting, she has a marvelous memory and wonderful hearing. Well, it was a revelation to me to me that she lived ten years in bed like that, she is like a living saint. They treated me well, and Auntie (Bridget Dore Walsh) is such a jolly sort, and I tell you it was hard on me when I had to leave them. I just love Ireland and it was looking its best when I was there. I stayed twelve days with Auntie and it was all too short. Mary is a lovely girl, and as cute as they make them.
Well, Auntie, I heard more about my relations than I ever did in my life. It is amazing the relations one has in Ireland and I thought I would never come to the end of them, and I was nearly kissed away. They used to sit and tell me all my relations at night-time, and I used to get "boxed up" in them, and Uncle Willie used to laugh.
Auntie and Uncle, Mary and Kathleen Dore, from Rathoren drove me out to my father's people in BallyMacElligot, fourteen miles away, and we had a lovely time with them. It was the first time they ever went up that way, and they were glad to get aquainted. We had a lovely drive, and I suppose Auntie told you all about the pony, it was a beauty, I couldn't hold it.
I drove Nellie, and Dinnie and Mike O'Connor down to Auntie's place on the fifteenth of August, the Feast of the Assumption, and we had four big days at the dance at Knocknagoshel, and Mike stayed at Aunties for a few days. I was at Uncle Pat's place, my father's brother, for a week and I went out to Killarney and it was beautiful to see the scenery.
Of course, I was at the Puck-Fair on the 11th of August, and I am still laughing over it. Well, dear Auntie, I never enjoyed anything so well in my life, and I hope to see them all again soon. I told Grandmother I would be back to make the hay next year, and she said Jack Dillon and I would be going down to see her grave, and she laughed, and I told her she would see Jack and I go to the grave first.
Well, dear, this letter can't convey to you how I enjoyed myself, but I hope I will be able to tell you from my lips some day, and my blood thrills with joy when I think of old Ireland. I have had few privileges granted to me and this is one that shines above all.
Joe and Mary are fine children and I would like to have the pleasure of seeing Dick (Richard Walsh) and John (John Walsh) over in the states. Dick is a big fellow, he could put me in his pocket. Tell him I have his photo with me for safety, to keep the big fellows away.
Well, dear Auntie, I hope that this letter finds you in the best of health, and may god bless you all and that some day I may have the pleasure of seeing you all. I have a field card from Jack Dillon (John Dillon) and he is well. I had a letter from Auntie Nellie and they are well. I am on a good job now, so don't worry. I won the D.C.M., "Distinguised Conduct Medal" and it carries twenty pounds a year, it is a good decoration.
Well, I will say "Hurrah", with best love to you all, I remain your everloving nephew,
Thomas Raphael O'Connor
To: Miss Catherine Dore
900 Kirkbride Street
N.S. Pittburgh, PA
Here is an update on my Drury family research. Feel free to post on your website:
Death Certificates:
Mary (Frawley) Drury, born abt 1819, died Dooncaha 6 Dec 1889. labourer's widow
Children:
James Drury,. born 1838 Murher Parish, died 2 Nov 1911, Stoughton, SK, Canada, farmer (Buried Our Lady of La Salette Cemetery, Forget, SK, Canada)
Edmond ("Ned") Drury, born abt 1840 Ireland, died 2 Jan 1908 in New York, NY, USA, laborer (Buried Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, NY, USA)
Cornelius Drury, born abt 1840 Tarbert, died Tarmons 5 Jun 1898, army pensioner
Margaret (Drury) Brummell, born abt 1843 Co. Kerry, died Glin, Co. Limerick, 22 Nov 1919, wife of James Brummell, labourer
Bridget Drury, born abt 1850 Ireland, died Tarmons 23 Jun 1898, servant
OBITUARY (Unknown Stoughton newspaper)
Word of the sudden death of James Drury, aged 72 years, reached Stoughton on Thursday, Nov. 2nd and was a surprise to everyone. He was in town only a short time ago and appeared to be in good health, and indeed was up to the night of his illness.
The night previous to his death he was suddenly taken ill, medical aid was immediately summoned and upon arrive, Dr. Robertson pronounced it paralytic stroke. Despite all that was done, he gradually sank and passed peacefully away the next day.
The late Mr. Drury came to Stoughton to live some seven years ago from Rapid City and located south of town. He was well and favorably known by many in this district as well as in town.
He leaves to mourn his loss, four boys, the eldest Edmond, of Winnipeg, and Charles, Patrick and Joseph of this place.
The funeral left his late residence on Saturday last at 9:30 and proceeded to the Catholic Church, Forget, where services were held by Father Monrad, after which followed by a large number of relatives and friends, the cortege proceeded to the Forget cemetery for interment. The sons have the sincere sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement.
(Stoughton, Sask. 1911)
CORNELIUS DRURY ARMY DISCHARGE INFORMATION
Discharge papers indicate "born in the parish of Tarbert near the town of Newtown-Sands"
Height 5 feet, 6 inches, eyes grey, complexion dark, hair dark brown, occupation labourer
Served in the Kerry Militia briefly, then joined the British Army 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of Foot, on 22 Feb 1859, at Chester, County of Cheshire. Aged 18 years, 5 months at time of enlistment.
Discharged 28 Apr 1880 Nettey, near Southampton, by army surgeon. Rank: Private
Reason for discharge: "splenitis...During 16 years foreign service in Corfu Gibraltar China Japan and India has suffered greatly with malarial fevers - Had Cholera in Hong Kong in 1864 and at Rawal Pindee 1876. Regularly worn out old soldier served in Iowaki Campaign. Has varicose veins of both legs requiring elastic stockings. He'll not be able to work.
Intemperence: "Not so. Four (good conduct) badges"
Upon discharge his intended place of residence was Tarbert, Co. Kerry, Ireland
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FROM JOURNAL OF JAMES DRURY:
Letter to a Newspaper (1871 is handwritten on top):
EVICTIONS AT TARBERT
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRALEE CHRONICLE
Tarbert, May 21
My Dear Sir – The long impending sword has been finally drawn by Mr. Elliott, against the persons referred to in my last letter. The following are the names of the house holders evicted.
Patrick Sylvey Connor, Tom Ned Connor, Mrs. Drury, James Enright, and Michael Burns. In All 36 individuals.
Will Mr. Elliott, or his Solicitor, in the case let the public know why so many have been so ruthlessly evicted? I shall await their reply. I will let the public look forward for it.
In the meantime, I can safely, I think, state that the eviction was not for rent or arrears of rent, nor for any unwillingness on their part to assume, if demanded, a higher rent.
A TARBERT MAN
I have a baptismal record of George Kennelly (born 1838) to Ann Dissett and
Michael Kennelly that states Martara. This is the George that came to the US
with his brother Patrick in 1864 and settled in New Castle Pennsylvania.
Father Thomas Relihan to retire after six decades of service
Friday, July 18, 2008
By Scott Thomas Anderson
On June 24, 2007, Father Thomas Relihan of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ione celebrated his 60th year as a priest with a party at Clos Du Lac Cellars. The avid golfer and skier is now retiring as head priest in Ione, though he'll remain part of the community.
Photo by: Courtesy to the Ledger Dispatch
He left the green hills of Ireland when he was young, encountering the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island and a promise of something grand over the huge, sprawling concrete towers beyond the Brooklyn Bridge.
In California, his mission as a priest took him to Grass Valley, Sacramento, Auburn, Susanville - and eventually landed him in a small but vibrant parish on the farmlands of the Gold Country. Now, after 25 years, Father Thomas Relihan is retiring from Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ione with a lifetime of warm memories.
Tim Relihan (View posts) Posted: 13 Jan 2001 11:35AM GMT
Classification:
Surnames:
My name is Tim Relihan, brother of Julia Relihan,from Knockreagh, Listowel. I am a Great Grand son of Edward Relihan who travelled to the US and he worked in the gold mines, he must be the same one that you mentioned. Edward returned to Ireland and bought the farm in Knockreagh. He had a few children, one of them Thomas (m. O connell) inherted the farm. Edward was killed at the age of 45 when his cart over turned on him. I currently live near Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
In reply to Thomas Downey re Relihans of Duagh
Lucy Robinson (View posts) Posted: 15 Sep 2001 10:47AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Relihan, Brosnan, Dillon
My Great-Grandfather was Thomas Relihan of Kilcara, Duagh. He returned from the US in the late 1880s and married Mary Dillon. They had two children Katherine and Michael. Michael is my grandfather, he married my grandmother May Brosnan (from Listowel I think). Don't know if this helps.
RELIHAN, Co. Kerry, Limerick, to U.S.
Abby Root (View posts) Posted: 7 Jan 2001 10:07AM
Classification:
Surnames:
In reference to Julia Relihan's message of 8/30/99: My grandmother, Ellen Relihan, b.1860, Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, came to Los Angeles, California in the late 1870s. She was the daughter of Michael Relihan (m. Catherine Hartnett). Her uncle, Thomas Relihan (m Johanna Welch), had several children who came to the U.S., among them Edward (m. Julia Stack), Jeremiah (m. Mary Breshnahan), who had a dairy farm in Los Angeles), and Patrick. I believe that Jeremiah and Patrick had no children. During the late 1870s and early 1880s Edward was working in gold mines in Nevada.
I have information about the other children of Michael Relihan and of Michael's siblings, Thomas, Johanna (m. Patrick Hartnett), and Mary (m. 1. Patrick Hartnett, 2. Felix Ferron), which I'll be happy to share.
I would appreciate hearing from descendents of these people and from those with further information
[153] William Nolan (???? - c1860) - from Gortcurreen towland, Listowel, Co. Kerry, IE
[154] Johanna Buckley (???? - ????) - from Ireland
Children: Catherine "Kit" (1812), Denis, Patrick (c1825), James (1828), Margaret (1830) and William (c1828)
http://nolanfamilies.org/index.php?country_id=2®ion_id=1
http://dillonancestry.com/bunce_family_history.htm
William was born in the area of Gortcurreen, Listowel, Co. Kerry, and likely belonged to a Nolan sept which is well represented in county Kerry and which, according to MacLysaght, was originally part of the Corca Laoidhe (i.e. the Tribes of Leinster).
More Information on William, Johanna and children:
William most likely married Johanna Buckley in Listowel in the early years of the 1800s. They lived on a 3 acre lot rented from the Earl of Listowel and located in Greenville in the townland of Gortcurreen, on the northern bank of the old course of the River Feale, just west of Listowel. In 1851, the Nolan homestead and property was evaluated at $2.65. Based upon valuation records William died sometime before 1860. Johanna seems to have preceded him, since the property immediately passed on to their son Patrick.
Children of WILLIAM NOLAN and JOANNA BUCKLEY:
Catherine "Kit" Nolan (1812-????) m. William "Bill" COSTELLO of Trieneragh, Duagh, Co. Kerry;
Catherine and William had four children: Thomas "Tom Billy" (c1836), John William "John" (c1844), William Nolan "W.N." (c1848), and Johanna (c1849). In 1862, Catherine's son, John, a hedge schoolmaster in Ireland, emigrated to Canada and took a position as a school teacher in Renfrew, Ontario. In 1874, at Fitzroy, Quebec (sic Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario; not far from Renfrew, Ontario), John married Elizabeth Copps. Shortly thereafter, his sister Mary, his brother William "W.N." and his family joined him in Canada landing in Quebec city sometime around 1875. Also around this time John seems to have explored job opportunities out west, reaching the Calgary area even before a police outpost had been set up there (1877) and before the first passenger train had arrived (1883). In the 1881 census, John's sister, Mary is shown living with John's family in Renfrew Village but it is not known where William "W.N." and his family were living at the time. However, in 1883, on the first passenger train to arrive in Calgary, were John's wife and children, his brother William and his family. William's wife, who was pregnant at the time, soon gave birth (in November) to a baby boy named John Calgary COSTELLO who is recorded as the first white baby born in Calgary. John stayed on and made a life for himself in Calgary while William only stayed on for a while. He is still listed in the 1891 census for Calgary as a merchant but by the turn of the century he had moved on. In 1904, William was working for a mining company in Washington state and had settled in Everett, just north of Seattle, WA. He died in 1918.
Denis who is presumed to have never married
Patrick (c1825-before 1886) m. Margaret Dee (c1839-c1908)
Patrick succeeded his father at Greenville where he and Margaret had two daughters: Julia (1860) and Catherine "Katie" (1862).
James (1828-1888) m. a widow, Mary Hough, née O'Rourke, circa 1854
James moved to Limerick where he established a successful "bread stuffs and feeding stuffs" store at 43 William Street. James and Mary had six children: William Michael (1855-1941) who married Ellen Mary Murphy (????-1941); Michael James(1859-1944) who became an M.D.; Johanna (before 1862-1891); Patrick James (1862-1913) who became a lawyer, emigrated to Canada and married Mary Elizabeth Lee in Calgary, Alberta; Mary (c1864) who died young; James Joseph (1869-1897) who became a journalist and married Charlotte (Harriett) Russell
William (1828-1905) m. Mary Kett (1846-1876) at Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare, in 1864
William moved to 3 and 4 Cornmarket Row in Limerick where, by 1865, when his first child was born, he and his wife Mary had established a successful pawnbroking business. Seven more children would follow but two died at a young age in 1871 and the last child born before Mary's death in 1876 would also die within the year. Stricken with grief after the loss of his wife after less than 12 years of marriage, William was unable to care for his remaining 5 children. Polly, the oldest and aged about 11 at the time, went to live with her maternal grandmother and the boys, ranging in age between 2 and 7 were "farmed out". For the next 15 years William's whereabouts are unknown but, eventually, he seems to have decided to settle in Alberta, Canada, where his sister Kit had already settled with her family in the mid-1880s. In the 1891 census for Alberta, William is listed as a farmer living in Pine Creek, Alberta. By the time of death in 1905 he had moved to Calgary where his sister and family lived and worked as a porter for Calgary's Holy Cross Hospital. To staff and patrons of the hospital he was affectionately known as "Dad".
William and Mary's children were: Margaret Mary "Polly"(1865-1953), Denis William (1866-1871), Mary (1867-1871), Patrick James (1869), Michael William (1871), Martin William (1872-1910), James William (1874-1906) and Bridget Mary (1875-1876). Of William's children, Patrick James (1869), Michael William (1872) and Martin William (1872) went to the United States. Polly (1865), the oldest, and James William (1874), the youngest, remained in Ireland. The latter married Anne Nolan but they did not have any children.
Margaret (1830-????) m. circa 1850 Thomas MOLYNEAUX, publican and grocer, of Church street, Listowel, Co. Kerry
Margaret and Thomas had 5 children: Margaret, Catherine (c1855), Patrick, Hannah and William B.
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Boston Pilot's "Missing Friends" Column (4 July 1885)
"Of Mary Shanahan, daughter of WILLIAM SHANAHAN & MARY ALLEN who lived in Urlee, Lisselton, Co. Kerry. She left home about 33 years ago, in company with Johanna Wolfe, daughter of Richard Wolfe of ballybunion. When last heard of, she went to Illinois. Information will be thankfully received by Johanna Shanahan, Cuba, Alleghany Co., NY."
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/infowanted.htm
Kate in Chicago
Jan 1859: Of PATRICK MORAN, a native of Recunnell, near Dingle [co. Kerry],
who came to this country about 12 years ago and was last heard from in Iowa.
Please address
his wife, Mary, (maiden name Fitzgerald) Cabotville, Massachusetts, or his
brother, Denis Moran, Staunton, Augusta co, Virginia.
Hi,
I am looking for any information about the family of Michael J. Moran,
originally from Freeland, Luzerne Co. PA. He was a tinsmith there in 1900,
and in 1906, moved to Phillipsburg, NJ, where he also was a tinsmith. His
wife was Isabella Mary Malloy Moran, and they had 9 children. One of them,
Loretta Grace Moran was my maternal grandmother.
Thanks for any information.
Bill Metzgar
Maybe this will help some. My great grandfather and mother were Patrick,
born in 1846 and Ellen Mary. Ellen Mary had the last namealso of Moran or
Morin. According to records, they left Ireland and moved to Canandaugua
Canada, From there into Michigan where they were married. Patrick was
training as a catholic preist for nine years prior to leaving the church and
marrying Ellen. After marrying, they moved to Edenburg, PA, near Harrisburg.
They had two distinct groups of children, From EDENBURG, they moved to
Pittsburgh, PA. One group of children including Frances, Lanetta, Margaeret,
Antoinette, and Blanche.
The other group of children were Nellie, TImothy (My grnadfather), Jane
Francies, Annie, Marg, Catherine, and Blanche E THis group resided on Negley
Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA
Blanche was married to the former Mayor of Pittsburgh, Joseph Moran Barr.
Hope some of this helps.
Hi... i'm doin my son's gen line and i'm stuck!
A Mr. Moran married Catherine ____ b 1800 VA d 15 MAR 1883 Morgan Co IN. She
had a blip in the newspaper when she died:
The Martinsville Republican 15 March 1883
From Hynsdale -
Aunt KITY MORAN has been very sick for some time and is not expected to
recover. She is past 80.
The Martinsville Republican 12 April 1883
Deaths: CATHERINE MORAN- age 83
Hynds Cem, Morgan Co IN: Moran Catherine 15 Mar 1883 Age 82Y 8M 21D.
In the 1850 census she's head of household with children i presume:
Stephen age 24 VA
Elizabeth age 18 VA (she continues to live at home til mom died - then poof)
C. M. age 16 VA
William age 13 VA (this is my son's line)
Sarah J age 10 IN
In 1860 she has a nephew Thomas HITE who grows up in her home, and he
possibly had a sister "Malicy".
Elizabeth, Wm and Sarah are still at home.
In 1870 she lives with dau Elizabeth and the nephew.
Wm married a Jane Collier and they have children in 1870 then in 1880, again
i presume, they've died as the children are in other homes as "servants" or
married and i can't find the parents anywhere.
Does anyone have any info on this family? Who is Mr. Moran that Catherine
married origionally? What is her maiden name?
Where'd the children go? i haven't found them in any local graveyards. Who
are the HITEs?
Thank you!
http://genforum.genealogy.com/moran/messages/3213.html
Re: Terence James Moran
Posted by: Ralph Connors (ID *****9163)Date: June 14, 2010 at 07:34:56
In Reply to: Terence James Moran by Catherine von Ibsch nee Moran of 3259
Hello Catherine:
I search Irishgenealogy.ie, a new, free, online database of Co. Kerry &
Dublin church B/M/D records. I found this:
Baptism of TERENCE MORAN of LENAMORE on 1 April 1854 (Assumed) Parish of
BALLYLONGFORD R.C. Diocese of KERRY
Name TERENCE MORAN
Address LENAMORE
Father DERMOT MORAN
Mother MARGARET CONNOR
Further details in the recordDate of Birth 1 April 1854 (Based on other date
information)
Sponsor 1 PATRICK MORAN
Sponsor 2 CATHERINE BARRETT
For a marriage of the possible parents:
Diocese of KERRY, Parish of BALLYLONGFORD R.C.
Marriage of DERMOT MORAN of NR and MARGARET CONNOR of LENAMORE on 1 January
1860 (Assumed)
Husband Wife
Name DERMOT MORAN MARGARET CONNOR
Address NR LENAMORE
Occupation NR NR
Father NR NR NR NR
Mother NR NR NR NR
Further details in the record
Priest (NO ENTRY)
Witness 1 TIMOTHY CONNOR
Witness 2 JOHN MORAN
Using another database, for many of the other counties in Ireland for
Terence Moran B 1859 +/- 4 yrs, with the father's forename unknown, I found
3 rcds: 1858 Leitrim, and 1859 Leitrim. Father's respective forenames were
John, and John.
Hope this helps.
Langan
Ireland/Nebraska USA
cris
daisy_daisysgarden@yahoo.com
Searching for information on Maurice(mauritti) Sylvester Langan born
Ireland,married Margaret Kennelly,daughter of Cornelius and Mary Nester (or
Nestor)Kennelly
Emmigrated to the USA 1877 settled in Nebraska.Any information is greatly
appreciated.
Robert F. Kennedy at Atlantic City, New Jersey August 27, 1964 Except from
his speech at Democratic Convention
.So, when he became President he not only had his own principles and his own
ideals but he had the strength of the Democratic Party. As President he
wanted to do something for the mentally ill and the mentally retarded; for
those who were not covered by Social Security; for those who were not
receiving an adequate minimum wage; for those who did not have adequate
housing; for our elderly people who had difficulty paying their medical
bills; for our fellow citizens who are not white and who had difficulty
living in this society. To all this he dedicated himself.
But he realized also that in order for us to make progress here at
home, that we had to be strong overseas, that our military strength had to
be strong. He said one time, "Only when our arms are sufficient, without
doubt, can we be certain, without doubt, that they will never have to be
employed." So when we had the crisis with the Soviet Union and the Communist
Bloc in October of 1962, the Soviet Union withdrew their missiles and
bombers from Cuba.
Even beyond that, his idea really was that this country, that this
world, should be a better place when we turned it over to the next
generation than when we inherited it from the last generation. That is
why--with all of the other efforts that he made--the Test Ban Treaty, which
was done with Averell Harriman, was so important to him. And that's why he
made such an effort and was committed to the young people not only of the
United States but to the young people of the world. And in all of these
efforts you were there all of you.
Quotes; On Inauguration Day 22 Jan 1961 JFK said my fellow Americans, ask
not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your
country.”
“I believe in an America that is on the march. We must not stand still; we
must not be at anchor; we must not sit on dead center; we must not content
ourselves with the easy life; we must open the gates and stride forward in
accomplishment.”
In 1874, word reached England that Charles Duffy who had been elected Prime Minister of Australia
JOHN MITCHELL, prominent New York politician. This was the father of John
Purroy Mitchell, Mayor of New York, at the outbreak of World War I.
MORRIS LYENE, Attorney General of Australia, to which office
MICHAEL IRELAND succeeded him
PATRICK DONAHUE, Brigadier General, United States Army
THOMAS D’ARCY McGEE, Member of Parliament, Montreal, Minister of
Agriculture and President of Council Dominion of Canada
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, Governor of Montana
TERRENCE MCMANUS, Brigadier General, United States Army
RICHARD O’GORMAN, Governor General of Newfoundland
Sullivan, Francis S., an eminent legal writer, was born in the south of Ireland early in the 18th century, and graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a fellow in 1738. He died about 1775. His principal works were, a Treatise on Feudal Law, and Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England. Of the first, an eminent legal writer, quoted by Allibone, says: "We know of no work on feudal learning and the first principles of the English constitution, equal in merit or interest... Copious in detail, and exhibiting ably, among other topics, the influence of the feudal system upon the modern law of tenures."
Griffin, Gerald, poet and novelist, was born, 12th December 1803, in Limerick, where his father was a brewer. Gerald was a remarkably gentle and susceptible lad. His first master was Richard McEligot, a genius of some celebrity in Limerick. When Gerald was seven years old the family removed to Fairy Lawn, a cottage charmingly situated on the Shannon, twenty-eight miles below Limerick. His recollections of this spot were ever of the most delightful character.
The home family then consisted of the father, an amiable, easy-going man; the mother, a woman of sound sense, strong religious feelings, and acute literary perceptions; two elder sisters; two brothers (Gerald and Daniel); and two younger sisters. The rest of the family were scattered. Here his strong literary tastes began to develop themselves: they were wisely directed and encouraged by his mother, and fostered by a visiting tutor. Gerald was almost constantly immersed in books, and he even began to write poetry. At times he devoted himself to fishing and shooting, more from the opportunity they afforded of revelling in the contemplation of nature, than from any love of the sports themselves. His education was continued at neighbouring schools — Virgil becoming his favourite author.
In 1820, in consequence of pecuniary difficulties, his parents removed to Pennsylvania, with some of the elder members of the family — a bitter trial to a lad of Gerald's tender and loving nature. He was then, with his brother Daniel and two sisters, received into the house of his elder brother, a doctor at Adare. Gerald ever considered that the antiquities and historical associations of the place had much to do with impressing his imaginative faculties. He was intended for the medical profession, but his preference for literature now became marked; he wrote for the papers in Limerick, joined a Thespian society, became acquainted with John Banim, and one day called his brother into his room, and showed him Aguire, a tragedy he had written, and announced his intention of proceeding to London to push his fortune.
Nothing could turn him from this resolve, and in the autumn of 1823, not twenty years of age, he started for the great metropolis where he remained more than three years-until the early part of 1827. At first he was quite unsuccessful in his literary attempts, and, too high spirited to pain his friends at home with the truth, he suffered the bitterest privations, by which his health was permanently injured. John Banim, as far as he was permitted, proved a true friend.
Gerald ultimately turned his attention to writing for reviews and magazines, and attained a respectable position. His Hollantide Tales were his first decided success. The pleasure of his return home in 1827 was saddened by the death of a beloved sister, in whose memory he wrote the exquisite lines commencing, "Oh, not for ever lost." During his sojourn at Pallaskenry, whither his brother had removed from Adare, he enjoyed a delightful season of rest, and wrote the Tales of the Munster Festivals, which he brought to London to publish in the autumn. The Collegians, the ablest and most successful of his works, followed. One of the most laboured of his works was his novel The Invasion, a book displaying minute acquaintance with the manners and customs of ancient Ireland.
About this period he became intimate with a family in Limerick, one of whose members, a married lady, exercised a great influence over his after life. She was the inspirer of many of his best poetical pieces, and with her and her husband and children he passed probably some of the happiest days of his life. Their correspondence occupies a large portion of his memoirs edited by his brother. As his literary abilities became more recognized, he appeared to lose a relish for all mundane affairs, and in September 1838, having burnt most of his unpublished writings, he entered on a noviciate in the Catholic society of Christian Brothers, in Dublin. As far as we can judge, this retirement from the world brought him happiness.
He became absorbed in the duties of his new life; but died of fever on the 12th of June 1840, aged 36, at the North Monastery, Cork, and was buried in the cemetery attached to the institution. He was tall and well formed, with an intellectual and rather pensive cast of countenance. Many of his poems are very beautiful, and some will doubtless long hold a place in English literature. The preservation of several is due to the memory of his friend, Mrs. Fisher.
His drama of Gisippus, acted at Drury-lane in 1842, after his death, met with a warm reception, but has not held a permanent place on the stage. Miss Mitford says: "The book that, above any other, speaks to me of the trials, the sufferings, the broken heart of the man of genius, is that Life of Gerald Griffin, written by a brother worthy of him, which precedes the only edition of his collected works." A notice of his elder brother, William Griffin, M,D. (born, 25th October 1794; died, 9th July 1848), author of a few tales published in Gerald's Hollantide and Tales of a Jury-room, and of some medical treatises, will be found in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, vol. iv.
DOHERTY FAMILYFebruary 22, 2011
Hi, Trying to trace my Uncle Dennis Doherty & Aunt Mary last known address in Abbeyfeale. Grateful to get in touch…it’s been too long and Dad would love to see you. Much love, Melanie
E-mail: melanie_woodcock@hotmail.com
O’Keefe’s of MeenscovaneFebruary 10, 2011
Hi! My name is Maura and I live in the USA. I\’m planning a trip to Ireland with my sister in June and have heard from my nephew (also in USA) that my mom\’s home in Meenscovane is no longer there. Perhaps you would be so kind as to point me in the right direction to get in touch with folks who are familiar with my family in Meenscovane. My Mom was Nancy (Anne) O\’keeffe, daughter to Jack and sister of Timothy and Mary. Her nephew Con O\’keeffe (married to Mary) still owned and operated the farm there when I visited as a young person in the 1960s. Her niece Moll (mother of Martin) lived in another farm close by (walking distance) but I cannot remember her married name.
Any help you can pass along would be so wonderful. After I visit with my sister, Pat, I want to visit again and bring my children and grandchildren to show them the wonderful place that is their history.
I did visit the Facebook site you mentioned in the community news but was not successful in reaching anyone – names change, etc.
Hoping to hear from you, and again – many thanks for the Newsletter you have on line and any help you can pass along.
Maura O\’Brien Miller
E-mail: mauraob@hotmail.com
Hannah FitzgibbonMay 19, 2011
I’m looking for information on my Great Grandmother Hannah Fiztbibbon who passed away in the 1990’s aged roughly 103/4, and also her children etc, She had 2 daughters – Nora who went to England & married, Nora had 3 children who spent their holidays in Abbeyfeale,their names are Bridget,Nora and John. Her other daughter I do not know her 1st name but I do know that she married a Cusack. Can anyone help me with info even on my Great Grandfather etc. I am living in Ireland and trying to trace my family tree. You can use my email as a contact – njhynes@eircom.net
Noreen Browne Sheahan R.I.PApril 4, 2011
Just to say thanks to people who tried to help me find this woman, unfortunately i have been trying for over 22 years and people who knew her unfortunately never got in touch with me, my biggest regret now is that while i was looking for inormation this woman was in Cahermoyle Nursing Home alive, all the time, Sleep well Noreen.
Hannah Flaherty (Joan)March 28, 2011
My mother Hannah Flaherty (born 1925 to James Flaherty and Sarah Gowran) lived in Abbeyfeale until she moved to Manchester approx 1948. I’m visiting Ireland with my husband and children at Easter and would love to meet anyone who knew of her (or our relatives)
Mary Bridget CollinsMarch 19, 2011
I’m looking for information on my grandmother, Mary Bridget Collins, born in Abbeyfeale in 1894. She emigrated to the US. Don’t have names of her parents or siblings. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
SEEKING FITZGERALDSMarch 18, 2011
My name is Dennis Shea, and I am hoping to get in touch with any Fitzgeralds of Abbeyfeale. My great-great grandfather was a man named Edward Fitzgerald, and I believe he emigrated from Abbeyfeale to the US with several relatives, possibly brothers, Patrick, William and Christopher, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. I don\’t know the dates of their departure, but I believe they were all born in the 1815-1830 range and were settled in the US by 1852 or 3. If anyone has knowledge of the family that might connect us, I\’d appreciate a reply.
E-mail: dennisgshea@yahoo.com
Happy Saint Patrick\’s Day,
Dennis Shea
• Collins
Seeking information on Thomas Patrick Collins, Sr. born 1790 in Abbeyfeale. Emigrated to US — Washington D.C. Daughter, Ellen Collins, born Abbeyfeale on 6 December, 1830. Any help would be great! Thank you.
• Any Daly Family
I’m looking for any members of the family of Martin ”Sonny” Daly who corresponded with my aunt Loretta Hickey in Chicago many years ago. I believe Martin had 2 sisters, Mrs. Galvin and Mrs. Barry. If there are any family members in the area, I’d love to be in touch. Please contact kbarrie@barrieprojects.com. Thank you!
• SEEKING FITZGERALDSMay 30, 2011
I am looking to find a birth certificate for my grandfather Patrick Fitzgerald. He had sisters Nora,Mary,Annie and Kate and a brother John. He was born in 1887 and came to American in 1907, his brother was born in 1883 and came to America in 1902. Ellis Island Records list their hometown as Templeglantine and Abbeyfeale both parishes next to each other.I need Patrick’s parents names and address and his birth date to get a birth certificate.
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• Hannah FitzgibbonMay
I’m looking for information on my Great Grandmother Hannah Fiztbibbon who passed away in the 1990’s aged roughly 103/4, and also her children etc, She had 2 daughters – Nora who went to England & married, Nora had 3 children who spent their holidays in Abbeyfeale,their names are Bridget,Nora and John. Her other daughter I do not know her 1st name but I do know that she married a Cusack. Can anyone help me with info even on my Great Grandfather etc. I am living in Ireland and trying to trace my family tree. You can use my email as a contact – njhynes@eircom.net
The Culhane Family of Newtown Sandes/Moyvane, Co. Kerry, Ire
Updated August 27, 2007
Dennis Patrick Culhane
3701 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
A-United States
215-349-8705
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Edit Your Page This home page is for the descendents of Patrick Culhane and Nora Enright Culhane, who were married, and lived on a dairy farm in Newtown Sandes (now Moyvane), County Kerry, Ireland. They had nine children, who were born in the mid-1800s. Many of their grandchildren emigrated to the United States, mostly to the Rochester, New York area, and other upstate New York towns.
This descendent profile was compiled by me, Dennis Culhane, of Rochester, New York, now living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I visited Ireland around August, 2000, and found the old farm and house where Patrick and Nora lived ("The Long House"). The Culhanes who currently live there (Sean and Maurice), and who were being visted at the time by their brother Pat and his wife Kathleen of Birmingham, England, provided some of the information contained here. They also provided me with a sheet of ancestry information compiled by Francis A. O'Connell, from which a good deal of this information came. Other information came from members of the O'Connor family (John and Padraig) who live nextdoor to Sean and Maurice. The O'Connors are descendents of John Culhane, one of Patrick and Nora's sons. Other information came from my father, Morris, of Rochester, and his brother, Robert, of New Ipswich, NH. This is definitely a work-in-progress, as there is a significant amount of unknown information, particularly birth and death dates, and even whole generations of children (Please forgive the usage of "Unkown" in the descendent report - it is not meant to imply that people were born or died "unknown" but that the DATE is "unknown.") If you have anything to add, including personal information, anecdotes, birth/death dates and locations, occupation, etc., please forward the information to me, and I will edit and update this site. Also, if you are in contact with other family members, please forward to them this website address.
I can attach images, photos, documents, etc. to this website as well, so, if you like, you can forward those to me, and I'll post them. I can return any paper documents you send me. If you have Family Tree Maker software, I can forward you an electronic copy of the entire family folder on which this family tree is based, and you can keep and update your own copy (I could email you the family tree file as an attachment).
Finally, send me an email if you are a member of this family, and would like to be notified of any updates to this site.
The Culhanes of Ireland and Rochester have not yet contemplated a reunion, but the creation of this descendents profile certainly suggests that we should have one. Suggestions...? Ideally it would be in Kerry, or we could try Rochester. Interested anyone?
Descendants of Patrick Culhane
Generation No. 2
2. JOHN2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born in Newtown Sandes, Lietrim Middle, in the "Long House". He married QUILLE (ENRIGHT?) in Newtown Sandes, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Marriage Notes for JOHN CULHANE and QUILLE (ENRIGHT?):
John married the widow next door, Ms. Quille, when he was 19 years old. This was considered very unusual at the time, since most men married much later in life. In getting married, John simply moved next door, across a creek, that is called a river by the folks living there. Their descendents still live in the house, as of 1999, the O'Connor family. Mrs. Quille also owned about an acre or so of land down the road a piece. She had one child from a previous marriage who emigrated to the USA. No other information on that person. Mrs. Quille may have been an Enright. Her new mother-in-law, Nora Enright Culhane, was also an Enright. Currently, we don't know what their relations were.
Children of JOHN CULHANE and QUILLE (ENRIGHT?) are:
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i. DANIEL ENRIGHT3 CULHANE, b. October 1862, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. May 06, 1939, Rochester, NY, USA.
ii. JOHN CULHANE, b. 1870, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Rochester, NY, USA.
Notes for JOHN CULHANE:
Never married. Lived and worked with brother Patrick in Lima, New York, USA.
More About JOHN CULHANE:
Burial: June 1945, Beside brother Daniel in Rochester
Occupation: Farmer, Lima, New York, on bro. Pat's farm
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iii. PATRICK CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Lima, New York.
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iv. MORRIS CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Rochester, NY, USA.
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v. MARY CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown.
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vi. CATHERINE CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland.
3. PATRICK2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?. He married JOSIE EGAN.
Children of PATRICK CULHANE and JOSIE EGAN are:
i. ?3 CULHANE.
ii. ? CULHANE.
4. NANCY2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?. She married ? WINDLE.
Child of NANCY CULHANE and ? WINDLE is:
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i. PATRICK3 WINDLE, b. Unknown, ?; d. Unknown, Mendon, NY, USA.
5. KATHERINE2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown. She married JOHN ENRIGHT.
Children of KATHERINE CULHANE and JOHN ENRIGHT are:
i. MINNIE3 ENRIGHT, b. Unknown.
Notes for MINNIE ENRIGHT:
Never married
ii. PATRICK ENRIGHT, b. Unknown.
iii. MAURICE ENRIGHT, b. Unknown.
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iv. DANIEL ENRIGHT, b. Unknown.
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v. MARGARET ENRIGHT, b. Unknown, ?.
6. JOHANNA2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?. She married MICHAEL MALONEY, son of ? and ?.
Notes for MICHAEL MALONEY:
Was 1st cousin of Patrick Ahern, who married Marie O'Connor, daughter of Catherine Culhane, and granddaughter of John Culhane and Mrs. Quille
Children of JOHANNA CULHANE and MICHAEL MALONEY are:
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i. ?3 MALONEY, b. Unknown.
ii. ? MALONEY, b. Unknown.
iii. ? MALONEY, b. Unknown.
7. MARY2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?. She married ?.
Children of MARY CULHANE and ? are:
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i. NORA3 OWENS.
ii. ? ?, b. Unknown.
iii. ? ?, b. Unknown.
8. BRIDGET2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?. She married MATTHEW LYNCH.
Children of BRIDGET CULHANE and MATTHEW LYNCH are:
i. PATRICK3 LYNCH, b. Unknown; m. BRIDGET CULLINANE.
ii. JACK LYNCH, b. Unknown, ?; d. Unknown, Ireland.
iii. SR. THERESA LYNCH, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
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iv. MARGARET LYNCH, b. Unknown, ?; d. Unknown, ?.
v. KATE LYNCH, b. Unknown; m. JACK HORGAN.
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vi. MINNIE LYNCH, b. Unknown.
9. MAURICE2 CULHANE (PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland, and died Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland. He married ELLEN HANRAHAN.
Notes for MAURICE CULHANE:
Lived on the farm, long house. His is the grandfather of Maurice and Sean, who still live in the house (1999).
Children of MAURICE CULHANE and ELLEN HANRAHAN are:
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i. JACK-MAURICE3 CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland.
ii. PADDY CULHANE, b. Unknown; d. Rochester, NY, USA.
Notes for PADDY CULHANE:
Never married.
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iii. MARY CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown, ?.
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iv. NORA CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown, ?.
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v. CATHERINE CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown.
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vi. CORNELIUS CULHANE, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland; d. Unknown, Rochester, NY, USA.
Descendants of Patrick Culhane
Generation No. 5
39. BERNARD JOHN5 CULHANE (JOHN4, DANIEL ENRIGHT3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born October 21, 1935. He married DAWN MARIE ONDERONK.
Children of BERNARD CULHANE and DAWN ONDERONK are:
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i. LYNN MARIE6 CULHANE, b. July 23, 1964.
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ii. LAURIE ANN CULHANE, b. October 08, 1966.
40. MAUREEN ELIZABETH5 CULHANE (DANIEL J.4, DANIEL ENRIGHT3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born February 20, 1953 in Rochester, NY, USA. She married JOSEPH NIESCIERENKO.
Children of MAUREEN CULHANE and JOSEPH NIESCIERENKO are:
i. MICHELLE LYNN6 NIESCIERENKO, b. June 12, 1980.
ii. LISA MAIRE NIESCIERENKO, b. August 25, 1982.
iii. DAVID JOSEPH NIESCIERENKO, b. February 27, 1984.
41. ROBERT EMMETT5 CULHANE (MORRIS J.4, DANIEL ENRIGHT3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born April 07, 1932 in Rochester, NY, USA. He married (1) SARA GUINAN. He married (2) CAROL LINN SWENSON.
Children of ROBERT CULHANE and SARA GUINAN are:
i. ALICE6 CULHANE, b. September 17, 1955.
ii. ELEANOR CULHANE, b. September 24, 1958.
iii. MATTHEW CULHANE, b. March 16, 1960.
42. MORRIS BURKE5 CULHANE (MORRIS J.4, DANIEL ENRIGHT3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born November 10, 1935 in Rochester, NY, USA. He married MONICA EILEEN HANNA July 12, 1958 in Rochester, New York.
More About MORRIS BURKE CULHANE:
Occupation: Engineer, Eastman Kodak, Roch, NY
Children of MORRIS CULHANE and MONICA HANNA are:
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i. KATHLEEN MARY6 CULHANE, b. May 20, 1959, Rochester, NY, USA.
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ii. SEAN PATRICK CULHANE, b. May 16, 1960, Rochester, NY, USA.
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iii. TIMOTHY MICHAEL CULHANE, b. June 09, 1961, Rochester, NY, USA.
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iv. DENNIS PATRICK CULHANE, b. September 30, 1963, Rochester, NY, USA.
43. JACK5 AHERNE (MARIE4 O'CONNOR, CATHERINE3 CULHANE, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born Unknown. He married ?.
Children of JACK AHERNE and ? are:
i. SEAN6 AHERNE, b. Unknown.
ii. PATRICK AHERNE, b. Unknown, ?.
More About PATRICK AHERNE:
Occupation: Priest, Tralee, Ireland
iii. DANIEL AHERNE, b. Unknown, ?.
More About DANIEL AHERNE:
Occupation: Priest, Fiji Islands
44. MICHAEL5 O'CONNOR (PATRICK4, CATHERINE3 CULHANE, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland. He married ?.
Children of MICHAEL O'CONNOR and ? are:
i. LIEM6 O'CONNOR, b. Unknown, ?.
Notes for LIEM O'CONNOR:
I (Dennis Culhane) have been in touch with Liam. He currently (1999) lives in Chicago, working for the Kerry Group Corporation. He apparently has lots of family tree information that will help here.
ii. ? O'CONNOR.
iii. ? O'CONNOR.
iv. ? O'CONNOR.
45. JOHN5 O'CONNOR (PATRICK4, CATHERINE3 CULHANE, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born Unknown in Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland. He married HELEN HANRAHAN.
Notes for JOHN O'CONNOR:
Currently lives in John Culhane and Mrs. Quille's house, next to the Long House. Dairy Farmer. I met John on a trip to Ireland this summer, when I found the family homesteads.
More About JOHN O'CONNOR:
Occupation: Dairy Farmer
Children of JOHN O'CONNOR and HELEN HANRAHAN are:
i. MARY6 O'CONNOR, b. Unknown.
ii. MATLINA O'CONNOR, b. Unknown.
iii. CHRISTINE O'CONNOR, b. Unknown.
iv. PADRAIG O'CONNOR, b. Unknown, Lietrim Middle, Newtown Sandes, Kerry, Ireland.
Notes for PADRAIG O'CONNOR:
I met Padraig on the farm. He lives with his mom and dad in John and Mrs. Quille's house, farming dairy cows. We've corresponded by email.
v. EILEEN O'CONNOR, b. Unknown.
vi. CARMEL O'CONNOR, b. Unknown.
Notes for CARMEL O'CONNOR:
Spoke to Carmel while she was working summer job in New Jersey (Wildwood) (1999).
ARMY:
Trevor Chute was born to Francis Chute and Mary Ann Chute (née Bomford) on 31 July 1816 at Tralee, entered the British army in 1832, went with the 70th regiment to India in 1849, was in Australia in 1867, 9 July 1868, he married Ellen Browning.
Trevor Chute died on 12 March 1886, aged 69 at 'Egmont, Binfield in Berkshire .
Colonel Henry Elliott Chevallier Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener , 5 October 1846 to 27 March 1937, Field marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) both Born Kerry to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864).
Jennifer Musa was born Bridget Wren at Tarmons, in 1917. She left Ireland to train as a nurse. In 1939 she met an activist in the Pakistan Movement while studying at Oxford Jennifer and married Qasi Musa 1940, they went to Pakistan and became active n local affairs, Jennifer died Jan. 13th 2008.
Michael Moran of Knockanure fireman struck on chest on duty with hose died 31 Dec. 1914 while fighting fire in Stockyards.
Other firemen deaths; Ml Faley died 6 Feb. 1912, John J Vaughan died 26 Oct.1917, Tim Sullivan died 24 Jan. 1919, Tom Considine killed 4 Jan. 1924, Joe J Lyndon died 10 Nov. 1926, John B Hogan died 25 June 1925, Thomas O Connor died 19 March 1925.
Priest Penal Laws
http://www.archive.org/stream/MN42003ucmf_6/MN42003ucmf_6_djvu.txt
Julia O'Connell my husband's grandmother was born in Abbeyfeale in 1866.Her parents were John O'Connell and Mary Maloney.She married William Henry Kelly in January 1889 .The witnesses were James White and Ellie M O'Sullivan.Her son William was baptised 21 Oct.1889.The sponsors were Florence and Ellen O'Connell--her sisters I think-.Their address at the time is given as Meenkilly Abbeyfeale.
Just searching a note I made some years ago Fr Con O Connell Columban Priest in China 1935, Philippines c 1990, born June 8th 1910,
died 21 March 1995.He was 18th of 19 children and lived at Caherlane, Abbeyfeale.
His grandfather Denis called Donocha Og, born about 1820, died Died June 10 1918. The Priests father was Tim Connell.
In June 1926 he had a severe pain in his side and the doctor advised hospital, he did not go, pain eased and he had his appendix taken out 25 yrs later in San Francisco.
Fr Con had grandfather who had many children also and were in 6 countries including NZ and Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary O'Connell (better known as Sister Anthony, S.C.) (1814-December 8, 1897) was an Irish immigrant to the United States, who became a Roman Catholic Religious Sister. Her work with the wounded during the American Civil War and health care in general caused her to be known as "the angel of the battlefield" and "the Florence Nightingale of America."
[edit] Biography
She was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1814, the daughter of William and Catherine Murphy O'Connell. She emigrated to the United States, and attended the Ursuline Academy in Charlestown, Massachusetts. She then entered the novitiate of the American Sisters of Charity in St. Joseph's Valley, Maryland, founded by Saint Elizabeth Seton, and took the name of Sister Anthony. She was in Cincinnati from 1837 through 1852, when the Sisters in Cincinnati became independent of their founding motherhouse in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She was placed in charge of St. John's Hostel for Invalids, a new hospital.
Sister Anthony was an active nurse during the American Civil War, serving at Camp Dennison, and the battlefields of Winchester, Virginia, the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, Richmond, Virginia, Nashville, Tennessee, Gallipolis, Ohio, Culpeper Court House, Virginia, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and Lynchburg, Virginia.
In recognition of her service during the Civil War, in 1873, two citizens of Cincinnati—neither of them Catholic—purchased the United States Marine Hospital for her under the direction of her order, with the intention that the property be used as a maternity hospital.
Jim Breen says:
Hi, My father was Patrick[Paddy] Breen from Ballyconry, His brother Jeremiah
[Jerry] lived in Ballybunion were he had a smal jewllers shop on main street ‘still there
I belive,he died in the early 1970s, I was told he was an active IRA member, he left no
family. His brother Daniel went to Australia, I don’t know in what year.
His brother Dennis had a small holding in Ballyconry I believe he never married, he died in the late 1960s or early 70s. James and Michael I know nothing about,only that
when was young I was told I had an uncle in the US. my Grandfather was also named James. My father never talked about his time as a young man in Ireland, My uncle Jack [Mums side] told me when I was a boy my dad was shot in the leg by the brits,
but when I ask my dad about it he would allways say ‘never you mind’ or ‘bad things
happend. He did however have a nasty scar on his shin and had a slight limp.
There was also a story about an escape from a place called spike Island with his
brother,but could just be a story to tell a small boy? My dad worked in Coventry
during the war my mum [molly]ran a small shop in Ahafona. My family moved from
Ballybunion after the war to County Down, were my sister and I were born in 1946
and 48. Move to London in the early 1950s. My father took me to ballybunion in 1963
I stayed with his sister Cathy and her husband Simon,in Ballyconry for 6 months
I met Jerry and Dennis. Sorry I can’t tell you anything about the IRA , but maybe
it help back up what you know, any way good luck and good hunting.
Regards J.P.Breen.
I am traveling to Ireland in February 2013 and will swinging through the area. My ancestors are from Newtownsandes. I can't wait to see the area and hopefully find out more about my family history and any relatives still in the area. Below is what I know about my ancestors. If anyone can help expand this or provide additional information about places of interest (such as churches or cemetaries), it would be greatly appreciated.
Edmund Joseph Mulvihill was my great great great grandfather. He was born in 1819 in Co. Kerry and died in 1887 in California. He married Mary Lynch (daughter of Kate Fitzgerald, sister of Garret Lynch). They had 6 children, 2 of whom were born in Newtownsandes and 4 of whom were born in Guernsey Island where the family moved around 1850, followed by New York around 1871, and California around 1876.
John Mulvihill, born in 1847, Co. Kerry.
Denis Mulvihill, born June 1, 1849, Newtownsandes.
Ellen Mulvihill, born in 1854, Guernsey Island.
Catherine Mulvihill, born in 1856, Guernsey Island.
Edmund Joseph Mulvihill, born in 1859, Guernsey Island.
Mary Mulvihill, born in 1867, Guernsey Island.
Denis Mulvihill is my great great grandfather. He married Margaret Ellen Hanrahan in 1878 in California. She was born in 1852 in Ireland, was the daughter of Michael Hanrahan and Mary Mulvihill, and granddaughter of "Big Mike" Hanrahan and Bridget O’Shaughnessy.
If anyone has information to share about my ancestors, please contact me at darcimulvihill@yahoo.com. Thank you in advance!
Darci Mulvihill
My great great grandparents emigrated from Moyvane area in the 1840s Daniel Mulvihill Johanna Connor . my great grandfather was their son James they left Ireland and settled in Westport Ontario
O Hagan Papers
http://www.irishcollege.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hagan-Catalogue-Part-2-1920-1922.pdf
18 January 1920 Holograph letter from Geoffrey Gilman, St.Patrick's
was 100 Church, [Midnapore], Alberta, Canada, to Hagan. Expressing
his personal sorrow over O'Riordan's passing.
Hoping Hagan will be appointed rector; Miss Rathe keeps him posted on Roman
affairs. Delighted that Fr.Dempsey will come out on mission to them. He
is to be on a new appointment living in a German settlement and looking after
three churches. Brief description of the parish he is in now- the congregation
is mostly Irish and was going to petition against his departure- and the very
hard curacy he held in Calgary last year: 'so I was broken in with a vengeance.
I made 6 converts'. Asking for Hagan's book on theology from which
he prepared much-used sermons; also asking for relics which Miss Rathe can
arrange to be sent to him.
IRISH
20 January 1920 Holograph letter from Seán T.Ó Ceallaigh, Grand Hôwas
94&104 tel, Paris (France), to Hagan, expecting to come to
Rome the followng week. Enclosing copies of typescript
circular letter (16 January) from the delegation of the Irish government
(one in English translation) signed by himself and G.Gavan Duffy (envoys),
to Sir Eric Drummond and all delegates attending the meeting of the League
of Nations, and to President Wilson (English translation) – no Italian papers
have published it yet. The letter contains a solemn protest against 'this unreal
English simulacrum of an International League of Peace' because it is 'an
engine of Empire' that will further strengthen English hegemony against the
claims of nations struggling for independence: invoking Ireland, as 'one of the
oldest nations in Christendom', Egypt and India, in each of which countries
the people are fighting for self-determination. Also it is seen that 'the great
United States of America stands out in indignant repudiation' - demanding the
international assembly originally promised by Wilson on foot of 'a war
ostensibly fought for the freedom of small nationalities and the destruction of
[…] militarism'. Inviting 'the co-operation of all those to whom the rights of
suffering humanity are dearer than the designs of diplomacy'. (Both French
and English versions state the letter's provenance and destination, the French
leaving out President Wilson.) [partly French]
Orphanage in debt
16 February 1920 Holograph letter from A.J.Murray, Clonmel (County
was 42 Tipperary, to Hagan, expressing anxiety over his lack
lack of work, not having heard from Hagan for a while who is the only one
he can turn to. On current affairs, commenting that the situation is deteriorating
in terms of sudden arrests for Wormwood prison; Barton's arrest was an
accident. There are plans to arrest the (Sinn Fein) T.C.s to break their majorities
in corporations and councils. Approving comments on the letter from the
hierarchy; the Education Bill seems dead; stating preference for their own
schools run by the hierarchy and the Dáil. He had been wrong about the proposed
house in Clonmel- they had not been '"the expedition"'. Astonished at
[Archbishop] McIntyre's pronouncements about Sinn Fein being anti-clericalhe
ought to have learned something after returning from Rome, but he is generally
unpopular. Asking for permission to help the Clonmel Sisters of Charity
in their scheme for their orphanage which is in debt. Giving Dublin address.
8 pp
HUNGER Strike
11 April 1920 Telegram from Alderman Kathleen Clarke and Mawas
8 dame O'Rahilly, Prisoners' Committee, Dublin, to Hagan,
informing him that over one-hundred political
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prisoners are on hunger strike since Sunday 4 April, demanding the agreement
between the government, Bishop McRory, and the lord mayor of Dublin
is observed. Several are in grave danger.
SUDAN
Helena Quinn daughter of Tadgh and Kathleen Quinn, Purt, last week travelled to spend two months working with Fr. Tim Galvin on his mission in Sudan.
Helen's father, Tadgh Quinn, was with the Irish Army in the Congo and who were sent out in 1961. Tadgh was out there over 6 months and was involved in fighting during September and the end of October and into November of 1961. The 35th. Infantry returned to Ireland on December 23, 1961. The 50th anniversary of the Congo deployment was held at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel where Tadgh received a medal in recognition of his service.
Helen plans to keep people updated on her blog You can follow her adventures on http://soloinsouthsudan.com/
Journey to Sudan.
Hujambo from Nairobi. I arrived here safely late on Tuesday night and since then have found myself in the most hospitable and enjoyable of company.
First a little about my flight because its something I really want to record for my own memory. The world we live in is really a magnificent place. We left London crossing Europe, we flew over the Alps, across the Mediterranean and then the Sahara. I have crossed the Atlantic by air more times than I can remember and I will admit to never having contemplated the sheer expanse of it. That sense of enormity, the sheer nothingness, the incomprehensible scale of it all….the Sahara really is immense, breathtaking in fact. It was dark by the time we flew over Sudan. I am in awe of this little planet we call home. The contrast between the plentiful life in some parts and then the barrenness of other parts.
Now…I know some of my friends and family know how obsessive I can be about packing. I firmly believe that almost any trip is possible on hand luggage if the proper planning is undertaken in advance! In fact, my goal for 2013 was to do Christmas at home in Ireland on hand luggage…of course that was before I planned this trip! Now obviously, there’s no way of spending two months in Africa without checking in luggage but I’m travelling light! One holdall and one backpack checked in; less than 30 kilos! I find this hugely satisfying and here’s a picture!!
Arriving in Nairobi was an experience! The circumstances surrounding the fire and the magnitude of the disaster is a great source of conversation and debate. There are rumours that the fire may have been started to destroy evidence of money laundering or the illegal issuance of citizenships. There is talk that there was no working fire engine available to attend the fire and when one eventually arrived two hours after the small fire was reported, the fire was out of hand and there was little water with which to quench it.
The satirists in Nairobi have had a turn with the debacle too – the cartoonist Gado contributed this to the Daily Nation!
The terminal is now a series of marquees and lots of covered seats like one would see at a wedding reception. The process of getting a visa for entry was uneventful but lengthy. It was about 2 hours from the time we touched down to when I walked out of the terminal to meet my hosts. I now have a three month visa for Kenya!
We continued to the South Sudan border and while Fr. Tim mad the necessary arrangements to get the truck across the border John Marren accompanied me to get my Visa. After what seemed like an eternity (despite the excellent company I hasten to add) and $100 later I was the proud owner of a South Sudan residents permit valid for one month. Visas are only issued monthly and it’s $100 each time….nice work if you can get it!!!
It was a jubilant return and there were celebratory hugs when Fr. Tim officially welcomed me to South Sudan. I was on his turf now!! We were about a mile into South Sudan when we realised that the official had renamed me! Misreading my Nationality for my surname, he has renamed me “Helena Eireannach”which means “Irish Helena”!!! I’m so proud to be South Sudans only Irish Helena!!
PAT SHUGRUE, THE SHERIFF. SHH 8 Nov 1902 Sacred Heart Herald
Among the features of Everybody's Magazine for November is a paper entitled " The Bound Table of Dodge City, " an account of some of the men, good and bad, ( but generally bad ) whose deeds on the Western border, twenty years ago or more, have been the bases of many romances. This article in Everybody's does not pretend to be a romance, however. It pays some attention, it is true, to the curious chivalry which, despite its lawlessness, obtained on the Western border in those days, but the writer gives, we believe, a plain, unvarnished tale of flesh and blood characters. Among those who figured prominently at that place and period was Pat Shugrue, who, says the writer, " was neither a killer nor a gambler." His position as sheriff brought him into direct conflict with the worst of the bad men of the border, but he disclaims ever having had any difficulty in arresting them. He and his twin brother Mike were the sons of an Irish schoolmaster born in County Kerry, Ireland. The writer describes Pat (who is still living) as five feet seven inches high, weighing about one hundred and sixty pounds. " His sturdy and
rather awkward figure; his strong' shrewd face, as homely as Abraham Lincoln's ; his unique and original, though simple and unaffected, utterance, mark him as a peculiar man." The simple formula, "You may consider yourself under arrest," this plucky little Irish-American found all-sufficient in dealing with tough characters, and the writer tells as follows of his self-restraint and cool courage:— "Shugrue served two terms as sheriff of Ford and the fourteen counties attached to it for judicial purposes. He never lost a prisoner, and he got the man he went after, but he never found it necessary to kill anyone. When one remembers that some of the worst men in the world were included within his jurisdiction, it must be conceded that Pat and his brother Mike, who was for ten years sheriff of Clarke county, with a similar record, though Mike killed two men, were two of the most efficient police officers the
IRISH LETTER SHH 26 Oct 1895
Our Irish Letter.
It is generally believed that the original coffin which enclosed the remains of the great liberator, — the illustrious Daniel O'Connell — during the transit from Genoa to Ireland, is deposited in the tomb at Glasnevin cemetery. Few people know that the coffin was changed when the tomb was constructed in 1867 and a new oak case for the shell substituted. The original coffin, which was manufactured at Genoa, is at present in the studio of John Early, No. 1 Cambden street, Dublin, and this announcement, coming to many for the first time, will cause considerable surprise. The contractors who built the tomb at Glasnevin were Messrs. Early and Powell, and when the oak case was substituted for the original coffin, the latter was given in charge to the contractors by Mr. John O'Connell of Derrynane, county Kerry. It has since remained in Cambden street and has been religiously preserved by the late Mr. Early and the present Mr. John Early. The coffin lid, which is of cedar, has been cut by order of Mr. O'Connell of Derrynane and a frame made out of the cuttings for the writ for the ever memorable Clare election, from which the existence of a Catholic Irish party may be said to date. Other fragments have been taken away by relic hunters who have visited the studio, and to their depredations are to be attributed the many notches in the sides of the coffin. The coffin is made of various woods, oak, walnut and pine, and the shoulders are formed by pieces attached outside. It was covered with crimson velvet studded with brass nails, but the cloth is worn away, though some of the nails and portions of the trimmings are preserved by Mr. Early. These relics are enclosed in a curious twelfth century chest, purchased by the late Mr. Early in England. Four massive handles adorned the sides of the coffin, and two of these are now in America in the possession of friends who know how to cherish relics from the historic treasure which at one time enclosed all that was mortal of the liberator. The dimensions of the coffin are seven feet long by two feet broad. " American citizens of Irish descent " says Doctor O'Connell, it w hose fathers fought in the Revolution may well be proud of the record made by their race in every battlefield from Siony Point to Yorktown. There was not a battlefield upon which Irish blood did not flow freely and the sunburst was side by side with the red, white and blue. General Sullivan and John Langdon struck the first blow of the Revolution General Sullivan's father was born at Limerick, Ireland He left four sons, one of them, John Sullivan was a delegate to congress and would have been one of the signers o the Declaration of Independence had no! his sword been mightier than h.s
pen. He commanded one of the two divisions of the army at Trenton. Joseph Reed was born in Trenton, N. J., and was the son of an Irishman. He was Washington's private secretary and bosom friend, and was one of the most prominent figures in the Revolution. Who will ever forget Reed's memorable reply to the offer which the British Government made him — $50,000 and the best gift in his Majesty's keeping — if he would desert the cause of General Washington? "I am not worth purchasing, but the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it." Reed was in the fight at Monmouth and figured in the thickest of that contest. General John Stark, of New Hampshire, was born of Irish parents and was thoroughly Irish himself. He commanded at the battle of Bennington and covered himself with glory in preventing the British from gaining control of the Hudson river. General Richard Montgomery was a native of the county Donegal, Ireland, and laid down his young life for the cause of American liberty six months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Daniel Morgan was a native of the same Irish county and was the hero of one of the proudest events of the Revolution. At the head of 500 IrishAmerican soldiers at the battle of the Cowpens he captured the British general and his force. It was one of the grandest achievements of the war to see each of the 500 Irish lads returning triumphantly with a British prisoner. Major Stephen Moylan was an native of the City by the Silvery Lee and became a prominent officer in the war. His brother, who entered the priesthood, became bishop of Cork, and the diocese prospered under his able administration. The O'Briens of Machias were also rebel Corkonians, and were proud of dear old Cork. They organized the " Sons of Liberty," and carried "liberty poles," — tall trees stripped of their branches except a tuft of Irish green at the top — "the wearing of the green." They fought the English ship Margaretta with a lumber sloop and captured her. This was the first naval engagement of the war. General Edward Hand was born in county Kerry, Ireland, and was invaluable to Washington. Another of Washington's warmest friends was General William Irvine, who was born in the county Clare. General Henry Knox was the son of Boston Knox, a true son of old Erin. The order of the Cincinnatus was founded by General Knox and he was probably the most illustrious soldier of the Revolution. When he fled from Boston his wife followed him and carried his sword concealed on her person. General Andrew Lewis was another native of Donegal who cut a conspicuous figure in the war, and at one time he came very near being placed at the head of the army. General William Thompson, a native of the ever faithful isle, commanded eight divisions of the Pennsylvania Irish riflemen and was com-mander-in-chief of the Army of the North. Anthony Wayne was born in Pennsylvania of Irish parents. He was made a general in 1777. At the battle of Germantown the right was commanded by two Irishmen, Wayne and Sullivan; Wayne carried his part of the field ; his horse was shot under i him. Wayne and Ramsey, both Irish,
saved the army from Lee's disaster at Monmouth. General John Armstrong, another Irishman, distinguished himself at Germantown and Brandywine; in the latter conflict Wayne was superb. General Campbell, born of Irish parents, commanded at King's Mountain, the most important battle of the South except the battle of the Cowpens, and that was fought by another Irishman. General Graham showed his Irish blood by fighting nineteen engagements before he was nineteen years old. With only 100 men he captured 600 British, and had his name covered with honor and his body covered with the honorable scars of warfare. Colonel Ephraim Blame and Doctor Caldwell, the fighting preacher of New Jersey, whose house and church the British burned, and whose wife they shot amid the flames, were Irish. William Livingstone, the noted Irish Presbyterian preacher, and William Patterson, member of congress, United States senator and judge of the supreme court, were born of Irish parents. Thomas Fitzsimmons, of Pennsylvania, was born in Ireland. Delaware sent George Reed, whose father was born in Dublin. James McHenry, of Maryland, was secretary of war, and had the honor of being a son of old Ireland. Doctor Rodgers of New York, Doctor Allison of Baltimore, and all- the Catholics, with Bishop Carroll at their head, were with Washington and independence. The most eloquent and enthusiastic leaders of the Revolution were found among the Irish contingent of American patriots. Rutledge and Lynch of South Carolina, Reed and McKean of Delaware, Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, were signers of the Declaration of Independence. When Colonel Dilman, of Maryland, rode from Yorktown to Philadelphia with the gladsome tidings that Cornwallis had surrendered, he rode direct to the house of Thomas McKean, the Irish-American president of the continental congress. The foregoing list of Irish-Ameri-can heroes who gallantly upheld General Washington and the American patriots in their efforts to sunder the chains which b3und them to merciless England, is well worthy of being preserved by the readers of " Our Irish Letter," as it affords us excellent material to answer the defamers who are today engaged in a vain effort to belittle the loyalty and patriotism of the Irish-American race.
M. J. Roche.
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Title: Lord Kitchener (1917)
Author: G. K. Chesterton
LORD KITCHENER
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by
extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel.
The fanciful might see in this first and accidental fact the presence
of this simple and practical man amid the more mystical western
problems and dreams which were very distant from his mind, an element
which clings to all his career and gives it an unconscious poetry. He
had many qualities of the epic hero, and especially this--that he was
the last man in the world to be the epic poet. There is something
almost provocative to superstition in the way in which he stands at
every turn as the symbol of the special trials and the modern
transfiguration of England; from this moment when he was born among
the peasants of Ireland to the moment when he died upon the sea,
seeking at the other end of the world the other great peasant
civilisation of Russia. Yet at each of these symbolic moments he is,
if not as unconscious as a symbol, then as silent as a symbol; he is
speechless and supremely significant, like an ensign or a flag. The
superficial picturesqueness of his life, at least, lies very much in
this--that he was like a hero condemned by fate to act an allegory.
Irish in Australia
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With the arrival in Australia, more than half a century ago, of Dr.
Ullathorne, now the aged Bishop of Birmingham, in England, another
important stage of Church development was reached. Dr. Ullathorne, then
an active young man of twenty-six, came out in the capacity of
Vicar-General of the Bishop of the Mauritius, who at that early period
exercised a sort of nominal jurisdiction over the whole of Australia and
the South Sea Islands. The organising faculty was possessed in no small
degree by Dr. Ullathorne, and he was fortunate in receiving material
assistance from the new Governor, Sir Richard Bourke, who, though not a
Catholic himself, had sympathies in that direction by reason of his many
Catholic relatives and friends around his native city of Limerick. The
coming of Sir Richard Bourke was coincident with a complete reversal of
that avowed anti-Catholic policy, which previous governors took a
shameless delight in administering. A powerful despatch of his to the
Eight Hon. E. G. Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, under date
September 30th, 1833, dealt a knock-down blow to the pampered little
state Church which his predecessors had laboured so hard to erect on
Australian soil. He pointed out with clearness and effect the grossly
unfair manner in which, the annual grant from the public treasury for
Church purposes was distributed, £11,500 being grabbed by the Church of
England, whilst the .Roman Catholics, notwithstanding their large
numbers, received only £1,500, and the Church of Scotland £600.
Fr Dunne
The motives that actuated Father Dunne in undertaking his philanthropic
immigration enterprise have been thus clearly stated by himself:
"In taking the part which I have during the last few-years in directing
emigration to Australia, let me not be misunderstood. I have neither
promoted nor encouraged it. On the contrary, if our poor people had
protection and could live at home, I would say, ' Let them remain by all
means.' But when they must leave, when there is no other alternative
except the poor-house or emigration, I am persuaded I could not employ my
time better than in directing my countrymen to that part of the world
where there is abundance of good land, a salubrious climate, where their
faith will not be in danger, and where they can enjoy peace and
prosperity after a few years, if it be not their own fault. As soon as I
see the priests and the people standing together, and firm in the resolve
to demand justice and protection for the farmers and labouring classes of
Ireland, I will become the most strenuous advocate to keep the people at
home. But I must say with all sincerity, I see no other hope at present
for the poor downtrodden people of this country but to fly to the most
distant part of the world, where there is perfect equality, civil and
religious liberty, no poor-houses to demoralise the people, and no
landlords to exterminate them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mary%27s_College_%28Saint_Lucia%29 PRESENTATION BROTHERS
Southern Star Cork
Brother De Lellis Sullivan (82), a native of Loughavoul, Glengarriff, has been made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Brother De Lellis, a Presentation Brother, received the award for ‘services to education’ at a special investiture ceremony in St Lucia in the West Indies last week.
Brother De Lellis was born Finbar Sullivan, one of eleven children of Michael and Hannah Sullivan, both now deceased. His brother, Fr Patrick O’Sullivan MSC is based in Leap and serves as parish priest of Kilmacabea.
After graduating from UCC in 1954, Brother De Lellis left Ireland to teach in the West Indies. He is now the longest-serving Presentation Brother missionary having worked in Barbados, Grenada, Peru, St Lucia and Trinidad.
‘It’s really very humbling to receive an award like this,’ said Brother De Lellis. ‘I’ve spent my whole life working with young people. It’s been very enriching to serve God and serve young people as a Presentation Brother.
‘I sailed out of Cork Harbour on August 13th 1954 with two other Presentation Brothers. I was 22 years of age. We crossed the Atlantic in a banana boat, the SS Golfito. It took ten days to reach Barbados in the West Indies. I never thought then that I’d be getting an honour from the Queen nearly sixty years later!’
Br De Lellis was presented with the award by Governor General of Saint Lucia, Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy, on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, at Government House. The Prime Minister of St Lucia, Hon Dr Kenny D Anthony, also attended the ceremony.
In a citation read at the ceremony, Brother De Lellis was commended for helping to ‘restore hope where despair prevailed’. ‘The Government and people of Saint Lucia are grateful to him,’ it added.
Since 1997, Brother De Lellis has worked with the Centre for Adolescent Renewal and Education (CARE). This institution, founded by the Presentation Brothers, trains disadvantaged young people in St Lucia.
Brother De Lellis becomes the third Presentation Brother to receive an MBE Brother Canice Collins (1949) and Brother Macartan Sheehy (1974), both deceased, also received the award.
Saint Mary's College (Saint Lucia)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Mary's College is an all-male Catholic secondary school located at Vigie, Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. The school is the only St. Lucian secondary school to have produced a Nobel Laureate, producing the island's two Nobel laureates: Sir Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott. The jurist and politician Sir Vincent Floissac was also a pupil at the School, as was the former Prime Minister of St. Lucia (Sir John Compton) and St.Lucia’s former Ambassador to the United Nations (Honorable George Odlum).
History
St. Mary's College was formally opened on 20 April 1890, three weeks after the first lessons had been given in the building. The school opened with a mere 27 boys on role ranging from age 6 years to 15 years in the now Parish Center on Micoud Street, Castries . The first headmaster, Mr. F.E. Bundy, received his training as a teacher at the "St. Mary's College for Teachers," Hammersmith, England. His only assistant at first, was Mr. O'Neil Traynor.
The first days at the college were full of difficulties for the teachers. The number of boys on roll, by the end of 1890 had risen to 35. Of that number, a few spoke fluent English, some understood it but couldn't hold a fluent conversation. Others spoke French and the rest patois (French Based Creole). It was really surprising that the Masters were able to do as much as they did then with the material they had. Fights were frequent and broken windows an every day occurrence.
At the end of 1890, the College was in debt to the tune of € 385, over € 90 of which had been incurred since the College opened. To assist in writing off the debt, the F.M.I fathers gave € 75 to the college. A handsome contribution in those days. In 1893, the College began receiving a "Grant-In-Aid" from the Government on the condition that 10 pupils receive science scholarships from elementary schools on the results of an examination.
Until 1895, students never sat any public exams, but this soon changed with the appointment of Mr. H.J. Meagher as headmaster. In December of that year, two students, Cecil and Garnet Garnaway were entered in the Cambridge preliminary local Examination which they sat in Barbados because there was no centre in St. Lucia.
In December of the following year, a Cambridge Local Examination Centre was established at the college. At the end of 1898, the number of boys on roll was 53, the average attendance being 47. At that time the holidays were 6 weeks at Christmas, 2 weeks at midsummer and 2 weeks at Easter. The fees were from 3 to 6 guineas per annum payable in advance. There was also an arrangement by which the younger brother paid less.
Towards the close of 1899, the staff consisted of 5 Mothers. At a Public Meeting in 1903, a resolution was passed that an Advisory Committee be appointed to control the affairs of the College and that Government Grant-In-Aid be raised from € 200 to € 400. The request was granted by the Government and Committee Formed. Brothers Canice Collins, Macartan Sheehy and Lawrence Reynolds arrived in St. Lucia on Saturday, 11 January 1947, having set out from Avonmouth, England on 28 December 1946 on a 6,000 ton banana boat. They arrived at Port-of Spain, Trinidad, on 10 January 1947 and stayed overnight with the Holy Ghost Fathers, flying on to St. Lucia the following day. On their arrival in Castries they were welcomed by the French F.M.I. Fathers. Fr. Harcourt, who was Rector of St. Mary's College, was particularly glad to see them. They got a hearty welcome also from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny.
St. Mary's College was the only secondary school in St. Lucia at that time. Founded in 1890 the student enrollment in 1947 was 80. The building was dilapidated; its woodwork had not been painted for years, the equipment was scanty and the classroom furniture was in poor condition. The Brothers had little over a week to settle in before the school would reopen after the Christmas vacation. Mr. Herman D. Boxill, who taught at the College for 18 years, was of considerable help in the preparation for the big day. On 22 January, Mass was celebrated before a packed audience in the ground floor of the College. Fr. Harcourt introduced the Brothers to the teachers, the students and the general congregation. Br. Canice Collins was installed as Principal.
For the first few months after they arrived in St. Lucia the Brothers lived in the presbytery in Castries, sharing accommodations with the F.M.I. Fathers. In March they moved into what became known as The Brothers' House, 69 Micoud St. This was to be their home for four years, until March 1951.
During the first few years under the Brothers' administration, St. Mary's College saw many changes. Physical structures were improved and many aspects of secondary education were reorganized.
1948-1952
On 19 June 1948 much of the town of Castries was destroyed by fire. The work and courage displayed by the Brothers, lay staff and students were deeply appreciated by all and recognized officially. A local newspaper at the time referred to the leadership shown by the Brothers and stated that "it is a beacon of hope to the many striving to promote a spirit of initiative and cooperative action in the West Indies."
"At the New Year's Honours of 1949, Br. Canice received the MBE in recognition for his efforts on the night of the Castries fire."
During the next few years the number of students enrolled at St. Mary's College increased rapidly. As a result, the facilities available at the College in Castries became inadequate. Expanding and reconstructing the College on the same site was under consideration,as well as possible relocation to another location.
At the same time, some military buildings dating back to the Anglo-French battles on the island which had housed soldiers of the West Indian Regiment at various times were vacant. One group of buildings was situated on a splendid site on the Vigie Peninsula a few miles from Castries. Though over 150 years old the buildings were in good structural condition and after lengthy negotiations with the authorities, including the War Office in London, an agreement was reached for their purchase. They were completely refurbished and at the end of July 1952 St. Mary's College was transferred to Vigie. By then, student enrollment had increased to 275.
It proved fortunate that a bungalow adjacent to the main building, which had been the Commanding Officers' residence, was also available. In March 1951, a second fire devastated much of what remained of the old Castries, including No. 69 Micoud Street. The Brothers, now a community of five, moved into the bungalow at Vigie and it has continued to be the Brothers' residence ever since.
1953-1957
With the additional facilities and space available in the new location, new subjects were added to the curriculum and the student population increased to over 300.
In 1953, hostel facilities at Vigie for students from out-lying rural areas were provided. One of the ancillary buildings was adapted and furnished for this purpose. The Hostel, as it came to be called, served a very useful purpose for some 20 years. By 1973 the need was no longer acute and the building was then used to provide extra classroom space for the Sixth Form classes.
In 1955 Br. Canice was transferred to San Fernando, Trinidad on completion of his term of office as Superior and College Principal. Br. Lawrence had previously moved to San Fernando in 1952 therefore, Br. Macartan was appointed Provincial Superior of the West Indies region in succession to Br. Dunstan Curtin, who returned to England. As Br. Macartan also took up residence in San Fernando, all three members of the founding community had left St. Lucia and were living in San Fernando.
In 1957 Br. Canice went to Beaumont, Texas, USA for medical treatment. It was discovered that he would need brain surgery. Unfortunately the operation was unsuccessful and he died on March 20 at the age of 43 years. He is buried in Texas. In a telegram of condolence the Administrator of St. Lucia . J.K.R. Thorpe, CMG, wrote; "We are deeply conscious of the debt owed to him for his splendid and devoted work for this island, and he has an abiding place in our affection."
In 1990, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of St. Mary's College, the St. Lucia postal authorities issued a commemorative stamp featuring a portrait of Br. Canice superimposed on a drawing of the college building at Vigie.
From the mid-1950s onwards the number of Brothers coming to the West Indies increased. New foundations were established in Chaguanas, Trinidad and in St. John, Barbados. All this led to more frequent changes in the communities of the region, including the St. Lucia community.
1972
In 1972 Sir Arthur Lewis (1915–91) an economist, was awarded the Nobel Prize. He and Theodore W. Schultz of the United States shared the prize for their work on the economic problems of developing nations. Lewis's economic theories emphasise the relationship between traditional agriculture and modern industries in the developing countries.He was a past pupil of St. Mary's College having been a student there in the 1930s. He was the first West Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize.
Twenty years later another past pupil, Derek Walcott, would be similarly honoured.
1974
In November 1974 an event took place which was greatly to affect the Brothers in St. Lucia, both as a community and in their future relations with St. Mary's College.
The Government introduced a bill establishing a Board of Management for St. Mary's College, replacing the St. Mary's College Advisory Committee. From the terms set out in the bill it was evident that the new Board of Management would have control over College affairs but would not accept responsibility for the College. It also became evident that the ownership of the property by the Brothers was an obstacle to a properly functioning Board as proposed by Government.
After prolonged discussion at community and provincial level, in January 1975 the Brothers formally requested the Archbishop of Castries, Most Rev. Patrick Webster OSB, to take over the ownership of the buildings and property from the Presentation Brothers. (The Brothers retained ownership of their residence and three acres surrounding it.)
The new arrangements for the administration of St. Mary's College, though the subject of various letters of protest in the local press and even of public demonstrations in Castries, came into effect in September 1975. The Presentation Brothers had agreed to remain as members of the College staff ( for which the Government expressed appreciation ) but for the first time since the arrival of the Brothers in 1947 there was a Principal other than a Presentation Brother. This was Fr. T J. Stack who had previously taught at the College as a Presentation Brother before being ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Castries.
The patronal feast of the College is still Presentation Day, 21 November, and admiration of the work done by the Brothers for the College and for education generally has been expressed publicly on numerous occasions. During the College Speech Day on 21 November 1976, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Allen Lewis QC, a leading member of the Anglican community in St. Lucia, a past student of St. Mary's and brother of Nobel Prize winner Sir Arthur Lewis, said: "The advent of the Presentation Brothers in 1947 marked a turning point in the management and growth of St. Mary's College. Their breadth of vision, their concern for the welfare of the community, their administrative ability, scholarship and devotion to duty and to the welfare of their students have brought great benefits to St. Lucia. I should like to take this opportunity to express publicly the appreciation and gratitude of the people of St. Lucia for the work the Brothers have done and continue to do among us."
1979
St. Lucia became an independent nation, having been ruled by Britain since 1814. The Prime Minister with a cabinet of 10 ministers forms the Government. The 17 member House of Assembly and the 11 member Senate pass the nation's laws. The members of the House are elected by the people and government leaders appoint the Senate members.
1977 -1991
In 1977 the St. Lucia community was reduced to two Brothers, Br. Cyril O'Sullivan who taught at the College and Br. Macartan. Br. Macartan had been awarded the MBE at the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1974 in recognition of his work and that of the Brothers for education in St. Lucia. Though now retired from teaching he continued to assist at the Ministry of Education with the organizing of the Cambridge Overseas Examinations
Br. Macartan's health began to fail and in September 1979 it was obvious he was seriously ill. He went to Barbados for medical treatment and he died at St. Joseph's Hospital on 22 September. His remains were brought back to St. Lucia and after Requiem Mass celebrated by Bishop Guilly his funeral to the Riverside Cemetery was an indication of the very high esteem in which he was held by the people of Castries and St. Lucia.
For quite a number of year's after Br. Macartan's death Br. Cyril was the only Brother in St. Lucia. Br. Martin Walsh from Canada was a regular visitor during the winter months. During the early '80s the community increased to two and then three and by 1989 there were four and in 1990 five.
In 1991 the Community experienced another great loss. On 22 July of that year Br. Ligouri O'Mahony died during his sleep at the comparatively young age of 64. He had spent 37 years in the West Indies and was the last Presentation Brother to be Principal of St. Mary's College. Br. Ligouri is buried in St. Lucia.
1992
In 1992 Derek Walcott, who had been one of the senior form pupils at St. Mary's when the Brothers arrived, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Derek became a member of the teaching staff when he graduated at St. Mary's. A poet and playwright, his work explores such themes as the Caribbean experience from slavery to independence and the nature of the Caribbean's post-colonial identity, influenced by many cultures and traditions.
Twenty years earlier another past pupil, Sir Arthur Lewis had also been a Nobel Prize winner.
1993
CARE - a new apostolate.
In March 1993 Br. Dominic Brunnock joined the St. Lucia community. He had been working in Trinidad with the SERVOL programme from 1989 to 1993. SERVOL caters for the needs of disadvantaged teenagers, especially early school leavers.
Today St.Mary's College is recognised as one of St.Lucia's top secondary schools, performing well in all aspects of school life on the island. As of 2009 the school placed a close second to St. Joseph's Convent in the Caribbean Examination Council Exams
Presentation Brother COLLINS
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Biographies
Br. Michael Canice Collins
Michael Collins was born at Glin Road, Moyvane, County Kerry on 13 May 1914, the third eldest of a family of eight. When he was eight years old, and his youngest brother only one, his mother died, leaving his father to rear the children on his own. Two of the children, Michael and Tim, entered the Presentation Brothers; James, a Redemptorist, became a bishop in Brazil; Pat, a Salesian Father, was Principal of Warrenstown Agricultural College; Maudie became Sister Mary Theophane, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word in the USA.
Michael entered the Presentation Brothers at Mount St. Joseph, Cork on 20 February 1932 and made his final profession of Vows in 1937. He graduated from the National University of Ireland (Cork) with an honours B.Sc.. in 1940, and obtained the Higher Diploma in Education in 1941. He taught at the Presentation Colleges in Cork and Cobh and spent the last years of World War II teaching in Reading, England.
Following a request from Dr. Finbar Ryan OP, Archbishop of Port of Spain, the Presentation Brothers opened a new College in St. George's, Grenada, and took over the existing St. Mary's College in Castries, St. Lucia. Brother Canice was one of the group of three who went to St. Lucia, his companions being Br. Macartan Sheehy and Br. Lawrence Reynolds.
Br. Canice combined the duties of Superior of the community and Principal of the College. On the night of 19 June 1948 fire raged in the town of Castries, threatening to destroy it completely. Br. Canice persuaded the firefighting authorities to destroy all the old wooden buildings along one street which lay in the path of the flames, thus creating a firebreak. His initiative and leadership saved much of the town from destruction. An editorial in the local newspaper commended the Brothers for "striving to promote a spirit of initiative and cooperative action". Br. Canice's efforts both in education and in controlling the "Great Fire of 1948" were acknowledged in the King's New Year's Honours List of 1949 when he was awarded the MBE.
The number of students at St. Mary's had increased steadily and there was a growing demand for more places. The building however was old, small and in bad repair. Br. Canice negotiated the purchase of a large, vacant military barracks on a splendid site on the Vigie peninsula about two miles from the town. It was completely refurbished and the College was transferred there in 1952. It was now possible to accommodate over 300 pupils (the original student population was 80) as well as providing hostel and sports facilities. Br. Canice was an able sportsman and it was largely due to his enthusiasm and energy that the Inter-Island Tournament which schools in Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica and St. Lucia hosted in turn was revived, having fallen into abeyance during World war II.
The Brothers also purchased a bungalow at Vigie which had been the Commanding Officers' quarters and this became the Brothers residence when their house in Castries was destroyed in a second fire in the town in 1951.
Br. Canice was appointed by the Governor of St. Lucia to the Education Board for the island and in 1955 he represented both the Archbishop of Port of Spain and the Government of St. Lucia at a conference in Kingston, Jamaica, on the setting up of the University of the West Indies. He was also vicar to the Provincial Superior, Br. Dunstan Curtin, at this time.
Br. Canice was a great community man, gentle, humble and self-effacing. He had a wonderful ability to inspire those who worked with him to share his enthusiasm and zeal. Calm and patient, he had a great sense of humour. He was a keen photographer and left a collection of transparencies recording scenes and events in St. Lucia. With his friend Fr.Jesse FMI he established a museum at St. Mary's to display numerous Arawak and Carib artifacts collected at various sites on the islands.
Br. Canice left St. Lucia for San Fernando, Trinidad, in 1956 and was appointed Superior there at the end of the year. For years he had suffered headaches from time to time, a problem he sometimes attributed to an old scalp injury he incurred in his youth when he dived into water that was shallower than he anticipated. Early in 1957 the pains became very severe and frequent. In March he left for treatment at a hospital in Beaumont, Texas, which was administered by the Sisters of the Incarnate Word, the congregation of which his sister was a member. An aneurism in the brain was diagnosed and though the surgery performed appeared at first to be successful Br. Canice died on 20 March 1957. He is buried in the cemetery attached to the convent of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word in Beaumont.
News of Br. Canice's death came as a great shock to the people of St. Lucia and many tributes were paid to him. The words of Br. Dunstan Curtin, who had been the first Provincial Superior of the Congregation in the West Indies and was a close friend of Br. Canice best summed up the loss felt by those who knew him:
"Brother Canice died young. Had he lived for a century he would have died young - far too young indeed , for the many that loved him."
Reference:
The late Rev. Br. Michael Canice Collins - an appreciation by Br. Dunstan Curtin (1957)
A Concise History of the Presentation Brothers in St. Lucia 1947-1997 Brother De Lellis Sullivan,Golden Jubilee Magazine.
Gentlemen of the Presentation - Feheney, (Veritas 1999)
John Healy was born in Listowel on June 17 1830 to Timothy and Margaret Healy (Nee Linnane). John emigrated to London after the Famine. His marriage cert. says that his occupation was a furrier or farrier. He subsequently joined the London Metropolitan Police.
The Police Recruiting Act of 1853 in New South Wales allowed for police to be recruited from Great Britain.
John Healy arrived with 97 other policemen and their families on board The Exodus on July 26 1855.
John Healey was involved in the rescue of the sole survivor of the sinking of The Dunbar in 1857.
Sub Inspector John Healey retired from The NSW Police in 1887 aged 57 years and with a police record of 32 years service.
John died in 1899 leaving a widow and 10 children.
Connor Kerry
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Anita and Leon Daily Tree
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History of an Irish immigrant's family and the Francis Daily family tree / by Leon and Anita Daily.
by Daily, Leon, 1919- Daily, Anita.
Published 1972
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History of an Irish immigrant's family and the Francis Daily family tree
Author: Leon Daily; Anita Wilson Daily
Publisher: [S.l.] : Daily, 1972.
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Subjects Daily family.
Francis Daily (1811-1874) emigrated from Ireland to Ohio in 1848, and sent for his family in 1850. They later moved to Iowa and then Missouri. Descendants lived in Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, California and elsewhere.
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article by Seán Moriarty appeared in the Irish World newspaper;
"Tributes have been paid to Sean Corridon who died last week after a short illness.
The Kerryman was a loyal servant to the London GAA and had many claims to fame. He was part of the mighty Kingdom team of the 1970s and has seven London county championships medals to his name.
He was instrumental in the setting up of Fulham Irish when that club was founded in 2006 and in 2011 laid claim to be the oldest footballer ever to grace a GAA pitch when lined out for Irish in a reserve championship game at Ruislip. He was ever-present at Ruislip and could always be relied upon to the thankless jobs like linesman or umpire.
Fulham Irish issued a statement on his passing last week. It said: “It is with great regret that Fulham Irish GAA received the news of the untimely passing of Sean Corridan.
“Sean was a one of the very few people involved with the London County board who offered unflinching support during the difficult period that Fulham Irish GAA came into existence in 2006. Sean was easily identifiable as a genuine gentleman who always had the player at the forefront of his thoughts.
“In 2009, Sean joined Fulham Irish GAA to get involved with the running of the Senior football team. He remained a dedicated member right through to the end and could always be relied upon to help out when required, always there, always ready to help out.
“One of those occasions happened in 2011, when the Fulham Irish Reserve team were playing a match against St Kiernans. Playing with only 14 players, the game was close enough. To make the numbers up to 15, Sean pulled on a jersey at half time but unlike others who do this, he stayed on the field for the duration of the game, twice catching the ball and laying it off for scores.
“One of the sweet victories for the club after which Sean was researching whether he was oldest player to ever play in London. We offer our sincere sympathies to his Family and wide circle of Friends. May he rest in peace.”
He was also well-connected with the St Joseph’s club in London.
“On behalf of everyone involved with St. Joseph’s, we wish to extend our sincerest sympathy to the Corridon family following the recent sad passing of Sean. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time. Sean will be very sadly missed by everyone in the Joe’s.”
Mr Corridon was a life-long member of the Kerry Association London.
Secretary Tara Cronin said: “ It was with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of Sean Corridon. Sean was a long standing member of the Kerry Association in London and has been involved with us for a number of years. Sean was an integral part of the committee and he will be missed. My deepest sympathies to his wife and family.”
Sean is survived by his wife Mary, children Dawn and Derry and granddaughter Beth."
(C* Seán Moriarty. Irish World.)
BRODERICK, FALKINER.
Rank: Driver. Regiment or Service: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery. Unit; D Battery, 38 Brigade. Date of Death:02-March-1918. Age at Death,31. Service No:52309. Born in Tralee, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee.
Supplementary information; Son of Matilda Broderick, of Feale View Lodge, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. Grave or Memorial Reference: XXX. G. 21. Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery in France.
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Birth: 27 Jul 1894 - Listowel, Ireland
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Name: Henry Joseph Reidy
Birth: 25 Mar 1891 - Listowel, Ireland
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Birth: 25 Mar 1891 - Listowel, Ireland
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Name: Tom Sullivan
Birth: 12 Jan 1882 - Listowel, Ireland
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Name: Patrick Allisious Sullivan
Birth: 15 Aug 1883 - Listowel, Ireland
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Name: Patrick Sullivan
Birth: 15 Mar 1894 - Listowel, Ireland
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Birth: 24 Jun 1891 - Listowel, Ireland
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Birth: 11 Feb 1888 - Listowel, Ireland
Residence: Chicago, Illinois
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Birth: 12 Nov 1881 - Listowel, Ireland
Residence: Portland, Oregon, United States
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Name: Thomas Potrick Walsh
Birth: 11 May 1887 - Listowel, Ireland
Residence: Chicago, Illinois
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Birth: 21 May 1891 - Listowel, Ireland
Residence: Ottawa, Illinois
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Name: Tim Collins
Birth: 20 Feb 1896 - Newtown Sandes Co Kerry, Ireland
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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Name: Patrick Oconnell
Birth: 17 Mar 1896 - Newtown Sandes, Ireland
Residence: New York, New York
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Name: John Joseph Oconnor
Birth: 15 Jun 1886 - Newtown Sandes, Ireland
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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Name: Patrick Joseph Scanlon
Birth: 10 Nov 1882 - Newtown Sandes, Ireland
Residence: Chicago, Illinois
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Name: Donald Dennis Shine
Birth: 7 Feb 1885 - Newtown Sandes Kerry, Ireland
Residence: Bronx, New York
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Name: Patrick J Stack
Birth: 6 Dec 1891 - Newtown Sandes, Ireland
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Name: Patrick Bennett
Birth: 1 Feb 1888 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Chicago, Illinois
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Name: Thomas Carmody
Birth: 6 Jul 1879 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: New York, New York
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Name: William Carrig
Birth: Mar 1883 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Hudson, New Jersey
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Name: Patrick Francis Flaherty
Birth: 9 May 1882 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Name: Edward Lynch
Birth: 21 Sep 1889 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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Name: Thomas Joseph Mangan
Birth: 6 Aug 1881 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Northbrook, Illinois
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Name: Robert Mulvey
Birth: 16 Jan 1889 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Queens, New York
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Name: Cornelius Joseph Murphy
Birth: 2 Mar 1890 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Name: John Thomas Stack
Birth: 9 Dec 1887 - Ballybunion, Ireland
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
FINUGE
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Name: Edward Kelly
Birth: 5 Jul 1888 - Finuge, Ireland
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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Name: Edward Joseph Kennelly
Birth: 25 Sep 1881 - Co Finuge, Ireland
Residence: Hud, New Jersey
A Short Story from a man with a Listowel Connection
PADDY O'SULLIVAN - TACTICIAN
by Michael Mulcahy
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I grew up in Listowel in the 40's whilst World Two raged in Europe. Ireland stayed neutral and that period was called The Emergency. It affected everything from travel to certain foods being rationed.
My father was the Garda Superintendent. He was a quiet, shy, very reserved man, a listener, who was beholden to no one because as a professional policeman he felt he should not be. My mother on the other hand was different from him in every way. She was gregarious, loved chats and company. They were both strong individuals. They both came from diametrically opposed political back grounds and yet they had married in the midst of a very bitter Civil War. Their marriage and family life was happy despite this paradox.
The only thing that caused a slight hiccup in their relationship was the fact my father never discussed Garda business with her. She gathered all her information from other wives at the market and the owner of the grocery shop who was loquacious to the nth degree.
Crime normally involved the stealing of sheep and turf, kidnapping of rams to increase sheep production, the odd burglary, riding bicycles without a red light and other crimes of that order. Being Kerry there were on-going agrarian problems some for decades that would occasionally end up in murder. Being different to the other crimes my mother would take a particular interest in them. After doing the shopping she would confidentially tell my father at lunch time:
'It was John Stack who killed the Poor Crature Murphy'.
My father would digest this new lead
'Is that a fact?'
'It is Tom, the grocer told me only this morning'
Later my mother would find out that my father had only just arrested Con Lehane for the murder and he had pleaded guilty. My mother would be raging he had not let her know. The shame, not to mention the loss of prestige in the grocery shop and market, would be unbearable.
Life and crime continued at this leisurely pace.
It was predictable. Then there came Paddy O'Sullivan.
Paddy O'Sullivan was a small man with dark hair and piercing ice blue eyes who lived in the far end of Listowel town, married with 6 children and a patient hard working wife. He was unemployed and drew the dole each week on a Wednesday. Life was hard but Paddy was happy and content with his lot. He did occasional work when he could get it and he had the reputation of being an honest, hard worker and was respected by local people.
Paddy did not have any trade skills that he could sell on the building sites in England like his contemporaries, who were busy building air fields and fortifications for the Allies.
Then again maybe he was not interested in leaving the town of Listowel where he was happy. However he had one natural skill that served him well. He was a superb fisherman and this was the main support of his family. One salmon a week helped to bring some level of comfort into their lives. It was never over-done except for holiday weekends, school books or other special occasions. It was not Paddy's style to overdo things. He liked life quiet and unobtrusive. It is a philosophy in Kerry 'we won't preten a word' as they say in the local vernacular.
His crime of course was that he was fishing without a licence that cost two shillings and six pence, 25 cents in today's money. Even that small sum was not within his reach. Neither did he feel he should pay for a licence either.
The fishing rights of the Feale River that ran through the town of Listowel were held by Lord Listowel, who was then Minister of Posts and Telegraphs in Westminster, London. There was some royal charter going back to ancient times when lands were being dispensed to the landlords. Since Independence the Lord had not really exercised his rights.
The Garda were aware of Paddy's activities but there was an undeclared 'gentleman's agreement' between them. He did not poison the river with chemicals that killed the fauna and young fish as other poachers selfishly did. This effected the number of fish running in the river the following year. As long as he took the odd salmon as family support, they ignored the fact he did not have a licence. What is more, many of the Garda themselves had fought in the War of Independence and felt that maybe what Paddy was doing was what they had fought for.
However life was to change.
Lord Listowel was informed by his agent of Paddy's heinous crime. He wrote to his counterpart in the Irish Government the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in Dublin.
'His river was being disgracefully poached and the police are doing absolutely nothing about it, what was the country coming to, actually this was a complete break down of law and order that would definitely encourage miscreants and mischief making leading to more dire consequences; actually one can only stand appalled'!
In due course the file arrived on my father's desk requesting information for a reply to this charge. In civil administration there is nothing more time-consuming or irritating than the ongoing file. It becomes a letter writing competition as additional information and further clarifications are requested. The recipient's objective is to kill the file quickly and once and for all. So the reply had to be water tight, factually accurate, and concise. There should be no loop hole. Kill the file in one blow. This required careful thought and planning. The Garda applied all their professional police skills honed on apprehending sheep stealers, kidnappers of rams and riding bicycles without a red light to this task. And they came up with what they considered a brilliant solution.
Paddy's mid morning routine was to fish the pool at the rear of the Stand on the Listowel Race Course. The pool was ideal for fishing and he was near his market for his produce. The two latest arrivals that had just completed their training in the Garda Depot in the Phoenix Park, Dublin (then the Garda Training Centre) would be sent to the Stand in the Race Course to stake out the fishing pool there. When Paddy caught a salmon, as undoubtedly he would, he would be arrested with the rod and salmon. He would be charged with poaching in that he was fishing without a licence. My father would arrange with the District Justice to fine Paddy two and sixpence and upbraid him in public court about his criminal activities. The Garda would pay the fine (a penny or one cent each) and Paddy would have the salmon. Justice would be done. Lord Listowel would be assured that law and order had been restored in North Kerry and the file would be terminated. What more could anyone ask for in life?
The two young Garda were dispatched to the Race Course and hid in the Stand. As the criminologists at the Barracks had predicted Paddy arrived and by mid morning had caught a salmon. The Garda rushed out calling on Paddy to put down the rod and salmon, he was under arrest. Paddy taken unawares panicked and ran across the weir into a small wood. By the time the Garda had taken of their shoes, socks and rolled up their trousers Paddy had vanished. He now knew the Garda had developed a new and very disturbing change of policy. Disaster for the Garda as he knew the river well and could continue fishing any where in its 65 miles length with impunity. The two young Garda could see their careers going up in smoke; the Barrack Sergeant was faced with telling my father that he had failed to implement a simple plan.
The even tenure of Barrack life was seriously disrupted by this arch criminal Paddy O'Sullivan (he had come up a grade) and worse my father now faced a long and trying correspondence with the Department. An air of doom and gloom descended on the Barracks. The Barrack party assembled to contemplate plan B.
The case would be taken on circumstantial evidence. The two Garda would swear they saw Paddy catch a salmon and evade arrest. Paddy would be arrested immediately, told he was being unreasonable and encouraged to plead guilty. The District Justice would fine him. The Sergeant started collecting the fine immediately from the rest of the Garda. Paddy would have the salmon. The new plan was presented to my father. He was not very happy about it. It was not as water tight as he would have liked but under the circumstances it was the best alternative.
Lunch in our house always followed the same ritual. We would come in from school before my father, who would arrive at the stroke of one o'clock. My mother would fuss around serving food, encouraging us to eat more vegetables and remonstrating with us for wearing our good shoes on a dry day. They were only to be worn going to Mass on Sunday. On this day my father arrived in a grumpy humour. My mother enquired about the crime scene and most unusually for my father he replied there was serious trouble brewing in the Barracks. He would have to go back early. For my mother it was like a lighting conductor. This was the stuff of scintillating grocery shop conversations. To show she was there for her husband in times of trouble and also to press the advantage in case more detailed information was available.
My mother announced with a great flourish:
'Tom I have a great surprise for you for supper this evening, I bought a salmon for half nothing from Paddy O'Sullivan'.
There was what is called in literature a pregnant pause.
It was the first marital row we had ever seen in our house. My father went berserk; my mother was annoyed with him and told him he was being completely unreasonable. She was trying to make ends meet in these difficult times and trying her best to put wholesome food on our table. In addition it was only common charity to help unfortunates when they were in trouble. We scattered back to school early.
Paddy knew he was in deep trouble with law and order enforcement. He knew something unusual had occurred to have prompted the Garda to make such a serious policy change and revoke the 'gentleman's agreement'. Even if he fished elsewhere it meant walking long distances and worse coming home with the salmon. The Garda would not let this pass. He applied his criminal mind to come up with a plan. Apparently he had sold salmon to my mother before unknown to my father (although now he began to suspect it) for the going black market rate of a £1 - that was 50% off the fish monger's price. My mother was by no means a mean woman but she was careful. Any savings she could make in the household budget were triumphs for her. My longest memory as a small boy was wearing blue trousers made from my father's old uniforms.
Paddy had earlier come to our door straight from the crime scene. His price was 10 schillings - he needed medicine urgently for his young daughter. Under the circumstances my mother offered him his going rate of a £1 or would lend him the money. He replied that they came from good stock. They were never beggars. A man had his pride. Paddy knew of course my mother would not be able to resist the bargain and the deal was done for 10 schillings.
Every law enforcement officer in North Kerry was dispatched on a man hunt. Plan B worked. Paddy, after some encouragement, pleaded guilty. The file was closed. The Garda arranged a job for Paddy with the County Council repairing roads. Perhaps they saw it as hard labour that such a criminal deserved. But also the salmon season was coming to an end and he did have to support a family. He also had to agree not to sell any more salmon to the Superintendent's wife.
Success and relief all around but we had a silent poached salmon supper that night. Some years later the arch criminal Paddy O'Sullivan invited my father and mother to the graduation of his daughter at University College, Cork. They both attended, my father in full uniform as it was a formal occasion. In the criminal sub-culture of the 1940s Listowel there was both honour and respect.
Michael Mulcahy
This story was spotted by an eagle eyed blog follower. It is published on a site called Ireland Information which has lots of interesting stuff in it. Many older people will remember Superintendent Mulcahy, and Micheal, his son. Michael visited Listowel only last year and met up with some old friends.