My Jimdo Geocities Lifeboat
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Reamore, like so many districts in Kerry, had its share of land disturbances in the later part of the nineteenth century. In 1861, the area had been opened up by a new road from Tralee to Abbeyfeale that ran between Ballybeggan gate and Reamore Bog. Reamore, a large district, would now supply ‘inexhaustible turbary to the town of Tralee.’
The bog would bring its share of issues during the land agitation. There were incidents of malicious fire of turf there in the 1880s and in 1888, a horse belonging to a bog ranger for Lord Ventry, residing at Raemore, was found mutilated after the ranger let turbary to ‘an unpopular farmer.’
On 22 November 1888, the body of 45-year-old Denis Daly of Ballinknock, Carrignafeela, was found by a boy named Michael Moore on the road at Muingnaminnane. Daly had been shot in the head returning from Reamore Bog.[29]
http://www.odonohoearchive.com/a-community-on-trial-an-overview-of-murder-at-dromulton/
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Patrick Robert O’Loghlen Byrne, eldest son of John Byrne Esq of Hawthorn Lodge, Co Wicklow and second cousin of the Right Hon Sir Michael O’Loghlen (1789-1842), Master of the Rolls, married in Tralee in 1841 to Mary, eldest daughter of James O’Halloran Esq of Coolnaleen Cottage, Listowel, Co Kerry. Byrne died in Dublin in May 1861.17
The ‘Dover Fenian’, a man named Whitstone, was a compositor who was one time apprenticed to the Kerry Examiner, Tralee Chronicle and Kerry Star.
http://www.odonohoearchive.com/stop-press-michael-odonohoe-and-the-kerry-newspapers/
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Castleisland Community Museum, located at No. 42 Main Street,
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Claude Dansey and MI6
Having racked up serious gambling debts, Elvira sought employment with the BBC in London. She took up translation work, but soon found this dreary – a fact she did not cover up. In April 1942, she was overheard complaining of her financial woes by an unassuming RAF officer. This officer, recognising Elvira's friends in ‘high circles’ and clear intelligence, recommended her to a Mr Claude Dansey – the assistant chief of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The pair met at the Connaught Hotel, where Dansey offered Elvira employment as a British secret agent. The idea was to ‘coat-trail’– that is, she was to hover around French bars, in hope of running into a German spy who might seek to employ her, thus, becoming a double agent. Elvira’s diplomatic passport would ease travel, while her parents residing in Vichy France would make for a convenient excuse for her coming and going between France and Britain.
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?items_per_page=10&page=26&query=born+county+kerry&snippet=true
OBITUARY
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 16
MR. THOMAS CORKERY The sudden death of Mr. Thomas Corkery at the wharf yesterday afternoon cast a gloom over the waterfront, there being two ships in port at the time, on which discharging and loading operations were being carried out. Flags were flown at half-mast on both vessels. The deceased was born in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1865, and came to New Zealand at the age of 21 years. He resided for a short while in Wellington before proceeding to Foxton--------------
Mr. John Wells, aged 86 years, of Hikurangi, one of the first white children born in the Far North, died this week in Whangarei. Mr. Wells was born at Awanui and spent most of his youth in that district.
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Otaki Mail, 8 September 1926, Page 2
The death occurred at his residence. Whitehead road, Hastings, on Saturday morning, of Mr. Patrick O'Connor, a highly esteemed resident of that district. Deceased, who was born in Ballyongford, County Kerry. Ireland, came out to New Zealand with his wife 49 years ago in the Citv of Auckland. They were wrecked on the Otaki bench, losing nearly till their belongings. Proceeding to Napier, where they made a short stay, they resided in Waipawa, Dannevirke, and other parts of Hawke's Bay, retiring 22 years ago and settling in Hastings.
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LATE CANON JORDAN'S CAREER.
Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6598, 28 January 1916, Page 5
The late Rev. Canon Jordan died at Tauranga on October 5th, 1912, at the age of seventy-three years. He was born in Ventry, near Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, being the second son of Mr James Jordan, of the Great Blasket Island, oft the west coast of Kerry. He was educated at the Ventry Collegiate School and entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of seventeen years. ------------------
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18247, 16 November 1933, Page 5
One of South Taranaki’s oldest and most highly respected residents has passed away in the person of Mrs Jeremiah Kerrisk, of Kakaramea, Dannevirke. Mr Kerrisk, who had reached the age of 85 years, was a native of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, and came to New Zealand 60 years ago.
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?items_per_page=10&page=24&query=born+county+kerry&snippet=true
OBITUARY.
Inangahua Times, 30 May 1912, Page 4
J G Heslop, The deceased was the son of Captain Heslop, of Adelaide, and was born in Kerry, Ireland. He lived for some time in the North of England, and later at Adelaide, and came out here in the very early days, He leaves a widow and a family of 12 living, most of whom are grown up.Deceased was Aged 79.
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Saturday Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 148, 11 May 1878, Page 11
Peter Roche (Buller).—The great liberator, Daniel O’Connell, was born at Derrynane, County Kerry. The range of mountains known as Magillicuddy’s Reeks stretch through the same county.
B.I. T. (Caversham)— The Cornish, like the Welsh, belong to the Celtic race.
Henry F. (Martins Bay)—Healesville lies between Melbourne and Wood’s Point.
Ulster Scot (Blue Spur).—The publication of your letter would serve no good purpose. Surely it is time that sensible men should, instead of sowing religious dissension, strive to forget the narrow prejudices of the old countries.
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OBITUARY
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22479, 24 July 1936, Page 14
MR. B. G. ARMSTRONG [By Telegraph- Own Correspondent )
TAURANGA, Thursday; The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Benjamin Goodwin Armstrong in his 70th year. He was born at Ventry, County Kerry, Ireland, and came to New Zealand with his parents, landing at Auckland in 1879. His father took up land at Te Puna. During his long residence at Te Puna of 57 years Mr. Armstrong took a keen interest in farming and was also a keen sportsman. He was a member of the Tauranga Electric-Power Board when it was first formed. He was unmarried and is survived by two brothers and two sisters.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21773, 1 October 1940, Page 3
LATE MRS MARY SUGRUE The death occurred on Saturday of Mrs Mary Sugrue an old and respected resident of Geraldine. Just on 80 years ago Mrs Sugrue was born in the County Kerry, Ireland. She was a young girl when she arrived in New Zealand in the steamship Joycelyn. Her husband, the late Timothy Sugrue, died in 1906, leaving her with a large family but undaunted she faced the crisis bravely and made a success of farming at Belfield. Some ten years ago she came to live with her daughter, Miss Norah Sugrue on the main north road.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 6, 6 January 1917, Page 6
Another old colonist has passed away at the advanced age of eighty-five years, in. the person of Mrs. Ann Crawford. She was born in County Kerry, Ireland, and came out to the colonies in the ship Golconda. Her brother was colour sergeant of the 4th Waikato Regiment in 1863.
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New post on West Cork History
1518, Kinsale Archduke Ferdinand Visit. Clandestine Marriage. Durer’s Depiction of Irish Soldiers and Peasants.
by durrushistory
1518, Kinsale Archduke Ferdinand Visit to Kinsale as a result of a storm, The visit was a record by Laurent Vital. It is suggested that his account is there inspiration of 1518, Kinsale Archduke Ferdinand Visit. Clandestine Marriage. Durer's Depiction of Irish Soldiers and Peasants.
The reference to savage is the local Irish of Gaelic origin. At that time Kinsale was a Norman settlement
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Rincurran, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Baptisms, Church of Ireland 1849, 1860 and St. Multose, Kinsale from 1683.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/21565
Plan of the Siege and Battle of Kinsale (Ceann Sáile) 1601, Petition to the Pope in 1484 requesting that no more clergy be sent from Bath to St. Multose and that only native clergy be appointed as English clergy could not administer sacraments in Irish, Prosperity in the 18th century, Shipping News in 'A Short History of Kinsale'
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/4035
St. Multose, Kinsale, Church of Ireland, Records, 1683-
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1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
by durrushistory
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An assembly in ancient Ireland
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St Patrick’s Day in South Australia
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King William St, Adelaide, 1916
As with cities all over the world, Adelaide in South Australia has been without a St Patrick’s Day parade during the Covid19 years. For Adelaide, current restrictions in place mean no parade in 2022, unlike some other cities (see out What’s On segment).
The extract below from the book Irish in South Australia: New histories and insights (2019) is a reminder of the importance of the St Patrick’s Parade to the Irish abroad in particular. The chapter author is Simon O’Reilley from Kapunda, a town about 85ks from Adelaide.
Adelaide today
The Irish, as a founding people in South Australia, formed strong social and community networks, while maintaining bonds of kinship with their oppressed homeland. Given this attachment, it is only natural that the feast of St Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, would be commemorated with as much importance in South Australia, as in any other place around the world where Irish migrants settled. From the beginning of European settlement, St Patrick’s Day in South Australia has been commemorated annually as a rallying call to express Irish identity in a new land.
1836-1916
It is more than likely that St Patrick’s Day would have been celebrated among the first Irish Catholic families that came to South Australia in the first years of settlement, either privately or in clusters, through religious devotion or as a small celebration. However, a number of the colony’s prominent early citizens were Irish Protestants, who were proud of the land of their birth and it was one of these, George Kingston who organised the first publicly-announced celebration of St Patrick’s Day, advertised in 1840. Just four years after the colony’s founding it was proclaimed that, ‘The Sons of Erin will celebrate the festival of their Patron Saint by dining together at Fordham’s hotel’. Since the cost of attendance was 30 shillings, this event was probably not intended for the general Irish community. By 1843, a celebration for the wider community was organised:
Southern Australian newspaper 1843
Incidentally, this is ‘the first reference to a game of football being played in South Australia … probably a variety of Gaelic Football’. The following year it was advertised that ‘a few of the ancient games of our forefathers will be revived on the green.’ By 1845, three separate festivities for St Patrick’s Day were advertised: a dinner at the Freemason’s Tavern, football and a roasted ox at Thebarton, and publican, Edward McEllister of the Irish Harp, Rundle Street, supplying tickets for a supper at 2s 6d each.
Thebarton Oval today (en.wikepedia.org)
By 1849, the St Patrick’s Society of South Australia was formed. Its founding members included prominent Irish Protestants such as Major Thomas O’Halloran, George Kingston, and Robert Torrens as well as Catholics including Edward McEllister and Fr Michael Ryan. The society was essentially a lobby group with a clear agenda to revive old associations, communicate information to Ireland, assist new immigrants on their arrival, and lobby government for a fairer proportion of Irish immigrants granted passage to South Australia from Irish ports. The society also emphasised the suitability of Irish migrants for life in the colony. The following year the society had erected St Patrick’s Hall in Leigh Street adjoining the Wellington Inn, with a well-attended meeting on St Patrick’s Day.
River Torrens named after Robert Torrens’ father
In a speech at the formation of the society Robert Torrens declared: ‘The Thames alone should not supply the fertilizing stream of emigration; equally valuable labor abounded on the banks of the Shannon, which had an equal right to share in the abundance with which we are blessed’. Composed of such prominent citizens, the society had some effect, as Irish migration to South Australia began to pick up into the mid-1850s. By 1857, Bishop Murphy reported a population of 14,000 Catholics in South Australia, the majority being Irish.
the town of Kadina is around 150ks from Adelaide. This badge is from Simon O’Reilley’s collection of St Patrick’s Day badges
The attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in New South Wales on 12 March 1868 by self-proclaimed Fenian, Henry O’Farrell, placed much suspicion on Irish communities all over Australia. A few days later, just before St Patrick’s Day, 1868, two soldiers of the 50th Regiment compelled a tradesman in Adelaide to haul down a ‘Fenian flag’ outside his premises. Another incident some years later during a Catholic procession in Kadina had similar parallels, when a police officer attempted to seize an Irish flag, provoking a defiant response.
In the late 1860s, Fr Julian Tenison Woods used St Patrick’s Day to lecture on the evils of drunkenness, forming a Temperance Association that night in 1868, which became known as the St Patrick’s Temperance Association. Despite the lull in celebration earlier in the decade, by the late 1860s and early 1870s, the celebration of Mass and a lecture followed by a concert in the town hall, was the norm for St Patrick’s Day in Adelaide, with the first mention of a procession being made in 1870.
However, it was not until 1878 that an imposing formal procession through the principal streets of Adelaide was organised by a committee headed by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society (HACBS). Taking part too were the Australasian Catholic Benefit Society (ACBS), the Labourers’ Branch of the Labor League and the United Cabmen’s Society of Adelaide. General interest from the public was shown by the fact that five to six thousand people were present to witness the start of the procession. Along the whole route, the inhabitants turned out en masse to witness the procession, from St Francis Xavier’s Hall down Grote Street, along West Terrace and down Hindley Street, where the balconies and windows of the different shops and houses were thronged with spectators, to North Terrace and through to the grounds of Government House, where they were received by the Governor.
Adelaide Irish pipe band still going today
In Adelaide by 1912, a feature of the procession was the newly formed Irish Pipe Band. The Band would be at the head of the column for many years and indeed still is to the present day. The recently formed Irish National Foresters also appeared for the first time this year. By 1914, St Patrick’s Day speeches from the United Irish League echoed sentiments which fully anticipated Home Rule to be granted following the passing of the Bill, after decades of careful political lobbying, mostly by the same people who were lobbying in the 1880s. Little did they know, whilst on the cusp of success, that everything would change utterly: the Great War, the subsequent Easter Rising in Dublin, and the psychological shift of Irish sentiment from cautious Home Rule politics to outright militant demands for an Irish Republic.
Although, the Great War seemed not to dampen the enthusiasm for St Patrick’s Day in Adelaide, a feature of the parade in 1916 was the voluntary inclusion of soldiers from training camps around Adelaide, the total muster being 1,431 officers and men. The sectarian division caused by the conscription debate and the Irish Rising of April 1916 did not seem to have an adverse effect on the St Patrick’s Day demonstration itself in the ensuing years; indeed, they gave the day further emphasis although resentful loyalist voices were to become louder.
The continuity of St Patrick’s Day speaks of a strong sense of community and identity among Irish migrants and their descendants over generations in South Australia. Domestic, Irish and global events combined with religious constraints, folk traditions and external community expectations formed the evolution of this expression. Initially, St Patrick’s Day was used to express loyal sentiments, but political events in Ireland provoked notions of solidarity. This connection to Ireland would last well into the twentieth century, as a strong sense of Irish identity was passed on from Irish migrants to the first and second generation. At the moment when notions of Irish identity in South Australia were confidently at their peak, tumultuous political events in Ireland, the Great Depression and the Second Word War forced Irish South Australians to re-evaluate their focus. After generations of looking to Ireland, the close connection could no longer be sustained and their focus would turn to local issues of politics, religion and society in Australia.
Dymphna Lonergan is a member of Tinteán’s editorial group and has contributed two chapters to Irish South Australia: new histories and insights (Wakefield Press 2019). Enquiries to sales@wakefieldpress.com.au
https://tintean.org.au/2022/03/10/st-patricks-day-in-south-australia/
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186-year-old letter detailing early American diplomatic visit to Holy Land surfaces in Jerusalem auction
By Asaf Shalev May 7, 2021 3:09 pm
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“This letter is of great importance to both the history of American Jewry as well as to the history of the State of Israel,” Kedem Auction House CEO Meron Eren said in a statement. “It’s amazing to read, if only to learn about relations between the United States and Palestine at the time.”
The passenger who authored the letter, Lewis Woofley, describes traversing much of the Mediterranean on an eastbound route along the coasts of France, Italy and Greece with stops at various islands. Eventually, the sailing ship reached the port of Alexandria in Egypt. Well-versed in the geography of antiquity, Woofley is thrilled at the sight of various ruins, noting locations mentioned in ancient folklore.
An extended stop in Egypt allowed Woofley and other passengers of the USS Delaware to venture inland where they had an encounter with the local ruler, Mohammad Ali. Known today as the founder of Egypt, Ali was busy fashioning a modern nation out of the ancient kingdom when this audience of Western visitors arrived.
“We rowed once [sic] the bay to his palace, where we were received by him seated on his divan in one corner of the room,” Woofley wrote. “He did not rise to meet us, but kept his crossed-legged position reclining his head and motioning us to be seated. Coffee was handed us in fine china goblets resting on golden stands.”
During the conversation, the “good-natured” Pasha, as Woofley refers to him, displayed a charisma that apparently won over his visitors.
“The Pasha is one of the most interesting men, in many respects, of the age,” Woofley writes. “The changes that he has introduced among his subjects, the improvements that he has made and is still carrying on in Egypt are immense.”
From Egypt, the ship sailed northeast along the coast until reaching the shores of the Holy Land. This is how excited Woofley was on the morning of arrival, according to the letter: “The Holy Land! Palestine! The feelings, the reflections, the ecstasies, you may more readily imagine than I describe.”
An American diplomat stationed in Palestine, David Darmon, boarded the ship and briefed the visitors on what conditions to expect when they disembark. Darmon was a French Jew who served as a consular agent, the first American representative in the area. Little is known about him, which makes the discovery of the letter significant.
Woofley was excited to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but Darmon delivered some news that seemed to quash that possibility. Palestine was in an “unsettled state.” Darmon shared news of bad roads, bandits, and a dangerous plague gripping the area.
“What a pity!” Woofley writes. “After having come so far and being so near to it — Like Moses, we are only to be permitted to see the Promised Land but not to enter it.”
Kedem Auction House expects the letter to fetch a price of between $2,000 and $4,000, with the proceeds going to an anonymous seller.
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West Cork History
Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, one of Ireland’s first photographers from 1854,Glenbarrahane, Castletownsend, West Cork, and Coghill Magistrates.
Getty Museum:
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3512/sir-john-joscelyn-coghill-irish-1826-1905/
Sir John Joscelyn Coghill
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3512/sir-john-joscelyn-coghill-irish-1826-1905/
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Hi Mary. As you outlined last week Mr Flavin MP questioned Balfour about Duagh Bridge in the House of Commons in 1898 as to why the bridge built in 1891, seven years previously, was not available for public use. Interestingly, the bridge is mentioned in a list of tenders for road maintenance in the Kerry Evening Post of November 16, 1892 where it was referred to as a “new bridge”. The Grand Jury of Kerry had erected the bridge at a cost of £3,496 10s. Gerard Balfour, the Chief Secetary, acknowledged that; “…no proper crossing has been provided by the railway company at this point. The grand jury, …state they have no power to employ a person to look after the gate… I am advised there is no legal provision under which the railway company or the grand jury can be required to provide a crossing, and the Board of Trade inform me they have no power to intervene.”
Mr Flavin tried to ask why the Grand Jury had used ratepayer’s money to build a bridge without first sorting things with the railway company, but he was ruled out of order.
The railway line existed before both the new road and Duagh Bridge over the Feale, running from Foildarrig to Lacka East, was put in place. Why the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company did not agree to a level crossing to facilitate the opening of the new connecting road and bridge is not clear. The reasons may have been the high cost of constructing or staffing the crossing or, as Mr Balfour said, there was no legal compulsion on them to do so.
Interestingly, the Limerick & Waterford Railway Act was passed in 1826. It was the first Act authorising an Irish Railway Company, but it wasn’t until May 1848 that the Company began to build their rail network. The line from Ballingarrane Junction (two miles north of Rathkeale) to North Kerry was opened in December 1880 so, when it came to the question of a level crossing for a new road, the Railway company had ‘squatters right’ so to speak.
Two years prior to Mr Flavin’s unsuccessful representations to government the Kerry Evening Post of March 11, 1896 carried a report on the proceedings of the Grand Jury and its efforts to deal with the problem of the ‘bridge-to-nowhere’. A report stated, in the absence of an agreement with the Railway Company on the construction of a level crossing, the cost of a bridge over the railway line would be £700 and it would cost £1,000 to carry the road under the Railway line.
Moving into the next century the Kerry Evening Post of August 9, 1902 reported that the County Surveyor urged the Council to approve the works regarding the approach road to the ‘railway bridge at Duagh”. At this stage it seems the Railway Company had agreed to build a bridge over the railway line but the Surveyor “had not yet heard from the company as to when they will proceed with it”. The work on the approach roads required the taking in of one and quarter acres of land. Lord Listowel claimed compensation at the rate of £22. 10s per Irish acre and two of his tenants, William Stack and Daniel Keane, claimed £90 and £60 respectively for the loss they would sustain. The total claimed by the tenants for the one and a half acres would be around €20,000 when updated to today’s money values! The Council also had the option of compulsory purchase.
So, it seems Duagh Bridge carried no traffic for the first twelve years of its existence – a possible world record! The nearby railway bridge that was eventually built to allow traffic to proceed no longer spans a railway line - instead it will offer a fantastic view of the North Kerry Greenway which will pass under it. This railway bridge and the nearby Duagh Bridge makes yet another interesting story for the many visitors who will traverse the Greenway in the future.
Pension Files
https://treasonfelony.wordpress.com/2019/09/25/belfast-brigade-ira-files-new-release-by-mspc/
An Address from the Army Council of the Irish Republican Army to the Men and Women of the Orange Order
https://treasonfelony.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/ira-appeal-to-the-orange-order/
[This is the text as quoted by The Kerryman on 16th July 1932. It was published in An Phoblacht the same day and had been largely written by Peader O’Donnell. Prior to publication, it had been circulated with a covering letter from the IRA’s Adjutant General, Donal O’Donoghue, on 8th July to newspaper editors. Most, even including the Belfast Newsletter, published abridged versions as early as 11th July 1932. I have kept the formatting here from The Kerryman version. The address was distributed as leaflets in unionist districts of Belfast by IRA volunteers.]
Fellow Countrymen and Women,
It is a long call from the ranks of the Irish Republican Army to the marching throngs that hold the 12th July Celebrations in North East Ulster. Across the space we have sometimes exchanged shots, or missiles or hard words, but never forgetting that on occasions our ancestors have stood shoulder to shoulder. Some day we will again exchange ideas and then the distance which now separates us will shorten. For we of the Irish Republican Army believe that inevitably the small farmers and wage-earners in the Six County area will make common cause with those of the rest of Ireland, for the common good of the mass of the people in a Free United Irish Republic. Such a conviction is forming itself in an ever increasing number of minds in North East Ulster.
The Irish Republican Army – within North East Ulster as well as in the rest of Ireland – believe that the mass of the Working-Farmers and Wage-earners must organise behind revolutionary leadership if they are to rescue themselves from a system within they the few prosper and the many are impoverished.
It is our opinion, a conviction driven in on our mind by the facts of life around us, that capitalism and imperialism constitute a system of exploitation and injustice within which the mass of the people can know no freedom.
The burdens of to-day’s bad times are falling with increasing weight on Working Farmers, who must surrender an increasing part of their produce to meet rents, taxes, bank interest, etc, while their incomes diminish The unemployed workers are being torn at with economies in social services – adding daily to the destitute. The wage earners are finding their conditions _s of employment and standard of living steadily worsening.
We can see no permanent solution of these evils except by the transfer of power over production, distribution and exchange to the mass of the people.
The power to produce what the many require exists; the Organisation and its distribution presents no insoluble difficulty. But the vested interests of a privileged minority are across the road and progress is impossible, unless we are prepared to clear away these obstacles.
These interests that deny their rights to the many are those on which the Empire rests. Touch or threaten these privileged interests and the whole force of the Empire is invoked for their protection. Thus it is that we see and say that the freedom of the mass – of the Irish People is impossible without breaking the connection with Imperial Britain and with all the Imperial system connotes.
Do you see any other road to freedom for yourselves and your families?
You must realise that the chief industries on which the former alleged prosperity of North East Ulster rested are gone beyond hope of being revived; that the same thing has occurred in Great Britain; that everywhere the pinch grows tighter on those who are unemployed as a result of this breakdown in the whole structure of capitalism. Can the British people help you while their own workers and industries are struggling desperately to exist and are not succeeding in these days? Where do you see any hope?
Working-farmers and Wage-earners of North East Ulster. You surely must see that your future is bound up with the mass of the people in the remainder of Ireland. To preserve yourselves from extinction, you and they must combine and go forward to the attainment of A Free Irish Nation within which life and living will be organised and controlled by you to serve your needs and thus end the present economic and social injustices for ever.
The industrial capacity, and training of you industrial workers, of North East Ulster ensure you a leading influence and place in the economy and life of a Free Irish Nation.
EXPLOITATION OF RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES
To prejudice you it is emphasized that we of the Irish republican Army and the mass of Republicans are mainly Catholic, and that your religious beliefs would not be respected in a free Ireland! It is quite true we are mianly Catholics, but in Southern Ireland the same political and economical interests and voices that tell you we are Catholics, tell the Catholic population of the South that we are Anti-God fanatics, and yearning for an opportunity to make war on the religion to which the majority of us belong!
The fact is we are quite unaware of religious distinctions within our Movement.
We guarantee you, you will guarantee us, and we will both guarantee all full freedom of conscience and religious worship in the Ireland we are to set free.
This is the simple truth, and just now when Imperial interests are attempting to conceal themselves behind the mad fury of religious strife you and we should combine to make certain that no such escape should be provided them.
In the process of exploitation of the wage-earners and small producers, do you not realise how little religion matters to the exploiters? Orangemen and Catholic, Catholic women and yours toil side by side in the factory and mill, all equally victims Those who thus exploit mercilessly your labour and energies, would outside set you at one anothers throats, because it is to their advantage to divide you and lead you into conflict by arousing religious issues and inflaming passions.
Do yon not find yourselves queued shoulder to shoulder outside the Unemployed Exchanges waiting for the ‘Dole’, that crumb which the exploiters throw to the exploited of different religions? In these vital matters jour religion or your membership of the Orange Older counts for little, nor does Catholicism to the unemployed and starving Catholics in Southern Ireland.
The fact is that the religious feelings of the masses of both Orangemen and Catholics are played on and exploited by the Imperialists and Capitalists the more surely to enslave them.
THE VICTORY OF THE BOYNE!
You celebrate the victory of the Boyne. This battle was a victory for the alliance of the then Pope; and William of Orange; strange alliance for you to celebrate; strange victory for Catholics to resist! History has been muddled to hide the occasions when your forefathers and ours made common cause, and passions are stirred to manufacture antagonisms. If William of Orange and His Holiness could achieve an alliance, there is hope that “NO SURRENDER” may come up from a throng which also roars “UP THE REPUBLIC”.
Your stock were the founders and inspiration, the North East Ulster the cradle, of the modern Revolutionary Movement for National Independence and Economic Freedom. Your illustrious ancestors and co-religionists, the United Irishmen, by their gallant struggle in 1798 set aflame the ideals of Republicanism which never since have been extinguished. We ask that you should join us to achieve their ideals — National Freedom and religious toleration.
It was John Mitchel, a Newry man of your stock, who addressed these words to your forefathers: “In fact religious hatred has been kept alive in Ireland longer than anywhere else in Christendom. Just for the simple reason that Irish landlords and British statesmen found their own account in it, and so soon as Irish landlordism and British domination are finally rooted out of the country it will be heard of no longer in Ireland any more than it is in France or Belgium, now.”
Fraternally, Your Fellowcountrymen,
The Army Council,
On Behalf of the Irish Republican Army
More on Belfast
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Irish Examiner 1841-current, Wednesday, 29 January, 1845; Page: 2
IT is asserted, and believed too, that the Repeal of the Corn Laws would injure Ireland, she being essentially an Agricultural Country. This is a fallacy and a landlord's argument. Dear food in every country is an evil. Dear food can only be the result of monopoly, high rents or landlord legislation. If the price of corn be raised to an artificial height, and thus the people debarred of wholesome food, this can only be brought about by that legislation which tends to uphold the high rental of land. In this respect it is a common cause and a common evil between the people of Ireland and England, and it is the duty of Irishmen as well as Englishmen to struggle against monopoly, dear food and the tyranny of landlordism. If corn laws be a benefit to the agricultural people of Ireland, why are they half-starved, unclad, houseless and feeding on the garbage of beasts?
Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, 24 July, 1843; Section: Front page, Page: 1
MEDICAL CHARITIES—MR. PHELAN
'{From the Dublin Evening Post.) The Mail announces that this much injured gentleman has received an appointment from the Government. If so we are glad that justice has been done, even at the eleventh hour. But the Mail is in a great blaze about it, and declares that it " can be intended for no other purpose than as a cool and deliberate insult of the grossest kind to the Governors of the Irish Medical Charities, and to the Medical profession of Ireland ;" and in support of this it is asserted, that if the news be true, two of the most eminent Physicians in Dublin will resign their Hospitals, and " we are equally convinced their example will be very generally followed all over the country." There is just as much chance that Lord Roden will resign his pension.
Irish Examiner 1841-current, Friday, 23 July, 1847; Page: 3
A most atrocious attempt at injuring the character of the poor people in the neighbourhood of Castleisland has just come to our knowledge. It appears that about six weeks ago a cow belonging to Mr. John Powell, a very respectable Farmer, residing in Sandville, was stolen from the men who were employed in watching the cattle of Mr. Powell. The night being wet and cold, the men had only gone to take some refreshment, when during their absence the wall of the enclosure was broken down and the cow driven by away some person or persons then unknown. The alarm was immediately given and a hot pursuit commenced.—They came upon the tracks of the cow which were quite visible, the ground being wet, and the footsteps of persons as if pursuing the beast, which it seems ran away from them, were also plainly discernible along the road and in an adjoining potato field of Edward Hartnett, Esq., of Sandville, into which the plundering parties had gone in their endeavour to get a head of the cow and drive her into another field. In this they succeeded, having first made a breach in the wall, and after building it up again went off, leaving the cow secured out of the reach of immediate discovery as they supposed. The men however found the cow lying in this field, being guided thither by the hoofmarks and foot-steps. Here the matter rested for some weeks, until at length one of the abstracting party disclosed the secret, and from this disclosure it appears that the whole affair, was the work and contrivance of three young men employed as Pay-Clerks or Check-Clerks, or both, under the Board of Works. Finding that their own pay was about being stopped together with the public works, they had recourse to this disgraceful stratagem to induce the authorities to continue the works, through the apprehension of midnight robberies taking place.
Irish Examiner 1841-current, Wednesday, 06 September, 1848; Section: Front page, Page: 1
Railway Accidents- A Parliamentary paper, presented by Her Majesty’s command, gives the following particulars relative to railway accidents It appears that out if a gross total number of 20,330,492 passengers carried on various railways in Great Britain and Ireland during the half year ending the 30th of June, 1848, 90 persons were killed and 99 injured by accidents. A careful and minute analysis of these statistics shows that of the 90 persons killed and 93 injured there were six passengers killed and 6O injured from causes beyond their own control ; five passengers killed and two injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution; seven servants of companies or contractors killed and 14 injured from causes beyond their own control; 52 servants of companies or of contractors killed and 18 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution ; 18 trespassers and other persons (neither passengers nor Servants killed and five injured by improperly crossings or standing on the railway ; one person run over and killed at a crossing, through the misconduct of an engine driver, and one suicide .
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Kerry— On October 24 some daylight raids for arms were made in the Rathmore district. Several houses were visited by a party comprising eight men, who were armed and disguised. The Silver Jubilee of the Poor Clare Sisterhood was celebrated in Kenmare on Oct. 25 with general rejoicing. At Tralee Petty Sessions on Oct. 25, a young farmer named Mortimer Moriarty was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for being in possession of a revolver without a license.
Rev. George Chute has made an abatement of 25 per cent, to his tenants at Glenflesk. J. C. Cottsman, jr., J.P., Glenflesk castle, has made a similar abatement to his tenants in the Kerry portion of the Holtsman estate. Both these abatements have been made in the judicial rent. Henry Herbert, J.P., Cahirnane, near Killarney, has made an abatemeut of 15 per cent. At a special court held at Listowel on Oct.. 25, John Foran, hia mother, Margaret Foran, and his sister, Ellen Foran, were charged with assaulting a bailiff whilst seizing the cattle of Denis Foran at Bunaghara. They were also charged with the rescue of Cattle from the bailiffs. The defendants were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
On Oct. 25, the County sub-Sheriff evicted Patrick B. Murphy and Michael Walsh, two tenants on the property of Lord Headly in the Castleisland district, for non-payment of rent. Murphy's wife was very ill on the occasion of the eviction, and a painful scene was witnessed. On the following day Deputy- Sheriff Thomas Goodman, accompanied by six bailiffs and a staff of police, proceeded to tue property of Capt. M'Gill and evicted four tenants named Patrick Keane, Julia Keane, Daniel Murphy, and Cornelius Crowley, for non-payment of about two gales' rent.
On the night of October 16 a fierce fire broke out at Milltown on an evicted farm belonging to Samuel Murray Hussey, which a man named Michael Walsh was in charge of. The fire resulted in the destruction of two houses, the farm house and dairy. Some hay (about two tons) was stowed in the dairy, which adjoined the house from which a poor man named Thomas Flaherty was evicted over 12 months since, and the flames from the fire in the dwelling house at the gable and thus the fire spread The police and 16 men from her Britannic Majesty's ship Britomart were on the scene soon after being notified, but proved useless. On October 25, 14 young men of the farming class were arrested while in bed at their homes in the parishes of Milltown, Kealkill, Tallag, and Castlemain, and were immediately taken to Milltown Bridewell, from whence they were taken to Tralee and examined before the magistrates in the course of the day on charges of illegal assembly. The names of six of them are Moriarty, Connihan. Kelliher, Fitzgerald, Prendergast, and Sheehy. The witnesses failed to identify any of the prisoners, who were all discharged. It appears that on Augußt 11, when a large number of police were engaged at the annual fair known as Puck Fair, at Killorglin, their absence was taken advantage of and a raid was made on the house of Mr. Huggard Magistrate's Secretary, at Milltown, and arms carried off from the
police protection posts. A doctor and three others are all awaiting trial, charged with firing on the police the same night. Garret Sheehan, a supposed Crown witness who was detained in custody, escaped from Castleisland Police Barrack on the morning of Oct. 18. Sheehan was first arrested on a charge of Moonlighting at Knocknagoshel with John Lane and Denis Murphy. The latter two were sent to the County Gaol, while Sheehan was kept in Castleisland Barrack. There was a constable specially told off to look after him and never let him out of sight. The man was not treated as an ordinary prisoner, and there is doubt that he gave information to the police which was looked upon as being important. Murphy and Lane were to have been brought up at Castleisland, and Sheehan was to appear as a witness against them. He got himself clear of the barrack premises without attracting any notice. The police were sent out in all directions after him and the other prisoners were formally remanded for eight days The closest and most extensive search failed to discover any traces of the fugitive, who had evidently got over a considerable distance before his absence was discovered.
A large and enthusiastic open-air demonstration was held in the village of Newtownsandes on Oct. 25, under the auspices of the I. N. L. Contingents arrived from Listowel, Tarbert, Ballylongford, Ballybunion, Abbeyfeale, and several other places. Two brass bands discoursed national airs. The chair was taken by Rev. D. R. Harrington, President St.- Michael's College, Listowel. Among the resolutions passed were the following:—" That we condemn the heartless action of landlords, like Thomas Sandes, Lord Ormathwaite, and others, who have refused all reductions of rent, or have offered abatements which are only a mockery, and who are threatening to evict the unfortunate tenants who are unable to meet their exorbitant demands. That we pledge ourselves to support by every lawful means tenants who may be evicted by grasping and cruel landlords. That the name of Newtownsandes be changed henceforth to that of Newtown- Dillon." (Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. Fitzpatrick, in putting the resolution, said he hoped they would wipe out every trace of what the name of Sandes typifies— that is, the worst form of Irish landlordism. (Cheers.)
Limerick. Newcastle West Branch, I. N. L. are about to make collections at the church doors for the purpose of raising funds to sustain evicted tenants against the tyranny of harsh landlords during the coming winter.
A meeting of Nationalists and others was held in Limerick on Oct. 28 for the purpose of selecting a candidate for the Mayoralty for the forthcoming year. there was an expression of opinion that the present Mayor, S. O'Mara, should accede to the general request of the citizens and allow himself to be placed in nomination for the third year. Resolutions were passed to this effect and ordered to be placed before the Town Council. On the following day, however, at a meeting of the National League, Mr. O'Mara finally declined to accept the Mayoralty for a third term.
Douglas Blacker has granted his Knockanure tenantry a reduction of 25 per cent., on the judicial rents. The Knight of Glin has granted a reduction of 15 per cent, on the March gale of '86 to those tenants who did not get judicial rents fixed. Mr. Ohetwood has given his Ahawilk tenants an abatement of 40 per cent. Henry D. Spread grants 20 per cent, reduction to his Broadford House tenants. Mrs. James gives her Tallaha tenants 20 per cent. The O'Grady tenants demand reductions varying from 30 to 50 per cent and have refused 15 per cent.
Great business (says United Ireland) was done on Sunday, Nov. 21, in the necessary work of preserving the population from the jaws of avaricious landlordism. At Murroe the big meeting^ which had been some time in preparation was duly held. In its circumstances it was worthy of the trouble which had been taken to organise it. In point of numbers and stirring accessories it was one of the best popular demonstrations held for a very long time. Thousands of people flocked into Murroe from all parts of the County Limerick, as well as from the city itself. The counties of Clave and Tipperary also sent their forces in large numbers. Mr. John Dillon, Mr. T. Harrington, and Mr. John O'Connor, who went down to represent the Parliamentary Party, met with a reception worthy of their rank iv the National phalanx. Mr. Dillon took the chair at the meeting, and in impressive language repeated to the men of Limerick the advice he had previously tendered to the men of other places regarding the way in which the struggle with the common enemy was to
be waged. The special object of the Murroe meeting was the consideration of the position of Lord Cloncurry's tenantry evicted five years back. Mr. Dillon exposed the tyranny of this landocrat by means of his own letters, and branded him before the world as an extortionate and merciless rackrenter. He made a stirring appeal to the men of Limerick and Tipperary to stand by the evicted tenantry still. Mr. Harrington also did good service in rousing up the feeling of the meeting in support of the victims of Lord Cloncurry, and the resolutions proposed by the Rev. D. Humphreys pledge the whole body of the Cloncurry tenantry to aid their persecuted brethren in kthe fight. They will pay no rent until these are restored to their homestead. That is the message which Murroe sent to Lord Cloncurry and the Times on Sunday last.
Sligo According to th Connaught Lender, there died at Holborn Hill Sligo, on Oc. 15, an old woman named Margaret Johnstone, at the extraordinary age of 112 years. She mclio boast with a good deal of pride that she remembered the French morning, of course the lauding of the French in Killala in the latter part of 1798.
Freeman’s Journal 1 June 1916
The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lance-Corporal William Richard Cotter, 6th Batt. East Kent Regt., 'for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. When his right leg had been blown off at the knee, and he had also been wounded in both arms, he made his way unaided for fifty yards to a. crater, steadied the men who were holding it, controlled their fire, issued orders, and altered the dispositions of his men to meet a fresh counter-attack by the enemy. For two hours he held his position, and only al lowed his wounds to be roughly dressed when the attack had quieted down. He could not be moved back for fourteen hours, and during all this time had a cheery word for all those who passed him. There is no doubt - that his magnificent courage helped greatly to save a critical situation.' Un happily, Lance-Corporal Cotter did not live
to receive the V.C. awarded to him for his | act of unprecedented heroism. He succumbed to his wounds on March 6th. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cotter, of 2 Barton Cottages, Sandgate, Kent, and was 34 years of age. He attended as a boy the Catholic school at Folkestone. His parents had five other sons, all I of whom joined the Army and Navy. Three I of the five are dead, and of the remaining 1 two, one is in the Navy and the other at I Salonika. I
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TIMOTHY CASEY. Born KILLARNEY, Kerry. Served in Kerry Militia. Discharged aged 51. Covering date gives ...
...Kerry. Served in Kerry Militia. Discharged aged 51. Covering date gives year of discharge. Kilmainham Reference: A4232. See film image 212. ...
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THOMAS HOLLORAN. Born LISTOWEL, Kerry. Served in Kerry Militia. Discharged aged 49. Covering date gives ...
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham: Pensioners' Discharge Documents (Certificates of Service). Certificates of Service: Regiments on Irish Establishment. THOMAS HOLLORAN. Born LISTOWEL, Kerry. Served in Kerry Militia. Discharged aged 49. Covering date gives year of discharge. Kilmainham Reference: A7305.
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Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). THOMAS STACK Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 89th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 33.
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.STACK. Born LISTOWELL, Kerry. Served in 49th Foot Regiment; 95th Foot Regiment; 58th Foot Regiment; 9th Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 45. Covering dates give year of enlistment to year of discharge. Kilmainham Reference: A11222. ...
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Name Enright, James. Place of Birth: Tarbert, County Kerry. Number: B 3284. Date of Birth: ...
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Royal Naval Reserve Ratings' Records of Service (Microfiche Copies). Name Enright, James. Place of Birth: Tarbert, County Kerry. Number: B 3284. Date of Birth: 04 September 1876.
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2 Reports of George Wood on 1 individual petition (Sir Robert Peat on behalf of ...
...the prisoner is an honest, hard working servant. Initial sentence: death, respited. Recommendation: transportation for life. Annotated: John Eden & Dennis McCoy to be pardoned' 'George Empson to be transported for life' and 'Free Pardons for John Eden & Daniel Mc ...
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Pages 507-508. H Hobhouse to William Gregory, Castle, Dublin, regarding an Irish Catholic Priest named J Hayes who has gone from Birmingham to Dublin with 2000 copies of Hunt's addresses to the Catholics for distribution. Hunt has complained that Wooler and Carlisle have not provided him with enough copies.
Date:
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Letter of Ferdinand Huadicanus, Irish priest, to the Archduke's finances. Folio 449
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Cusack head at Douay 1596 - 1602
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Folio(s) 543-546. Examination, before [Bow Street] magistrate Richard Ford, of William Cheetham, shopkeeper and former ...
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Folio 17: J.H. to Duke of Newcastle. Intrigues and machinations of Mr. Anthony Sharpe, `a ...
...priest', and other persons who are smuggling Irish R.C. priests into England, to foment rebellion. Date and place: 1729 Apr 18 Lisbon. ...
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R Irvine to [Under Secretary] Richard Potenger: he has received a letter from his clerk in Flushing informing him that Mr. Story, who had offered to pilot Commodore Boys's squadron into Dunkirk roads, has been arrested in his house by a lettre de cachet from the court. Arrests also of an Irish Quaker and an English priest. General Warren has written that he was setting off for Brest. Dated at Westminster. f. 191
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Detention of Irish citizens and priests in China
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Irish shipowner who is smuggling Irish recruits for the French army into France, and Irish Catholic priests into Ireland; Dubois' appointment as Premier Ministre; Regent's mistresses. Date and place: 1722 Sept 2, Paris. ...
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Folio 255: Yorke to Bedford. Three of Mirepoix' four chaplains are Irish priests. Date and ...
Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. SP 78/231-238. Folio 255: Yorke to Bedford. Three of Mirepoix' four chaplains are Irish priests. Date and place: 1749 June 3/14 Paris. Cipher.
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B. Creet to Newcastle. At Bayonne I met seven men, four of them priests, but ...
...priests, but all Irish. They accepted of my company and swore me to fidelity. But when I was by them assured of a private article between France and Spain with the connivance of many of your great men, ...
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Belgium: Prisoners, including: Transmission of message from Edith Strick-Mansbridge, residing in Brussels, to Frank C ...
...Application for a British emergency passport from Henrietta Hennings in Brussels. Application for a British emergency passport from Arthur J Delport, born 28th July 1888. Includes application form with photograph and message from his sister Blanch Delport. Refusal of six Irish ...
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Br. Nicholas de Cusack, O.F.M., bishop of Kildare, to Edward I: he refutes a complaint ...
Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer. Br. Nicholas de Cusack, O.F.M., bishop of Kildare, to Edward I: he refutes a complaint that priests using the Irish language foment Anglo-Irish disputes.
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• Date range: 01 January 1281 - 31 December 1299
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Address of Irish house of lords to queen: thanks queen for 'safe and honourable peace', ...
...Irish house of lords to queen: thanks queen for 'safe and honourable peace', procured by queen notwithstanding 'the artifices used to prevent it by those who delight in war'. Commends queen's piety whilst deploring that Ireland is afflicted with ...
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Content: Folios 519-524. Letter from William Trucker, District Auditor, Axminster Poor Law Union, to C ...
...would induce him to give up private practice. Other medical officers could be taken from the half pay surgeons of the army and navy who would take on their own pupils. He reports that they have lately been 'infested' with Irish ...
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.Stack (amended to Joseph Stack and wife), Thomas Stack and wife, Thomas Bernard Stack, James Reynolds Stack, Charles Stack, Susannah Stack, Mary Stack, Ann Stack, Sarah Stack and Elizabeth Stack. ...
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Date range: 01 January 1824 - 31 December 1824
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Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files. 1885-1898 Series. Divorce Court File: 15358. Appellant: Margaret Rattray Stack. Respondent: Maurice Harnett Stack. Type: Wife's petition [wx].
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Royal Naval Reserve Ratings' Records of Service (Microfiche Copies). Name Stack, Richard. Place of Birth: Glin, Limerick, Ireland. Number: WTS 431. Date of Birth: 19 August 1894.
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Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Registers. Name Culhane, Michael. Official Number: 124226. Place of Birth: Aharallin, Kerry. Date of Birth: 02 February 1868.
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• Date range: 01 January 1883 - 31 December 1883
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...Culhane; possession of a rifle and ammunition; 18th November, 1920; Cratloe, County Clare; found guilty and fined £5, or in default 14 days imprisonment. ...
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• Date range: 01 January 1920 - 31 December 1921
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WALSH: ...WALSH Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 54th Foot Regiment; 10th Royal Veteran Battalion Discharged aged 43 after 12 years 2 months of service Residence or place where pension paid stated in document. See film image 613. ...
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• Date range: 01 January 1821 - 31 December 1821
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• Subjects:Pay and pensions, Armed Forces (General), Army
..WALSH. Born LISTOWELL, Kerry. Served in 87th Foot Regiment; 12th Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 38. Covering dates give year of enlistment to year of discharge. Kilmainham Reference: A4606. See film image 8. ...
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• Date range: 01 January 1803 - 31 December 1812
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.WALSH Born LISTOWELL, Kerry Served in 12th Royal Veteran Battalion; 54th Foot Regiment; 87th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 40 Covering date gives year of discharge. ...
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• Date range: 01 January 1815 - 31 December 1815
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Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Stokers. Name Walsh, John James. Official Number: K53733. Place of Birth: Listowel, Kerry. Date of Birth: 20 March 1897.
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.Kentucky v Owners of Gregory Apcai . Continued in same volume at folio T. Case no: K513. Brief notes of proceedings. ...
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ge, 27; place of birth, Topsham; previous ship, Alaska of Cardiff. F Gilbard; rank/rating, Cook; age, 20; place of birth, Plymouth; previous ship, same. J Martell; rank/rating, Boatswain; age, 32; place of birth, Jersey; previous ship, Cymrordorion of Cardiff. Michal Gregory; ...
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Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). JEREMIAH KEANE Born NEWTOWNSANDS, Kerry Served in 44th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 25.
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Date range: 01 January 1843 - 31 December 1850
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KENNELLY: Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Registers. Name Kennelly, Timothy. Official Number: 72023. Place of Birth: Tarbert, Kerry. Date of Birth: 20 July 1838.
Collection: Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Date range: 01 January 1873 - 31 December 1873
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KENNELLY: Admiralty: Royal Navy Continuous Service Engagement Books. C.S. NUMBERS. Name Kennelly, Michael. Place of Birth: Isle of Man. Continuous Service Number: 4853A. Date of Volunteering: 11 July 1862. Date of Birth: 11 July 1844.
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• Date range: 01 January 1853 - 31 December 1872
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KENNELLY: Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Registers. Name Kennelly, Patrick. Official Number: 161460. Place of Birth: Listowel, Kerry. Date of Birth: 05 May 1876.
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• Date range: 01 January 1891 - 31 December 1891
• Reference:ADM 188/237/161460
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Navy
CARROLL ; Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Registers. Name Carrol, James. Official Number: 54064. Place of Birth: Listowel, Kerry. Date of Birth: 1 January 1844.
• Collection: Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1873 - 31 December 1873
• Reference:ADM 188/28/54064
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Navy
CARROLL; Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Central Register of Seamen: Seamen's Records ('Pouches'). R582273 CARROLL T J 10/08/1916 LISTOWEL.
• Collection: Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1913 - 31 December 1972
• Reference:BT 372/1603/148
• Subjects:Merchant seaman
CARROLL: Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Registers. Name Carroll, Harry. Official Number: 107600. Place of Birth: Listowel, Kerry. Date of Birth: 15 August 1853.
• Collection: Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1878 - 31 December 1879
• Reference: ADM 188/130/107600
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Navy
RAYMOND: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Will of Philip Raymond of Listowel , Kerry.
• Collection: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
• Date range: 23 October 1857 - 23 October 1857
• Reference: PROB 11/2259/286
• Subjects: Wills and probate
O DELL: Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. Stokers. Name O'Dell, Michael. Official Number: K36519. Place of Birth: Listowel, Kerry. Date of Birth: 23 January 1882.
• Collection: Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1916 - 31 December 1916
• Reference:ADM 188/940/36519
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Navy
TRAIN: Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Files of Dissolved Companies. Company No: 4906; Foynes Listowel and Tralee Tramway Company, Ltd. Incorporated in 1870. Dissolved before 1916.
• Collection: Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1870 - 31 December 1916
• Reference:BT 31/1540/4906
• Subjects:Trade and commerce
MAIL Arrangements’.Listowel and Newcastle, including mail car contract tenders. Min No 5748. ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
• Date range: 01 January 1855 - 31 December 1856
• Reference:POST 14/211
• Subjects:Ireland, Communications
OSULLIVAN: War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records. IRISH SITUATION, 1914 - 1922. Courts of inquiry in lieu of inquest. Death of District Inspector Tobias O'Sullivan, RIC; 20th January, 1921; Listowel, County Kerry.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1921 - 31 December 1921
• Reference: WO 35/157A/50
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Ireland, Army
SHEEHY: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). DANIEL SHEEHY Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 39th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 19.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1846 - 31 December 1848
• Reference:WO 97/557/143
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Army
GRIFFIN: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). SYLVESTER GRIFFIN Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 86th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 43.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1825 - 31 December 1845
• Reference: WO 97/953/41
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
COLLINS: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). WILLIAM COLLINS Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 58th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 38.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1806 - 31 December 1822
• Reference: WO 97/706/32
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
BURKE: ..LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 35th Foot Regiment; 77th Foot Regiment; Kerry Militia Discharged aged 30 Covering date gives year of discharge. ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1821 - 31 December 1821
• Reference: WO 97/522/15
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
PURCELL: LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 49th Foot Regiment; Invalids or Supernumerary Invalids; 4th Royal Veteran Battalion Discharged aged 48 after 22 years 3 months of service Covering dates give year of enlistment to year of discharge. Residence or place where ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1792 - 31 December 1814
• Reference:WO 121/179/236
• Subjects:Pay and pensions, Armed Forces (General), Army
MCELLIGOTT: War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records. IRISH SITUATION, 1914 - 1922. Prosecution of civilians. Prosecution of Michael McElligott; possession of a seditious documents; 28th September, 1920; Listowel, County Kerry; 18 months imprisonment with hard labour.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1920 - 31 December 1920
• Reference:WO 35/117/9
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Ireland, Army
HORGAN: Ireland: Dublin Castle Records. PERSONALITIES. File 192, 74 Folios; James Horgan charged with riot at Listowel, 10 October 1917.
• Collection: Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1917 - 31 December 1917
• Reference :CO 904/203/26
• Subjects: Ireland, Public disorder
MOLENEUX: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). THOMAS MOLENEUX Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 18th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 25.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1849 - 31 December 1853
• Reference: WO 97/390/81
• Subjects :Armed Forces (General), Army
LEAHY: War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records. IRISH SITUATION, 1914 - 1922. Prosecution of civilians. Prosecution of Edward Leahy; possession of ammunition etc; 8th March, 1921; Listowel, County Kerry; 168 hours imprisonment without hard labour.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1921 - 31 December 1921
• Reference: WO 35/125/68
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Ireland, Weapons, Army
WALSH: ...LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 54th Foot Regiment; 10th Royal Veteran Battalion Discharged aged 43 after 12 years 2 months of service Residence or place where pension paid stated in document. See film image 613. ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1821 - 31 December 1821
• Reference: WO 121/197/589
• Subjects: Pay and pensions, Armed Forces (General), Army
STACK: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). THOMAS STACK Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 89th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 33.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1808 - 31 December 1824
• Reference: WO 97/984/117
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
LYNCH: ...LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in Irish Fencibles Discharged aged 29 after 7 years 6 months of service Covering dates give year of enlistment to year of discharge. ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1794 - 31 December 1811
• Reference: WO 121/112/265
• Subjects: Trade and commerce, Armed Forces (General), Army
CRONIN: Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). JOHN CRONIN Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 3rd Foot Regiment Discharged aged 20.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1848 - 31 December 1850
• Reference: WO 97/250/6
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
MOLONEY Duagh: .ROYAL ARTILLERY RECORDS OF SERVICES. Statements of Service, Royal Artillery 2 Battalion Numbers 646 to 1096. This entry appears on opening 321; this number is imprinted at the top right of each opening. Soldier's Number 963: John MOLONY. Born Devaugh, Listowel, ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1833 - 31 December 1833
• Reference: WO 69/92/318
• Subjects Armed Forces (General), Army
COLLINS: ..Papers. ROYAL ARTILLERY RECORDS OF SERVICES. Statements of Service, Royal Artillery 12 Battalion Numbers 973 to 1449. This entry appears on opening 326; this number is imprinted at the top right of each opening. Soldier's Number 1287: Francis COLLINS. Born Listowel, ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1852 - 31 December 1852
• Reference: WO 69/171/315
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
BUNYAN: .Kelly, 1 years imprisonment with hard labour; Prosecution of Michael O'Reilly; possession of firearms and ammunition; 2nd September, 1920; Belfast; 2 years imprisonment with hard labour; Prosecution of Richard Bunyan; possession of a loaded revolver and ammunition; 25th October, 1920; Listowel, ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1920 - 31 December 1920
• Reference: WO 35/114/5
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Ireland, Weapons, Army
MCELLIGOTT: .ROYAL ARTILLERY RECORDS OF SERVICES. Statements of Service, Royal Artillery 8 Battalion Numbers 3254 to 3816. This entry appears on opening 413; this number is imprinted at the top right of each opening. Soldier's Number 3743: Patrick McELLIGOTT. Born Gall, Listowel, ...
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1854 - 31 December 1857
• Reference: WO 69/151/398
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Pay and pensions, Army.
Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). THOMAS DILLANE Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 88th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 42.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1830 - 31 December 1853
• Reference: WO 97/969/38
• Subjects: Armed Forces (General), Army
Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents. 1760-1854: discharge papers arranged by regiment, but each described at item level. (WO 97/1-1271). MICHAEL CONNOR Born LISTOWEL, Kerry Served in 44th Foot Regiment Discharged aged 22.
• Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
• Date range: 01 January 1848 - 31 December 1852
• Reference:WO 97/592/9
• Subjects:Armed Forces (General), Army
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NZ Tablet.3 Aug. 1877
On Monday, July 23 1877, at the residence of Mr. Thomas Fitzgibbon, Arrow Junction, by the Rev. Father Mackay, John Cosgrove to Margaret Murphy, oldest daughter of Michael Murphy, Esq., Shanagolden, County Limerick, Ireland.
NZ Tablet 8 July 1881
A correspondent to the Dublin Freeman says I am glad to be able to inform the public that Lord Monteagle has given within the last few days unmistakable proof of the sincerity of his views and I think it due him to have the following fact made public. He has given an abatement of 20 per cent, to all his tenants on his county Limerick estate, in the parishes of Foynes, Shanagolden, Loughill, and Ballyhahill. This abatement reduces the rents in the majority of cases to, and in several cases, under Griffith's valuations. Speaking for myself and Mr. M'Namara, of Loughill, this reduction leaves Lord Monteagle very little profit, as he pays a high head rent for the land we hold. The tenant farmers of Ireland have reason to be thankful to Lord Monteagle for the very able way in which he has advocated land reform. This recent act of kindness to his tenants makes him stand out prominent from his class as a remarkable exception to the great majority of landlords and noblemen. Would that every landlord that I know acted similarly if so, I would not have had an attorney's letter by this morning's post for the rent due 29th September last. It may be right to remark that Lord Monteagle, though a nobleman of considerable property, is by no means wealthy.
Thames Advertiser 6 April 1883
Lord Monteagle is having a serious quarrel’ with' the tenants’ on his estate near Shanagolden, County of Limerick. The tenants decline to pay rent in future, unless, considering the' hard times, a reasonable’ abatement be made, Lord Monteagle stubbornly, refused all reduction, and wholesale evictions is the order.
Thames Advertiser 6 April 1883
In Dublin, the Lord Mayor, O'Connor, was hissed’ and. groaned at, at the railway station in that city on March the 8th.1883. He was, there to receive the American Delagation with: the remains of the Rev. Dr. Cahill 10,000 persons took part in the procession, and an additional 20,000 occupied the quays.'
THE IRISH FARM LABOURERS. NZ Tablet 9 Sept. 1881
On July 1 1881, a deputation of Irish agricultural labourers waited upon Mr. Forster at the Irish offices, Great Queen Street, Westminster, to urge upon him the necessity of taking steps to ameliorate the condition of the Irish labourers. The deputation, which was introduced by W. H. O'Sullivan, M. P., included Father Kennedy, of Kilmeady, Co Limerick and Messrs. Johnson, Hession, Upton, Peter OLeary and Mr. T. Campbell, Secretary of (The League of the Cross. There were also present Mitchell Henrv, M. P. Major Nolan, M. P. Col. Colthurst. M. P. Dwyer Gray, M. P. A. M. Sullivan, M. P. Jacob Bright, M. P. Theobald Fry, M. P. The O'Gorman Mahon, M. P. Mr. Molloy, M. P. Mr. Mc Farlane. M. P. Count Moore, M. P. Mr. Errington, M. P. Villiars Stuart, M. P. Mr. Givan M. P. Sir Eardley Wilmot, M. P. Thomas Burt, M.P. O'Connor Power, M. P. and Dr. Kinnear, M. P. Mr. W. H. O'Sullivan, in introducing the deputation, said he felt it to be a pleasure in introducing to the Irish Secretary a body representing the Irish agricultural labourers. No one who knew anything about Ireland could fail to take a deep interest in the condition of the Irish agricultural labourers, and the number of members of the House of Commons present would show how the matter was regarded by the Irish representatives (hear, hear). Father Kennedy, Shanagolden, Limerick, said there were two great wants of the Irish labourer the first was the want of decent houses and the second the want of remunerative wages. As a priest he was constantly in the homes of the poor, and he often found that there was only one apartment for a whole family. He suggested that some means should be taken to provide better homes for the labourers, and also to provide them with more constant employment Mr. Enright, a farm labourer, said he was compelled to go three miles to his work each day in all weathers, and after he reached there, he was employed digging drains, he had frequently to stand in water all day. His earnings, taking the average all the year round, was 9d. or lOd. a day, and out of that he had to pay 18s a year rent. He lived, with his wife and five children, in one apartment, and they had only one bed, as he had never been able to afford a second bed. His eldest child was a girl of 13, and he had two boys one 7 and one 5 years old. He seldom had more than two meals a day for himself and family, and sometimes not that. His breakfast was stir about, and so was his supper. His father had been an agricultural labourer, and he had always worked for farmers. He had lived in the same house for thirteen years, and had always repaired it at his own cost. Even if he had a second bed there was no room in his cottage for it. He was 33 years of age. Mr Upton, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, said he was a carpenter, and knew of many poor families paying an exorbitant rent for their cottages, where men were only earning Is. 6d. a day. These men were frequently out of work in the winter, and, as they were able-bodied, they could not get out-door relief, and many of them sent their children out to beg to keep them from starvation. Many men had to do that whose fathers had been decent farmers some years ago, and it was hard that they had had to go begging to China and Japan (hear, hear). Mr, Hession, a farmer, said there were clauses in the leases of many farms to prevent the farmers building labourers' cottages under a penalty of £100. (Mr. Johnson: I know of a case in which a farmer built one, and the landlord came in and pulled it down.) There was a clause to that effect in his own lease. He held two farms of 233 Irish acres. Mr. Forster, interpreting what he believed to be the sentiments of the Government promised that when they came to deal with the question which, however, would not be before the Land Bill was disposed of the Government would not fail to confer upon the agricultural labourers of Ireland those benefits they proposed to confer upon the same class in England. With regard to the more immediate object, there was no real difference about the facts of the case, for all admitted that the state of the Irish agricultural labourer was one urgently needing reform. The question was, how were they to deal with it So far as the present session was concerned it would, as they knew, be entirely occupied, so far as all practical purposes were concerned, with the passing of the Land Bill, in which so large a portion of the Irish people were concerned. He was, therefore, satisfied that no action could be taken in this matter before the rising of Parliament, but he would undertake to say the Land Bill, if it would not improve the state of the Irish agricultural labourers, would certainly not injure them (hear, hear). To his mind the real root of their grievances was the lack of industrial employments. If they could but hit upon some plan for improving the labour market, they would do much to better the position of the labouring classes of Ireland. The deputation then thanked Mr. Forster and withdrew.
NZ Herald 29 April 1920
Any Person knowing of the whereabouts or any particulars of the last place of abode, marriage, death or next of kin of BRIDGET NAUGHTON, sister of Patrick Naughton, late of Egerton, in the State of Victoria, Australia, Farmer, deceased intestate, and daughter of James and Mary Naughton. late of Deelish Shanagolden, in the County of Limerick. Ireland, both deceased., are requested to communicate immediately with the Farmers and Citizens Trustees' Company. Bendigo. Limited, of Charing Cross, Bendigo. in the State of Victoria, Australia, Administrator of the estate of the said Patrick Naughton, deceased. The said Bridget Naughton left Ireland for Australia about the year 1870. and is believed to have died in Australia or New Zealand about twenty-five years ago. The above inquiries are made in connection with a proposed application to the Supreme Court of Victoria relative to the unclaimed share of the said Bridget Naughton in the estate of the said Patrick Naughton. deceased. Dated this 27th day of March. 1920. Miles O Neill of Gillies Street, Rochester, Victoria.
NZ Tablet 12 Jan. 1905
KERRY— Departure of a Priest The Rev. John H. Casey, 0.P., Holy Cross, one of the most) popular clergymen in the whole Kerry diocese, has been transferred to Trinidad, West Indies.
LIMERICK:
NZ Tablet 11 Feb. 1887
From one end of the County to the other the question of rent is being warmly debated. In numerous cases landlords have offered abatements, which have been accepted, and the rents paid, but in many other cases settlements have not been arrived at. The Earl of Dunraven has expressed his willingness to allow reductions varying from 15 to 30 per cent, but the tenants require 30, and if their demand be not acceded to they will pay nothing. The abatement offered on the O'Grady estate is 15 per. cent, on judicial and 25 on non-judicial rents. This the tenants do not consider sufficient, and they have lodged with a confidential trustee the amount which in each case they think they ought to pay. Several branches of the National League have promised to assist in every way in their power the resistance offered by the tenants of Mrs, Morgan at Shanagolden to the payment of the full rent, that lady having refused any reduction and served writs in every case. At the meeting of the Herbertstown branch of the National League the Chairman (R. v. M. Ryan, C.C.) said there was no use in the half fight if driven to it let them be prepared to sell off their stock and clear the land. He believed, however, that in many cases the landlords would give fair reductions, At the Kilcoleman branch it was stated that an intimation
had been conveyed to the tenants on the Marchioness de la Rolla's property, which comprises nearly the whole of the parish, that they can now purchase their farms.
LIMERICK— The Last of a Noble Line In a letter to the parish priest of .Shanagolden, relative to the death of Sir Stephen de Vere, the Most Key. Dr. O'Dwyer says he and his brother Aubrey and the late Lord Dunraven and Lord Emly were able by the nobility of their characters and the complete dignity of their lives, to bear a striking testimony in favour of the Church, in which their intellects and profoundly religious spirits found peace and rest.
A Generous Act At the meeting of the Rathkeale Board of Guardians it was reported that Major-General Lloyd and Mrs Lloyd, of Beechmount, had sent through Dr. Hayes a statue of the Madonna in majolica from Florence for the Workhouse Maternity Ward. The Board unanimously thanked the donors, who are Protestants.
The Dairying Industry Sir 'Thomas H. Cleeve was one of the pioneers of the creamery movement in Ireland. The firm of which he is now the principal owns no less man 42 creameries in different parts of Munster, and in addition they have condensed milk factories in Limerick, Tipperary, Mallow, Carrick-on-Suir, Kanturk, Clonmel, Bruree, and Manister They employ upwards of 3000 hands altogether, and they deal with the enormous quantity of 600,000 gallons of milk per week, or 32,000,000 gallons per year. The Limerick premises alone occupy between five and six acres of ground. The butter manufactured by the firm finds its way into every part of the country, and the business is increasing year after year. Five years ago Messrs. Cleeve Bros, entered on the manufacture of caramels, and two years ago they added the manufacture of chocolate and cocoa. They already employ between 300 and 100 hands in these departments, and their enterprise holds promise of very considerable development.
Bacon-curing There are four great firms engaged in the bacon curing and kindred industries in Limerick, Messrs. W. J, Shaw and Sons, Messrs. James O'Mara and Sons, Messrs. J. Matterson and Sons, Ltd., and Messrs. Henry Denny and Sons, Ltd. Each of the firms owns huge premises equipped with modern appliances for the preparation and curing of bacon, for the manufacture of sausages and puddings, and for the carrying on of their other industries. They employ in their Limerick branches alone almost a thousand hands, and their trade penetrates not alone throughout Ireland, but throughout Great Britain, and reaches America, the British Colonies, France, and other Continental countries. Messrs.. Shaw and Sons kill over 100,000 pigs per annum, Messrs. O'Mara and Sons 40,000, Messrs. Denny and Sons 270,000, and Messrs. Matterson and Sons 100,000.
NZ Tablet 9th Sept. 1881
The Northern Echo of the Bth July, a paper published in Darlington, reports the following case At Ripon police court, Willing Dunn, chimney sweeper, was summoned for employing his t>w. Thomas, aged twelve, who had passed no standard of proficiency of the Elementary Education Act. A woman appeared, who said, in answer to the Bench, that she was lawfully married to the defendant. Mr. Morton But I have been told you were married to another man. The woman— Yes, I was but he sold me to Dunn foi 255., and I have it to show in black and white, with a receipt stamp on it, as I did not want people to say I was living in adultery. Mr. Wbifcham (the clerk) But people cannot sell their wives in this country. Case adjourned foe week.
1889 NZ Tablet
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DEATHS.
Dalton.— April 28, at the residence of his father-in-law (Philip Guthrie, 42, Bayview; Avenue, North Strand, Dublin), Timithoy Dalton; youngest son of the late Timithoy Dalton, Athea, County Limerick, Ireland. Deeply and deservedly regretted by his sorrowing; wife and relatives.
STOFFEL— On January 23,1907 at Rawhitiroa Road, Eltham, Mary beloved wife of Philip Stoffel and daughter"of Denns and"Johanna Mullane,' of Athea, Co Limerick, Ireland, and niece of the Rev. Thos. Mullane, 'in her 35th year, R.l. P.
It was stated in the House of Commons that a gentleman at Athea, Limerick, attributed an extraordinary increase in his potato crop to the action of electricity introduced through lightning conductors and distributed through the crop by means of wires. Mr Plunkett said that as the parish priest at Athea and the county surveyor of Limerick were satisfied as to the effect and cause of this remarkable phenomenon, he would have inquiries made on behalf of the Board of. Agriculture. from Bay of Plenty Times 28 Sept. 1900
NZ Tablet 8 Sept. 1893
Death has just removed Miss Goold one of the most esteemed of the ladies in the County of Limerick. Her aim was ever to promote industrial work among her tenants in Athea and Dromcologher, In Limerick she aided the lace factory established by Hon Mrs Vere O'Brien, and materially assisted the admirable undertaking of Lady Aberdeen in the Irish Village at the World's Fair, Chicago. Miss Goold was aunt of Lord Dunraven, daughter of the late Archdeacon Goold, and grand -daughter of the eminent lawyer, Mr Serjeant Goold, contemporary at the bar of the illustrious O'Connell. In the city of Limerick she had troops of friends beyond the circle in which she moved who will not forget her kindly, courteous, accomplished manner, her generous disposition, her gracious liberality, her warmth of heart that sympathised with her country's sufferings. She did all she possibly could to assist the people, and was thoroughly Irish in heart and sentiment. She was a constant visitor to the churches and convents of the city of Limerick,
Brother Ryan Tipperary funeral
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Memories
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O Shea Limerick
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The Green Sash - A History of the Inner-Sydney Schools of the Patrician Brothers
Brother Rodan taught me English; so as an extra curriculum item he introduced elocution, the art of voice
production, gesture, pronunciation and delivery.
But the Brothers didn’t teach elocution; they brought in a man who was an elocutionist, and for a fee of three
pence per week my parents allowed Brother Rodan to enroll me, with other members of my Class, in the
weekly elocution instruction.
Well, the instructor put us through the vowels ‘A, E, I, O, U’ and pronunciation, and then he had us reciting
“The house that Jack built”.
After a few months, with the Brothers’ permission and when he felt we were good enough, he entered us in a
voice-speaking contest between certain Catholic Schools to be held at the Conservatorium in Sydney.
On the night the whole Class gathered at the tram stop and travelled by tram into town.
My Mum & Dad came and some other boys’ parents joined the tram which was well crowded.
Mount Carmel went on stage and gave of our best. But we didn’t win; Christian Brothers’ Waverley won.
We were disappointed, but accepted the judges’ decision like good sports. The main point was that the good
Patrician Brothers were encouraging the sons of poor working men at Waterloo and Zetland to get up there and
mix it with the best of them in the art of speech.
Later on I felt that my journey into elocution perhaps led me into a debate with my father over the pronunciation
of the English language when I was very young.
Dad was an Irishman from County Limerick with a brogue to match. Whenever he used the word ‘Melbourne’,
he always put prominence on the stress or pitch with special emphasis on the last syllable, ‘bourne’.
One day when I was young and foolish, just after Dad head used the word ‘Melbourne’, I said, “Dad it’s not
‘Mel-bourne’, it’s ‘Mel-bin’. “What rubbish”, he said. “It’s spelt ‘bourne’ not ‘bin’, you must pronounce it as
it’s spelt. You are like the English cockneys where I was in East London, you can’t speak English properly.” I
left it at that, never to bring it up again.
My wife, Mary O’Shea, NEE Clements, died last year, 2002. Mary was the sister of Father Bill Clements
(RIP), one-time curate at St. James’, Forest Lodge; his boss I think during his time there was Mons. Bartlett.
Mary was a fond part of Father Bill’s life. I ask all the people who knew Father Clements at St. James’ and
yourself to remember his sister, Mary, at prayer time.
To you and your associates I send my thanks for the splendid work you do in making the contents of “The
Green Sash” so interesting.
Your reporting on the coming and going of the Patrician Brothers over past years to and from Ireland and
Australia is great. I enjoyed Brother Malachy’s letter, also Brother John Gallagher’s. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Patrick O’Shea
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The Green Sash - A History of the Inner-Sydney Schools of the Patrician Brothers
County Kerry
Brother De Sales Gilbert
Lixnow
[[Brother De Sales was destined for Holy Cross College, Ryde, but when he arrived in
Sydney in 1947 he found himself at Granville. He spent twelve years at Granville the last
seven as Principal. In 1960 he was appointed Principal at Blacktown. In 1963 with the
novitiate being moved from Wahroonga to the recently purchased property at Narellan he
was appointed novice master. He returned to Blacktown in 1969 and then to Granville in
1972. He retired from teaching in 1980. In 1996 he was back in Blacktown and remained
there until his death in 2001. De Sales will always be remembered as a man of passion
who loved the company of his Brothers and friends and loved being outdoors in his
garden.]] born 25 -9-1917.
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1931
Daly
Celsus
SS Moreton Bay 28 Feb. 1931 to
from writings
Grimes
Canice
Gen. Chapter. Brothers Celsus Daly,
of Bro.
Ryan
Bernard
Bernard Ryan retained in Ireland.
Paul O’Connor
1932 R#
Bergin
Rodan T.
arrived 10 May 1932
d.1990 Ireland
V
Slattery
Stanislaus S.G.
visitation
d.1943 Ireland
1935 Ry
Cody
Charles
arrived 27 Feb. 1935, with whom?
L.1944
W
Hume
Patrick
[Australian]
L.1944
W
Lourey
Gabriel
[Australian]
L.1939
W
Murphy
Louis
[Australian]
L.1943
W
O’Connor
Paul J.
[Australian]
d.1993 Fairfield
1936 V
Slattery
Stanislaus S.G.
second visitation
1937
O’Connell
Austin
{left for General Chapter,
Phelan
Norbert
{all returned to
Hannigan
Aloysius
{province.
1938 W
Budin
Vincent
[Australian]
L.1945
R
Duffy
Nicholas
L.1946
R
Feeney
Alphonsus S.
d.1947 Ryde
W
Histon
Gerard
[Australian]
W McGovern
Xavier
[Australian]
L.1953
1939 W
Thompson
John K.
[Australian]
d.1991 Ryde
W
Johnson
Peter
[Australian]
d.1968 Blacktown
V
Downes
Finbar J. S.G.
visitation [brother of Bro. Fidelis]
d.1949 Ireland
The letter(s) immediately following the year indicate(s) novitiate or first appointed Community
.
Key: A Albury, Ar Armidale, B Bathurst, D Dubbo, G Goulburn, O Orange, R Redfern,
Ry Ryde, W Wahroonga. Wg Wagga V Visitation, * teaching at Forest Lodge,
# teaching at Mount Carmel, ++ first novice at Croagh Patrick, d. Died, L
left Order.
The number immediately following the surname is the reel number of the State Records of New South Wales
from which the shipping information was obtained. The number shown on the extreme right hand side is the
reel number relating to the period and is used for research purposes only.
The arrivals believed to have been in 1886, Brothers Dominic Bourke, Louis Carroll and Ligouri Higgins have
not been identified in that year, Reels 465-476 [1885-1886] have been checked without success.
The three Brothers were first appointed to Goulburn which strongly indicates that their fares were met by the
then Bishop of Goulburn. Believed to have disembarked at Melbourne then by rail to Goulburn.
Similarly those of 1893, Brothers Vincent Brosnan, Jerome McAuley and Joseph McDonell [*ald - variously
spelt] have not been located. Reels 501-524 [1891-94] have been checked. These three Brothers were not
young. Vincent Brosnan 40, Jerome McAuley, 64 and Joseph McDonell, 67 years. It is believed Brother
Vincent Brosnan was transferred to India in 1902 and died at Coonoor on 27 May 1933, aged 80. Brother
Jerome McAuley died at Ryde on 18 June 1914, aged 85. It is believed Brother Joseph McDonell returned to
Ireland in 1899 with Brother Alphonsus Delaney. Brother Joseph died at Galway on 17 December 1905, aged
79. Brother Vincent Brosnan may have been a ‘colonial’. [[Vincent was a Kerry man, not a colonial.]]
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J H Scullin 1876-1953, Australian Prime Minister in London Nov. 1930, His mother Ann Logan from Derry. his wife Sarah Maria born in Kerry her Father was McNamara of Bodyk and mother Kerry woman, the future Mrs Scullin left Kerry aged 3 years. Prime Minister family of North of Ireland.
James Henty Scullin died on 28 January 1953. Survived by his wife, Sarah Maria McNamara. He was given a state funeral and was buried in Melbourne General cemetery: Archbishop Daniel Mannix presided at a requiem Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral. They had no family, his wife was a dressmaker, they married at Ballarat on 11 Nov. 1907. While prime minister he declined, as an economy measure, to live in the Lodge, and retained a modest home in Richmond. He was over 60 before he bought a house, at Hawthorn. He was a non-smoking and teetotaller.
He persuading Prime minister Lyons to abandon a proposal in September 1932 to reduce the old-age pension from 17s. 6d. to 15s. a week.
Premiers' conference of May-June 1931, agreed to restructure Australia's public finances Australian resident bondholders accepted a 22.5 per cent cut in their interest, and all adjustable government expenditure, including salaries and pensions, was cut by 20 per cent to help balance budgets.
This is Noelene Hoysted with Jimmy Deenihan at the recent Famine commemoration in Sydney. Vincent Carmody provides us with the story of her Listowel connection.
My first introduction to the life and times of Elizabeth Scanlon came as the result of the visit of Noelene Hoysted and her husband to an exhibition of old Listowel memorabilia which I presented at Saint Patrick's Hall in the early 1990's. They were on an Irish tour from Sydney which included Listowel as this was the town that Noelene's great, great grandmother Elizabeth had been transported from in 1838. Noelene was the first of her family to retrace Elizabeth's journey back to our town. Following this visit Elizabeth's story was pierced together by Noelene (mainly) and myself.
Elizabeth Scanlon was born in Listowel in 1815. In 1837 she was not married and worked as a laundress in the employ of one James Sheehan, woolen and linen merchant of The Square. Her mother was dead; her father still living and Elizabeth was shown in official records as " the daughter of a very poor man with a family of seven motherless children, whose principal support was the laborious industry and exertions of his daughter, Elizabeth"
On an evening in late 1837, Elizabeth was in charge of the house in the the Sheehans absence. On their return they became suspicious of some goods missing and reported the matter to the police.
The police searched Scanlon's house, and in a box belonging to Elizabeth they located the missing goods, silk handkerchiefs, new blankets and calico She had the only key. She was subsequently arrested on a charge of larceny.
The Kerry Evening Post of Wednesday 24 January 1838 carried a short report from the Listowel Sessions in which Elizabeth Scanlon was sentenced to transportation for a period of seven years for the crime of robbing her master.
Elizabeth along with fifteen others who were before the bench were then removed to the County Goal in Tralee. While in custody a petition on her behalf was forwarded to The Marquis of Normandy, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland in Dublin Castle by Listowel residents, John Woulfe, G. Tanavale, Timothy O Sullivan, John O Sullivan, Martin Connor, Mr Mahony, Mr Monke, Mr Carter and others. This petition testified to her good character, but she was shown no clemency and was moved from Tralee gaol to Dublin gaol from which she was put aboard the ship "Margaret" in August 1838. It sailed from Dublin on the September 1st and arrived in Sydney on January 5th 1839. The trip was made without calling in at any port for fresh provisions. Along the way severe gales were encountered. Illness and scurvy were prevalent. Elizabeth was confined with pneumonia to the ship's 'hospital' for two and a half months and transferred to a Sydney hospital on arrival.
A glance at the ships indent reveal the following;
List of 169 female convicts by the ship "Margaret"
Master-Edward Canney.
Surgeon Supt.- George St. Moxey.
Sailed from Dublin on September 1st 1838 via Cape of Good Hope.
Arrived at Sydney on January 5th 1839.
Indent No 66.
Name- Elizabeth Scanlon.
Read or Write- reads only.
Religion- Roman Catholic.
Age- 24 Years.
Status- single.
Children- Nil.
Native Place- County Kerry.
Trade or Calling- Laundress.
Offence- Robbing her Master.
Tried where- January 1838.
Indent No.- No 66.
Sentence- 7 Years.
Former convictions- None.
Height- 5ft.1 1/4 inches.
Complexion- dark pale.
Hair colour- dark.
Eyes- chestnut.
Particular marks, scars or remarks,
The mark of a burn on left side of upper lip, three blue dots on back of right hand, and one on the back of left hand; scar on the back of same.
On recovering she was assigned to work for a family in the country, but she never regained full health. In 1841 she married Timothy Kinsella from County Kildare and they had five children, three boys and two girls, one of whom was Noelene Hoysted's great grand mother, Mary Ann Kinsella. Elizabeth, never strong from her period in gaol and illness aboard ship, died in 1850, aged only 35 years.
Wellington Independent 1872
MARRIAGE.
O'Connor— Martin.— On July 10th, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Wellington, by the Very Rev J. J. P. O'Reilly, V.Gh, M.A.. &o, and afterwards at St. Peter's, by the Yen Archdeacon Stock, Robert, fourth son of the late John O'Connor, Esq, Ballylongford, Kerry, to Lizzie, eldest daughter of John Martin, Eeq, Fountain Hall, Wellington, Now Zealand.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 13 September 1895, Page 15
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UNCLAIMED MONEY. (THESE HEIRS ARE WANTED , TO CLAIM MONEY AND PROPERTY DURING 1912. Owen Gallivan, or Galvin, who emigrated from Ireland to N.Z.; the next of kin of Andrew and Norah Gallivan, or Galvin, formerly of Co. Kerry; Ritchie Huggins, of Co. Kerry;
An entertainment was given in the Hibernian Hall, Milton, on Wednesday, 4th inst, in aid of the Hibernian Flute Band. Though a violent storm arose shortly before the commencement of the concert the attendance was all that could be wished for. Amongst the audience were the Very Rev Father O'Leary and Rev Father Coffey who came purposely from Lawrence to be present at the Irish gathering. The item that rendered the entertainment unique was the playing of the Irish piper, Mr Patrick Galvin, from Roxburgh. In justice to the piper it must be said that he showed immense enthusiasm, and gave promise that, as time goes on, he would become as complete a master of the Irish pipes (which he imported from Ireland only a few months ago) as he is of the Highland pipes, from which he extracts most delightful music. The entertainment commenced with an (exhibition of the skill of the Flute Band which was heartily applauded. An Irish song was by Miss B. lynch which was very well received. Mr John Fahey danced an Irish jig in first class style, and made the floor rattle in a manner suggestive of the merry gatherings in the Old Land, Miss O'Neill sang the Kerry dance with feeling and taste, and in response to a hearty encore gave very piquantly the old favourite Bar&ey O'Hea." A quartet waß well rendered by Misssß O'Neill a d Dunne and Messrs Scott and Handy, their voices blending harmoniously. A hornpipe by Mr T. Moloney was given in good style. Miss Jessie O'Neill played a pianoforte solo, The wearing of the green," in a manner that elicited the warm approbation of the audience. A clarinet solo by Mr M'Clymont, the bandmaster, was rendered in masterly style, the piece selected being The Irish emigrant's farewell." Master M. Scanlon gave indications of musical taste in his rendering of Irish se'ectiona on the pianoforte. An Irish song by Mr P. Keogh brought down the house for the manner in which it was given and the sentiments expressed. Miss Rosa Bradley played very sweetly one from her extensive repertoire of musical pieces. A Bcotch song by Miss K. McLacblan who appeared in the Highland costume whs well rendered and w-;ll received. Mr P. Walsh danced an Irish ju* in thrilling fashion. Mr H Hind gave a love ditty with good effect. A humorous reading by Miss S. Kavanagh was well' received. Master James Scanlan played an Irish selection on the piano very correctly. Miss O'Neill sang Kathleen Mavourneen in good style. The clarinet again figured on the programme in the hands, of Mr McClymont who played one of the melodies. A duet I saw from the beach was given by Misses M, and B. Lynch, and, by way of finale, Mr Patrick Galvin laying aside the pipes, took the floor to the entrancing strains of an inimitable flute player, and made the building ring again with the graceful and well timed steps of the Irish dance. Mr P. Walsh, secretary of the Milton branch of the H.A.C.B.S. made a short speech thanking all for their services and attendance. It is to be hoped this enjoyable evening spent in Milton will often be repeated. The old were carried back to the scenes of their youth, with the innocent gaiety that characterises Irish merry making and the young got a very good specimen of the manner in which mirth and melodies combine to make the Irish reunions take a firm hold on the heart.
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St Patrick’s Day
May 3 1895 NZ Tabley
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Irish College Paris NZ Tablet, 24 August 1877.
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NZ Tablet 23 Aug 1878
AN IRISH POET.
(From the Atheneeum.} There is an Irish poet whose remains rest in Lisbon, but whose name is now almost as forgotten as his tomb. Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, who died at the early age of thirty -live, was buried here in 1829. He is known, when remembered at all, by his short poems, among others, the Convict of Clomnel,' 'The White Cockade,' 'The Virgin Mary's Rock,' and particularly by his beautiful line on Gougaune Barra, that lonely and limpid mountain lake, situated at the west end of the county Cork, the parent of the liver Lee There is a green island in lone Gougaune Barra, "Where Allua of song rushes forth as an arrow. Callanan was a student of Maynooth. and afterwards of Trinity, and was for several years a constant contributor Blackwood Magazine. Had he lived longer and possessed the perseverance and habits of work requisite for the composition of an important poem, he might have taken very high ground, for good critics consider that the poems he left display talent of the highest order. Early in 1 829 Callanan came to Lisbon as a tutor in the family of Mr, Hickie, an Irish
merchant of eminence, probably to try the effect of a southern climate in arresting the symptoms of consumption, which had already set in. But he was too far gone, a)d after a few months his health altogether gave way. As he passionately wished to see Ireland again, be embarked for Cork, but growing rapidly worse the captain refused to take him. He returned on shore, and was placed in a private room in the hospital of San Jose, where every care was bestowed upon him, but he died in a few days. I believe he was buried, as was customary then, within the precincts of the ruined church of San Jose, an edifice attached to the hospital, and partly destroyed by the great earthquake, but whose striking and beautiful facade, still standing, arrests the attention of the visitor to the stately college of the Jesuits, converted by the unsparing hand of Ponibal to an asylum for the sick. There is, however, no trace of the grave to be found now, for the place has not been used as a cemetery since the promulgation, many years ago, of the law prohibiting intramural interments. The poet expressed a strong desire to be buried in the county Cork "WT-.ere calm Avon-Buee seeks the kisses of ocean, but he found a nameless grave in Lisbon another of the many instances of the vanity of human wishes."
MARRIAGES. 22 Dec 1906 NZ Hearad
it KENNELLY— SMITH.—On November 27. at St. Patrick's Cathedral, by the Rev. Father Hoibrook, John Thomas, second son of Thomas Ken nelly, of Pukekohe, to Laura Mary, oldest daughter of Mr. W. G. Smith, of Auckland.
BODY FOUND IN RIVER. NZ Herald 9 May 1913
' MINER'S DEATH BY DROWNING. j [by telegraph.—press association.] Invercargall Wednesday. ■V A miner, Patrick Kennelly, aged 73 years, a single man, was discovered in the Mataura River on Sunday by Constable Henderson, of Lumsden. Kennelly, who lived in a hut about two miles from Athol, had been missing since Friday, and it is f thought he was drowned while attempt to ford the river. The body was removed to Garston, where an inquest was held and a verdict returned to the effect that deceased's, death was caused by drowning while he was 'trying to cross the Mataura River.
Otaga Football Club 17 Oct 1900
Luscombe, photo CULLIES FOOTBALL CLUB. Top Row, fr m left: E. Hargreaves, T. N. M'Bride, J. Heffernan, J. Stephens, P. Mali on, T. Heffernan. Middle Row: W. Bruce, O. Keenan, N. Kennelly, P. Sullivan (captain), J. Mahon, T. O'Connor, J. Leonard. Front Row: t. Fitzpatrick, F. Sheehan, A. Bodkin, G-. Smith.
NORA OF CAHIRCIVEEN.
On, Nora, dear Nora, you're going to leave us To better your fortune you tempt the rough main, But think, O movourneen, how sadly 'twill grieve us To feel we may never behold thee again. Oh, blame ma not, then, that my hot tears are starting, Already in fancy the sea rolls between, And the light of our home, like a dream, is departing, And may never come back to old Cahirciveen, When the bright summer moon thro' the old oak is shining, And the note of the harp calls the young and the gay When the ewains of the village their love-wreaths are twining, I'll think of my darling, who's far, far away. When the lads to the dance will lead each village maiden, I'll think of the foot that tripped light o'er the green I'll turn from their mirth, for my spirit o'er-laden, Will weep for the beauty of Cahirciveen. Oh, flatter me not with your speedy .returning Few, few that come back from the far happy shore Keep the star of your land in your inmost soul burning, Bat kiss the green hills, for you'll see them no more. Let me fold you once more to my poor heart that's broken God guard you I Remember the d^ys that have been From the far distant land send a sign or a token That you'll never forget us in Cahirciveen. Woe woe to the mother Alas for the daughter, And the dreams that were twined for the bright daya to come A token of love has gone over the water, A wreath of green laurel from poor Norah's tomb. Oa the wild hills of Kerry the mother is weeping, While the lads and the lasses still dance on the green 'Neath the wild western prairie poor Norah is sleeping, Far away from the village of Cahirciveen.
By Michael Scanlon;
22 Aug 1901
TlPPERARY .— Charitable Bequests. The late Mrs Margaret Bourke, a wealthy Catholic lady, who died last October, has by her will left valuable bequests to the Church, to the poor of Clonmel, and to various charitable institutions. To the poor women of Clonmel, she leaves £4,000 and shares in the W.D. and L Railway for the reduction of the building debt of SS. Peter and Paul's, £300, and the building debt of the Friary, £200 to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Clonmel, £300 for free breakfasts to children attending the Sisters of Charity Schools, £100; to the sick poor visited by the Sisters, £120, and for the maintenance of 17 orphans in their orphanage, £600; to provide free breakfasts for poor children attending SS. Peter and Paul's Christian Schools, C2i)o to Presentation Schools, £100, and to St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Schools, £200, for a similar purpose to the Diocesan Fund for invalided Catholic priests, £300 to the Carrick St. Vincent de Paul Society, £100 and a yearly rental of £17 to the Mercy Convent, Carrick, for the poor and the orphanage, £400 for free breakfasts at the Christian Brothers' and Presentation Schools, £100 each to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Waterford, £200 to the Good Shepherd Convent, Waterford £1OO to the Mater Misericordia Hospital, Dublin, £ 500 , to the Hospice for the dying, Dublin, £500 to the Convent of Refuge, Drumcoudra, £300 to St. Mary's blind Asylum, Dublin, £400; to the Blind Asylum. Dublin, £200.
"DROWN HALF OF THEM." NZ Tablet 22 July 1881
The Nun of Kenmare relates this incident to an English paper. She writes "An Irish landlord who has just been evicting his tenants for not paying the rent, which they could not pay, was expostulated with by a poor man with a very large family. How can I pay rent, sir,' he said, when I cannot feed my eleven children 'Go drown half of them in the boghole,' was the reply. This was no hearsay or imagination ;it is a matter of fact. The name and place was published in the Freeman's Journal a few days ago. And I may add I have heard scarcely less brutal expressions myself. Surely there is only a degree less in humanity in turning men and women adrift on the roadside when, after a famine in which they have been fed by public charity, they cannot pay rent and feed their children. But there are, thank God, humane landlords in Ireland if there were not it would soon be turned into one vast desert, for human life would become almost extinct for want of sustenance, and emigration or the workhouse would complete the destruction of the Irish people. A priest, who has a large parish in the poorest part of South Kerry, told me yesterday that only for the patience of Lord who owns nearly all that district, that nearly every soul in his parish would be in the workhouse. Many of them owe four years' rent, but he added God knows how long he may be before he evicts them.' The late famine was preceded by bad years, and that is a circumstance too often overlooked. These people, honest, hard-working, and truly pious, had been in the habit of going to England every year, and by often working eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, had earned their rent their land could never have paid it and fed them even on the poorest fare. But this work in England has failed our people of late years. I do not know why, probably you, sir, could tell your readers the cause of the fact there is no doubt. This landlord, having both, honesty and common sense, does not evict the people, though naturally they live in constant fear of it, and hundreds have emigrated."
18 March 1909 NZ Tablet
The appearance the other "day of the Knight of Glin (Mr. Desmond Fitz-John Fitzgerald) as a witness in a prosecution in one of the Dublin police courts will perhaps render it of interest to know that his "title of Knight of Glin is one of two hereditary Irish titles the other is that of the Knight of Kerry which are not to be confounded with 1 ancient Irish chieftaincies claimed by representatives of the Irish Septs at the present time (says the Wexford People). The titles of "Knight of Glin and Knight of Kerry are of a very peculiar character, and, though not regal honours, have been held -as prescriptive rights from medieval times, and at various times have been recognised by the Crown in patents under the Great Seal and other legal documents. John Fitz-Thomas Fitzgerald, Lord of Decies and Desmond, by virtue of his royal seignior as a Count Palatine created three of his sons by his second, marriage hereditary Knights, and thus originated the titles. That of the White Knight, is now extinct; and the two other hereditary Knight ships are now, so far as we are aware, the only titles now extant of this peculiar species of honour. The father of the present Knight of Kerry was made a baronet in 1880, within a month before his .death. Under the ancient Irish law of Tanistry the Irish chieftains were elective, and required formal investiture by their clans, and the title did not descend hereditarily. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these chieftaincies were surrendered by their then holders to the Crown, and ceased to exist. About the beginning of the nineteenth century some of the representatives of the last holders of tie chieftaincies assumed the titles, and they became recognised by courtesy. They are not, however, officially recognised. There are twelve of these titles now extant, including those of the MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin; the MacGillicuddy of the Reeks, the O'Grady, the O'Conor Don, the O'Donoghue of the Glens, the Fox of Kilcoursie, the O'Morchoe, the O'Kelly, the O'Toole, the O'Maine, the O'Donovan, and the MacDermott Roe.
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Prolonged discussion, says Dawn," the' New, South Wales Labour Cabinet has finally agreed to the following proposals for a Child 3ndowment Bill to be introduced in the State .Parliament:— "That 5s a head be paid for all children "under the age of 14 years of parents in the State whose annual income does not exceed £364 It is estimated that this will cost in the vicinity 0f..£8,000,000, the Government share being about £2,000,000 the remainder will be a charge on industry.
At the Christchurch City Council Chambers on Tuesday a civic reception was tendered to the delegates from all parts of New Zealand who have assembled in Christchureh to attend the Dominion Conference of the National Council of Women, says the 'Sun." Mrs. C. E.Fraser' introduced the delegates to the Mayor, who hoped that their sojourn in Christchurch would be both a profitable and a pleasurable one, and said he had never welcomed a group of visitors he considered of more importance than the National Council delegates. There were many questions dealing with. the whole population that seriously affected women, and their opinions were of great importance. He would like to offer congratulations on the fact that that they had secured the right of women to become Justices of the Peace. He understood that two other great reforms were, to be advocated at the conference —women police and women, jurors. Many men would also agree that these should- be granted. Mrs. Herbert, J.P., also welcomed the delegates, and Mrs. (Councillor) M'Combe. Mrs. John Cook, of Auckland, Dominion president, in response, spoke on the formation of the National Council, which was a federation' of women's societies. The delegates were representatives of 70 organised women societies, and so it represented a clearing-house for wonie-1 difficulties. The whole organisation had a membership of about 35,000,000 women.
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Rickshaws are going out, in Japan— the motor age is coming in. Ten years ago in Japan 118,904 of these two-wheeler, man-power gigs were licensed; to-day fewer than 85,000. In Osaka, the greatest industrial city, the number has been almost cut in half. Horse drawn carts just hold their own; but the motor vehicle is coming with a rush. Ten years ago there were 24 motor trucks in all Japan; to-day there are more than 6000; the number of pleasure cars has leaped from' 681 to 15,000. Inter-city buses have already appeared on Japanese roads. Thus the Orient sweeps into the mechanical age. It was. only fifty years ago that the' first rickshaws appeared, its jog-trot speed destined to drive out the slow walk of the sedan chairs kago, and norimona; now a. running man is already too slow.
The fifth annual t exhibition of women's arts and industries, held recently in New York, showed the work of women of 20 nations in professions and industries, and was assisted by about 1500 women from 19 countries. The exhibits from England, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, "France, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Yugoslavia, Finland, Ukrainian, Spain, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Czech-Slovakia, Persia, and Russia revealed some of the most flourishing fields of feminine enterprise in. these countries. From the United States the work of women in Massachusetts Pennsylvania, Illinois, Rhode. Island, Wisconsin, Now Jersey, Missouri, the district of Columbia and New York. was shown. The value of the exhibition in affording women from far and wide a eh ace to see the work of other women, and to exchange ideas, was emphasised by Mrs. Mary Padon, vice-chairman of the Foreign committee. "Since in numerous countries the activities of women have not yet progressed beyond the handiwork stage," she s id, "a number of these exhibits will be limited to beautiful embroideries, art work, dresses, and other needlework. With our tendency towards over-emphasising machine-made things, America has much to learn from the exquisite handwork of these women. On the other hand, these women from abroad will undoubtedly take back homo with them valuable ideas about broadening the scope of activity among women in other countries.
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Britain's first old-age pensioner, Miss Mary. Jones, of Portmadoc, Wales, who was a native of Criccieth, Mr. Lloyd George’s birthplace, died at the age of 97. In 1909, when Mr. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, instituted old age pensions, Miss Jones headed a deputation of pensioners to thank the “Welsh Wizard" personally. Miss Jones was one of the last links with the Wales of 80 years ago, and up to her death wore the old Welsh costume, including tall hat and clogs.
NZ Tablet 27 August 1908
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.
NZ Herald 30 May 1867
MARRIAGE.
SANDES—PEED. On the 28th May 1867, at St. Matthew's Church, by the very Rev. Archdeacon Lloyd, E. Fitzmaurice, second son of Goodman Sandes, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of Stores, of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, to Catherine Bond, eldest daughter of Richard Peed, Esq., of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. Home papers please copy.
Listowel from Manawatu Herald 11 Jan. 1894
An Extraordinary Mistake.
Mr Sexton, M.P., has been asked by the Town Commissioners of Listowel, North Kerry, to bring under the notice of Parliament early in the winter session an extraordinary instance of blundering and miscalculation in connection with an important public work. Some time ago the Town Commissioners decided to improve the water supply of Listowel by tapping the River Feale, some seven miles distant. The scheme was arranged. The engineering inspector of the Local Government Board held an official inquiry, and, on the faith of his report, Parliament sanction was given to the scheme, and the necessary loan for the purpose was obtained from the Board of Works. All the preliminaries having been arranged, proper means of filtration were provided. Piping was laid down from the intake to the town, and through all the streets and lanes, and the supply of taps provided. The people of Listowel rejoiced at the near prospect of an abundant supply of pure water. When, however, all was complete, it was found that the water would not come. Through some extraordinary oversight the river Feale was tapped at a point below the level of the town. It will now cost £3000 additional to extend the pipes to a point higher up the river, which will afford the necessary gravitation The Listowel Town Commissioners, through motives of economy, refused to employ an independent engineer. They are now relying upon their representative in Parliament to induce the Government to complete the works and defray the extra expense. They base their claim on the fact that the scheme was inquired into and sanctioned by the Local Government Board and the Board of Works. Exchange.
NZ Tablet 7-12 1899
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 Otego 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.
Evening Post 18 Dec. 1933
DE VALERA AT TRALEE
WIRES CUT
(Received. December 18, 2 p.m.) DUBLIN, December 17.1933, Mr. de Valera, escorted by bands and banner bearers, addressed ten thousand people at Tralee. He pleaded for unity and discipline in Ireland's economic 1 struggle with England. He also, deplored the recent outrages at Kerry, and added that the Ministry was determined to enforce the Government's authority. There must either be ordered democracy or a dictatorship. The Government, he said, had 99 per cent, of the Republicans behind it. Military tribunals were necessary while, the stoning of police and the frightening of witnesses prevented the Courts from functioning. Prior to the meeting the Listowel railway line was damaged, and telephone and telegraph wires were cut.
West Coast Times 10 April 1885
ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.
The programme for the Prince and Princess of Wales visit to Ireland was published on March 8. 1885. The Royal party will reach Dublin on April 8. A levee, ball, and banquet, will take place." Then they go to Kerry, as guests of the Earl of Listowel, remaining until April 29, meantime visiting Cork, Curraghmore, and Killarney. They attend Punchestown races. Belfast, Londonderry and Barrancourfc will then be visited, and on April 25 1885 they cross from Belfast to Scotland by the Shandeur route. The Freemasons will arrange a grand lodge in the Prince's honour. It was proposed to open subscriptions throughout Ireland to meet the expenses of a fitting reception. The Dublin Municipal Council resolved to present an address of welcome, expressing gratification at their coming, thus proving a desire to put an end to the neglect from which Ireland has so long suffered, and giving rise to the .hope that this will be the precursor of frequent Royal visits. The address also expresses a hope that a Royal residence will be provided in Ireland.
T HE Aroha News 29 Dec. 1888 NZ Past Papers
KERRY CATTLE.
The Kerry breed of cattle is probably the moat perfect representative of the prehistoric cattle of these islands which we now possess. One of the characteristics of a Kerry cow is the length of face this is alto a feature of Bosr Longhorns, the fossil ox found in these islands. Kerry cattle are as a rule a velvety black in colour there is, however, an orange shade of red, which is also a pure Kerry colour. It is a noteworthy fact that black cattle and Druidical remains seem often to be associated together. In 'Scotland you have the Angus and Aberdeen breeds, both black. In Wales you have the black Welsh cattle, in Cornwall you find black cattle, and in Devonshire you have red Devons, some very dark, and it is probable that black was the original colour. In Brittany again you have the black .and white Brittany cattle, some of them nearly black. This would seem to show that the cattle of the ancient Celts were black. Kerry cattle formerly extended all along the West Coast of Ireland, but from the introduction of Shorthorn blood they have gradually become extinct, except in the south-west of Kerry and Cork. This is greatly to be regretted as the introduction of Shorthorn blood into the mountainous districts of Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, and Galway has only served to destroy the constitution of the hardy mountain breed, and has produced, instead of a superior race, a lot of the most wretched and miserable looking breeds one can well imagine. The peasants of Galway and Mayo now look back, when too late, with regret to the hardy little black cattle. The same danger threatened Kerry, but of late years the people have begun to realise that the half-bred Shorthorns do not thrive on the mountains, and they now use none but Kerry bulls. A trade for Kerry cows has also opened up with England in recent years, and the mountain farmers have found by experience that they can get about 108 a-head more for black heifers than for others. The merit of the Kerry cow lie in the fact that she is particularly hardy, and will yield a good flow of milk of excellent quality on pasture where a cow of the larger breed would perish. When she has finished milking she fattens readily, and puts up beef of a very superior quality. It has also been found, by carefully -conducted experiments, that a Kerry cow gives a larger yield of milk for food consumed than the celebrated Ayrshire breed. I had a herd of Shorthorns from 1878 to 1882. Finding, however, that my land was not good enough to support them I sold them off, and resolved to try what I could do towards improving the native breed. I purchased about 150, and gradually weeded out the inferior milkers, until I obtained a herd of about thirty-five good dairy cows. My object was to produce a cow of about 6cwt., live weight, that would give 500 gallons of milk in the year without extra feeding. I have no reason to be discouraged so far, because five of my cows gave an average of 504 gallons each of milk, which Yielded 12 per cent, of cream, and one of my cows gave 9§lb of butter per week on grass alone. It is however, to the young stock, carefully bred at Kilmorna, to which I look with most hope. I have used bulls selected as being out of good milkers, and the results are already noticeable. Five two-year old heifers bred by me after calving their first calf milked remarkably well, considering their age, and the average percentage of cream on the milk of the five was 15.4 per cent.. This was remarkably good on my land, because it is not good dairy land. One cow I sold that only gave 12 per cent, of cream with me yielded 24 per cent, when put on really good land. A Kerry cow is a particularly beautiful animal, with the erect carriage and elastic step of a deer, a coat of rich velvety black, and a general appearance bespeaking activity, hardiness, and thrift. The head is very fine, and the muzzle thin and tapering, giving the head a great look of breeding and refinement. The neck is slight and clean, and perfectly free from loose skin. The horns, white, tipped with black, are thin, not coarse, rising upwards from the head; they turn back with a gentle sweep. The limbs are particularly slender and deer-like, with very tine bone. In all other respects a good Kerry resembles a good type of milch cow. I feel confident that, with care and attention, the Kerry breed may be so improved as before long to equal the Jersey in the quantity and quality of milk while greatly excelling that breed in the quality of beef produced and hardiness of constitution. We have now succeeded in establishing a register, which will doubtless form the foundation of a Kerry Herdbook. Although the rules for entry in the register were of necessarily very stringent, in order to ensure the quality of animals entered, we have received entries from a good many breeders so that the prospects of my favourite breed of cattle are at present decidedly promising. Pierce Mahony, M.P. Kilmorna, Listowel, in the Agricultural Gazette
PRESS 3 July 1917: Bishop Mangan Death .
OBITUARY.
BISHOP MANGAN. (By 'Cable—Press Association —Copyright;) (Australian and Cable Associations(Received July 2nd, 1917 , 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. The death is announced of the Rt. Rev John Mangan, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry since 1904. The Rt. Rev, John Mangan was born in Listowel, Co. Kerry, in 1852. He was educated at Maynooth College, and subsequently served for a few years in the Liverpool Mission. He was formerly a professor at St. Michael's College. Listowel, parish priest of Glengariffe, Sneem. and Kenmare. and prior to his elevation to the Bishopric was Archdeacon of Aghadoe and Vicar- General of Kerry.
DEATH Fr O Connor, NZ Tablet 9 April 1882
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, 31 March 1882. The rev gentleman, who was parish priest of Rangiora, had not been in a 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 disease. 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, M iss 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 at Listowel. County Kerry. Ireland. he studied at St. John's College in Waterford, and was ordained priest on the l5 of June, I882. Immediately after his ordination he came to Christchurch, under Archbishop Redwood, who appointed him to Greymouth. 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 Kaipoi 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. Ginalty, Tracy, Quirk and Melu. On arriving at the church the office for the dead was chanted in the presence of the congregation from all parts of the district. When this part was concluded, a Solemn Requiem Mass was said. Father Cherviers being the chief celebrant, Fr Murnane, deacon father Quirk, sub-deacon Fathers O'Donnell and Malone, Cantors Fr Bowers master of ceremonies and Father Aubrey organist. After the Mass Bishop Grimes delivered an eloquent address from St. John, chapter 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 aid the extraordinary grace which availed him during his Last moments He referred also in grateful terms to those who had devote I themselves to caring for him during his last illness and also to the kindness of the parishioners only a few days before his death gave a tangible show of their sympathy for him The bishop then nave the last absolution, which concluder the service in the church
The procession was then formed, the children from St. Joseph's School, with draped banners, being in the front. The coffin, was borne from the church by Messrs. M. Lynskey. E. Anderson, T. McGrath and Thomas Power. The interment. at the cemetery in Rangiora took plaice 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.Shreland, 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 Burns and Miss Doherty (Christchurch) others oppressing 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 these present were the Mayor of Rangiora (Mr. C. I. Lennings), 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 Katspoi pah, M. Duncan and Messrs. McNamara, Gaffney, W. Heyward and Barrett, of Christchurch.
NZ Tablet 25 July 1901
KERRY. Fishing in the Killarney Lakes. This year's salmon and trout fishing in the Killarney Lakes is exceptionally good, a large number of fine fish having been taken. For a good many years sport was very poor, as the Lakes had been fairly fished out. A local committee was formed and public subscriptions raised to restock the Lakes. Rainbow trout were selected, and the Lakes stocked with several hundred thousand fry, in addition to 50,000 salmon fry, all raised at a hatchery erected on the Lake shores. The fruits of this provident venture are now being reaped, and sportsmen are well pleased with the fishing, which is free to all.
Religious Profession. At the Presentation Convent, Listowel, on May 14 1901, 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.
A Curious Discovery. In the early part of June 1901 a curious and unprecedented catch was made on Mr. A. S. Herbert's salmon fishery, at the mouth of the River Flesk, in the Lower Lake, Killarney. A freshly run salmon of 11lb was taken in a net with a lamprey eel of 10 inches in length firmly fixed in. its left side and having its head nearly one inch in the fish, which could only be about two days up from the sea. Great force had to be employed to draw it out, when it appeared very vigorous.
NZ Tablet 30 Oct. 1891
Kerry The pretty town of Listowel was ablaze in honour of the liberation and pronouncement of John Dillon and William O'Brien M.P's. The houses, with only a few exceptions, were brilliantly illuminated, and in many windows the pictures of Mrs O'Brien, Dillon, and Gladstone were prominently set forth. Huge bonfires were burning in and around the town from an early hour in the evening The barrels gave forth their brilliant light in the principal thoroughfares, and largo processions marched from street to street with lighted torches. Great enthusiasm prevailed, and the people promenaded the streets cheering for O'Brien and Dillon until an advanced hour in the morning.
NZ Tablet 20 March 1891
Dublin.— Randall MacFinuan MacCarthy More, son of the late Eugene Mac Finnan of , Kenmare, and nephew of the late Most Rev. Dr. McCarthy, Bishop of Kerry, has been appointed receiver General of Stamp Duties for Ireland and Collector of Inland Revenue at the Custom House, Dublin, being not only the highest Revenue position in Ireland, but the most coveted in the United Kingdom. This is the first occasion— with one solitary exception, some 50 years ago— that a Roman Catholic has obtained this appointment
. Kerry. The first sod of the Kenmare and Headford Railway was turned recently at Kenmare by the Venerable Archdeacon O'Sullivan, P.P. Kenmare in the presence of a great gathering of the gentry and people of the district. An influential and largely attended meeting was held lately at Listowel, to urge on the Government the desirability of constructing a line of railway from Listowel to Ballylongford and Tarbert. The Rev. Mr. Burns, rector, presided, and several speakers pointed out the advantages of the proposed line.
NZ Tablet 21 Jan 1887
At a special court held at Listowel on Oct.. 25, John Foran, his mother, Margaret Foran, and his sister, Ellen Foran, were charged with assaulting a bailiff whilst seizing the cattle of Denis Foran at Bunaghara. They were also charged with the rescue of Cattle from the bailiffs. The defendants were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
NZ Tablet 6 Feb. 1902
KERRY. Death of a Religious. The death is reported of Rev Brother George, O I- M.. who passed away in the e.irlv 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.
LIMERICK. Over a century. The announcement of the death of the oldest man in County Limerick, Mr. James Howard, of Ballingarry , at the age of 108 years,' has been received all over the district with feelings of regret. Up to only two years ago he was a constant spectator at the assembly of the County Hunt Club when"
At a meeting of Listowel League, MJ. Gilligan in the chair, the following resolution was passed. That we look with extreme satisfaction upon the dismissal of George Sands of Listowel from the magistracy of County Kerry.
Wairarapa Daily Times 13 June 1898
The mystery concerning the birthplace of Sir H. H. Kitchener has been cleared up. New Zealand can claim him no longer. The London correspondent of Argus says that he was born at a country house, Crotto, near Listowel, County Kerry, in ISSO, where his father a line old soldier, of the Colonel Newcome type, had settled in deference to the advice of The Times, after the famine of 1817, to English gentlemen to farm in Ireland, in order to spread civilisation and scientific agriculture, there. Of course, Sir Herbert Kitchener's father lost all his money at Crotto, but was not shot. The ruin of the Irish gentry has, however, for centuries peopled the British Army. At the defeat of the Dervishes on Good Friday five of the officers killed or wounded, Vandeleur, Gore, Persse, Verner, Shekelton, were ruined Irish landlords.
NZ Tablet 14 May 1897
The Shannon Development Scheme. correspondent writing to the Freeman makes an important suggestion in reference to the Shannon development scheme. He points out that the tour of the South-West coast of Ireland is broken at the Shannon for want of a proper connection, which would be supplied by the construction of a pier at Ballybunion. The estimated cost of the pier would be about £6,000, and the writer justly claims that its erection would not only supply the missing link in this most interesting route, but introduce to the outside world the unrivalled beauties of one of the most charming of Irish seaside resorts. From Ballybunion, the writer points out, the now 1 single-rail Lartigue line takes the visitor to Listowel, and then he is within eighty minutes' journey of Killarney. The scheme for the building of the pier has often been mentioned, and now that there is a practical effort being made to develop that portion of the country, it is to be hoped that Ballybunion may receive its share of attention.
NZ Tablet 14 May 1897
Kerry. A large portion of deer forest in the Kenmare property in the vicinity of Glenabay was burned recently.
The Listowel and Ballybunion Railway was opened for traffic a few days ago. The line has been constructed on the Lartigue single rail system," all the principles of which are entirely different from those of any railways yet constructed. The line as at present built is a length of about 10 miles. The permanent way is made of steel and consists of the top rail, two side rails for the guide wheel of the carriages connected by angle irons forming a trestle is the shape of a capital, a resting on a sleeper which is in some parts of the line laid on planks six feet long, nine inches wide, and three inches thick. The line was constructed in less than five months and no accident of any kind occurred to those employed on it. During the six weeks 15,000 tons of ballast have been carried over it. The practical working of the line will be watched with much interest, and a number of visitors interested in engineering on the Continent were present at the opening.
NZ Tablet 21 Jan. 1887
A large and enthusiastic open-air demonstration was held in the village of Newtownsandes on Oct. 25, 1887, under the auspices of the I. N. L. Contingents arrived from Listowel, Tarbert, Ballylongford, Ballybunion, Abbeyfeale, and several other places. Two brass bands discoursed national airs. The chair was taken by Rev. D. R. Harrington, President St. Michael's College, Listowel. Among the resolutions passed were the following:—" That we condemn the heartless action of landlords, like Thomas Sandes, Lord Ormathwaite, and others, who have refused all reductions of rent, or have offered abatements which are only a mockery, and who are threatening to evict the unfortunate tenants who are unable to meet their exorbitant demands. That we pledge ourselves to support by every lawful means tenants who may be evicted by grasping and cruel landlords. That the name of Newtownsandes be changed henceforth to that of Newtown- Dillon." (Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. Fitzpatrick, in putting the resolution, said he hoped they would wipe out every trace of what the name of Sandes typifies— that is, the worst form of Irish landlordism. (Cheers.)
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OTAGO WITNESS 27 August 1886
IRISH CROSS-COUNTRY CELEBRITES (The Field.)
Alhambra- Alhambra was a big chestnut horse, the property of one of the greatest sportsmen and most resolute horsemen of all times the justly celebrated "Jack" Dennis, who was for some years master of the Blazers." The feats of prowess performed by the inimitable Jack would fill a volume. He jumped a hunter of his over a sft stone wall at Lismacrory without a tack of headgear on his horse. Alhambra's first great victory was achieved at Loughrea where on September 16. 1835, he won the principal event of the meeting over what was then known as the Clanricarde steeplechase course, from the J^fact of its being got up by Lady Clanricarde. His sporting owner held the ribbon on the chestnut, and beat Parsons Persse on Encore and half-a-dozen others. On October 29 of that year Alhambra, with his master on his back, won the Munster Debenture at Fermouy in two heats, and carrying 12st 71b, his toughest opponents in a big field being Sailor and Valentine, both of whom were at the top of the tree" down south in those days and for a long time after. In September, 1836, Alhambra, under his owner's pilotage, won the big chase at Loughrea, beating Allen M'Donogh on his own horse, Sir William, and a lot of others and for a hunters' flat race i* C tlebar a few da ys afterwards, was second to The Mole. In October of that year— lß36— Alhambra fell in the principal steeplechase at Mallow through cannoning with Clinker, who Was ridden for the event in question by Dicky," Fitzgerald, another fine horseman. He and Dennis raced for an easy place in the third last fence, with the result that they both came croppers, and Monarch won, being followed home by Valentine. The latter beat Alhambra fair and square for the Munster Debenture at Mallow a tew days afterwards, it bein a terrific race between them. Dicky Fitzgerald had the mount on Valentine, and The Dhinousal a soubriquet by which Fitzgerald was universally known— never rode a better race during his i? n fc A? rr u Oai cr and ii 3 was the l«t big event taat Alhambra ever tried conclusions for, but he
won a few small races at Longhrea and Tuam afterwards. Babsinisteb. Barsinister was a compact though small chesnut horse by Tyrant, and was bred by Mr Dennis under whose guidance he ran second to Whalebone, ridden by "The Dhinousal," at Edwardstown, on April 8, 1840, Recherche, Charming Julia, and several others being behind the pair. A fortnight afterwards he beat his Edwardstown conqueror and seven others at Bruff for a good stake, and won a sweepstakes of 5 soys each, SO soys added, at Hoscommon, on June 17 of that year. At Thurles, on October 28 1840, Barsinister ran second to Bannathlath for the chief event of the meeting, and Mr Dennis sold him that afternoon to Mr Tom Quin, of Redmondstown near Clonmel, a young brother j of Mr Billy Quin, of Longhloher. The little chesnut he was hardly 15.3— ran unsuccessfully in Mr Quin's colours for the Grand National at Mallow on March 18 1841, won by Valentine and Bannathlath beat him and a lot of. other cracks at Kilkenny on the sth of October following; while he ran second to Captain Roe for the Carrick-on-Suir Cup on November 11, 1841. The cup w s run for that year over the Ballinagrana course, which was a very stiff one. For the farmers' race at that meeting a curious occurrence took place. The race was endowed by Lord Waterford, and a field of nineteen horses tried conclusions for it, the conditions being two miles, heats and catch weights. The two brothers named Walshe, whose wonderful performance with their stallion in showing of his jumping powers at the fair of Glynn I reverted to in the first of these articles, ran a stallion for the Farmers' Plate, called Tallyho. Neither of the old sportsmen ever got married; but they had a nephew living with them at the time, quite a child in years. They tied the chap to the saddle, and sent him on his perilous journey, full of faith in his jumping powers of Tallyho, who won, after having to run four heats for it. It was an unparalleled thing in the a nals of steeplechasing. The orders given tothe boy were, Keep his head straight, stick the spurs into him and leave them there." Oa May 25, 1842, Barsinister ran second for a steeplechase over the terribly stiff Gammonsfield course, "Minor" Power's Portius being the successful candidate; and won the principal race of the meeting at Tramore in October with Mick Hannigan as his pilot. Barsinister was afterwards turned to stud purposes, and begat a great class of hunters. Fra Diavolo. Fra Diavolo was a horse of the big class, being more than 16.1. in height, and was said to be one of the finest jumpers that ever cleared a Galway wall. The Fra was also the property of Mr John Dennis, and was perhaps the only horse that ever won a steeplechase when blind. The Fra's first appearance in a big race was for the Munster Grand National at Mallow, in March, 1844. That was one of the most sensational chases ever brought to issue in Ireland, but having referred to it at some length in a previous article, I may here remark that Fra Diavolo, with his truly sporting owner on his back, was second to Fanny Ellsler. The Fra won the Kilcornan Cup at the Galway Meeting in March, 1845, and followed up his success at the Clare Hunt a few days later. His sight had been giving way about that time, but still Mr Dennis took him on to Macroon, where the obstacles mainly consisted of stone walls, which the Fra could pop over like an antelope. Four miles was the length of the journey, and there were seven runners, all of which the subject of this notice had in dire distress a long way from home. He bungled over the third fence from home, made a bigger mistake at the last but one, and rolled clean over the last wall but his owner who was doing duty, was into the saddle with a bound, and, going on, won easily. When he got back into the inclosure, it was found that the horse's sight had gone completely during the race and that he was stone blind. Bannathlath. Bannathlath was a big, shelly bay horse by Camelopard, and was the property of Mr Tom Ferguson, of Harkaway renown. He began a distinguished career between the flags most auspiciously at Trim, where in March 1840, he won two races, for which he was ridden by Larry Byrne, who at that time trained for Mr Ferguson. Bannathlath, in the October of that year, won the big chase at Thurles, having Tom Abbot as his pilot. In 1841 the year was begun at Mallow by his running third to Valentine but he did better next day by winning the Ladies' Purse worth a century," a few days afterwards, in the able hands of Mr Colgan, won the Bellinter Cvp worth a couple of centuries at Trim, and, before the end of that year, Colgan had three or four winning mounts on the bay, the most notable of which was the big chase at Kilkenny on October 5, where with 12st 71b on his back, he beat such cracks as The Fawn Valentine, Brunette, Barsinister, Duverney, Captain Roe, Ironsides, and several others. In November of that year he won a couple of races at Newry. After he had won a race at CastlebeUingham in March 1842, he broke down, and knew the silk no more but no better animal ever carried the "all white" banner of Mr Ferguson across a country, and he owned some fair performers between the flags. Rust. Rust was a slashing grey horse by Master Robert, and was, like Bannathlath, the property of Mr Tom Ferguson. Rust was a great horse on the flat, where he distinguished himself for several years as a thorough stayer, winning several long distance races at the Curragh and elsewhere during the middle of the thirties," the Royal Whip, Wellington, and several fourmile Queen's Plates, being amongst the trophies that fell to his prowess. In 1840 Gust won over sticks at Ballybar with Tom Abbot holding the ribbons, and, under his guidance, he won his maiden steeplechase at Thurles that back end;" but what would evidently have been a brilliant career between the flags, was cut short at Cahir, where this splendid-looking grey was killed when running for the first New Melton Stakes, run for over the famed Rooska course. The Cob. The Cob was the property of a sterling sportsman, Mr John Drought, of Banagher. As his name implies, he was on the small side, but he was a regular viultum inparvo, and there was no gamer "little 'un" stripped for the fray during the first two decades of the steeplechase era. The standard could never make him more than 15.1. The Cob's first outing was a successful one, as, I at the Ormond and King's County Meeting over the Lismacrory course, on April 15, 1841, he won the Westenra Cup— a gold cup given by Col. Westenra. The subject of this notice was then only 4 years old; yet in the hands of Mr J Kelly a noted horseman of his time he beat seven others in easy fashion, and he was not stripped again in public that year. He was pulled out in antagonism to Brunette for the Westmeath Urn at Mullingar on March 15 1842; but the.peerless brown beat him easily. Halfa-dozen others were behind them. On April 19, 1843, The Cob won the Westenra Gold Cup, for the Becond year in succession, at Lismacrory,
Mr Kelly being again in the pigskin. Good jumper though The Cob undoubtedly was, he found the course used at Gammonsfield on May 25..1842, far too severe for him, as in the Hbig chase" there, which was won by The Fawn, he fell twice over. In 1843, The Cob won the Westenra Gold Cup, for the third year in succession, with Mr Kelly again as his pilot, beating Dahlia, Duvernay, and a lot of others. This was a great performance on the part of The Cob, he having won the cup in three successive years, it thereby becoming the property of Mr Drought. His owner was not by any means a racing man, or else he could have had a great many more races out of this game son of Actreon, whom he did not stir for the rest of that year beyond riding him with his own hounds, for Mr Drought was master of the Ormond and King's County hounds at that time. In his third year of victory at Lismacrory, The Cob jumped 32ft over a down fence. He won a race at Banagher in 1844, and that outing terminated his public records. Economy. Economy was a slashing bay horse by Economist, sire of the famous Harkaway, perhaps the best horse of all time. Economist got very few good performers between the flags, and the subject of this notice divides with Lord George the honour of being his best. Economy as the property of Peter Braunick, of Firpark, Santry, won several races on the flat in 1840 and 1841, at Roscommon, Tuam, and other meetings on tho western circuit, and in November of the latter year— lß41 made a most auspicious beginning as a chaser by winning on both day 3at Ballymoe, Charlie Canavan holding the ribbons on both occasions. Economy then changed owners, and, as the property of Mr James Kelly, a noted amateur of his time, and with his owner in the saddle, he won the principal chase at Limerick, worth about £200, on March 29, 1842, the subject of this notice being then but 4 years old, yet he carried his list 2lb over the severe four miles of the Newcastle course in brilliant fashion, beating some of the best chasers of the period. The Fawn and Blueskin being his attendants home, while eight or nine others were nowhere." On the second day of the Ormond and King's County Meeting of that year— April 20 1842, Economy was again to the fore, with five others behind him. He ran for the Munster Grand National at Mallow the following year, but had to cave in to Regulator, who was then at the top of the tree; and Economy's "understandings" having given way soon after, he knew thesilk no more, though, had he trained on, he would undoubtedly have had a distinguished career. Erin. Erin, a chesnut horse of about 15.3, built on very strong and symmetrical lines, was by The Distingue, a horse kept by John Studderfc at Elm hill, county Limerick, and an animal that could boast of excellent parentage, as he was by Waxy Pope out of Flight, by Escape. Erin was bred by John Westropp, of Coolrea, the breeder of Matthew, and he won some races on the flat for him as a three and four-year-old but his greatest triumphs were obtained at the illegitimate game, which was begun by the subject of this notice at Mallow, on March 8, 1843, where, with Kelly as his pilot, he stripped to do battle for the Munster Grand National, for which event he split Regulator and Blueskin, the former only beating Erin then a five-yearol by a length, four other good 'ans" behind them in Blueskin, Economy, The Buck, and Duvernay. Erin improved in this form at Limerick, where, on April 17 following, he took part in and won the big race," beating Regulator, wt o was third to him, Blueskin, Saucepan, and five others. The greatest race Erin ever ran was at Mallow on March 12, 1844, when he took part in the Munster Grand National, for which nine of the best chasers ever stripped tried conclusions. It was one of the most sensational races ever witnessed in Ireland but as I have described it in previous articles, I may dismiss it with a brief allusion here suffice it to say, that Matt Dunne won on Fanny Ellsler, Fra Diavolo was second, Blueskin was third, and Erin fourth. Colgan rode Erin, and he carried the same weight as the three in front of him, namely, 12st 41b. Kelly was on Matthew, who was Mr Westropp's second string. So great an opinion did Mr Westropp and his party— and there were some astute judgos amongst them hold of Erin that they threw down the gage of battle to Brunette with him for the Foxhunters', Stakes at Lismacrory, the weights being Brunette, 12st41b, Erin 12st. The chesnut had the services of his owner, and M'Donogh was on the mare. For the last mile it was a desperate race between three, Col. Westenra's grey filly Dahlia holding out the longest of the other five,-but she gave way a short distance from home, and, after a terrible tussle for supremacy, the peerless daughter of Sir Hercules beat the subject of this notice by half a length. A week later (April 16, 1844) Erin, with Colgan as his pilot, won a good race at Limerick, and another at Galway the following August. He fell in the Munster Grand National the following year 1845, and received injuries that prevented his be ing afterwards trained. Anonymous. Anonymous, a bay horse by Philip the First, was a shelly-looking customer, and yet he was Philip's best son across country. He was the property of Mr George Henry Moore, of Moore Hall, co. Mayo, one of the best sportsmen and finest horsemen of his day, and whose afterwards well-known blue birdseye jacket became familiar to most race-goers. In the latter end of the thirties Mr Moore shared with Mr Val. Maher and Lord Waterford the honour of upholding Irish horsemanship at Melton, and they did uphold it, too, whether they donned silk or scarlet. Anonymous won the first steeplechase he ever started for, which was over the Laraghbrian course, near Maynooth, on April 12 1841 and that was followed up by another winning record at Tuam on August 26 1841, where he won over the walls in a field of ten, and with his truly sporting owner as his pilot. His only other outing for that year was also a successful one, as he won a 200-guinea match against Economy over two miles of the Breaffy course at Castlebar, on October 18 1841. At Balinrobe, on August 3 1842, the subject of this paper won the "leap race" from Lord De Freyne's Clansman and some others; and he was one of the three that enabled their owner to sweep the board for two days in succession a few days after Ballinrobe, the two 'chases falling to the lot of Anonymous. A terrible strong field ran for the New Melton Stakes that year, as nearly all the leading 'chasers in Ireland had a try for that rich stake. However, it was Anonymous's day, as, in the hands of his owner, he won after a desperate race with I Regulator, on whom Colgan had the mount, second and Clinker, with Dickey Fitzgerald on his back, third and Lockwood, on the game Fawn, fourth. It was a splendid race over 6uch a course, but it took all the go out of the subject of this notice, who never started again. He was one of the first chasers Mr Moore ever owned, and he was also his best, but several great flat horses carried the blue birdseye, Wolfdog and Erin-go-bragh amongst others.
DUVEBNAY. Duvernay was a neat bay mare, by Irishman, an animal that got some real tip. toppers, both between the dags and in the hunting field. About the best of his progeny 'barring Valentin was the animal under notice, who, during the greater portion of her career, was the property of Lord Clanricarde, who was doing duty in the pigskin during the second and third decades of the present century, and his riding practice was not confined to his native country, as, when the illegitimate sport was first introduced in regular form at St. Albans, by Tommy Coleman, Lord Clanricarde ran second on a little Irish horse called Nailer for the first St, Albans' steeplechase. Duvernay began well by winning the Newry Cup in October 1840, carrying 12st 81b and Tom Abbott to victory. Fortyone was not a successful year with the subject of this notice, but over the Rooska course at Cahir, in Oct. 1842, she won a good race each day under Burkes pilotage, the Curraghmore Handicap of lOsovs each, lOOsovs added, being one of them. She was the best chaser Lord Clanricarde ever owned, if I except the game Caustic, of which more anon. St. Legbb. St. Leger, a good-looking brown gelding, by Derby, stood about 15.3 in height. Derby, the sire of Sfc. Leger, was imported into Ireland by the late Mr George Murphy, of Breemount, near Laracor, co. Meath. He was one of the finest bred horses that ever crossed the channel either way, being by Tarrare out of Matilda his sire won the St. Leger for Lord Scarborough in 1826, and his dam was successful in the same race the following year. The dam of St. Leger, Annot Lyle, was purchased off Billy Battersby, of Freffans, and bred a lot of good 'uns" for Mr Murphy, besides the subject of this notice. That St. Leger was highly thought of at home, is borne out by the fact that his maiden essay between the flags was for the Kilrue Cup of 1845, which was ran for over a very severe course near Ratoath, on March 30 of that year, and which event brought together all the crack chasers of the time, and, mayhap, they conld hold their own with the chasers of any other era. An even dozen faced the starter, and af ber a desperate race, Brunette won from the subject of this notice, who was only four years old at the time, and was steered for the event in question by Tom Abbott. St Leger's performance was the more meritorious a3 he met with a couple of mishaps in the race, as at the third fence Abbott, with half a dozen others, mistook a flag, and went somewhat out of their way, and when St. Leger had made up lost ground, his curb snapped, and he rushed to the front, and maintained the lead until he had jumped the last fence but one, where Brunette closed with him, and they jumped the last fence, which was a real rasper," head and head, and in the terrible and prolonged struggle in the run home, the old mare just beat him by half a length after a lot of rousing on M'Donough's part; Matthew was third, and' Miss Tisdall was fourth. It was one of the finest races ever seeu over a stiff country, and that they were a class of horses is borne out by the fact that nearly two years afterwards, viz., in the Grand National of 1847, the four first horses in the race under notice also occupied the same berths, though nearly in inverse order. St. Leger's next race was in opposition to Brunette for the Meath Gold Cup at Trim, when the mare beat him but he journeyed on to Newry in November of that year with more success, as, in the hands of Mr Colgan, he won the principal steeplechase there, and from a strong opposition, Proceed, Fireaway (one of Harkaway Ferguson's), and several others being behind him. 1846 was began with a winning record, as on February 11 of that year the subject of this notice won the principal event of the meeting at Lucan, for which event he was steered by Mr Culgan, and had some "clinkers" behind him in Switcher, Hawksworth, Sam Slick, and several others. On April 2 1846, he again threw down the gauntlet to Brunetts, Matthew, and three others for the Kilrue Cup, which was that year converted into a handicap. The finish was again between himself and Mr Preston's peerless mare, who beat him at the finish by three lengths. On October 26, 1846, he essayed to give Sam Slick a stone for a sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, with 100 soy. added, at Lucan, but the big chesnut shook him off at the finish by a couple of lengths. Ten ran, and St. Leger was top weight, 12st 41b being his burden. He was next stripped for the Grand National of 1847, for which event he was ridden by Tom Olliver, who at the time was only just recovering from the effects of a broken leg, and the horse being a terrible puller, he was unable to ride him to his satisfaction, and he could only get second to Matthew. In my notice of the latter I omitted mentioning the fact that St. Leger had run second for the event in question, but it was a palpable error on my part, as my motto has always, and ever will be, "honour to whom honour is due." Several good judges who saw the race averred that if Olliver had been himself at the time it would have been St. Leger's day, and the collateral running of himself and Matthew would fully bear out that theory. After his great race for the Liverpool," Mr George Watts bought the subject of this notice for Lord Strathmore, who was at the time the owner of Switcher, whom he purchased from Lord Howth. Lord Strathmore ran both horses for the big steeplechase at Paris in 1847, and his lordship elected to ride Switcher himself— with whom he declared to win while he gave the mount on St. Leger to Tom Abbott. Switcher was beaten a long way from home, and Abbott, coming up on the outside with St. Leger, won after a great race, ani that was his last. It is rather a curious coincidence that such two clinkers as Brunette and St. Leger should be foaled, so to speak, within a stone's throw of each other. As I remarked before, Mr Murphy had a lot of good ones out of St. Leger's dam, The Oaks and Lamienne, who were own sisters, being both by Birdcatcher, and an own sister to St. Leger, a grey mare called Columbine, all of whom distinguished themselves more or less between the flags. Milo. Of Milo, a bay gelding by Milo, who was by Langar, it may be said that he was a big horse, but this would be far below the mark, as he was a regular giant. Few bigger animals ever carried a silk jacket, as he was fully 17.2 in height, and was a big horse all over, showing a lot of quality, with the finest loins and quarters one could see. He was so huge that he could take any ordinary fence in his stride and yet he was as clever as a cat. Milo was bred by a baker in Celbridge, and changed hands several times at very poor prices, ranging from a tenner," to a pony." At the latter figure the Hon. B. Wodehouse became his owner, and for him he won the Ponsonby Bowl at the Kildare Hunt Meeting, March, 1842, Denny Wynne being his pilot on the occasion and he repeated that performance the following year (1843) by winning the same trophy, Wynne being again in the saddle. That was on March 22 and five days afterwards he took part in his greatest race, and probably the greatest race of all time over a natural country —the Kilrue Cup of 1843. I have referred to this particular race at some length in the article on Brunette, with which I commenced this
series consequently a brief notice of It will suffice here. Here, after one of the most desperate contests on record, Brunette won by a length from Milo, who beat the English crack Peter Simple just as far. Denny Wynne rode Milo and he also had the mount on the bay at the Ormond and King's County Meeting on April 20 following, when he won the Foxhunter Stakes from ten others over the fine plain of Lismacrory. He made nothing of the large doubles there just kicked them and went away and with that winning record he wound-up a short but brilliant career. With Milo I bring the cracks of the two first decades of the steeplechase era to a close. I have omitted a lot of good animals, such a Lady Langford, The Oaks, Clinker, Recherche, La Sylphide, Switcher, Rattrap, and several others. The latter pair performed mostly at the other side o£ the herring pond." Larky Grigg.
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From the COLUMBIA TELESCOPE, copies in the Virginia Historical
Society, Richmond, Virginia.
OCTOBER 11, 1831
Died at his residence in this town, on the 5th inst., Mr. Thomas
Quilter, aged forty years, a native of the County of Kerry,
Ireland. Industry and honesty, kindness and good nature, were
conspicuous in his character, during a residence of nearly
thirteen years in Columbia.