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O’Hanlons: traitors in the fold?

June 5, 2020September 13, 2007 by John McCullagh

It would be wrong to paint any members of the O’Hanlon clan of the sixteenth century or earlier as traitors because of cooperation or compliance with the dictates of the ruling English. Even Hugh O’Neill ….

O’Hanlons in Tudor times

June 5, 2020September 4, 2007 by John McCullagh

We have sadly neglected of late, our genealogy section and especially the history of the O’Hanlons in this area. We right this now by resuming our outline history of that clan………..

400th anniversary of Flight/Earls

June 5, 2020August 24, 2007 by John McCullagh

It is fitting that in the 400^th anniversary year of the Flight of the Earls, Newry’s own Dr John McCavitt should launch an illustrated History of the event and times. John, originally of Derrybeg Estate …

Bishop Garvey of Dromore

June 5, 2020August 24, 2007 by John McCullagh

Encased in the wall that abuts Chapel Street in St Mary’s Cemetery is an old tombstone that was originally the frontispiece of a crypt erected June 15^th 1763 – some three years before his death and interment there – for Bishop of Dromore Anthony Garvey and members of his family.

Thomas D’Arcy McGee

June 6, 2020June 7, 2007 by John McCullagh

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, the son of James McGee (coastguard) and Dorcas Catherine Morgan was born in Carlingford, County Louth 13 April 1825. A journalist and poet as well as a politician, McGee was a gifted speaker and (in later life) a strong supporter of confederation in his adopted country of Canada. His changing views regarding Irish republicanism may have resulted in his assassination in 1868.

Sarah Curran/ Robert Emmet

June 6, 2020June 1, 2007 by John McCullagh

We have written of the patriots mentioned in the Yeats poem, with the exception of Robert Emmet. Since it’s about ‘romantic Ireland‘ we write here of Emmet’s romance with Sarah Curran!

John O’Leary

June 6, 2020May 31, 2007 by John McCullagh

‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,

It’s with O’Leary in his grave.’

Lord Edward Fitzgerald

June 6, 2020May 29, 2007 by John McCullagh

The Yeats poem (opt. cit.) has forever enshrined in verse the name of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. This Irish conspirator (1763-1798) fifth son of James, first duke of Leinster, by his wife Emilia Mary, daughter of Charles Lennox, second duke of Richmond, was born at Carton House, near Dublin, on the 15th of October 1763.

Owen Roe O’Neill

June 6, 2020May 14, 2007 by John McCullagh

Owen Roe O’Neill was the son of Art O’Neill, a younger brother of the Great Hugh O’Neill, and he was a famous Irish leader of the seventeenth century.