Irishnative Genealogy

25/08/2020

Daniel describes the ancient landscape around Carnfree and it's associated structures

23/08/2020

Mike from Rathcroghan Visitor Centre talks about the history and significance of Rathcroghan Mound in Tulsk

15/12/2018

https://www.thejournal.ie/1918-election-your-constituency-4388399-Dec2018/?fbclid=IwAR2oVkIV-NL7nFEfeqznFeIQRYHz5hbVFtJryB0SE4X1wdLEf9gj3BRBtD0

A 32-county ballot that changed the course of Irish history.

05/11/2018

23/07/2018

Arthur Reginald 5th Baron Defreyne 1879-1915
Arthur Reginald, or Reggie as he was known, had a testing childhood what with his mother Laura Octavia dying shortly after his birth and his father, Arthur French of Frenchpark House, subsequently remarrying. Reggie was presently sent to boarding school in England and here he found the regimental lifestyle so much to his liking that at the age of 20 he joined the military. Within 2 years he was a Lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers at Hythe Barracks in Kent but before long would be wed in a union that greatly shocked his family. His new wife, a divorcee named Annabelle Angus, had come from modest stock - her father was a publican, and she herself was working as a barmaid when Reggie first encountered her at Banffshire Scotland. She also came into the marriage with a child from a previous relationship - a son that came to be remembered as Roland True, the convicted murderer who spent the majority of his life in Broadmoor Hospital - a facility for the criminally insane.
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30/04/2018

https://connect.invaluable.com/whytes/auction-lot/1865-High-Sheriff-of-Roscommon-uniform-bicorn-hat_DF84BF596C/

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05/04/2018

Castlerea Post Office

24/03/2018

Fr O'Flanagan - The Republican Priest
Born in 1876 to farming stock at Kilkeevan Castlerea, Michael as a boy attended the National School at Cloonbonniffe where his intellect brought him to the fore. He was duly sent to the diocesan college of Summerhill in Sligo and then to Maynooth college, after which he was ordained in Sligo Cathedral in 1900. He returned to teach at Summerhill for a number of years but in 1904 in an attempt to pay off the rising debts at Loughglynn Church and Convent, Fr O'Flanagan was sent on a fund-raising mission to the States by his bishop, John Joseph Clancy. While here his philanthropic activities brought him to the attention of prominent republican Irish-Americans and these contacts proved to be of great benefit on his return to Ireland and in future years.

After some time spent in Rome, Fr O'Flanagan eventually returned to the country of his birth and in 1914 he was appointed the curate of Cliffoney, in northern Sligo. Here he witnessed the injustices endured by locals as authorities, alongside the Congested District Board, imposed sanctions on turf cutting under the guise of the wartime emergency restrictions. He began a long communication with the Board but the return of turbary rights to the locals was not forthcoming, leaving them worried for the coming cold winter months. Not accepting this defeat on the 29th June 1915 he stood before a gathering outside his church beseeching "what I advise the people to do is for every man who wants a turf bank and can work a turf spade to go to the waste bog tomorrow and cut plenty of turf"

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08/03/2018

Gravestone Transcriptions for Tulsk Abbey cemetery now online
http://irishnative.com/cemeteries-2/tulsk-abbey/

14/02/2018

'The Monday before Ash Wednesday is called "Puss Monday" because all the women who have not got married before Lent have a "puss" on them.' https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428045/4372080/4473692

28/01/2018

The division of Ireland into shires or counties is of Anglo-Norman and English origin. The counties generally represent the older native territories and sub-kingdoms. King John formed twelve counti…

10/01/2018

Gravestone Transcriptions for Castlerea St. Joseph's cemetery now online
http://irishnative.com/cemeteries-2/castlerea-rc/