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by matthewmacnamara
Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: the Famine in Clare
Replies: 3
Views: 10057

Re: the Famine in Clare

A feature of class relationships in the early days of the Famine was tension between farmers, and men securing employment on relief schemes. In August 1846, a road blocking incident in Coonagh, adjacent to the Clare Limerick border, bespeaks strong tension between landless men and cottiers looking t...
by matthewmacnamara
Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:53 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Surnames in Irish in 1911
Replies: 39
Views: 49337

Re: Surnames in Irish in 1911

This use of Irish emerging in the public sphere shows the impact of the Gaelic League.
I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the establishment of League branches in Clare
in earlier years.
by matthewmacnamara
Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:09 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick
Replies: 3
Views: 18520

Re: 1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick

Dear Sharon,

Would you be able to tell me how I could access the US Navy/ Army records, first world war service,
of my grand uncle William Ringrose who emigrated from Meelick county Clare?
by matthewmacnamara
Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:27 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: the Famine in Clare
Replies: 3
Views: 10057

the Famine in Clare

In April 1846 as the Famine sets in, a report sent to the Chief Secretary in Dublin Castle gave details of the situation in South East Clare. [Cottiers were people renting micro holdings from two to ten acres, sublet to them by farmers] One fourth, and in many cases upwards of one third, of the rura...
by matthewmacnamara
Wed Jul 12, 2023 3:18 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
Replies: 4
Views: 10706

Re: Thomondgate area Limerick

Here are two items relating to the 1852 general election meeting disorder at Sixmilebridge that culminated in the shooting dead of six people by the military # electors were fetched from a house in Thomondgate by Mr Delmege and a detachment of military, and conveyed to the hustings at Sixmilebridge....
by matthewmacnamara
Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
Replies: 4
Views: 10706

Re: Thomondgate area Limerick

Dear Sharon, Thanks for following up my post. The Catholic parish of Saint Munchin [where I was born and bred] was all on the Clare side of the Shannon. It stretched out west to beyond Caherdavin. I have some other details on the Thomondgate connection with Clare, that I must now extract from a pers...
by matthewmacnamara
Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
Replies: 4
Views: 10706

Thomondgate area Limerick

The Thomondgate area of Limerick had a particular relationship with South East Clare. During the Famine large numbers of hungry Clare people flocked into the area. Some settled there. Until 1950s urban resettlement, Clare family names were widespread there. The lower end of the area near the Shannon...
by matthewmacnamara
Sat May 20, 2023 3:25 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Surnames in Irish in 1911
Replies: 39
Views: 49337

Re: Surnames in Irish in 1911

Dear Sheila,

The data that you have provided is so valuable. Especially the written Irish clarifications.
I don't think that the schools at that point had disseminated much knowledge of
written Irish.

Matthew Mac Namara
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:28 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

This relates to my previous item. A convention of skilled and unskilled Labour delegates of the Land League branches and sympathisers of the labourers’ cause in the province of Munster was held today in the Town Hall Limerick. Mr Mac Coy, P.L.G. said : The Irish labourers had to fly to other lands s...
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:01 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

In the Limerick Clare area, by the end of 1880, the Land League has become a mass movement with the active participation of the Catholic clergy. An unresolved issue is what is to be done for the farm labourers. The question is raised very occasionally by speakers or letters to the press. One point o...
by matthewmacnamara
Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:07 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

By November 1880 the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club had turned itself into the Limerick city Central Branch of the Land League. With the same leadership. At the start of that month Parnell presided a huge land agitation meeting in the city. Contingents from south east Clare had a prominent place a...
by matthewmacnamara
Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:49 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

The manner in which some leaders of the Limerick and Clare Farmers’ Club, sometimes calling itself the Limerick Farmers’ Club, based in Thomas Street Limerick, passed effortlessly into leadership positions in the Land League led me to initiate this thread. I may have found some enlightenment. During...
by matthewmacnamara
Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

In the face of continuing agitation, by summer 1880 a Land Commission had been established to adjudicate on rents. The policy of the newly founded Land League was boycott this tribunal. On the other hand the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club was willing to plead before the Commission to seek whatever...
by matthewmacnamara
Sat Jul 02, 2022 3:10 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

The May 8 report contained no further detail other than a decision that a further meeting would be convened to consider the whole 'land question'. At around the same time, the Bishop of Ossory accused the Land League of 'communism and nihilism' because of what it was agitating for. This went beyond ...
by matthewmacnamara
Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:04 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 21677

Re: The Land League in Clare

Dear Sheila, I will get back to it. The issue between the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club and the Land League persists into the summer. Some Club members feel that 'the League asks too much' and cite a letter from a priest referring to the 'utterly impracticable and wild scheme of the Land League'....