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- Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:42 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: the Famine in Clare
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15191
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...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:53 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Surnames in Irish in 1911
- Replies: 39
- Views: 66808
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.
I wonder if anyone has knowledge of the establishment of League branches in Clare
in earlier years.
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: 1841 shipwreck involving Clare emigrants out of Limerick
- Replies: 3
- Views: 23819
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?
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?
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: the Famine in Clare
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15191
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...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15883
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....
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15883
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...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Thomondgate area Limerick
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15883
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...
- Sat May 20, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Surnames in Irish in 1911
- Replies: 39
- Views: 66808
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
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
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:28 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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...
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:01 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:07 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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...
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:49 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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...
- Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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...
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 3:10 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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 ...
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:04 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: The Land League in Clare
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25765
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'....