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many thanks

Matthew Mac Namara

In the 1940s and 1950s my mother a Clare woman from Meelick used to refer
to an inheritance from the United States calling it the O'Dea millions.
Would anyone be able to specify what it was, and who in Clare benefited?

Many thanks Sheila. The Meelick Floyd was one of the subscribers in
1856 to the building of Saint John's Cathedral Limerick.

I attach a file listing a large number of people from the Meelick half parish who
in 1856 made financial contributions to the building
of Saint John's cathedral Limerick.

Would anyone have information about the Floyd family,
of whom one was living in Meelick, holding 36 acres,
in July 1867?

In May 1847, at the height of the Famine, Meelick saw the violent reaction of a large assembly of hungry men against the soup kitchen system of relief, that had been substituted for employment on public works. It led to a military intervention from nearby Limerick. they proceeded immediately to the ...

Thank you Sheila.

I wonder if anyone could attest occurrence of the
Gaelic word croinin elsewhere in Clare.
It is not listed in O Duinnin's Irish English dictionary.

My mother - a Ringrose - grew up in pre world war one Meelick. She remembered the presence in the Crompan river of sought after, catchable, fish called croneens, presumably the Irish croinini. A UCC professor of Irish told me that it meant a marking like a small crown. Along the lower reaches in the...

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...

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.

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?

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...

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....

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...