O'Donnell, McCarthy, Egan, Green, Cunningham, Lane

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O'Donnell, McCarthy, Egan, Green, Cunningham, Lane

Post by smcarberry » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:35 am

Here is another handful of gleanings from The British Library website providing some free content from London newspapers.
The paper called The Graphic does not have a display that shows a page number.

Paddy C., note the Lisdoonvarna bog slide which completely overwhelmed a house so quickly that its occupants died. Here
is a potential cause of multiple simultaneous deaths in an incident which you have found in the Ruan or Tubber area.

Sharon Carberry USA


The Graphic 14 Apr 1877
A chalice has been stolen from the Roman Catholic church of Killintinane [sic, likely Kilfintinane], County Clare, and suspicion has been cast upon some soldiers of the 90th Regiment quartered in the district. The ill-feeling culminated... Sunday in a serious riot between the civilians and the military; stones were thrown, and many of the combatants were badly injured. Some forty arrests have been made, and the Regiment has been ordered to leave Limerick immediately.

The Graphic 18 Sep 1886
A farmer named Thomas Green, who lately took a grazing farm, formerly occupied by the Hynes family, was shot in the back at a lonely spot as he was driving home from Ennis, where he is now lying in the infirmary.

The Penny Illustrated Paper And Illustrated Times 25 Dec 1886 p. 430
At Kilkee, county Clare, a shop and premises occupied by a family named O'Donnell took fire last night, and the establishment was totally destroyed. Mary O'Donnell, aged forty, one of the occupants, was burned to death, and her sister was much injured before she was rescued.

The Graphic 30 Apr 1887
Notices have been posted throughout County Clare calling on tenants on certain estates holding more than 100 acres of land to surrender by May 1st all the land in their hands in excess of that quantity in order, among other results, to check emigration. In spite of this, and of the opposition of the Nationalist leaders to emigration, it is increasingly conspicuous both in Clare and Limerick.

The Graphic 15 Dec 1888
John Cunningham, an inoffensive farmer, residing near Ennis, having become obnoxious to the local Nationalists because he refused to subscribe to the Parnell Indemnity Fund, was waylaid and savagely beaten as he was returning home one night recently. He was found lying insensibly on a foot-path, and was removed to the Ennis Hospital, where, on regaining consciousness, he named two men among his assailants, and they, with others suspected of being accomplices, have been arrested.
Lisdoonvarna bog slide Oct 1900.jpg
The Graphic 20 Oct 1900 Bog Slide
deaths: McCarthy widow age 68; Egan woman age 28
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Michael Lane 1887 eviction, Ardnacrusha.jpg
Michael Lane eviction,
Ardnacrusha (listed in headline),
The Penny Illustrated..., 8 Oct 1887, p. 230
Michael Lane 1887 eviction, Ardnacrusha.jpg (104.57 KiB) Viewed 3269 times

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