irishfamilydetectiveApr 20Rathcooney Graveyard, CorkOn 19 April 2022, the announcement was made that €85,000 is to be provided under the Community Monuments Fund to carry out conservation...
irishfamilydetectiveOct 18, 2021THE IRISH GRAND JURY SYSTEM Introduction The grand jury system is the oldest form of local government in Ireland, the origins of which are obscure, however. Thomas...
irishfamilydetectiveSep 14, 2021GRIFFITH'S VALUATIONIntroduction The general valuation of rateable property in Ireland is a vital resource for those researching their Irish ancestors. ...
irishfamilydetectiveJul 23, 2021CORK CITY AND WATSON'S GATES: A PHOENIX ASCENDING‘If Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he would smile with pleasure on the earnestness of the efforts of philanthropists like Bill Gates,...
irishfamilydetectiveJun 28, 2021FURTHER RELEASE OF ONLINE RECORDS FOR WEST CORK #Cork City and County Archives have released the gravestone inscriptions index from the Abbey Cemetery, Bantry, West Cork with the...
irishfamilydetectiveJun 8, 2021NEW ONLINE RECORDS FOR CORKTwo new online additions for those researching #Cork family history were announced recently. Cork City and County Archives have added...
irishfamilydetectiveMay 14, 2021TRINTY OF MURDERED IRISH PRIESTS#Onthisday 100 years ago Father James O’Callaghan was mortally wounded by Crown forces at the home of at the residence of Alderman Liam...
irishfamilydetectiveMay 7, 2021Murder in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork#Onthisday 100 years ago #Cork man William Bransfield was led from his home by four men and shot dead. The Carrigtwohill native was an...
irishfamilydetectiveApr 22, 2021 The Duffin BrothersOn this day 100 years ago, brothers Patrick and Daniel Duffin were ‘slain at Belfast for Ireland – 23rd April, 1921.’
irishfamilydetectiveFeb 27, 2021A Cork Band of BrothersThey fought together during the War of Independence, and six years after the truce, the former comrades of 1st Cork Brigade were once...
irishfamilydetectiveDec 14, 2020Raising Holy Hell – The Murder of Canon Thomas Magner, Dunmanway 15 December 1920The roads of Ireland are dotted with memorials commemorating those killed during Ireland’s revolutionary period 1916 – 1923. On the...
irishfamilydetectiveNov 20, 2020The Burning of Kilbrittain CastleIn the early hours of Wednesday, 26 May 1920, ‘villagers, tenants and estate workers witnessed the sensational picture of’ Kilbrittain...
irishfamilydetectiveOct 17, 2020Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney - the last daysTerence MacSwiney, husband, father, politician and revolutionary began the last week of his life in Brixton Prison in October 1920....
irishfamilydetectiveSep 23, 2020'Knightmayor' in Cork - the attempted kidnap of Lt. Gen. Sir Peter StricklandContinued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney Picketing 'The Brutish Empire' When Terence MacSwiney...
irishfamilydetectiveSep 8, 2020Picketing 'The Brutish Empire'Continued from The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney On 23 August 1920, Broadway actress Eileen Curran and...
irishfamilydetectiveAug 11, 2020The arrest and court-martial of Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwineyThursday 12 August 1920 dawned with the promise of sunny intervals and light winds, and for one Cork man, his last day of freedom.
irishfamilydetectiveJul 30, 2020Berlin or Ballincollig?I came across this old photo on the Irish Examiner website and had to look twice when I read the caption as it relates to the Irish Army.
irishfamilydetectiveJul 5, 2020The Pietà, Cork, Ireland.With travel restrictions due to Covid-19, foreign holidays are unlikely this year. If viewing Michelangelo’s Pietà in 2020 was on your...
irishfamilydetectiveJun 15, 2020The 'Taking' of Percival Lea WilsonOn this day 100 years ago, Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) District Inspector Percival Lea-Wilson’s past caught up with him, when the...
irishfamilydetectiveJun 1, 2020Attack on Blarney Royal Irish Constabulary, CorkBlarney RIC Barracks was one of many to be attacked by Volunteers and subsequently abandoned by the RIC. More about the attack in June 1920