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Post by givehimaball on Mar 26, 2016 16:53:56 GMT
Renard GAA were once known as "Con Keatings GAA" and obviously St.Mary's ground is called after Keating too. Con Keating and two other volunteers are known as the first casualties of the 1916 rising when on route to Tralee to help guide Sir Roger Casement ashore they crashed their car into the Laune River and drowned.Subsequently Sir Roger was left stranded in Tralee Bay and with no signal men on shore was eventually arrested There was a commemoration thing back in Killorglin today for these 3 today as part of the 1916 events. |
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 27, 2016 0:55:35 GMT
 The ORAHILLYS car..buried under Hill 16 |
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 27, 2016 12:05:48 GMT
To get back on subject…… The new, soon to be opened, Centre of Excellence at Currans will provide desperately needed pitches and facilities for the training and development of elite players. I presume it will be given a name other than ‘Centre of Excellence.’ Therefore, this is an excellent opportunity to give the place a name that would provide a level of distinction commensurate to what is going to be a special place. Perhaps, this time, we could look away from politics and deliver something more generic like Páirc an Ríocht. I’m sure that there are other suggestions out there! I would favour Dr Eamonn OSullivan. This is from Dr Crokes Website ======================================================= Trainer of 8 winning Kerry All Ireland football teams and the powerhouse behind the magnificent Fitzgerald Stadium are living proof of the greatness of Dr Crokes `much acclaimed Dr Eamonn O’Sullivan. but there was much more to his achievements. He played football with Dr Crokes ,with UCD in the Sigerson Cup and also with the Combined Universities. He founded the Munster colleges football and athletics competitions. He was a keen golfer starting with a handicap of 24 and he got that down to 9 before settling for a more manageable 18 handicap in later life. He played in the old Deer Park course and then went on to O’Mahony’s Point. He was captain on two occasions. Dr Eamonn wrote two historic books in areas dear to his heart, ‘The Art and Science of Gaelic football’ (1958) and ‘Textbook of Occupational Therapy ‘(1955). He was one of the main organisers of the game of Bridge in Killarney ,which is still thriving to this day. Eamonn was highly motivated and competitive in all of his sporting activities and demonstrated the same talents in the adminstration of his many activities. Son of the legendary J P O’Sullivan, a renowned athlete and footballer with Laune Rangers and with Kerry, he was only 12 years old when he was sent to school in St Vincents ,Castleknock in . He entered St Brendans College Killarney in 1911 and was honoured to be chosen on the Munster Colleges team v Leinster Colleges in 1914. What may not be known was that he entered St Patrick’s College Maynooth in 1914 to study for the priesthood,but transferred to UCC in 1917. He played Sigerson with UCC in 1917 and spent a brief period studying in Rome. Back to UCD, where he captained the team in the Dublin SFC. He also had the distinction of playing on the Munster team which defeated Leinster in The Tailteann Games. He had the distinction of winning theAll Ireland javelin competition in 1932. This revived his interest in athletics and he went on to play such a pivitol role in the organization of athletics in second level colleges. He started working in St Finans in 1925 and became RMS in1933. His return to Killarney in 1925 proved a god-send to Dr Crokes, where he served as player and captain,secretary,vice-president and club president for life when Eugene O ‘Sullivan died in 1942. His other huge contribution to Dr Crokes was to mastermind the erection of The Fitzgerald Stadium (1930-1936). It was a hugely ambitious project and there is no doubt that the enormity of such an significant project would not have seen the light of day only for the vision of the Doc. When one considers the two big recent projects, Croke Park and Landsdowne Road and all the modern technology and machinery at their disposal, you realise the mind boggling logistics that Dr Eamonn encountered, when he wanted the Dr Croke club to build a fitting tribute to Dickeen, one of its greatest heroes. He was a great believer it the value of Occupational Therapy for the mentally ill and many of those hospitalised in 1930 worked on the development of the stadium. Dr Eamonn was well ahead of his time in this respect, proving the theory of progressing to mental health from ill health, as outlined in his book on O.T. published in 1955. There were 1000 patients in St Finan’s in the 30’s. Dr Eamonn gave the touch of the master’s hand to the Kerry football teams and trained All Ireland winning teams in five different decades, the 20’s right through to the 60’s. It started in 1924 when Phil O ‘Sullivan was the winning Kerry captain.What is known by only a few is that Phil was the man that persuaded Eamonn to take over the training of the Kerry team. AT that time collective training was the norm in the latter stages of the All Ireland series and there was no one better than Dr Eamonn to utilize this time to mould his players into a winning unit.He understood the importance of getting the mental attitude right as well as the physical. The Kerry team was based in Killarney,staying in The Park Place Hotel, going to morning Mass and training twice a day in The Fitzgerald Stadium. In recent years many of the top teams, Kerry included, employ psychologists to complement the physical training. Just one man could do all that for 40 years. The abiding memory this writer has of Dr Eamonn is the excitement of Munster Final day in The Park, where he ensured that the classy chairs were brought down for the VIPs from St Finan’s and then my childhood heart leapt as the heroic footballers of Cork and Kerry skipped their way through the gate on the western side of The Park Dr Eamonn was cool,calm and recollected eyeing up his charges. Invariably Kerry won, another title for the Doc on the way to Croke Park. Dr Eamonn died in 1966 and Jimmy Cullinane penned a song in his memory, Your name shall be remembered in the Kingdom’s Hall of Fame, As the one who always taught us to play a sporting game’ Like the Village Schoolmaster I gazed and gazed, ‘and still the wonder grew, how one small head could carry all he knew’ Dr Eamonn would be very proud of the development and progress of the Dr Croke club,now in its123rd year.He showed us his winning formula on his famous blackboard as far back as 1923. |
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 27, 2016 16:18:48 GMT
The ORAHILLYS car..buried under Hill 16 The O’Rahilly’s De Dion-Bouton car, which was used to fetch supplies ended up being used as part of a barricade on Prince’s St. during the Rising, where it was burnt out
(De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer and railcar manufacturer operating from 1883 to 1932. The company was founded by the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton, and Bouton's brother-in-law Charles Trépardoux)
Ballylongford’s GAA field is named in honour of The O’ Rahilly
I presume Hill 16 in Croke Park is so named in honour of the 1916 Easter Rising?
Part 1 of a documentary, 'Soldier's in Song' is on Radio Kerry on Easter Monday (10am) - I gather it will feature Thomas Ashe (patriot from Lispole. On 25th September 1917, he died at the Mater Hospital after being force-fed by prison authorities at Mountjoy Prison. He was a relative of Catherine Ashe, the paternal grandmother of American actor Gregory Peck, who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century. The Ashe Memorial Hall, Tralee, built in 1928, is named after him while Nelson Street in Tralee, was renamed Ashe Street and of course, Dingle’s GAA ground is named Páirc An Áthasaigh), Piaras Beaslai (In 1918 general election, he was elected to the First Dáil Éireann as Sinn Féin MP for Kerry East) and Peadar Kearney (of Amhrán na bhFiann fame)
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Post by jackiel on Mar 27, 2016 21:41:54 GMT
In Ashbourne Co Meath we have just had a roundabout named after Thomas Ashe in recognition of his part in The Battle of Ashbourne in 1916. The roundabout is coincidentally at the entrance to our club grounds.
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 28, 2016 16:20:56 GMT
Listowel Emmets - Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (4th March 1778 – 20th September 1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against the British king
He was born in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin and came from a wealthy Anglo-Irish Protestant family who sympathised with Irish Catholics. One of his elder brothers was the nationalist Thomas Addis Emmet, a close friend of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Emmet entered Trinity College, Dublin in October 1793, at the age of fifteen. While he was there, his brother Thomas and some of his friends became involved in political activism. Robert became secretary of a secret United Irish Committee in college, and was expelled in April 1798 as a result. That same year he fled to France to avoid the many British arrests of nationalists that were taking place in Ireland. While in France, Emmet garnered the support of Napoleon, who had promised to lend support when the upcoming revolution started.
After the 1798 rising, Emmet was involved in reorganising the defeated United Irish Society, but had to escape to the continent to avoid arrest, where he sought French military aid. He returned to Ireland in October 1802. In March the following year, he began preparations for another uprising
He began to manufacture weapons and explosives at a number of premises in Dublin and developed a folding pike fitted with a hinge that allowed it to be concealed under a cloak. Unlike in 1798, the revolutionaries concealed their preparations, but a premature explosion at one of Emmet's arms depots killed a man. Emmet was forced to advance the date of the rising before the authorities' suspicions were aroused.
The rising went ahead in Dublin on the evening of 23 July 1803. About 10,000 copies were printed of a proclamation in the name of the ‘Provisional Government’, which influenced the 1916 Proclamation; most were destroyed by the authorities
Failing to seize Dublin Castle, the rising amounted to a large-scale disturbance in the Thomas Street area. Emmet saw a dragoon being pulled from his horse and piked to death, the sight of which prompted him to call off the rising to avoid further bloodshed. But, he had lost all control of his followers. In one incident, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Lord Kilwarden, was dragged from his carriage and stabbed by pikes. Kilwarden's nephew, the Rev. Mr. Wolfe, was also killed. The rebellion was finally quelled by British military forces
Emmet fled into hiding, moving from Rathfarnam to Harold’s Cross so that he could be near his sweetheart, Sarah Curran, to whom he was engaged. (Emmet's housekeeper, Anne Devlin, is also remembered in Irish history for enduring torture without providing information to the authorities). Emmet was captured on 25 August and taken to Dublin Castle, then removed to Kilmainham. Vigorous but ineffectual efforts were made to procure his escape
He was tried for treason on 19 September and found guilty. Before sentencing Emmet delivered his famous Speech from the Dock. Among the famous lines was ‘When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written’
Chief Justice Lord Norbury sentenced Emmet to be hanged, drawn and quartered on 20th September. Emmet's remains were first delivered to Newgate Prison and then back to Kilmainham Gaol, where the jailer was under instructions that if no one claimed them they were to be buried in a nearby hospital's burial grounds called 'Bully's Acre' in Kilmainham. A later search there found no remains; it appears that Emmet's remains were secretly removed from Bully's Acre and reinterred in St Michan's, a Dublin church with strong United Irish associations, though it was never confirmed. Speculation has continued regarding the whereabouts of Emmet's remains
Listowel Emmets have had some very interesting club names down through the years. The club provides an excellent timeline of their history on their website. Link is listowelemmets.kerry.gaa.ie/history
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Post by buck02 on Mar 29, 2016 10:53:41 GMT
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Post by ballynamona on Mar 29, 2016 11:52:14 GMT
Listowel Emmets - Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (4th March 1778 – 20th September 1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against the British king
Chief Justice Lord Norbury sentenced Emmet to be hanged, drawn and quartered on 20th September. Emmet's remains were first delivered to Newgate Prison and then back to Kilmainham Gaol, where the jailer was under instructions that if no one claimed them they were to be buried in a nearby hospital's burial grounds called 'Bully's Acre' in Kilmainham. A later search there found no remains; it appears that Emmet's remains were secretly removed from Bully's Acre and reinterred in St Michan's, a Dublin church with strong United Irish associations, though it was never confirmed. Speculation has continued regarding the whereabouts of Emmet's remains
Listowel Emmets have had some very interesting club names down through the years. The club provides an excellent timeline of their history on their website. Link is listowelemmets.kerry.gaa.ie/history
There was speculation that Robert Emmet was buried in Blennerville. Not sure where that came from. |
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 29, 2016 12:59:03 GMT
Listowel Emmets - Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (4th March 1778 – 20th September 1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against the British king
Chief Justice Lord Norbury sentenced Emmet to be hanged, drawn and quartered on 20th September. Emmet's remains were first delivered to Newgate Prison and then back to Kilmainham Gaol, where the jailer was under instructions that if no one claimed them they were to be buried in a nearby hospital's burial grounds called 'Bully's Acre' in Kilmainham. A later search there found no remains; it appears that Emmet's remains were secretly removed from Bully's Acre and reinterred in St Michan's, a Dublin church with strong United Irish associations, though it was never confirmed. Speculation has continued regarding the whereabouts of Emmet's remains
Listowel Emmets have had some very interesting club names down through the years. The club provides an excellent timeline of their history on their website. Link is listowelemmets.kerry.gaa.ie/history
There was speculation that Robert Emmet was buried in Blennerville. Not sure where that came from. Very interesting speculation about Robert Emmets last resting place and one I've never heard of before. Anything is possible and every mystery can be unravelled if we dig deep enough (no pun intended). Talking about mysteries - there's a GAA ground in Kerry, but not of Kerry bearing the name of a very interesting character. Where is it and who is the character the club and field are named after? |
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Post by southward on Mar 29, 2016 17:17:51 GMT
Listowel Emmets - Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (4th March 1778 – 20th September 1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against the British king
Chief Justice Lord Norbury sentenced Emmet to be hanged, drawn and quartered on 20th September. Emmet's remains were first delivered to Newgate Prison and then back to Kilmainham Gaol, where the jailer was under instructions that if no one claimed them they were to be buried in a nearby hospital's burial grounds called 'Bully's Acre' in Kilmainham. A later search there found no remains; it appears that Emmet's remains were secretly removed from Bully's Acre and reinterred in St Michan's, a Dublin church with strong United Irish associations, though it was never confirmed. Speculation has continued regarding the whereabouts of Emmet's remains
Listowel Emmets have had some very interesting club names down through the years. The club provides an excellent timeline of their history on their website. Link is listowelemmets.kerry.gaa.ie/history
There was speculation that Robert Emmet was buried in Blennerville. Not sure where that came from. And Shergar was buried in Foley's Glen according to a story that made the papers years ago. |
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Post by ballynamona on Mar 29, 2016 18:34:21 GMT
There was speculation that Robert Emmet was buried in Blennerville. Not sure where that came from. Very interesting speculation about Robert Emmets last resting place and one I've never heard of before. Anything is possible and every mystery can be unravelled if we dig deep enough (no pun intended). Talking about mysteries - there's a GAA ground in Kerry, but not of Kerry bearing the name of a very interesting character. Where is it and who is the character the club and field are named after? John Mitchel? |
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Post by southward on Mar 29, 2016 18:43:40 GMT
Fr Casey's, Abbeyfeale? (about 30 yards inside the Kerry border)
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 29, 2016 20:13:43 GMT
Fr Casey's, Abbeyfeale? (about 30 yards inside the Kerry border) Fr Casey's GAA club in Abbeyfeale is spot on. |
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Post by southward on Mar 29, 2016 21:25:10 GMT
Fr Casey's, Abbeyfeale? (about 30 yards inside the Kerry border) Fr Casey's GAA club in Abbeyfeale is spot on. To answer the rest of the question, this from the website of former Deputy Dan Neville. It's a bit long.. William Casey was born at Castlequarter, Kilbehenny, Co. Limerick, in 1840, to John Casey and Johanna Kiely. William had two sisters, Mary and Norah, and two brothers Owen and Patrick. The Casey’s were substantial farmers and all survived the Great Famine. John Casey’s brother, Fr. Daniel Casey was P.P. in Glanworth, Co. Cork, where he died and was interred in 1867. Owen married Catherine Hurley and took her parents’ farm at Longueville, Ballynoe, Co. Cork. They had six children, including Father John Casey, C.C., Ballymacoda, Co. Cork, and Father Pat Casey, C.C., Mallow, Co. Cork who became Bishop of Ross in 1935, and died and was interred at Skibbereen, Co. Cork in 1940. William, subject of this article, became a priest and was later appointed Parish Priest of Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, dying in 1907 and interred there. Mary married T. Hurley, a farmer of Curraglass, Ballynoe, Co. Cork. They had four sons, including Father Pat Hurley, Macroom, Co. Cork. Patrick, who was to inherit the farm at Castlequarter, died at an early age and the farm went instead to Norah. Norah married Tom O’Donnell, Lyre, Galbally, Co. Limerick. Among the children of three of Tom O’Donnell’s brothers were four priests and four nuns. William Casey was raised in the malevolent shadow of the Great Famine. It was a time when Daniel O’Connell was coming to the end of his Repeal movement, and of his life. The most, and the best, of the land in Ireland was still held by the old planter class. The failure of the stable diet – the potato crop – had devastated the countryside of the Galtee Valley adjacent to Kilbehenny. It was in the Workhouse in nearby Mitchelstown that the starving people from that area were forced to seek succour, but often found dead from disease instead. William Casey’s youth would be full of the heart-rending accounts of death by starvation and disease – all attributable to the iniquitous system of land ownership and the misgovernment as practiced in the hapless Ireland of that time. His family background was nationalistic with loyalty to the faith. His generosity and charity began at home. As a result, his heart would be with the deprived and the downtrodden; the landlord class and their minions would be his avowed foes in his fight for justice for the oppressed. During his ministry in Abbeyfeale, Fr. Casey stood resolutely on the side of the tenant farmer, the poor and the weak, offering strong leadership and fearless advocacy on behalf of the voiceless. Following many years struggle and hardship, his parishioners were restored to their holdings, the landlords were eradicated and the seeds of the prosperity that we enjoy today were sown. William Casey most likely received his formal education in a small local school; the language used being the native Irish tongue to which he was so devoted. In Mount Melleray, Co. Waterford, William commenced his ecclesiastical studies, going on the St. Colman’s College in Fermoy and later completing his studies for the priesthood in Carlow. On 2/7/1868, he was ordained a priest for his home Diocese of Cloyne, though he was not to serve there. Lent to Limerick Diocese where there was a temporary shortage of priests, he served first in Banogue, being sent to Abbeyfeale for a time before returning to Banogue. From there he went to Manister but on 18/11/1872, he was sent again to Abbeyfeale. On the death of the parish priest, Dr. Michael Coughlin, D.D., in 1883, Fr. Casey was appointed Parish Priest of Abbeyfeale: thus he remained for the rest of his life. He was, in his own words, “overpowered” by delight when Bishop Butler told him he was going to Abbeyfeale and “was never sorry” afterwards. It was a fateful and fortunate day for Abbeyfeale that the young Fr. William Casey came to the parish. He made his mark before long, completing the impressive Convent of Mercy by building wall around it. A daring horseback rescue of four young men in danger of drowning in the flooded River Feale near Port Castle gave clear indication of his selfless bravery and determination in the service of his flock. Many times throughout his years in Abbeyfeale, he would display the same courage and tenacity in the face of adversity. Fr. Casey arranged the opening of Temporary Fever Hospitals to cater for victims of a dangerous fever plague in 1883. While ministering to the sick during the fever epidemic, Fr. Casey and Fr. Byrne contracted the debilitating disease, forcing them to their sickbeds in serious ill health. Both eventually recovered, to the relief of the people. Fr. Casey’s exploits on behalf of the tenant farmers in Abbeyfeale during the Land War are widely known. At a time when tenants were no more than rent-slaves for the landlords, a succession of bad harvests left the tenants unable to pay their rent. Disaster threatened; the prospect of eviction and destitution became a reality. In County Mayo, a new organisation, The Irish National Land League, dedicated to the defence of tenants’ rights was formed in late 1879. A returned exile, Michael Davitt, who had as a child suffered eviction and hardship, led the formation of the Land League. The Member of Parliament, Charles Stewart Parnell became its President. Its core aims were to secure for the tenants fair rents, the freedom to sell holdings and benefit from improvements made by the tenant, and to enjoy secure tenancies. These were issues that were vital to the tenants on the Abbeyfeale estates, and Fr. Casey espoused the Land League cause, setting up a branch in the town in September 1879. He ensured that the tenants joined and secured the protection of the League. He held regular Land League mass meetings in the Square, Abbeyfeale, on Sundays. He also made speeches at meetings all over Munster. He ensured that the farms of evicted tenants were not taken over by others willing to pay the exorbitant rent. The threat of boycotting was the deterrent. In this way, the evicted farms lay idle and the landlord received no rent – an untenable position over a long period. Fr. Casey gave the tenants self-belief and encouraged them to stand together to fight for fair rents in line with Griffith’s Valuation, of which the landlords demanded far in excess – rents that tenants could not pay. In some cases, Fr. Casey was able to negotiate agreement on favourable terms to the tenants. In other cases, tenants were evicted and their homes levelled and burned. Fr. Casey was obliged to provide accommodation for the evicted families in Abbeyfeale and the Land League provided frame houses which were erected on non-evicted farms or waste ground. In these “Land League Huts” tenants were housed in the vicinity of their holdings. Some tenants on the O’Grady Estate at Ballaugh, Abbeyfeale, spent nearly twenty years in the huts before being restored to their holdings – chiefly as a result of the efforts of Fr. Casey, the Land League and later the United Irish League. In the heightened tensions that surrounded evictions and passionate League meetings (where many hot-heads advocated strong measures), Fr. Casey maintained order and condemned outrages. More than once he prevented a potential bloody encounter between tenants and the police and military by a cool head, quick thinking, and the enormous respect in which the people held him. He was to the forefront of every effort to better his parishioners and to further the cause of Ireland. His patriotism was practical and reasoned. He gave good example and strong leadership and was much concerned that there should be national unity among parliamentary agitators, especially following the tragic Parnell Split. He became actively involved in the many organisations, the County Limerick Committee of Agriculture and Technical Education, The United Irish League branch in Abbeyfeale, of which he was Chairman, the new Limerick County Council, especially the Roads Sessions which he attended with many proposals for bettering the roads in the parish, Douglas Hyde’s Conradh na Gaeilge, of which he was the Chairman, and its Aeríochtanna and Feiseanna which he arranged, attended and spoke at in Abbeyfeale and all over Munster, ever ready and anxious to advance the cause of the Irish language, culture and history. Fr. Casey was a lifelong teetotaller, refusing to take alcohol even on medical advice. He had a horror of the adverse effects of intemperance on the people and founded a Temperance Society and the Abbeyfeale Brass Band in Abbeyfeale on 8/12/1872, shortly after arriving in the parish. He opened an old school as a Temperance Hall where members of the society could meet for alcohol-free recreation. Funds were raised from Irish exiles to support the society. He carefully monitored the exploits of members of the Temperance Society and their trials and tribulations in “keeping the pledge”. The Hall also served as a band-room for the Brass Band that performed at Land League meetings, football games, political gatherings, marches and Feiseanna. Fr. Casey had founded a football team in the 21 a side days prior to the founding of the G.A.A. in 1884. The team was his pride and joy and with the Brass Band in support, gave many a thrilling display on the football field in Co. Limerick and Co. Kerry, while Fr. Casey policed the sideline. The Abbeyfeale journalist and friend of Fr. Casey, J.D. Hartnett of Abbeyfeale (“J.D.H”), recorded many stories of the exploits of Fr. Casey and the Land League tenants during the Land War, especially the harrowing accounts of evictions and social injustices that resulted from a biased and unreasonable land system. In a lighter vein, he recorded accounts of the activities of the Temperance Society, the football team and the brass band. Mr. Hartnett was the principal and most important chronicler of those times in local publications, mainly the Kerryman and the Limerick Leader. His booklet, A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Wm. Casey, P.P. Of Abbeyfeale, published in 1908 is a prized possession, as is the Rev. D. Riordan’s A Patriot Priest published in 1920. Father Casey died on 29/12/1907, following a tireless campaign on behalf of his parishioners. He was beloved of the people as a priest and a patriot leader. He earned the respect of all, even those with whom he battled for the rights of the tenants. Successful in his efforts to ensure a fair system of land tenure, he had the undying gratitude of those for whom he laboured so tirelessly. In his honour, the people of Abbeyfeale, at home and abroad, erected the striking statue of Fr. Casey that stands in The Square, Abbeyfeale. |
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 29, 2016 21:40:19 GMT
Fr Casey's GAA club in Abbeyfeale is spot on. To answer the rest of the question, this from the website of former Deputy Dan Neville. It's a bit long.. William Casey was born at Castlequarter, Kilbehenny, Co. Limerick, in 1840, to John Casey and Johanna Kiely. William had two sisters, Mary and Norah, and two brothers Owen and Patrick. The Casey’s were substantial farmers and all survived the Great Famine. John Casey’s brother, Fr. Daniel Casey was P.P. in Glanworth, Co. Cork, where he died and was interred in 1867. Owen married Catherine Hurley and took her parents’ farm at Longueville, Ballynoe, Co. Cork. They had six children, including Father John Casey, C.C., Ballymacoda, Co. Cork, and Father Pat Casey, C.C., Mallow, Co. Cork who became Bishop of Ross in 1935, and died and was interred at Skibbereen, Co. Cork in 1940. William, subject of this article, became a priest and was later appointed Parish Priest of Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, dying in 1907 and interred there. Mary married T. Hurley, a farmer of Curraglass, Ballynoe, Co. Cork. They had four sons, including Father Pat Hurley, Macroom, Co. Cork. Patrick, who was to inherit the farm at Castlequarter, died at an early age and the farm went instead to Norah. Norah married Tom O’Donnell, Lyre, Galbally, Co. Limerick. Among the children of three of Tom O’Donnell’s brothers were four priests and four nuns. William Casey was raised in the malevolent shadow of the Great Famine. It was a time when Daniel O’Connell was coming to the end of his Repeal movement, and of his life. The most, and the best, of the land in Ireland was still held by the old planter class. The failure of the stable diet – the potato crop – had devastated the countryside of the Galtee Valley adjacent to Kilbehenny. It was in the Workhouse in nearby Mitchelstown that the starving people from that area were forced to seek succour, but often found dead from disease instead. William Casey’s youth would be full of the heart-rending accounts of death by starvation and disease – all attributable to the iniquitous system of land ownership and the misgovernment as practiced in the hapless Ireland of that time. His family background was nationalistic with loyalty to the faith. His generosity and charity began at home. As a result, his heart would be with the deprived and the downtrodden; the landlord class and their minions would be his avowed foes in his fight for justice for the oppressed. During his ministry in Abbeyfeale, Fr. Casey stood resolutely on the side of the tenant farmer, the poor and the weak, offering strong leadership and fearless advocacy on behalf of the voiceless. Following many years struggle and hardship, his parishioners were restored to their holdings, the landlords were eradicated and the seeds of the prosperity that we enjoy today were sown. William Casey most likely received his formal education in a small local school; the language used being the native Irish tongue to which he was so devoted. In Mount Melleray, Co. Waterford, William commenced his ecclesiastical studies, going on the St. Colman’s College in Fermoy and later completing his studies for the priesthood in Carlow. On 2/7/1868, he was ordained a priest for his home Diocese of Cloyne, though he was not to serve there. Lent to Limerick Diocese where there was a temporary shortage of priests, he served first in Banogue, being sent to Abbeyfeale for a time before returning to Banogue. From there he went to Manister but on 18/11/1872, he was sent again to Abbeyfeale. On the death of the parish priest, Dr. Michael Coughlin, D.D., in 1883, Fr. Casey was appointed Parish Priest of Abbeyfeale: thus he remained for the rest of his life. He was, in his own words, “overpowered” by delight when Bishop Butler told him he was going to Abbeyfeale and “was never sorry” afterwards. It was a fateful and fortunate day for Abbeyfeale that the young Fr. William Casey came to the parish. He made his mark before long, completing the impressive Convent of Mercy by building wall around it. A daring horseback rescue of four young men in danger of drowning in the flooded River Feale near Port Castle gave clear indication of his selfless bravery and determination in the service of his flock. Many times throughout his years in Abbeyfeale, he would display the same courage and tenacity in the face of adversity. Fr. Casey arranged the opening of Temporary Fever Hospitals to cater for victims of a dangerous fever plague in 1883. While ministering to the sick during the fever epidemic, Fr. Casey and Fr. Byrne contracted the debilitating disease, forcing them to their sickbeds in serious ill health. Both eventually recovered, to the relief of the people. Fr. Casey’s exploits on behalf of the tenant farmers in Abbeyfeale during the Land War are widely known. At a time when tenants were no more than rent-slaves for the landlords, a succession of bad harvests left the tenants unable to pay their rent. Disaster threatened; the prospect of eviction and destitution became a reality. In County Mayo, a new organisation, The Irish National Land League, dedicated to the defence of tenants’ rights was formed in late 1879. A returned exile, Michael Davitt, who had as a child suffered eviction and hardship, led the formation of the Land League. The Member of Parliament, Charles Stewart Parnell became its President. Its core aims were to secure for the tenants fair rents, the freedom to sell holdings and benefit from improvements made by the tenant, and to enjoy secure tenancies. These were issues that were vital to the tenants on the Abbeyfeale estates, and Fr. Casey espoused the Land League cause, setting up a branch in the town in September 1879. He ensured that the tenants joined and secured the protection of the League. He held regular Land League mass meetings in the Square, Abbeyfeale, on Sundays. He also made speeches at meetings all over Munster. He ensured that the farms of evicted tenants were not taken over by others willing to pay the exorbitant rent. The threat of boycotting was the deterrent. In this way, the evicted farms lay idle and the landlord received no rent – an untenable position over a long period. Fr. Casey gave the tenants self-belief and encouraged them to stand together to fight for fair rents in line with Griffith’s Valuation, of which the landlords demanded far in excess – rents that tenants could not pay. In some cases, Fr. Casey was able to negotiate agreement on favourable terms to the tenants. In other cases, tenants were evicted and their homes levelled and burned. Fr. Casey was obliged to provide accommodation for the evicted families in Abbeyfeale and the Land League provided frame houses which were erected on non-evicted farms or waste ground. In these “Land League Huts” tenants were housed in the vicinity of their holdings. Some tenants on the O’Grady Estate at Ballaugh, Abbeyfeale, spent nearly twenty years in the huts before being restored to their holdings – chiefly as a result of the efforts of Fr. Casey, the Land League and later the United Irish League. In the heightened tensions that surrounded evictions and passionate League meetings (where many hot-heads advocated strong measures), Fr. Casey maintained order and condemned outrages. More than once he prevented a potential bloody encounter between tenants and the police and military by a cool head, quick thinking, and the enormous respect in which the people held him. He was to the forefront of every effort to better his parishioners and to further the cause of Ireland. His patriotism was practical and reasoned. He gave good example and strong leadership and was much concerned that there should be national unity among parliamentary agitators, especially following the tragic Parnell Split. He became actively involved in the many organisations, the County Limerick Committee of Agriculture and Technical Education, The United Irish League branch in Abbeyfeale, of which he was Chairman, the new Limerick County Council, especially the Roads Sessions which he attended with many proposals for bettering the roads in the parish, Douglas Hyde’s Conradh na Gaeilge, of which he was the Chairman, and its Aeríochtanna and Feiseanna which he arranged, attended and spoke at in Abbeyfeale and all over Munster, ever ready and anxious to advance the cause of the Irish language, culture and history. Fr. Casey was a lifelong teetotaller, refusing to take alcohol even on medical advice. He had a horror of the adverse effects of intemperance on the people and founded a Temperance Society and the Abbeyfeale Brass Band in Abbeyfeale on 8/12/1872, shortly after arriving in the parish. He opened an old school as a Temperance Hall where members of the society could meet for alcohol-free recreation. Funds were raised from Irish exiles to support the society. He carefully monitored the exploits of members of the Temperance Society and their trials and tribulations in “keeping the pledge”. The Hall also served as a band-room for the Brass Band that performed at Land League meetings, football games, political gatherings, marches and Feiseanna. Fr. Casey had founded a football team in the 21 a side days prior to the founding of the G.A.A. in 1884. The team was his pride and joy and with the Brass Band in support, gave many a thrilling display on the football field in Co. Limerick and Co. Kerry, while Fr. Casey policed the sideline. The Abbeyfeale journalist and friend of Fr. Casey, J.D. Hartnett of Abbeyfeale (“J.D.H”), recorded many stories of the exploits of Fr. Casey and the Land League tenants during the Land War, especially the harrowing accounts of evictions and social injustices that resulted from a biased and unreasonable land system. In a lighter vein, he recorded accounts of the activities of the Temperance Society, the football team and the brass band. Mr. Hartnett was the principal and most important chronicler of those times in local publications, mainly the Kerryman and the Limerick Leader. His booklet, A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Wm. Casey, P.P. Of Abbeyfeale, published in 1908 is a prized possession, as is the Rev. D. Riordan’s A Patriot Priest published in 1920. Father Casey died on 29/12/1907, following a tireless campaign on behalf of his parishioners. He was beloved of the people as a priest and a patriot leader. He earned the respect of all, even those with whom he battled for the rights of the tenants. Successful in his efforts to ensure a fair system of land tenure, he had the undying gratitude of those for whom he laboured so tirelessly. In his honour, the people of Abbeyfeale, at home and abroad, erected the striking statue of Fr. Casey that stands in The Square, Abbeyfeale. In 1891, the men (and I presume women) who marched from Knocknagoshel to support Charles Stewart Parnell at a meeting in Newcastlewest, had to pass through Abbeyfeale - Fr. Casey's home patch. Fr. Casey was opposed to Parnell (I presume, owing to his ‘relationship’ with Kitty O’ Shea), and 'a priest' stopped them on their way to admonish them. Undeterred, the Knocknagoshel Brigade marched on to Newcastlewest and showed their determination for free speech by declaring on a banner the immortal words ‘Arise Knocknagoshel and take your place among the nations of the Earth’. The following day Parnell addressed one of his last meetings ever in the town of Listowel and a couple of weeks later he was dead Wasn't there a share of clubs in Kerry, in the 'old days' with Parnell onto their name?
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Post by lár na páirce on Mar 29, 2016 22:19:40 GMT
Dingle GAA played under two very unique names : At first they were affiliated as the "Dingle Wreckers" and then changed their name to "The Dingle Gascons". The Gascons name is believed to have originated from French fishermen who would have been fishing out of Dingle in regular intervals.The French fishermen were admired by the locals for there work ethic and this is where the name possibly came from.
The Dingle club was originally Dingle & the Gaeltacht before the "West" broke away and formed their own team in the 1930's.
Dingle's GAA grounds are named Pairc an Aghasaigh in honour of Thomas Ashe.
Thomas Ashe was born in Lispole. He trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, County Dublin where he founded the Lusk Black Raven Pipe Band as well as Round Towers GAA club.
Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.
When the Rising broke out in Dublin at Easter 1916, Ashe was in command of a detachment of Volunteers who moved along in stages to Ashbourne, County Meath. Although largely outnumbered, they managed to defeat armed Royal Irish Constabulary troops and capture four police barracks and large quantities of arms and ammunition. When the Rising ended, Ashe and his men surrendered on the orders of Padraig Pearse.
On the 8th May 1916, Ashe and Eamon de Valera were court-martialed and sentenced to death. Both sentences were commuted to life, and Ashe was sent to a variety of English prisons.
Thomas Ashe was released from jail in June 1917 under the general amnesty which was given to republican prisoners. One his release he returned to Ireland and began a series of speaking engagements. In August 1917, after a speech in Ballinalee, Longford, where Michael Collins had also been speaking, he was arrested and charged with “speeches calculated to cause disaffection”. He was sentenced to one year’s hard labour in Mountjoy Jail.
Ashe, along with Austin Stack, who was also in Mountjoy demanded to be treated as prisoners-of-war. Having been deprived of a bed, bedding and boots Ashe went on hunger strike on 20th September 1917. On 25th September 1917 he died from pneumonia, which was caused by force-feeding by the prison authorities. He was 32 years old.
Ashe’s death marked a significant increase in support for the Republican movement. His body lay in state at Dublin City Hall and his funeral was followed by 30,000 people, led by armed Volunteers in uniform as it made its way to Glasnevin Cemetery. It was the first public funeral after the Easter Rising of 1916. Michael Collins gave the graveside oration.
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 30, 2016 0:13:34 GMT
Dingle GAA played under two very unique names : At first they were affiliated as the "Dingle Wreckers" and then changed their name to "The Dingle Gascons". The Gascons name is believed to have originated from French fishermen who would have been fishing out of Dingle in regular intervals.The French fishermen were admired by the locals for there work ethic and this is where the name possibly came from. The Dingle club was originally Dingle & the Gaeltacht before the "West" broke away and formed their own team in the 1930's. Dingle's GAA grounds are named Pairc an Aghasaigh in honour of Thomas Ashe. Thomas Ashe was born in Lispole. He trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, County Dublin where he founded the Lusk Black Raven Pipe Band as well as Round Towers GAA club. Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. When the Rising broke out in Dublin at Easter 1916, Ashe was in command of a detachment of Volunteers who moved along in stages to Ashbourne, County Meath. Although largely outnumbered, they managed to defeat armed Royal Irish Constabulary troops and capture four police barracks and large quantities of arms and ammunition. When the Rising ended, Ashe and his men surrendered on the orders of Padraig Pearse. On the 8th May 1916, Ashe and Eamon de Valera were court-martialed and sentenced to death. Both sentences were commuted to life, and Ashe was sent to a variety of English prisons. Thomas Ashe was released from jail in June 1917 under the general amnesty which was given to republican prisoners. One his release he returned to Ireland and began a series of speaking engagements. In August 1917, after a speech in Ballinalee, Longford, where Michael Collins had also been speaking, he was arrested and charged with “speeches calculated to cause disaffection”. He was sentenced to one year’s hard labour in Mountjoy Jail. Ashe, along with Austin Stack, who was also in Mountjoy demanded to be treated as prisoners-of-war. Having been deprived of a bed, bedding and boots Ashe went on hunger strike on 20th September 1917. On 25th September 1917 he died from pneumonia, which was caused by force-feeding by the prison authorities. He was 32 years old. Ashe’s death marked a significant increase in support for the Republican movement. His body lay in state at Dublin City Hall and his funeral was followed by 30,000 people, led by armed Volunteers in uniform as it made its way to Glasnevin Cemetery. It was the first public funeral after the Easter Rising of 1916. Michael Collins gave the graveside oration. Very interesting and succinct account of Thomas Ashe. Thank you. He was a true patriot, but he received an awful end at a very young age. May he rest in peace The 'Dingle Wreckers' must have been a ferocious team and the other name you give, 'Dingle Gascons' has a very international ring to it |
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Post by lár na páirce on Mar 30, 2016 11:49:07 GMT
Another interesting fact that was given to me this morning by a Dingle man was the club played under the name "Dingle St.Brendan's" for a short period.
Now Dingle back then was a amalgamation of a number of clubs in the town and these clubs competed separately and then joined for county championship.
One by one these small teams throughout the town started to amalgamate and were finally left with two teams in the town "Sraid Eoin" and "Na Piarsaigh"
Finally in the 1960's the two teams sat down and decided to join and play under the name "Daingean Ui Chuis".
Another interesting piece of information is the Dingle club colours are Red and White as they were always the colours of the previous amalgamation teams,Dingle's change strip is Green and Blue which were the prominent colours of "Sraid Eoin" and "Na Piarsaigh"
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Post by Sons of Pitches on Mar 30, 2016 12:45:43 GMT
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 30, 2016 16:43:37 GMT
The Kingdom of Kerry - John B Keane said that there were two Kingdoms - the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Kerry. Thomas Davis, in his edited account of the speeches of John Philpot Curran, wrote that Curran coined the phrase 'The Kingdom', in a speech on 23rd Jan 1787, in the Irish House of Commons. When describing disturbances in Kerry, it is reputed he said 'the low and contemptible state of your magistracy is the cause of much evil, particularly in the Kingdom of Kerry - I say Kingdom, for it seems absolutely no part of the same country'.
Curran (1750-1817) was born in Newmarket, Co. Cork. He was an orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge. He was a complex man. On the one hand he did all in his power to oppose the union with Britain, while on the other hand he said that Ireland ruled by the United Irishmen would be worse than British rule. He defended Wolfe Tone in his trail for treason. His youngest daughter was Sarah Curran who was Robert Emmets beau. When he found out about it, he disowned her.
Many dispute that it was Curran who coined the phrase The Kingdom of Kerry and rightly so. As far back as 65AD, it was being referred to as Ciarraige or Ciarraidhe - the Kingdom of Ciar. Ciar was the direct ancestor of the O Connor Kerry clan or Ciars.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 30, 2016 16:59:56 GMT
Interesting piece willye, thanks for posting it.
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Post by ballybunion on Mar 30, 2016 17:15:41 GMT
Again on the Fr Caseys GAA grounds Abbeyfeale.When Kerry/Ballyduff won the first and our only senior hurling All Ireland the semi final was played on the Abbeyfeale GAA grounds which of course is in the parish of Duagh.It was the Munster final/All Ireland semi v Limerick.Ulster or Connacht did not take part.So Kerry Ballyduff won the semi final within the home county.That All Ireland semi venue was not quite the same venue as todays Fr Caseys GAA venue Abbeyfeale.That semi final was deeper(1 mile) into Duagh/Kerry.Todays Fr Caseys GAA ground is only yards into Duagh/Kerry.
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Post by southward on Mar 30, 2016 18:05:58 GMT
Again on the Fr Caseys GAA grounds Abbeyfeale.When Kerry/Ballyduff won the first and our only senior hurling All Ireland the semi final was played on the Abbeyfeale GAA grounds which of course is in the parish of Duagh.It was the Munster final/All Ireland semi v Limerick.Ulster or Connacht did not take part. So Kerry Ballyduff won the semi final within the home county.That All Ireland semi venue was not quite the same venue as todays Fr Caseys GAA venue Abbeyfeale.That semi final was deeper(1 mile) into Duagh/Kerry.Todays Fr Caseys GAA ground is only yards into Duagh/Kerry. Just as well they weren't playing Mayo. |
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Post by southward on Mar 30, 2016 18:09:11 GMT
The Kingdom of Kerry - John B Keane said that there were two Kingdoms - the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Kerry. Thomas Davis, in his edited account of the speeches of John Philpot Curran, wrote that Curran coined the phrase 'The Kingdom', in a speech on 23rd Jan 1787, in the Irish House of Commons. When describing disturbances in Kerry, it is reputed he said 'the low and contemptible state of your magistracy is the cause of much evil, particularly in the Kingdom of Kerry - I say Kingdom, for it seems absolutely no part of the same country'.
Curran (1750-1817) was born in Newmarket, Co. Cork. He was an orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge. He was a complex man. On the one hand he did all in his power to oppose the union with Britain, while on the other hand he said that Ireland ruled by the United Irishmen would be worse than British rule. He defended Wolfe Tone in his trail for treason. His youngest daughter was Sarah Curran who was Robert Emmets beau. When he found out about it, he disowned her. Many dispute that it was Curran who coined the phrase The Kingdom of Kerry and rightly so. As far back as 65AD, it was being referred to as Ciarraige or Ciarraidhe - the Kingdom of Ciar. Ciar was the direct ancestor of the O Connor Kerry clan or Ciars. He wasn't an ancestor of Billy Morgan, by any chance? |
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Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 30, 2016 18:46:35 GMT
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Mar 30, 2016 19:52:17 GMT
Interesting piece willye, thanks for posting it. You're most welcome |
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Post by clancy on Apr 20, 2016 10:50:41 GMT
Interesting piece on the o rahillys last night on rte. called a poets rising. 6 poets paint a picture of the rising. It brought him to life for me and this particular bit was as Gailege (and subtitled) Only watched a bit and recorded the rest. This auld forum is much more than sport given the time.
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Apr 20, 2016 12:33:48 GMT
Interesting piece on the o rahillys last night on rte. called a poets rising. 6 poets paint a picture of the rising. It brought him to life for me and this particular bit was as Gailege (and subtitled) Only watched a bit and recorded the rest. This auld forum is much more than sport given the time. Big day tomorrow, Thursday, in the Kingdom with events in Ballykissane, near Killorglin (8am) to honour those who died for the cause there (Con Keating was one) and at Banna Strand (12 noon) to honour Roger Casement. President Michael D Higgins is coming to Banna. Large crowds are expected at Banna and I'm nearly sure that Ballykissane is ticket only (season ticket holders need not apply). Slightly off topic but worth mentioning seeing that it's the centenary of 1916 - a hundred years ago, Kerry had won 5 senior All-Irelands (1903, 04, 09, 13 & 14). Dublin had won 11, Wexford & Tipp each had 3, while Limerick, Louth, Cork all had won 2. Kildare had won 1. Kerry by 1916 had been beaten finalists on 3 occasions and gave Louth a w/o in 1910. Cork were beaten finalists on 7 occasions up to 1916 and London were beaten finalists on 5 occasions up to 1916. |
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Post by frankgalvintralee on Apr 20, 2016 14:05:29 GMT
Renard GAA were once known as "Con Keatings GAA" and obviously St.Mary's ground is called after Keating too. Con Keating and two other volunteers are known as the first casualties of the 1916 rising when on route to Tralee to help guide Sir Roger Casement ashore they crashed their car into the Laune River and drowned. Subsequently S  Just came across this the other day. This a game that took place a few weeks back on the Easter weekend i think it was Easter Monday when St.Mary's took on Renard (who were formerly known as Con Keatings) in Con Keating Park in Caherciveen to commemorate Con Keating who died in Ballykissane pier. The photo in question is Maurice Fitzgerald receiving his medal from the match from Donal Keating Con Keating's nephew. Fair play to both clubs for taking part in a historic match. |
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Apr 20, 2016 15:44:57 GMT
Renard GAA were once known as "Con Keatings GAA" and obviously St.Mary's ground is called after Keating too. Con Keating and two other volunteers are known as the first casualties of the 1916 rising when on route to Tralee to help guide Sir Roger Casement ashore they crashed their car into the Laune River and drowned. Subsequently S Just came across this the other day. This a game that took place a few weeks back on the Easter weekend i think it was Easter Monday when St.Mary's took on Renard (who were formerly known as Con Keatings) in Con Keating Park in Caherciveen to commemorate Con Keating who died in Ballykissane pier. The photo in question is Maurice Fitzgerald receiving his medal from the match from Donal Keating Con Keating's nephew. Fair play to botph clubs for taking part in a historic match. Lovely photo 'Tis nice to remember and to be remembered |
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