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Resonating Rings by Jerry Ring The wedding of Jack Ring and Elizabeth Carey (centre) took place in St Peter’s Drogheda on 8th September 1926.The photograph was taken later that day in Dublin after their Wedding Breakfast.To Elizabeth’s right is her brother-in-law Jerry Ring sporting his Club Championship medal on his watch chain. On Jack Ring’s left is his 16-year-old sister Mary. She was to be a witness in 1919 of the Black and Tan’s raid on the Ring home in Gorteeny when Jerry was arrested following the Knocklong Incident. Every Garda knows, in the course of duty, that the establishment of identity is difficult to achieve without credible testimony. In the search for family identity, the journey takes many twists and turns in the knowledge that it is often too late to question some of the key witnesses. This is the story of the family of John Denis Ring, Garda No. 4381. SPECIAL FEATURE Resonating Rings By Jerry Ring Tadgh Ring, the Fenian in a walking race from Cahirciveen to from Kiskeam, Co. Cork Killarney. From the relatively small number of A committed Fenian, Tadgh resigned Ring families in Ireland, there from the Kenmare ‘Phoenixmen’ in emerged in 1824, Timothy (Tadgh) distrust of ‘An Baille Gallda O’Sullivan’ Ring, the Cork Fenian. Tadgh was an who later betrayed O’Donovan Rossa athletic man who was a teacher, a and local members. In March 1867, quantity surveyor, a keen huntsman, on the morning of the Fenian Rising, bowls player and an outstanding he closed the school in Cullen and set walker. He was born in Kiskeam, on out to join the ‘true-hearted peasants the Ring farm at the Bridge of of Cahirciveen’ in their march to Doon above Cullen, Co. Cork. His Killarney. descendants were to have both Crown John Denis & Ogheda, 1924 and RIC connections intermixed with The RIC Connections Nationalist and Garda links. In an ironic twist of loyalties, Denis Ring, Tadgh’s eldest son, embarked on Tadgh, was for a time the schoolmaster an RIC career and ended his police in Cullen School, which opened in service in 1907 as Head Constable for 1847 and stood at the crossroads at Galway West Riding (‘Riding’ is a Lislehane near Millstreet, Co. Cork. corruption of the Old Norse Thriding He was not a particularly good teacher or one third of a county). When Denis but made up for it by using the leather had run away from home at 19 years freely - “níl tada mar leathar”. In of age and joined the Royal Irish 1854, he met and proposed to Constabulary this was anathema to Catherine O’Sullivan from Kenmare. his Fenian father. The two were never He was, as the Gaelic phrase puts it, again to meet or to speak in their “claoin isteach” – she was left the farm lifetimes. Letters home to his mother and he married into it. She would not Catherine, were left lying about by her move to Cork and he commuted the and later she knew Tadgh had read 40 miles every week to Lislehane, them because he couldn’t resist without the benefit of a LUAS or a correcting his son’s spelling! DART. He walked each way until he found a teaching job in Kenmare. His In terms of today’s policing developments energy was to earn him the unofficial in the North the phrase ‘history repeats title of the ‘Champion of Ireland’ itself’ is particularly apt. When when he beat the English Champion Thomas Drummond, Under-Secretary Jack Ring, Gorteeny, 1924 SPECIAL FEATURE for Ireland, consolidated the laws relating Valentia Island, to the Constabulary Force in 1836, his just before purpose was to make the police service Easter 1916 more acceptable to Catholics to join. Tadgh Ring’s second However, to Tadgh Ring, his son was son, Jeremiah, obtained joining the Irish Constabulary that a job as a Morse clerk had suppressed the Fenian Rising. In with the Commercial doing so the RIC acquired its ‘Royal’ Union cable station on designation from Queen Victoria in Valentia Island in 1875 1867 in recognition of service to the and worked his way up Crown. the system. Cable staff had excellent houses Jerry and Jack Ring - with running water Hurlers and RIC men and electricity when Although Denis Ring and his father such luxuries were rare never spoke again, they still had one in rural Ireland. thing in common. Denis also married into a farm. His wife Ann Connolly was Jeremiah’s sons, Tim from Gorteeny, Woodford, Co. Galway. and Eugene, were She also had a small drinking parlour Sinn Fein activists and where on football Sundays she would conspired to send news serve drink for the matchgoers. of the 1916 Rising to America under the Sport was an important part of the noses of the British family and two of her sons, Jerry Military Censors. For and his younger brother Jack, played this they needed the for Woodford Hurling Club when assistance of someone Denis and Ann Ring in 1913 they acquired Galway Senior outside the cable station. Their first personal message.This was brought to Hurling Club Championship medals. cousin Rosalie Rice (Ring) who was the attention of one of the supervisors also in Sinn Fein was to play an and the Ring brothers then knew the Jerry Ring then followed in his father important role. Military censors were checking all the Denis’s footsteps and joined the RIC telegraphists. Tim telegraphed the in March 1915. It was an interesting The Kenmare coded message arranged with his time to become a policeman because Rings and Rices in Valentia Co. Kerry, his first cousins Tadgh Ring’s wife Catherine outlived were about to become a part of him and on her death in 1911 their modern Irish history. Jerry himself daughter Eleanor inherited the family would also find his place in the history home at Kilmurray, Kenmare. This books in what was to become known was not uncommon for those times as as the ‘Knocklong Incident’. her three sisters had emigrated to Australia and America and her brothers Denis and Jeremiah had settled in Galway and Valentia. Eleanor had all her father’s Fenian blood and was a strong Sinn Fein supporter. She married George Rice in 1892 and their eldest son was John Joe Rice. John Joe was an early Volunteer, later Commandant of the Kerry No.2 Brigade and a Sinn Fein abstentionist TD for many years. Their daughter Rosalie Rice was also in Sinn Fein was to send the ‘Rising’ telegram from Jack Ring (left) his sister Mary Ring and Kenmare Post Office. brother Jerry in Gorteeny in 1969, fifty years after the Black and Tan raid on their The Rising Telegram house. Mary married Jim King from Eugene Ring had tested the security of Straide in Co Mayo. Jim was a Garda the system. He had telegraphed an Sergeant in Athenry until his retirement operator in Newfoundland with a Jeremiah Eugene Ring in the late sixties. SPECIAL FEATURE cousin Rosalie who worked in the Post Back in Gorteeny, Jack Ring joined the On the morning of 21st January, two RIC Office in Kenmare – “Mother was RIC on 15th November 1916. Although constables, McDonnell and O’Connell operated on successfully this morning”. he was the son of a Head Constable were shot dead escorting a consignment This was the confirmation for Sinn Fein and recommended by District Inspector of gelignite for the quarry at Soloheadbeg. in America that the Rising had started. Gilhooly he was dismissed two days later. When his family connection to Four of the IRA men involved in the It was headline news in New York before the Valentia Rings emerged it was killings, Sean Hogan, Dan Breen, Sean London and it later proved impossible enough to prevent his continuance as a Treacy and Seamus Robinson went on for the British to cover up the executions police officer. Surprisingly, his brother the run until May when they attended of the leaders of the Easter Rising. Not Jerry was not dismissed as he had by a dance in Ballagh.When the men split yet in the First World War, America that stage proved his loyalty to the up Hogan stayed with the Meaghers of focused its attentions on Ireland and Crown. However, it would transpire Annfield near Thurles. His timing was this was a factor in preventing the that the authorities had not done their unlucky and Jerry Ring was one of the execution of Eamonn De Valera. homework fully. arresting party. Although a revolver was found on him, Hogan’s identity Tim was interned in Frongoch, Eugene The Knocklong Incident was not established until later that was dismissed and Rosalie was arrested Jerry Ring, Royal Irish Constable from morning at Roskeen barracks and then and kept ‘at His Majesty’s pleasure’ in Gorteeny who was initially posted to he was taken to Thurles. Tralee Jail. Kilkenny had an uneventful service until January 1919 and the actions of Sean Treacy knew that under the In Frongoch, surprisingly for such an Sean Treacy and the South Tipperary Defence of the Realm Act - DORA, uncommon name, Tim was not the Brigade. Hogan would be taken to Cork for only Ring in the camp.There were five ‘interrogation’. He immediately put a Ring brothers from Ballybough who Towards the end of 1918, Treacy was plan in place to ‘spring’ him from the had been in the GPO and whose concerned at the ebb in the ranks of train. The rescue was to take place at grandfather Patrick Ring was in the the Volunteers and the Provisional Knocklong Station.
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