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Ireland's Genealogical Gazette (April 2011) ISSN 1649-7937 Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette (incorporating “The Genie Gazette”) Vol. 6 No. 4 www.familyhistory.ie April : Aibreán 2011 DEENIHAN AT THE HELM The Society warmly welcomes the opportunities for the development Bill, 2008 which sought to place appointment of Mr. Jimmy Deeni- of a national archives and geneal- Irish heraldic services on a proper han, TD as Minister for Arts, ogy quarter, providing easy access statutory footing and to regularise Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs. to archives and tapping into an area the pre-2005 grants of Arms. The Mr. Deenihan has long been ac- of cultural tourism which is of huge Society was the only genealogical quainted with this Society’s legis- interest to the vast Irish Diaspora.' organisation advocating the reduc- lative campaigns and indeed, The Society was to the forefront in tion of the 100 year closure during along with Labour Party Deputy the campaign to have the ‘office’ of the 1993 debate on the Statistics GENEALOGY Jack Wall, he agreed in 2005 to the Chief Herald of Ireland and Act and after years of campaigning co-sponsor the Society’s Geneal- indeed, the State’s delivery of he- for the release of the 1926 census, ogy & Heraldry Bill . However, raldic services, placed on a secure the Society included a provision for HERALDRY following a careful consideration legislative footing. It was back in its release in the Genealogy & of the Dáil schedule for 2006, it 2000 that the Society advocated Heraldry Bill, 2006 . The Society VEXILLOLOGY was agreed that it would be more new heraldic legislation and pub- followed up its legislative cam- likely to get a reading in Seanad lished the ‘heads of a bill’ in 2002 paign with its Statistics (Heritage SOCIAL HISTORY Éireann. Minister Deenihan’s which culminated in the publication Amendment) Bill, 2010 which was experience and knowledge of his of the Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, published by Fianna Fáil Senator Heritage Matters new portfolio is impressive to say 2006 which was sponsored by Labhrás Ó Murchú. This solid the least. He has been Fine Gael Labour Party Senator Brendan record of constructive campaigning Book Reviews spokesperson on these issues for a Ryan of Cork. This Bill was not on these legislative matters and number of years and has taken a accepted by the Fianna Fáil led others has been vindicated by the Open Meetings keen interest in the national cul- government and although it had a inclusion of the Society’s objec- tural institutions and their develop- two hour Second Stage debate in tives in the Programme for Govern- News & Queries ment. The new Programme for Seanad Éireann, it was withdrawn ment . Recent statements by the Government published by Fine by the sponsor at the request of the Minister on the possible introduc- Gael and the Labour Party is a Minister who promised to examine tion of legislation later this year to wide ranging and ambitious docu- the matters raised by the Bill. The release of 1926 census are very ment, indeed, the Society is de- State’s heraldic services were sub- encouraging. The Society’s wishes lighted to see that it includes areas, sequently suspended in 2007 for Minister Jimmy Deenihan every upon which, it has campaigned for approximately eight months. They success in his role at the helm of www.eneclann.ie years. The programme states - 'We only resumed following the admis- Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht Affairs. will promote genealogical tourism sion by the Minister that the State by updating the National Cultural had no legislative authority to grant ONE-NAME STUDIES Institutions Act in relation to the arms between 1943 and 2005 when Genealogical office to put it on a the National Cultural Institutions The Society will be represented at the CONTENTS Guild of One Name Studies AGM in proper statutory footing, modern- Act, 1997 was implemented. The Warrington, England from April 15th to The Donegal Plantation 2 ise its operations and to enable Society was instrumental in the 17th 2011 and it will have a stand at the publication of the 1926 census to publication by Labour Party Sena- and the Tír Chonaill Irish Over 50s Show at the RDS, Dublin, stimulate genealogy tourism. We tor Alex White of the National from Oct. 21st to 23rd 2011, at which, it will also explore philanthropic Cultural Institutions (Amendment) will promote the Society and the Guild. Aprils of Yesteryear 2 GSI Archive News State Visits a boost for Ancestry Tourism James Scannell Reports... 3 Précis of March Lecture This month HSH Albert II of as a result of the visit. Meanwhile the estate of his cousin, Garret Monaco visited his mother’s preparations are also underway for Weisely (Wisely Wesly, later 2011 Membership 3 ancestral home at Drimurla, New- the most significant State Visit to Wellesley) of Dangan, Co. Meath, Package port, Co. Mayo, where his great Ireland since independence in 1922. when he died without issue in grandfather, John Peter Kelly, was HM Queen Elizabeth II is to visit 1728. Garret was the queen’s first Diary Dates 4 born and reared before emigrating Ireland on May 17th 2011. There are cousin seven times removed. Rich- Board of Directors to America in 1887. Next month a number of very important and ard Colley assumed Garret’s sur- President Barack Obama will visit highly symbolic engagements in the name by Royal Licence in 1728. Shinrone in Co. Offaly and Mon- itinerary. Surprisingly, unlike the So when the royal party visit the The Bombing of Dolphin’s 4 eygall on the Co. Offaly border other two State Visits, there has been National Stud in Co. Kildare, why Barn, Dublin, 1941 with Co. Tipperary, both places no mention of her visiting the county not give Her Majesty a chance to associated with his 2nd great of her ancestors. The queen’s 5th do some ‘ancestry tourism’ and Genealogia Polska 4 grandfather, Falmouth Kearney. great grandfather on her mother’s view the ruins of Castle Carbery - Polish Genealogy Both of these villages are expect- side was Richard Colley of Castle a 16th century tower-house and the ing a sizeable increase in tourism Carbery, Co. Kildare, who inherited former seat of her Irish ancestors? Monthly Newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Ireland ISSN 1649-7937 PAGE 2 IRELAND’S GENEALOGICAL GAZETTE (INCORPORATING “THE GENIE GAZETTE”) VOL. 6 NO. 4 The Donegal Plantation and the Tír Chonaill Irish, 1610-1710 Another essential read for anyone with Donegal ances- Irish of county were cowed and leaderless. Following productive east and south of the county. As a resource try is the Maynooth Studies in Local History: No. 93— the crushing of Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s rebellion in for the study of the major Donegal Gaelic and planter ’The Donegal Plantation and the Tír Chonaill Irish, 1608 any hope that Donegal might be reserved for the families this study is exceptionally useful for the 1610-1710’ by Darren McGettigan and published by ’native nobility’ was gone and by 1610 the plantation genealogist and of particular interest, is the extensive Four Courts Press (ISBN: 978-1-84682-264-3 : 72pp : of lowland Scots, particularly from Ayrshire, began in notes and footnotes included. However, more com- p/bk : Price: €9.95—Web Price: €8.95). The excel- earnest. The study details the plantation scheme and prehensive genealogical tables for each of the Gaelic lently researched book charts the disasters that befell how parts of the scheme were unravelled and eventu- chiefly families and the provision of a historical the people of Co. Donegal following the end of the ally abandoned following the 1641 rebellion. The timeline would have greatly assisted the reader. That Nine Years War and the Flight of the Earls. This short rebellion of 1641 was, as McGettigan explains, pure said, the provision of a genealogical table for the study of the period opens with a description of Done- folly for the Gaelic chiefly families of Donegal. They O’Donnells from the early sixteenth to the early gal in 1610 at the beginning of the Ulster Plantation. were defeated again and again by the settlers and the eighteenth centuries is a useful guide to the various The area was ‘shired’ under Queen Elizabeth I in 1585, attempt by the Irish in Tyrone to assist them also branches of the family. The excellent references however, the current boundaries of the county were not failed. The area of Donegal most affected by the wars supplied in the notes open up this area to a number of fixed until the early seventeenth century. In 1610 we of the 1640s and early 1650s was the barony of Kil- studies on the families of both planter and Gael and, see a county which was largely still in the hands of the macrennan which stretched from the River Swilly to of course, to local history and other studies. For Gaelic chiefly families, some of which, were the junior the Atlantic coast. This was the only area where the Donegal ancestry this book is simply a gem. Check- branches of the great Gaelic lordships that left Ireland planters and the Gaelic population lived side by side. out the other titles in this series on the Four Courts with O’Neill and O’Donnell in 1607. Attempts by The loss of the experienced leaders in the run up to the Press website. Darren McGettigan is also the author O’Donnell to restore the finances of his earldom with rebellion meant ‘some of their successors had not of ‘Red Hugh O’Donnell and the Nine Years War’ more modern commercial and tenanting arrangements known warfare in Ireland and were to prove to be open published by Four Courts Press in 2005.
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