Selections from The Book of Sullivan v. sullivan2 1/4/10 copyright 2010 by Richard L. Meehan meehan at stanford.edu. This and later drafts can be viewed at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/ This draft is designed to be browsed or downloaded easily on SCRIBD. For easiest reading in SCRIBD, view in “book” view option (not “scroll”) and set to “full screen”. However if you want to browse this material online with fully functioning links, you’d do better to go to the html version at http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/sullivan/sull.html 1 Introduction I recently revived this project which I had started twenty years ago. At that time I had decided to profile the entire Sullivan clan from the beginning of time to the 1980s. This led to extended pilgrimages to collect Sullivan stories in places like Castletown Beare and Butte Montana, both famous for Sullivans. In effect I was setting out to recreat the Book of Sullivan, the original of which was last seen in the early nineteenth century. These clan books were menat to preserve the glorius history of the Celtic clan. My research was a lot of fun, sometimes I would have long late- night phone conversations with Sullivans whom I didn’t know or meet them in strange places. Later, I put the project on the internet and thereafter hundreds of Sullivans assisted in the project, recreating chronology (years AD or BC) set forth in this book. Later I got busy with other things but then recently I met an eccentric Sullivan gent sporting a huge gold necklace here in the Robin Hood pub in Bangkok. This spurred me to revive the project. The following is just the first installment of stuff from maybe 20 percent of my files. Eventually I’ll get the whole thing together as a book -- but it’s all free for the time being. The book begins with a detailed chronology and then is followed by some detailed notes from both early and more recent times, starting on page 15. Some of the hyperlinks work, some don’t. Be patient, I’ll get it all sorted out one of these days. Or check out the html version (see page 1). 2 I hope you will enjoy reading about your cousins (if you are a Sullvan). If you’d like to contribute our own story and give me a link to your stuff, get in touch. Dick Meehan meehan at Stanford.edu 3 The Master Chronology..................................................... 5 Sullivan the Celt: Prehistoric to 200 ad.............................. 23 Sullivan Arrives from Spain (200-1100 AD)........................ 38 Elizabethan Conquest of Sullivan Lands (1570-1600)........... 40 Exile and Wandering (1600-1838)..................................... 41 4 If you want to browse this material online with fully functioning links, you’d do better to go to the html version at http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/sullivan/sull.html The Master Chronology ! Sullivan the Celt:(BC) Sullivan roots are found in the Celtic lands of central Europe. -50000: First humans anatomically similar to today (sullchron) -1300 End of Ice Age -7000: First settlers in Ireland (sullchron) -4000: Irish elm decline (sullchron) -3212: French coastal megaliths (sullchron) -3199: Irish oaks show sharp ! chill -3190: Heckla eruption, Iceland (sullchron) -3150: Iceman of the Alps -3113: Mayan Creation date (sullchron) -3075: Newgrange Megalithic Tomb -3100: Stonehenge foundations dug () -3000: Carnac Megaliths (sullchron) -3000: Cessair arrives in Ireland 5 -2700: Gilgamesh, King of Uruk (sullchron) -2500: Partholon Arrives in Ireland (mythological) -2400: Climatic disturbance; meteor impact? (SIS) -2100: Celtic Nose Length -2000: First Nemed invasion (mythological) -1680: Santorini eruption () -1500: Fir Bolg (possibly the Belgae of NW Gaul, per Julius Caesar) (mythological) -1400: Goidels at Exodus-1263: Heber and Heremon (Keating) -1000: Tuatha de Danann (mythological) -500: Galicia -390: Pull beards -335: Asks Celtic Chief's Fears -335: Alexander, Celtics Parley at Danube -300: Sons of Mil (from Spain, possibly Helvetians or Celt-Iberians) -259: Egyptian revolt -189: No sex for her -100: Calls Gauls Bombastic -50: Early Munster Settlers 200: Ascendancy of Eoganacht ancestors of Sullivans 200: AD 47th Oliol Ollum, son of Princess Beara, father of Eoghan, founder of Sullivan line ! Sullivan Arrives from Spain (200-1100 AD) Ancient stories suggest that Sullivan arrived in Ireland from Iberia in the early first millenium. Archaeological study of Iberian culture suggests that this may be a fact. ! 6 375: Niall of the nine hostages (Keating) 450: Saint Patrick arrives in Ireland (Keating) 575: Finghin founds O'Sullivan line, younger brother founds McCarthy line (Keating) 600: Fingan, son of Aodh Dubh, King of Munster (Williams) 750: Convert Heathens 950: Suildhubhain the blackeyed p114, generation 101 from adam (sull/burk) 1027: Brian Boru (Keating) 1050: Saint Bridget (sullchron) 1100: Gerald of Wales ! Sullivan in the Age of Mac Beth An eye for an eye. 1123: O'Suilleabhain [and others] deposed; Tadhg son of Muireadach MacCarthaigh, and Cormac son of MacCarthaigh, his own brother, took the kingship from them in (McCarthy,) 1176: MacRaith O Suilleabhain defends Mac Carthaigh King of Munster 1193: Normans force Sullivans form Knockgraffan to Cork and Kerry (Williams) 1200: Rift between Sullivan, McCarthy (O'Murchadha) 1209: Sullivan kills McCarthy with axe over division of spoils (O'Murchadha) 1209: A hosting by Finghin [MacCartaaigh]. 1214: Sullivan boys killed by McCarthy (O'Murchadha) 1214: Diarmaid [MacCarthaigh] treacherously killed the whole family of 7 Domhnail Mor O Suilleabhain .. on the advice of many (McCarhty) 1253: Alinn O'Sullivan, Bishop of Lismore, dies (Four Masters) 1280: Sullivan unites with McCarthy against Normans (O'Murchadha) 1317: Sullivans rebel against \mcCarthy, except Flanns; break up into (O'Murchadha) 1320: The monastery of Bantry, in O'Sullivan's country, in the bishopric of Ross was founded by O'Sullivan from Franciscan Friars. In this monastery (Four Masters) 1350: Sullivans displace Driscolls (O'Murchadha) 1398: MacCarthy gave a great overthrow to the family of the O'Sullivans, killed O'Sullivan the Bold, and the two sons of O'Sullivan, the Great (Four Masters) 1404: A war broke out between MacCarthy and O'Sullivan Boy. (Four Masters) 1404: War between McCarthy and Sullivan, Sullivan drowned (O'Murchadha) 1411: O'Sullivan More was treacherously taken prisoner, and blinded, and his son killed, by Donnell Duv. O'Sullivan. (Four Masters) 1451: Dermot, the son of Teige, son of Cormac MacCarthy, was (Four Masters) 1460: Franciscan friary at Bantry founded by first titled Sullivan Bear (O'Murchadha) 1485: O'Sullivan Bear, i.e., Donnell, died (fn Beare, an ancient territory, now a barony in the southwest of Cork. This, as well as the adjoining barony (Four Masters) 1550: 1550: O'Sullivan (Dermot), a kind and friendly man (to his friends) and Fierre and inimical (to his enemies), was burned by gunpowder in his own castle (Four Masters) 1557: Clever Phrases Much Esteemed 1561: Donal O Sullivan born (berleth) 1562: Shane O'Neil visits london (new history) 1564: Pirate Haydon, married ot O'Sullivan's sister, has hq @ bearhaven, dunboy. P303 (o'murcada) 1564: O'Sullivan Beare was slain by a bad man, namely MacGiilicuddy (Four 8 Masters) 1565: McCarthy mor made earl of clancarthy, surrender and regrant (somerville-ross) 1565: Owen visits england with clancarty (o'murcada) 1565: Owen goes over to English, becomes knight. goes to london (berleth) 1568: O'Sullivan useth long gallies p 726 (cusak) 1569: Humphrey Gilbert, pacification of munster (bottigheimer) 1569: Fitzmaurice rebellion- religious controversy starts (bottigheimer) 1570: Elizabeth excommunicated (bottigheimer) ! Elizabethan Conquest of Sullivan Lands (1570-1600) The conquest of Ireland by the English takes place over the next three decades 1570-1600 and ushers in a century in which traditional Sullivan culture is rooted out by English settlers and landlords. Many Sullivans leave the country for adventure and military service in foreign countries, while others remain at home and endured a fractious relationship with their English masters. 1571: Macarthy resumes title of maccarthy, act of contempt toward english p733 (cusak) 1571: First Desmond rebellion (berleth) 1572: Owen imprisoned in limerick; robin hood escaspe p305 (o'murcada) 1573: Desmond returns from prison-fence straddles (bottigheimer) 1574: Desmond raids maccarthy more p734 (cusak) 1575: Fitzmaurice escapes (bottigheimer) 1575: Sidney in Cork; attended by clacare; desmond loyalty dubious;p 730 (cusak) 1575: Sidney doesn't trust macsweeney pledges p 295 (o'murcada) 1576: Sidneys mission to munster, macsweeney submits p 101 (new history) 1576: Scots mercenaries in Cork p 101 (new history) 9 1576: Macsweeney executed with banner p 296 (o'murcada) 1578: McCarthy and desmond dispute lands, almost fight p 731 (cusak) 1579: Desmond burns Youghal; ormond v. munster rebels; grey lands (new hist viii) 1579: Fitzmaurice arrivies smerwick p 105 (new history) 1579: Desmond murders english party at tralee p 738 (cusak) 1579: Captain Zouch p 20; Owen beaten by gilbert p 65 (somerville) 1579: Peter White's school Waterford p138,563 (new history) 1580: Smerwick nov 10; sir james captured, executed oct 3 (new hist viii) 1580: Spenser in Ireland (sullchron) 1580: English atttacking desmond, o'Sullivan submits p107; grey "fear not (new history) 1580: Donal took no part in desmond rebellion (bacam) 1580: James sussex of the geraldines seized by queens maccarthy at cork, executed (cusak) 1580: Eugene o'Sullivan chief of Beare