--- ----- Decies 70 - - - ---- DECIES JOURNAL OF THE WATERFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY No. 70 2014 Irisleabhar Cumann Seandalafochta agus Staire Phort Lairge ----------- Decies 70 - ---------- COMHAIRLE CATHRACH PHORT LAIRGE WATERFORD CITY COUNCIL The Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society and the editor of DECIES gratefully acknowledge the generous sponsorship of Waterford City Council towards the publication costs of this journal. Cover Illustrations Front Cover: Homeless by Marianne Stokes. By kind permission of Wate1ford County Museum Back Cover: The Ryland Memorial Chapel, John's Hill, Waterford. Photograph by Miriam Broderick ISSN 1393-3116 Published by The Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society Typesetting, layout and design by Eddie Synnott (086-8124349) Printed by Naas Printing Ltd., Naas, Co. Kildare (045-872092). II Decies 70 ------------ Decies 70 CONTENTS PAGE Acknowledgements vii List of Contributors ix The Clerical Career of the Rev. Richard H. Ryland, 1788-1866 Eugene Broderick ... .. ... .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... ... ... .... .. .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ....... 1 A nation fed by hook and thread Mary Stratton Ryan ..................... .............................................. ........ .. ............. 27 The Dungarvan Ore Ships Part I: The example of the coaster Ruby John Morris and Des Cowman ................................... ... .. ............ .................. ... 35 A History of Ballynaneashagh or St. Otteran's Cemetery Dern1ot Power . ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. .. .. .... .. ......... .. .. .. .. ... ... ... ... ... ... .... ... .. .. 65 Before Molly Keane: Image and reality in the lives of the nineteenth-century gentry of east Cork and west Waterford Ian d 'Alton ........... .................................. .................... .. .. .......... ..... .... .... .... ........ 85 From Waterford to Ballykinlar: Internment during the War oflndependence Pat McCarthy ... .......... ............ ............... .................. ........ ......... .. .. .................... I 03 The Nine County Waterford Farmers Nicholas J Sheehan . .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... ... ... ... ... .... .. .. .... .... .. .. .. ... l 17 Sport and Society in Waterford, 1918-1939: A Survey David Toms .. ................................................................ ... .................................. 129 Obituaries .......................................................................................................... 149 Book Review ..................................... ............................................................... 153 Constitution of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society ............. 155 Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society Membership ....................... 159 Ill Decies 70 Members enjoying a trip to the Copper Coast in July with guide Jim Cullian. The late Kevin Hall with Padraig 6 Machain who delivered the March lecture, The Book of Lismore. iv Decies 70 WATERFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2014/2015 OFFICERS Kevin P Hall was elected Chairman of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society at the 2014 AGM but passed away suddenly on 2 May. He was succeeded by Erica Fay who had been elected Vice-chair. Chairman: Erica Fay, 3 St Margaret's Avenue, Waterford. Vice-chairman: Pat Deegan, 2 Fairfield Park, Belvedere Manor, Waterford. Hon. Secretary: Beatrice Payet, 5 Doyle Street, Waterford. Hon. Treasurer: Tony Gunning, 7 Ballinakill Vale, Waterford. Hon. Editor: Donnchadh 6 Ceallachain, 5 Doyle Street, Waterford. P.R.O.: Michael Maher, 26 Kenure Park, Powerscourt Lawns, Waterford. COMMITTEE Annie Birney William Condon Ann Cusack Fergus Dillon Erica Fay Cian Manning Bill Walsh ALI original contributions are the copyright of the contributors. The views expressed by each contrib­ utor are not necessarily those of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, the Editor, or of the Editorial Committee. Hon. Editor: Donnchadh 6 Ceallachain Editorial Committee: Erica Fay (ex-officio), Ben Murtagh, Beatrice Payet, Eddie Synnott. V Decies 70 Launching Decies 69, Left to right. Bernadette Guest, Heritage Officer Wate1j'ord County Council, William Condon, Chairman WAHS, Julian Walton, author of On this Day and Deputy County Mayor, C/lr Gerard Barron. Some members of WAHS sh.owing a great interest in a 25 Pounder artillery piece on Spike Island. vi Decies 70 --- --------- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Ba bhrea liom mo bhufochas a ghabhail le gach einne a chabhraigh liom iris na bliana seo a fhoilsiu - coiste an chumainn, an coiste eagarth6ireachta agus go hairithe udair nan-alt. D6ibh siud go leir mo mhile buiochas. Eddie Synnott who typeset the journal and scanned the images once again deserves the gratitude of the society. I would like to point out to intending contributors that the final deadline for the submission of articles for Decies 71 (2015) is 1 May 2015. Articles received after that date will be held over for publication in the following year's journal. Dar nd6igh beidh failte roimh altanna as Gaeilge n6 as Bearla. For further information on the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society see our website: http://waterford-history.org/ Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wate1fordhistory Visiting the Quaker Graveyard at Wyse Park in August with Joan Johnston. VII Decies 70 In the garden of the Medieval Museum on a fine June evening, listening intently to archae­ ologist Orta Scully. WAHS members leaving by ferry for Spike Island. viii Decies 70 List of Contributors Ian d'Alton, MA (NUI), PhD (Cantab.), FRHistS, FRNS, is the author of Protestant Society and Politics in Cork, 1812-1844 (Cork University Press, 1980), and of numerous papers, chapters in books and essays on southern Irish Protestantism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuiies. A recipient of the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize in 1972, he was an editorial advisor and contributor to the Royal Irish Academy/Cambridge University Press's Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). His other scholarly interests lie in the liter­ ary arena (principally the works of the Anglo-Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane and lris Murdoch) and in French art medals, 1870-1935. In 2011-12, he was an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and, in 2014, will be a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Eugene Broderick is a former secondary school principal. He also lectured at the Waterford Institute of Technology and has served as chairperson and secretary of the Wate1ford Archaeological and Historical Society. He is the author of numerous publications on aspects of Irish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His particular research interest is the Church of Ireland in the nineteenth century. His doctoral thesis was a study of the church in Waterford in that century. Des Cowman was co-founder and first editor of Decies from 1976 and has con­ tributed many research items to it. He was also co-founder of what is now the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland and first editor of its Newsletter and its Journal. He has written two books on aspects of Waterford history as well as other books and many articles on the social and economic aspects of Irish mining history. He has also lectured widely. Pat McCarthy was born in Waterford and educated at Mount Sion CBS. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA from NUI, Dublin, where he currently lives. He is Co1Tespondence Secretary of the Military History Society of Ireland. He is a fre­ quent contributor to Decies. John Morris served as a Senior Manager in the Geological Survey of Ireland. He conceived and initiated what is now the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland in 1995 and served as its founder Chairman and as Director up to 2013. He was also jointly responsible for achieving European Geopark status for the Copper Coast in 2001 and has been a director since then. He bas written, or co-written, many research items on Irish geology and mining. ix Decies 70 Dermot Power is a native of Wateiford and has worked as a master-cutter in Wate1ford Crystal and as a professional musician. His published works include Ballads and Songs of Waterford (2 volumes), The Street Where You Live, Historical Photographs and Anniversaries of Waterford City. He was a contributor to The Famine in Waterford: Teacht na bPr<itaf Dubha (Geography Publications/Waterford County Council, J 995) and is a frequent contributor to Decies as well as the Munster Express and Waterford Local Radio. He is current researching a social history of Waterford from 1800. Mary Stratton Ryan is an Irish artist and art historian, graduate of the National College of Art and Design. She has published widely, and articles by her may be found in the Irish Arts Review, History Ireland, Carloviana, the Tuam Journal of the Historical Society Galway and in French, German and Italian publications. Nicholas John Sheehan was born in Sheffield in 1949 and he visited the family farm in Leperstown a number of times in his early childhood. He graduated in medicine in 1973 and, after training as a rheumatologist at St Thomas' Hospital in London he was appointed to a consultant post in Peterborough in 1986. He has published articles on a variety of medical and scientific subjects and bas written two books on local history. Dr Sheehan lives in Uffington, near Stamford, with his wife Jonquil and they have three adult children and a granddaughter.