Historical Research Articles
written by the site editor, friends, family members and historians.
Please credit the website and author if referenced or used.
written by the site editor, friends, family members and historians.
Please credit the website and author if referenced or used.
The Ballymartle Chalice
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Lynch (Granig) Family History 1700-1890Family trees, biographies, primary documents and other items of interest for Lynch, Granig Townland, Tracton Abbey, Co. Cork.
Michael Lynch Frongoch Autograph book 1916Newsletters 2015-2016Newsletters filled with various articles on pre-Rising & Rising items of general and family interest. PDF format.
Diarmuid Lynch's 1916 Prison LettersLetters written by Diarmuid Lynch while held in Richmond Barracks and Kilmainham Jail, Dublin and smuggled out to family members. May 1916
Dublin Metropolitan Police Reports
The Chief Secretary’s Office, Crime Branch: Movement of Extremists collection were a series of daily reports produced by the DMP (Dublin Metropolitan Police) Detective Department (G-Division) on the movements and any associations of Irish Republican suspects. These were passed daily to the Chief Secretary and Under Secretary of Ireland. Many notable Irish Republican figures of the era activities are recorded from the mundane conversations on the street to attending various meetings, events and functions.
Cuttings from these reports referring to Diarmuid Lynch are below along with background details. Compiled by Ruairí Lynch from National Archive papers. Files available are in PDF format. DMP Police Reports
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October 1920 - the three funerals of Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwineyTerence MacSwiney died in Brixton Prison on 25 October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike. An article on the Republican history of the Lord Mayor, his protracted strike and of the three funerals held in London, Dublin & Cork.
June 1921 contact listing & code to contact Collins.Handwritten by Lynch in June 1921, this is a contact listing for an American emissary to use in Dublin and includes a code to establish contact with Michael Collins.
1916 articles
General reference articles relating to 1916 1900 - 1915 Articles1800-1899 Articles
The Forty Shilling Freeholder of Blarney Lane
The discovery of an early relative Timothy Murphy and Cork's first electoral register examined by Ruairí Lynch. The Friends of Irish Freedom
Articles and archive material relating to the Friends of Irish Freedom organisation. All Saints Famine Cemetery, Carr's Hill
Exploration of the largest famine cemetery in Cork and Jack Sorenson's contribution to the collective memory of the Great Famine.
The Gaelic League: Ireland, America & the Fund Raising Tours 1906-1915
Details of the three Gaelic League Fund Raising missions to the United States and the Irish American support and reaction.
The Tipperary Town Republican Pharmacist
P.J.Moloney had an interesting life story. A lifelong nationalist jailed for activities in 1916 produced a Jail Journal which is a unique record. Of his seven children, four were involved directly in the War of Independence, one killed by British forces in 1921 and the surviving three later officers in the Anti-Treaty forces. By contrast, one of the family was commissioned as an officer in the British Army in 1914, later transferring to the Royal Air Force before returning in 1923 to join the Irish Free State air force. Moloney himself was elected three times as TD for Tipperary, his home and pharmacy business burned down in a reprisal by British forces in 1920, he was imprisoned three times and spent 23 days on hunger strike in Wandsworth Prison.
Moloney's Prison Journal has an interesting back story - it was originally part of a deposition in 1916 to a commission investigating the detention of participants in the Rising. The journal was never returned to the author but fortunately, was deposited in an obscure Home Office file in the British Government Archives where it languished, undiscovered for eighty-five years until discovered in 2001. |