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Title A name given to the resource Apprentice Table made by the late William Philip Allen - Manchester Martyr 1867 Subject The topic of the resource Manchester Martyrs, Fenians Description An account of the resource A few short years before his young life was taken from him and he would be remembered forever as a Fenian martyr, William Philip Allen was apprenticed to a Master carpenter in Bandon, Co. Cork. During that time the young apprentice made a table that still exists today, over 150 years later! Now a prominent and key item in our Independence Museum Kilmurry collection, the table has been a part of our archive for many years; from the time of our previous 50 year existence as The Terence McSwiney Memorial Museum. That the table is still in such a sound state today is a testament not only to the obvious craftsmanship of the young apprentice but more so to his enduring legacy as one of the Manchester Martyrs. A Tipperary native his family transferred to Bandon when his father became a turnkey at the local Bridewell. Although raised in his father’s Protestant faith and educated at a Training School under that religion in Bandon, his Catholic mother saw to it that he also studied under the direction of her own faith. By all accounts a conspicuously intelligent and thoughtful student his particular strengths lay in the fields of algebra and drawing. Most likely under the influence of his mother and his extra-curricular Catholic teachers the young Allen would later on in his teens be received into the Catholic faith. A few years before this the young Allen came under the influence of Fenians in the town and eventually joined that organisation. For reasons unclear, but most likely due to his increasing activity within the Fenian organisation, he did not complete his apprenticeship but ended up working later on in Manchester, England for one of the principal builders in that city; having gone there to stay with relations. Being an active and enthusiastic member of the Fenians there it is no great surprise that Allen was at the forefront of attempts to rescue his friend, Fenian Leader Colonel Thomas J. Kelly (“I’ll die for you before I deliver you up!”) and Cork Centre (unit leader) Timothy Deasy. While it is undoubted that Allen was a key member of the successful rescue attempt that freed both Colonel Kelly and Captain Timothy Deasy, while being transferred to prison in Manchester, there is much doubt surrounding Allen’s role in the killing of Police Sergeant Charles Brett during that ambush. However Allen and his Fenian companions, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien, would be hanged for common murder even though the charge and indeed the trial itself were highly questionable. From the British point of view, they had hoped that this would put to bed the so-called Fenian scare that was perceived as a threat to the Empire (let alone the North of England) and political stability. The truth however was that this was a major boost to the Fenian cause which at that time was at something of an impasse in strategic terms and not being able to muster major support at home in Ireland. A point that was not lost at the time on no less an observer than Friedrich Engels, who wrote the following to Karl Marx: “So yesterday morning the Tories….accomplished the final act of separation between England and Ireland. The only thing that the Fenians still lacked were martyrs….. Only the execution of the three has made the liberation of Kelly and Deasy the heroic deed which will now be sung to every Irish babe in the cradle in Ireland….” The brutal injustice of the treatment of these men contrasted with the Fenian traits of stoicism, manliness and principled behaviour displayed by them- this led to an immediate awakening of Irish Nationalism both at home and abroad. Their speeches from the dock and the unquestionable idealism of the men, especially their rallying cry of “God Save Ireland” ensured that they would become iconic figures of the Nationalist struggle. The religious undertones of the sobriquet, Manchester Martyrs (all 3 were said to be devout Catholics who were denied a Christian burial) indicated the tacit acceptance by the Catholic Church, up to now no friend of the Fenians, of the injustice done to the men. All over Ireland (also in some other jurisdictions) masses and mock funerals were held (from then on most commemorations would involve some religious iconography – thus fusing the cause of Nationalism with religious freedom.) For 50 years the anniversary date of the execution of the Manchester Martyrs on 23rd of November would supplant the 17th of March as the crucial date in the Nationalist calendar, only losing its pre-eminence post-1916 when the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising would eventually take up that mantle. However, even in the post-1916 period the anniversary was still widely commemorated. In 1917 the anniversary provided an opportunity for returned internees from Frongoch and recent Irish Volunteer recruits to muster a public show of strength in defiance of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA); then widely used as a method to suppress and use courts-martial against the re-organising threat from the Volunteers. One such bold public display of this new found confidence and defiance was held over one hundred years ago November 1917 – just adjacent to where our museum now stands. Kilmurry village witnessed a torchlight procession – a scene repeated throughout the country – by Volunteers in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Martyrs making its way through the village, ending at the graveyard on top of the village. The importance of the religious aspects of the commemorations and the many local connections would have a galvanising effect on the local Volunteers in the forthcoming revolutionary period. Liam Deasy – veteran of the War of Independence and Civil War – recollected in his book ”Towards Ireland Free” that in his childhood the tale of the Manchester Martyrs was constantly being told and retold at the fireside. He also emphasised the importance of the local connection with Allen himself and that of the Fenian Timothy Deasy (Colliers Quay) in whose escape Allen was instrumental. The importance of the commemoration date to Liam Deasy was such that to ”miss it would have been akin to missing Sunday Mass!” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Philip Allen (April 1848 - 23 November 1867 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reen Family, Bandon, Co. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Irish Democratic Labour Federation badge Subject The topic of the resource Irish Labour Description An account of the resource It is one of the smallest items in our collection, but this tiny badge is a reminder of one of the most important movements in the decades leading up to the Irish revolutionary period. Anybody who has read any of our local historian Michael Galvin’s many books on life in Kilmurry and mid-Cork from the Famine days onward will be aware of the significant role of the labour movement in political and social developments through to the War of Independence. In fact, many of those who were centrally involved in the labour movement locally were also instrumental in the revolutionary movement. The rural labourers and small farmers of mid-Cork were most strongly represented from the turn of the century, through to the period of the First World War, by the Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA). It was closely aligned by the 1911 elections for Macroom Rural District Council with William O’Brien’s All-for-Ireland League. This nationalist party was strongest in Cork city and county, but its conciliatory policy towards Irish unionists made its members electoral arch-enemies of the Irish Parliamentary Party and its grassroots organisation, the United Irish League. Such divisions made AFIL and ILLA activists and their local networks a prime target for organisational support when Terence MacSwiney and fellow officer of Cork’s Irish Volunteers visited Kilmurry and other parts of mid-Cork from autumn 1915, a year after the divisive split in that movement when Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond had encouraged Irish men to join the British Army in the war in Europe. All that happened, however, a quarter of a century after the formation in Cork of the Irish Democratic Labour Federation. At a meeting in Cork City Hall, Michael Davitt founded the federation in January 1890 “for the defence and advancement of the rights of labour in Ireland.” The little badge is a reminder of that event, with the words carefully embossed around the three leaves of the white-metal shamrock: “Irish Democratic Labour Federation Founded by Ml Davitt 1890 “ Weeks later, tradesmen and labourers from Macroom and districts attended the first local meeting under the auspices of the new organisation, chaired by plasterer James Galway. By June, it claimed to have nearly the entire labouring classes of the wider district among its membership, with representatives of Kilmurry including James McCarthy, a farm labourer from Coolnacarriga in Canovee. Contingents were also present at a meeting that month in Macroom’s town square from Kilmichael, Tarelton, Clondrohid, Ballyvourney, Kilnamartyra and Ballinagree. A photo of a similar gathering in Macroom’s town square drew the attention of the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, when he officially opened Independence Museum Kilmurry in August 2016. As he recognised, this was “a huge meeting in Macroom between land and labour workers, the people who worked the small farms and people who were agricultural labourers.” This photo shows a rally of the ILLA, clearly taken a few years after the aforementioned Irish Democratic Labour Federation event in the town. The ILLA was not formed until 1894, but it was to that organisation that the labouring classes of Kilmurry and Mid-Cork would rally in the years that followed. In fact, one of the ILLA’s founders D.D. Sheehan was to become MP for Mid-Cork in a 1901 by-election, a position he retained until the election of Terence MacSwiney for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election. Sheehan’s later affiliation with William O’Brien’s AFIL, which took full advantage of labour support to weaken the Irish Parliamentary Party grip on nationalist voters in Cork, helped to create rifts in local politics. The Royal Irish Constabulary was regularly forced to intervene in violent clashes when crowds turned out to hear candidates associated with one party or the other speak from the stages and platforms around election times. Sheehan was repeatedly re-nominated and elected for a reason, however, as he was seen as a champion of the labouring classes. The construction of labourers’ cottages that still dot the rural countryside today are a legacy of his work in Westminster, but ILLA branches began to dwindle from around 1910 onward. Nonetheless, it was their activism within the ILLA and AFIL as organisers, rural district council candidates and members, which made many men from Kilmurry and elsewhere in mid-Cork the ones who Irish Volunteers organisers turned to in 1915. John T Murphy from Lissarda, who helped Terence MacSwiney to organise the first recruitment meeting for the Irish Volunteers at Béal na Bláth, was a former ILLA county organiser. He would go on to be MacSwiney’s director of elections at the 1918 general election. Others centrally involved in the establishment of the local company of the Irish Volunteers included the Long family of Béal na Bláth, Daniel Murphy and Tom Taylor from nearby Pullerick, and Jeremiah Dunne from Canovee, all of whom had strong ILLA and AFIL connections too. Patrick Long and Dunne, a long-standing Fenian and local Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) leader, both represented O’Brien’s party on Macroom Rural District Council between 1911 and 1914. But it was the formation of the Irish Democratic Labour Federation in the early 1890s, recalled in this simple little badge, which helped to plant a seed for local labour organisation. And that activism would later lend itself to the establishment of the Irish Volunteers in Kilmurry, and to the parish’s role in the War of Independence. 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Title A name given to the resource Cromwellian Cannonball - Ballyneety, Co. Limerick Subject The topic of the resource Cromwell in Ireland Description An account of the resource Kilmurry and Cork were very much affected by the Confederate Wars of the 1640’s in Ireland. There were two incidents in particular on both sides of what is now Kilmurry Parish. The grotto in Kilmurry village was chosen as it is the site of Sceach an tSagairt which means The Priest’s Bush. Tradition has it that a number of priests or monks attached to the medieval church in the old graveyard went on the run during penal times. They hid out on Cnoc an Tobair but were captured there and were hanged from a tree on this particular site.Tradition also states that some of Cromwell’s troops stabled their horses in the medieval church in the old graveyard in Kilmurry At the far edge of Kilmurry parish is Carrigadrohid and this village was to play its part in one of the most shocking incidents in the Confederate Wars- the hanging of Bishop Boetius MacEgan. In February 1646 Boetius MacEgan was appointed chaplain-general to Owen Roe O’Neill’s army of Ulster. Before the battle of Benburb in Tyrone on 5 June 1646 MacEgan invoked the apostolic blessing on the troops and gave them a plenary indulgence. Owen Roe had given careful thought to his choice of terrain. Skirmishing continued all day. Then towards sunset the general spoke some rousing words to his troops, invoked the Holy Trinity and gave them ‘Sancta Maria’ for their battle cry. He then ordered them to charge. The Anglo-Scot army was wiped out. Irish losses were negligible. On Sunday 14 June Boetius MacEgan deposited over thirty captured battle flags in the cathedral in Limerick in the presence of the papal nuncio Archbishop Rinuccini, several bishops and members of the supreme council of the Confederation of Kilkenny. Some of the flags were sent to Kilkenny and other towns in confederate hands. Some were sent to Pope Innocent X who put them on display in St. Peter’s. On 25 March 1648, Boetius Mac Egan was consecrated Bishop of Ross. During his short episcopate he was deeply involved with the affairs of the confederation and was very highly regarded. In March 1649 the nuncio left Ireland for good. On 15 August Oliver Cromwell landed at Ringsend. Owen Roe O’Neill, the only man who might have been successful against him died at Cloughoughter castle. The Bishop of Ross played an important part in rallying the country against the enemy, to little avail. The Confederation fell to pieces. Kilkenny, the capital, surrendered on 28 March, 1650. Bishop MacEgan helped to raise an army in Kerry and on the 10 of May he was with this army who was commanded by Colonel David Roche near Macroom. On that day they were defeated by the local Cromwellian commander, Lord Broghill. The Bishop of Ross was captured and led by his captors before Carrigadrohid Castle, a strategic post still in Confederate hands. He was ordered, under threat of death, to order the garrison to surrender. He urged them to resist to the last. He was then hanged with his own reins. Six young men, two O’Riordans from Currach an Iarla, two Dinans from Killinardrish, and two O’Learys from Cul Allta spirited the bishop’s body from the English camp along the southern bank of the Lee. He was buried in Aghinagh graveyard. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seamus O'Mahoney Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Independence Museum Kilmurry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kilmurry Historical & Archaeological Association Language A language of the resource n/a Type The nature or genre of the resource metal Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KHAA.IMK.0058 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 1649–1653 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Membership card of Cork Total Abstinence Society (Father Mathew) Description An account of the resource Membership card of Cork Total Abstinence Society (Father Mathew) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Independence Museum Kilmurry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 19th Century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kilmurry Historical & Archaeological Association Relation A related resource KHAA.IMK.0149 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource physical object Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource paper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KHAA.IMK.0148 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 19th Century https://imkarchive.org/files/original/bc9527a868812eb0ed1140fdc811e9a1.JPG 28083a578964520b06060f00f8efce84 https://imkarchive.org/files/original/6c06bd9110c8494574d5819f898b4c4b.JPG 3d004f4f0088631f14b3a99fb19ebef9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Total Abstinence Society Medal Description An account of the resource The early days of January each year are usually devoted to the often futile attempt of adopting a new year’s resolution. However it might be sobering to contemplate a small medal in the collection of Independence Museum Kilmurry that reflects the roots and huge success of one of the most extraordinary (however brief) mass movements in Irish social history, ultimately enlisting millions of Irish men and women. Although a teetotalism movement was already underway in Cork it was under the leadership of Father (Theobald) Mathew, from 1836, that the Cork Total Abstinence Society took off; under his influence branches of the organization soon spread throughout every parish in Ireland despite being badly disrupted by the Great Famine. The mass pledging (some 3 million people or roughly half the population) that ensued no doubt had the effect of reducing alcohol consumption and the knock on effect on the crime statistics of the period is significant. It was recorded that robberies, assaults, arson and even homicides were thus reduced by half in the pre-Famine period before 1845. Bringing his message further afield to England Father Mathew’s crusade yielded similar success. In 1849 he visited America but while there he fell afoul of the Abolitionist (to abolish slavery) movement whereby, having had to give assurances to the Catholic Hierarchy there that he would not stray outside his remit of battling alcohol consumption, he had to refuse an invitation to condemn slavery. This soured his deep friendship with the former slave and famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass who had been so impressed by his interaction with Father Mathew on his visit to Cork in 1845 that he undertook to receive the pledge from Father Mathew himself. Having co-signed a petition in 1841, with Daniel O’Connell (along with 60,000 Irish people) encouraging the Irish in the U.S. not to partake in slavery and given his own efforts for the downtrodden and marginalised in Cork there was little doubt which side of the debate held the sympathies of Father Matthew. However as he was basically on a fund-raising effort for the temperance movement he was reluctant to muddy the focus of his efforts; “I have as much as I can do to save men from the slavery of intemperance, without attempting the overthrow of any other kind of slavery.”. It does seem that Douglass realised the reasoning behind the decision but held no sympathy with it, ‘we had fondly hoped … that he would not change his morality by changing his location … We are however grieved, humbled and mortified to know that HE too, has fallen.’ Their mutual friendship never recovered. It does seem that the success of his movement was also its downfall…..in that it attracted the unwanted attention of other movements which were covetous of its sizeable membership and network. One of these was nationalist leader Daniel O’ Connell’s who opportunistically co-opted the temperance movement to further his agitation for repeal of the union between Ireland and Britain; likely taking advantage of already existing associational networks and mass gatherings. In the regeneration of national consciousness on the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion, Fr. Mathew had at least 3 dedications in his name thus indicating the influence that his temperance movement had on the resurgent nationalist movement; much as the Gaelic League was likewise at that time identified with and shared many members with the turn of the century temperance movements, “Ireland sober is Ireland free". Whatever the reason(s) Fr. Mathew’s movement eventually broke down and sobriety also duly decreased amongst the population. He is fondly remembered in Cork today more for his association with the City and his lasting effort on behalf of its more unfortunate citizens than for any long term effect of endeavours on behalf of the temperance movement; his imposing statue on Cork’s St. Patricks St., is regularly adorned with empty alcohol bottles from the previous night’s activities. That this cheeky activity is more out of affection rather than any disrespect to the Capuchin friar became manifest in 2000 when a proposed plan to remove ‘The Statue’ to another location in the City was shot down when met with widespread opposition among the people of the City. Fr. Mathew is buried in Cork’s St. Joseph's Cemetery which he himself had helped establish to facilitate the burial of the Catholic poor of the City. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Independence Museum Kilmurry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 19th Century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kilmurry Historical & Archaeological Association Relation A related resource KHAA.IMK.0149 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource physical object Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource metal Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KHAA.IMK.0570 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm 19th Century https://imkarchive.org/files/original/9e37140dbefed6e5c66ded29de6910b8.jpg b590925b751e43621045a0d84c07e406 PDF Text Text Timothy D. Keating was born of Cors. Keating and Mary Dennehy 12 of March 1871 at Kilbarry, Inchigeela. He had five brothers, Jeremiah D., Con. D. Jack D., William D., and Patrick D.; of whom he was the eldest. Thady, as he was best known, attended Kilbarry N.S. where he was taught by the late Master O Day, as the name was then pronounced. As was generally the practice on those days Lady Day, the 25 March which was then a Church Holiday, was removal day for the labourers who had houses from the farmers. After one such removal, the family contracted scarlet fever in their new home at Gosmarane. The illness proved fatal in the case of the father, and therefore the family were left without a bread-winner and Thady who was then eleven years old up was left with no other option but to leave school and go to work for the princely sum of 13/- per quarter (13 weeks) and the little house in which they lived. As time went on, the family moved to various houses in the Kilmichael and Inchigeelagh parishes, and finally took possession of a new County Council Cottage at Moneycusker Toames. This was the first fruits of the family agitation, but was by no means the last. The whole family, right along the line supported W. O Brien, D. D. Sheehan and later organised Labour and the Trade Union movement. On those days the spades were much in evidence for digging the potato crop. Thady, like many more workers of the time moved eastwards to Kilmurry and other centers when the time for lifting the crop came around. It was during those seasonal trips that Thady built up the great friendship, goodwill and the high esteem in which he held the people of Kilmurry. Generally those seasonal workers would assemble outside Kilmurry Church gate with their spades on sundays after Mass, when the local farmers hired as many as he wanted. This system continued until the entire crop was lifted and stored away. An athlete of note, he won many a prize at the various sports meetings of these days. Thady later emigrated to England and then finally to Butte Montana in the year of 1894. He worked on various Jobs, including mining and freight handling, and on the 18th November 1897, Timothy Dennehy Keating was sworn in as a citizen of the United States of America. On a visit home to his native land, he purchased a set of bagpipes and cycled twice weekly from Moneycusker Toames to Cork city where he learned to play music from Séan Whelan in the evening at the Cork Pipers Club. Séan Whelan later emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. When Thady returned to the U.S. he was an accomplished piper. https://imkarchive.org/files/original/369c56259ffe4eb505ffc163ff26879e.jpg dcb2858208180e6896903e8e996fdc76 PDF Text Text He finally returned to Ireland in August 1915 at the height of The First World War. He later played music at the head of parading Volunteers on several occasions and also rendered funeral music. His home at Ardnaneen Lissarda was raided by the R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) and Black and Tans on several occasions. He worked locally for some time and finally took up employment with Cork County Council in 1917. He was closely attached to Labour and the Trade Union movement, South Kilmurry Branch I.T. & G.W.U. and Macroom District Branch of the above. On all occasions he enjoyed the confidence of the workers, both on his own job and those in other employments, and all through those years was elected to either one or other of theofficerships. He was noted for his straightforward manner. He took a firm stand on all matters relating to Trade Unionism; wages, conditions of employment . He led his comrades on their then demands for Direct Labour on the Roads maintained by the Local Authorities. He frequently led deputations to meetings of the Cork County Council, both in connection with wages, conditions of employment and the Direct Labour system of maintaining the Roads. He never once failed to champion the cause of his fellow man, and was always ready and willing to try and help anyone seeking any favours from the the powers that be. The untimely death of his wife Margaret O'Leary on 14 October 1939 had such a profound effect on him, that he never afterwards played a tune of the bag-pipes. His pipes came into the possession of his grandson Séan O’ Riordan in London, who often did justice to the memory of his grandfather by playing Irish Airs at concerts and in the parks over there. Timothy D. Keating died on 10 December 1951, almost eighty-one years of age. This 12th day of March 1971 marked the 100 hundred anniversary of his birth. And now a quote from one of his many old saying: “He went back to the land from whence he sprung unwept, unhonoured and unsung. “ May he and other deceased members of the family rest in Peace. https://imkarchive.org/files/original/d5e985b3472f926c1f6ddfc1b2c35619.jpg d32766781800c3484674283dc31fb496 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Montage of life of Mr. Timothy D. Keating as narrated by his son Séan Keating, including his parent's Marriage Certificate . Subject The topic of the resource Timothy D. (Tady) Keating Description An account of the resource Timothy D. Keating Timothy D. Keating was born of Cors. Keating and Mary Dennehy 12 of March 1871 at Kilbarry. Inchigeela. He had five brothers, Jeremiah D., Con. D. Jack D., William D., and Patrick D.; of whom he was the eldest. Thady, as he was best known, attended Kilbarry N.S. where he was taught by the late Master O Day, as the name was then pronounced. As was generally the practice on those days Lady Day, the 25 March which was then a Church Holiday, was removal day for the labourers who had houses from the farmers. After one such removal, the family contracted scarlet fever in their new home at Gosmarane. The illness proved fatal in the case of the father, and therefore the family were left without a bread-winner and Thady who was then eleven years old up was left with no other option but to leave school and go to work for the princely sum of 13/- per quarter (13 weeks) and the little house in which they lived. As time went on, the family moved to various houses in the Kilmichael and Inchigeelagh parishes, and finally took possession of a new County Council Cottage at Moneycusker Toames. This was the first fruits of the family agitation, but was by no means the last. The whole family, right along the line supported W. O Brien, D. D. Sheehan and later organised Labour and the Trade Union movement. On those days the spades were much in evidence for digging the potato crop. Thady, like many more workers of the time moved eastwards to Kilmurry and other centers when the time for lifting the crop came around. It was during those seasonal trips that Thady built up the great friendship, goodwill and the high esteem in which he held the people of Kilmurry. Generally those seasonal workers would assemble outside Kilmurry Church gate with their spades on sundays after Mass, when the local farmers hired as many as he wanted. This system continued until the entire crop was lifted and stored away. An athlete of note, he won many a prize at the various sports meetings of these days. Thady later emigrated to England and then finally to Butte Montana in the year of 1894. He worked on various Jobs, including mining and freight handling, and on the 18th November 1897, Timothy Dennehy Keating was sworn in as a citizen of the United States of America. On a visit home to his native land, he purchased a set of bagpipes and cycled twice weekly from Moneycusker Toames to Cork city where he learned to play music from Séan Whelan in the evening at the Cork Pipers Club. Séan Whelan later emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. When Thady returned to the U.S. he was an accomplished piper. He finally returned to Ireland in August 1915 at the height of The First World War. He later played music at the head of parading Volunteers on several occasions and also rendered funeral music. His home at Ardnaneen Lissarda was raided by the R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) and Black and Tans on several occasions. He worked locally for some time and finally took up employment with Cork County Council in 1917. He was closely attached to Labour and the Trade Union movement, South Kilmurry Branch I.T. & G.W.U. and Macroom District Branch of the above. On all occasions he enjoyed the confidence of the workers, both on his own job and those in other employments, and all through those years was elected to either one or other of theofficerships. He was noted for his straightforward manner. He took a firm stand on all matters relating to Trade Unionism; wages, conditions of employment . He led his comrades on their then demands for Direct Labour on the Roads maintained by the Local Authorities. He frequently led deputations to meetings of the Cork County Council, both in connection with wages, conditions of employment and the Direct Labour system of maintaining the Roads. He never once failed to champion the cause of his fellow man, and was always ready and willing to try and help anyone seeking any favours from the the powers that be. The untimely death of his wife Margaret O'Leary on 14 October 1939 had such a profound effect on him, that he never afterwards played a tune of the bag-pipes. His pipes came into the possession of his grandson Séan O’ Riordan in London, who often did justice to the memory of his grandfather by playing Irish Airs at concerts and in the parks over there. Timothy D. Keating died on 10 December 1951, almost eighty-one years of age. This 12th day of March 1971 marked the 100 hundred anniversary of his birth. And now a quote from one of his many old saying: “He went back to the land from whence he sprung unwept, unhonoured and unsung. “ May he and other deceased members of the family rest in Peace. 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Title A name given to the resource Floor Tile from Moviddy Church ruin in Moviddy Graveyard Description An account of the resource Floor Tile from Moviddy Church ruin in Moviddy Graveyard Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Niall Murray, Síle Healy Hunt Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Independence Museum Kilmurry Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kilmurry Historical & Archaeological Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource physical object Language A language of the resource n/a Type The nature or genre of the resource floor tile Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KHAA.IMK.1099 https://imkarchive.org/files/original/cc8190442a3a14f5aa0db25437619bce.jpg 299e6bc604632739cb062402d061b5a1 https://imkarchive.org/files/original/907febc95e22cd756e7203d4ce7980ec.JPG 5df0936e28228551d8bd219574b72224 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Irish War of Independence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Independence Museum Kilmurry Type The nature or genre of the resource Subject The topic of the resource Irish War of Independence Description An account of the resource War of Independence Cogadh na Saoirse In the immediate aftermath of the Rising it seemed that a calm had settled on Ireland; the command structure of the Volunteers had been depleted and a countrywide round-up of dissenters had been exiled to internment in the United Kingdom. However a simmering resentment remained among the people due to the execution of the rebel leaders, internment of the surviving Volunteers and the continued recruitment drive for manpower for the War effort; allied with the carrot and stick approach tactics of the British linking the implementation of Home Rule to conscription. The rejuvenated Volunteers and its leaders, once released from internment (Frongoch Internment Camp in Wales was known as the “University of Revolution “) had begun to re-organize and rally around the issue of recruitment. The funeral in 1917 of 1916 leader Thomas Ashe (who died on hunger strike while being force fed) had many echoes of the pre-Rising funeral of O’ Donovan Rossa; the impressive organisation of the Volunteers on the day of Ashe’s funeral, and even the choice of a relatively unknown funeral orator, Michael Collins; who would go on to play as dominant a role in the forthcoming conflict, as Patrick Pearse had done in the previous one. Other important indicators of the subtle return of confidence to the separatist ranks were the ceding, by Arthur Griffith of the Presidency of Sinn Fein in favour of Eamon De Valera and the subsequent election of De Valera as President of the Volunteers; increasingly referred to as the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Sinn Fein now had the confidence of an army underlying it. The IRA, after the Sinn Fein landslide victory in the general election of 1918, now enjoyed the legitimacy of a democratic majority. Having stood on a policy platform of abstaining from the Westminster Parliament - regarding it as a foreign parliament, the newly elected Sinn Fein members ( those that were not still imprisoned or on the run) convened on 21st of January , 1918 to form the new independent assembly, Dáil Éireann. On the same day in Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, two RIC policemen were killed by men from the South Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, in an attempt to gain much needed arms. This is regarded as the first significant encounter of the Anglo-Irish War. Apart from purloining arms, another key tactic of the IRA was instigating a boycott, among locals, of the police. This intimidation inevitably led to a mass of retirements and reduction in the force and ultimately abandoning many of the more isolated rural barracks; leading to a breakdown in civil authority and a further legitimacy to Sinn Fein as the only local enforcement of civil order. The British authorities were prepared to leave the conflict at a ‘law and order’ level as a war would effectively recognise the authority of the new government. The preferred method of engaging with the insurgents was by way of ‘unofficial’ reprisals and harassment but these practices usually only elicited more resentment from the general populace. It was only when an orchestrated attack on three RIC barracks in the Cork area commanded by The Cork No.1 Brigade, that acknowledgment was made at British Government level that “…acts of war…” had been committed. One of these concurrent attacks was an unsuccessful one on the RIC Barracks at Kilmurry by a force of about 60 Macroom Company men with some men from the Kilmurry Company acting as scouts and look-outs. Eventually the British acknowledged the escalation of hostilities by recruiting support for the understrength RIC. This arrived in the form of temporary cadets – Black and Tans – named after their ad-hoc uniforms which were a mix of RIC and British Army due to supply shortages; figuratively betraying also the dual nature of their role. There were further reinforcements from experienced former British Officers in the guise of a paramilitary force, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC), more commonly known as Auxiliaries or Auxies. A further bolster to the Crown Forces was the introduction of the draconian Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920 and later on the selective introduction of martial law. The IRA in Cork responded to the escalation of hostilities with their own mobile paramilitary units – The Flying Column – which gained some notable military victories over the more experienced and numerically superior Crown Forces. In Dublin Michael Collins as Director of Intelligence for the Irish Republican Army (among his many roles) had a notable coup whereby the IRA essentially emasculated British Intelligence operations in Dublin by locating and killing eleven members of the crack undercover team known as the ‘Cairo Gang’. In retaliation the Crown Forces opened fire on a Gaelic football match in Croke Park; fourteen civilians died in the attack. Later on the British murdered three IRA prisoners it was holding in Dublin Castle. The day was dubbed as ‘Bloody Sunday’ and was considered a major propaganda and strategic victory for the IRA. The same year saw another major military and morale boosting victory for the IRA when in Cork an ambush of Auxiliaries in Kilmichael by the West Cork Flying Column resulted in 17 British casualties for the loss of three Volunteers. In response the British imposed martial law in most of Munster, including County Cork. In Cork City they also imposed a curfew and on the night of 11–12 December 1920 they burnt and looted the city as a reprisal for an engagement earlier on that evening and the Kilmichael Ambush, two weeks earlier. While the next few months saw even more tit-for-tat casualties it seemed clear that both sides were fighting a battle neither side could hope to win. Eventually a truce was agreed on 21st of July 1921. Since Munster, Cork in particular, saw a majority of the action outside of Dublin in the War of Independence it is no surprise that Kilmurry and its neighbouring parishes were witness to some of the key activities and engagements of the conflict; given its proximity to British garrisons at Cork, Ballincollig, Macroom and Bandon, and the consequent troop movement between them. This concentration of enemy forces attracted IRA attention to the area facilitated by a network of safe houses and loyal following. One such safe-house was in the neighbouring Parish of Kilmichael, Joe O’ Sullivan’s house at Gurranereigh. While Kilmurry was in the 1st Cork Brigade area it was adjacent to the 3rd Cork Brigade, to whose men it was considered a safe and convenient haven. It was to this house that Tom Barry and his men of the 1st Cork Brigade retired to billets after the Crossbarry Ambush on 19th of March 1921. Indeed the area was so often used by the men of the West Cork Flying Column that Sean O’ Hegarty, Officer Commanding of the Ist Cork Brigade once enquired of Tom Barry if “… (they) had any food or houses in West Cork”. Another member of the West Cork Flying Column and a veteran of the Crossbarry and Kilmichael Ambushes was Liam Deasy who in his memoir of the Anglo-Irish War ‘Towards Ireland Free’ fondly remembers the welcome they always received, not only from the Kilmurry/Crookstown Company Officers but also the people of the area. On the morning of Sunday, 22nd of August 1920, the area itself was witness to an ambush of Crown Forces at Lissarda. Local Volunteer William Powell of the Kilmurry Company (later Crookstown Company) observed a convoy of RIC and Tans on the way from Cork to Macroom earlier that morning and knowing they would at some stage return to Cork, set about staging an ambush on their route through Lissarda. It was only about 2:30pm when the convoy arrived at Lissarda but even at this stage all the ambush party had not yet arrived in their positions; there had been 12:30pm Mass to attend, guns to be collected, most likely farm work and probably some dinner. During the engagement one Volunteer was killed. The local man was Michael Galvin who was secretly buried in the Kilmurry Churchyard (any overt ceremony would have incurred reprisals for the family), before later being interred, when it was safe to do so, in St. Mary’s Graveyard, Kilmurry. One of the last actions of the war just a few weeks before the truce, saw the torching of the big house at Warrenscourt. Even at this late stage of the war there was evidence that the British were intent on stationing troops there to suppress IRA activity in the area. This showed the belief of both sides that even with a truce in sight they would be more than ready to continue the fight. 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