2021-03-16 22:51
When Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935 his parents unwittingly named him after an Irish saint. Yes, the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ was really the ‘Pat… Read More
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2020-12-28 23:41
As we reach the end of this nasty year of pandemic, it’s worth remembering that the Christmas/New Year period hasn’t always been a time of peace and goodwill. The months from… Read More
2020-06-20 20:15
Seal of the Corporation of Midleton as illustrated by Samuel Lewis in the Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. (1837)
It would be silly to let this month of June 2020 pass without noting th… Read More
2020-03-28 22:00
A medieval charter with seals attached. One seal is for the granter, the others are for the witnesses. This is NOT one of the charters mentioned in this post.
When the Anglo-Norman invaders… Read More
2020-03-16 23:41
Ken Thompson’s wonderful statue of the young St Patrick at Westport, County Mayo. (photo by Vanderkrogt.net)
Poor St Patrick! The famous national patron saint of Ireland, one of the m… Read More
2019-10-31 21:19
Daniel Maclise’sSnap Apple Night or All Hallow’s Eve at Blarney, painted in 1833 but depicting the celebrations in Fr Matthew Horgan’s barn on 31st October 1832.
With Hall… Read More
2019-08-11 20:41
Jim O’Neill’s wonderfully atmostpheric aerial view of Cloyne emerging from the morning mist with the square tower of St Colman’s Catholic Church in the foreground and the… Read More
2019-01-01 16:48
The gruesome murder of the Protestant Minister, Mr Blandry in Ulster in 1641. (Image from Trinity College, Dublin)
‘Be careful what you do or you’ll meet the murdered man on a b… Read More
2018-10-31 22:40
Ightermurragh Castle is a Stuart era ‘stronghouse’ built in 1641 by Edmund Supple and Margaret Fitzgerald ‘whom love binds as one.’ It remains one of the best preserv… Read More
2018-01-24 23:47
A short course in Family History is available in the night school at St Colman’s Community College, Midleton, from 30th January 2018. The course runs for six weeks, with two hours of… Read More
2017-12-24 18:49
It was a tradition in Ireland on Christmas Eve to light a candle and place it in a window to light the way for the Holy Family and Christ Child. The candle was lit by the youngest members of… Read More
2017-11-29 23:47
Alan Brodrick (1656-1727), 1st Baron Brodrick of Midleton and 1st Viscount Midleton, former Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Jonathan Swift, born 350… Read More
2017-10-29 23:37
Castlemartyr at dusk – the south front of the old castle consists of the tall medieval tower-house on the right and the lower early seventeenth century manor house with its three vast… Read More
2017-09-27 22:25
Midleton College Founded 1696. This inscription over the great door of the original block of Midleton College is both accurate, and disingenuous. The school was indeed founded by Elizabeth V… Read More
2017-09-24 22:05
Our last post announced a meeting to form a historical society for Midleton and Ballinacurra. The good news is that over thirty people attended the meeting in Midleton Library on Monday 18th… Read More
2017-09-13 23:07
Image: Midleton Market House as painted by Niall McCarthy.
‘Why is there no history society in Midleton?’ This question has frequently been posed to your author in the past… Read More
2017-04-15 22:43
The main street of Castlemartyr from the west in the 1880s. The Fenians attacked from the other end of the street. The Constabulary Barracks was half-way down the street almost directly oppo… Read More
2017-03-13 00:21
Fota Island from the north east. The main approach road comes from the bottom right and runs along the shore to the south of the island towards Belvelly bridge on the upper left of the pictu… Read More
2017-03-12 21:18
A view to a killing: Rock Terrace, Midleton, was built in 1861 – a mere six years before the Fenians under Timothy Daly shot dead Sub-Constable Sheedy and injured Sub-Constable O&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-03-04 22:48
Mistakenly called ‘The Fenian Man’ this statue actually commemorates the birth of Irish republicanism in the United Irishmen’s rebellions of 1798 – nearly seventy yea… Read More
2017-02-20 00:11
The impressive 1820s mausoleum of Archbishop Charles Brodrick of Cashel, and his wife Mary Woodhouse, in St John the Baptist’s Churchyard in Midleton.
When the 1959 Broadway musical &l&hell…Read More
2017-02-03 23:09
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, father of ‘Silken’ Thomas. This image appears on the dust jacket of the new book on the Geraldines.
On this day four hundred and eighty ye… Read More
2017-01-31 21:34
the Rev Francis Jones, Rector of Midleton, chose Midleton Courthouse as the venue for the meeting of 6th January 1845 to discuss the building of a railway. The meeting was called in response… Read More
2017-01-08 19:06
The original foundation building of Midleton Endowed School (now Midleton College) was completed under the supervision of Thomas Brodrick in 1717 and opened to take in pupils later that year… Read More
2016-11-23 23:45
The view from the front of Midleton Lodge shows the grove of trees on the north bank of the Dungourney River in mid-October 2016. The grove stands in front of the wall that separates the dem… Read More
2016-10-29 21:57
Although it reads like a novel, Pauline Roche’s tale is not a work of fiction by the Bronte sisters but a riveting tale about a feisty young lady righting a long standing wrong done to… Read More
2016-10-29 21:39
A fascinating post by William Grey about the now vanished Aghada Hall (previously Aghada House), which was the HQ of the US Naval Air Station Queenstown during World War I. One of the best t… Read More
2016-10-09 00:09
Dodging the bullet – the sport of road bowling is common in East Cork. The village of Ballincurrig holds the most prestigious international competition in the country.
If you just happ… Read More
2016-10-01 23:40
Dunsink Observatory near Dublin was the official regulator of Irish time from 1880 until 1st October 1916 when Ireland was incorporated into the British time zone. This observatory was once… Read More
2016-09-11 17:28
The elegant spire of St John the Baptist’s Church, Midleton, completed in 1825 to the design of Richard Pain. The top of this spire collapsed onto the roof of the church during the st… Read More
2016-08-28 21:54
Main Street, Midleton, around 1900.
Heritage Week 2016 has now ended but it started a day late as usual in Midleton. On Sunday 21st August some fifteen to eighteen people joined my early 20… Read More
2016-08-16 21:55
National Heritage Week 2016 will start on Saturday 20th August and run until Sunday 28th August. The theme this year is to celebrate a hundred years of heritage, but this can also mean cele… Read More
2016-08-01 21:06
The spectacular coastal scenery of the Dingle Peninsula, in County Kerry.
Last month (22nd July to 24th July) I took a trip to Ballyferriter in on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry to del… Read More
2016-07-31 23:00
An early 19th century print depicting Belgrove (on the left) and East Ferry (on the right) with the ‘Ballinacurra River’ in between. The view is towards the north in the directio… Read More
2016-05-24 21:26
The latest public lecture in Midleton Library will be a survey of the history of the Fitzgeralds of Imokilly from 1177 to the early 20th century.
It will cover the early Fitzgeralds in Imoki… Read More
2016-05-23 21:06
The blog Vox Hiberionacum has published an excellent account of the Ballycotton ‘Allah’ Cross Brooch now in the British Museum.
You can read it here:
https://voxhiberionacum.word… Read More
2016-05-07 22:29
Castlemartyr Castle was certainly the the principal seat of the FitzGeralds, Seneschals of Imokilly, from 1463. Did the sons of Maurice FitzRichard, 3rd Knight of Kerry get their nickname &l&hell…Read More
2016-04-24 20:20
Ballycotton on its headland, with its two islands and tiny harbour for fishermen.
The fishing village of Ballycotton in East Cork is perched on a cliff with a headland providing modes… Read More
2016-04-09 18:37
The annual Cork Lifelong Learning Festival has expanded beyond the city in 2016. One of the venues this year is Midleton!
As part of the Festival, on Saturday 16th April, a free histo… Read More
2016-04-02 22:50
The doorway to St John the Baptist Church (Church of Ireland), Midleton. Standing on the site of the medieval Cistercian Abbey of Chore, this church was completed in 1825 by the brothers Geo… Read More
2016-03-26 22:13
Cork Volunteer units on parade at Cornmarket Yard in 1916
On Easter Sunday, 23rd April 1916, a party of armed men boarded the scheduled train service from Youghal to Cork at Mogeely s… Read More
2016-03-26 19:59
John Joseph Coppinger of Midleton as an officer in the US Army during the American Civil War.
About nine months ago we posted a discussion on the work of the Gothic Revival architect AWN Pug… Read More
2016-03-25 16:24
Michelangelo’s immense Last Judgement depicts Doomsday – the Day of Judgement. It was completed in 1541 and is thought to have been partially influenced by the Sack of Rome… Read More
2016-03-03 21:45
The early 19th century Catholic church of St Colmcille at Churchtown South represents the civil parish of Ballintemple, also called Ballygorney.
In my last post I looked at the Imokilly sect… Read More
2016-01-24 01:23
The Cathedral Church of St Colman in Cloyne was closed to the Reformed Church until the death of Sir John FitzEdmund FitzGerald, Dean of Cloyne, in 1612. He was a Catholic and the Establishe… Read More
2016-01-16 18:23
Albinia Brodrick (1861-1955) as Gobnait Ni Bhruadair, a woman who changed from being an aristocratic English Tory Unionist to an Irish revolutionary Republican.
Today’s lecture… Read More
2016-01-11 22:04
The Hon. Albinia Brodrick as a nurse.
As part of the Cork County Council 1916 Centenary Commemoration programme a public lecture will take place in Midleton Library on Saturday 16th January… Read More
2016-01-10 23:55
The from Lewis Bridge of the flooded southern end of Main Street, Midleton, on Wednesday morning, 30th December. (Irish Examiner)
Walking by the banks of the Owenacurra River, the principal… Read More
2015-12-15 22:44
The Cove of Cork from Summerhill about 1830, when the battle of the Ballybricken oysters took place. The great expanse of Cork hHrbour is in the centre of the picture. The various vess… Read More
2015-11-25 09:32
‘Who was Nellie Cashman?’ is a question frequently raised by people when discussing this monument. Hopefully the question will be answered on Thursday.
For decades there was only… Read More
2015-11-22 00:04
Midleton College’s original building is the right-hand part of the facade shown above, completed in 1717, over two decades after the school was founded in 1696. The wing on the left wa… Read More
2015-11-01 20:21
Ashbourne House in Glounthaune could have been lost in the 1960s. Fortunately it was acquired by the Garde family who rain it into a small hotel and who also maintained the gardens for the e… Read More
2015-10-31 22:38
The turnip Jack O’Lantern is the Irish Halloween tradition – the use of pumpkins is an American idea which, sadly, has caught on in Ireland. .
As we enter the dark half of… Read More
2015-10-28 00:28
The traditional site of the Seneschal of Imokilly’s attempted ambush of Walter Raleigh is usually placed on the Owenacurra River (foreground) near the present St John the Baptist&rsquo&hell…Read More
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