The Diary of Elizabeth Meade of Ballymartle 1884. Background Elizabeth Meade was born in West Cork in 1860. She was the eldest daughter of Adam Newman Meade who had been born at Ballymartle House, near Riverstick, in 1812. Adam was a younger son of Rev. Richard Meade, and so had been obliged to make his […]
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Dr George Vickery – from Ballymartle to Kinsale
Dr George Vickery – from Ballymartle to Kinsale Fergal Browne ‘My first November at Shreelane was composed of weather of which my friend Flurry Knox remarked that you wouldn’t meet a Christian out of doors, unless it was a snipe or a dispensary doctor.’ ‘Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.’ Somerville & Ross (1903). The […]
Fighting Pirates at Oysterhaven
Fighting Pirates at Oysterhaven November 1618. Fergal Browne In the archives of Kent, in England, there lies a handwritten document dated 1621. Written in Elizabethan script by Admiral Sir Thomas Button it declares itself to be: A true accounte of services donne by his Majesties shippe the Phenix on the Coaste of Ireland, Under my […]
A Kinsale Connection with the Battle of Coronel
By Padraig Walsh On the 1st November – All Saints Day – 1914 a naval battle off the coast of Chile, known as the battle of Coronel resulted in the destruction of a Royal Navy squadron. The British had suffered its first naval defeat for over a century with the loss of two armoured […]