William Francis Browne was born in May 1876, third youngest of eight children, to Brigid Hegarty and James Browne, a wealthy flour merchant and a Tertiary of St. Dominic who lived in Buxton’s Place off Sundays Well in Cork city.
Do many people realise that Blarney had/has its own Emblem?
Do many people remember the Blarney Emblem?
How many people actually bought and still have a framed copy of the Emblem?
On Friday June 10th 1988, Blarney was the sixth town in the Cork area to have an official tourist information point which was officially declared open for business by the Minister of State for Tourism, Mr. Denis Lyons T.D.
Many of the more senior readers of the ‘Old Blarney’ Journals or the Muskerry News will have memories of the roadside water pumps located about the district where an essential daily supply of water was collected in enamel buckets and other receptacles for household use.
1942. Europe and the world were in turmoil at the height of World War 2, with almost all nations involved with the exception of a small number which remained neutral. Ireland was one of the neutral ones and the period was declared ‘The Emergency’.
The village of Blarney stands on the River Martin and it was to this place that the Mahony Brothers were attracted in 1823 when they were considering relocating their business from Blackpool in Cork city to Blarney in 1824.
On Friday, 23rd November 1917, during the Battle of Cambrai, in Fontaine – Notre Dame, which is located about 4 kilometres to the West of Cambrai, a British Mark IV ‘female’ tank of 6 Company, 12th section, B Battalion, was knocked out by German artillery.
July 12th 2015 heralded the 30th Anniversary of the foundation of The Blarney & District Historical Society.
A large number of men from the Blarney area, for many different reasons, left to take part in the First World War between 1914 and 1918. Many returned but quite a number of them did not and they will never be forgotten.
The very beautiful and highly illuminated stained glass windows which make up the display above the organ and choir gallery in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Blarney, depict, appropriately, the martyred Saint Cecilia – Patron Saint of Church Music.
