Blarney Group L.D.F. 1942

This will be a vulgar article, not to say low, for it relates to slang, which is both. Therefore, you who are particular in these things, or squeamish, would do well to skip.

The War of Independence in County Cork stepped up a gear on January 2nd 1920 with simultaneous attacks on police barracks in Carrigtwohill, Kilmurry and Inchigeela.

My father served as Superintendent of the Gardaí in the Blarney District from 1944 until he retired in 1962. He was so happy living and working in Blarney that he declined an offer of promotion as Chief Superintendent so that he could end his days there.

By the will of Nicholas Mahony, his nephews Martin and Edmund Roynane, were appointed trustees of a sum of £5000 to be spent in establishing a convent of Sisters of Charity in Blarney.

“The year 1836 dawned in an air permeated with an element of tension arising from the seething unrest that existed between the Catholic laity and the Protestant clergymen of the day.

Listing of the first Applicants for Membership of the newly forming ‘Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception’ Blarney Boys Club’, under the direction of the Blarney Praesidium of The Legion of Mary.