Sir George Oliver Colthurst
The Cork Examiner Friday 25th August 1882
Colthurst: On the 24th Inst. At Inchers, County Cork, the wife of Sir George St. John Colthurst, Bart. Of Blarney Castle, County Cork, of a son.
The Cork Examiner Tuesday 1st September 1903: Coming of Age of Master George Oliver Colthurst. Rejoicing at Blarney
Grenagh is a rural parish with agriculture as its major industry. The great majority of the non-farming workforce have to travel outside the area for employment, mainly to Cork or Mallow.
I came from across the Irish Sea in 1953, to land in Dunleary, on a visit to Ireland wanting to see for myself what makes the Irish tick and see why they have attained such heights away from their homeland.
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.
It still is important to many of our readers to describe briefly the architecture and arrangements of this large and prosperous establishment. It occupies the summit of a hill overlooking the valley of the Shourna, facing Blarney Castle and its historic groves.
The extent of the popularity Parnell enjoyed at this point in his career can be gauged from the reception he received on making the trip to the southern home of his new constituents on the 3rd of October 1880.
(Before Messrs. W.J. Hara, R.M. (in the Chair). Thomas Andrews and T. Sheehan.)
Patrick Fleming, who was stated to reside at Passage West was charged by Sergeant Hogan with having made a statement likely to prejudice the recruiting of his Majesty’s forces by shouting “Up the Germans!”
Fr. Horgan states he received the account from a few of his parishioners whose fathers had been eye-witnesses to the event described. He recounts how baronies, and sometimes counties formerly, contended in this noble and manly game of hurling.
1776, Sept.15th, the Blarney Castle, S.J. Jefferys Esq., of whose great works in building a town at Blarney, I cannot give so particular an account as I wish to do; for I got there just as he and his family were setting out for France.
On Saturday 12th September 1903 ‘The Times’ in London published the following letter which it claimed to have received from…
