The McShane Surname of Co.s Armagh and Tyrone
Hello Everybody. As a piece of market research I recently sent an e mail to all the subscribers to my newsletter, asking for ideas on my website and genealogical research in general.
The Ferry (Ó Fearadhaigh) family of Donegal and Sir Mulmurry McSweeney Doe
Close to my granduncle's farm near Kilmacrennan in Co. Donegal is a ruined farmhouse in the townland of Skreen.
Mac an Iolair ~ the Son of the Eagle - famous horses in sixteenth century Gaelic Ireland
With the wonderful horse racing in recent weeks I hope readers of my genealogy blog won't mind if this week my Friday blog does not have much to do with Irish genealogy but with the great love of the Irish for their race horses, which apparently stretches way back in time to early modern and probably even medieval times.
The Sixteenth Century Irish Genealogical Controversy which led to murder and war ~ Ferdoragh and Shane O'Neill
Conn Bacach O'Neill, the lord of Tyrone from 1519 until his death in 1559, was a powerful Gaelic Irish chieftain who re-established the primacy of the O'Neill family in Gaelic Ulster and was created first earl of Tyrone by the English king, Henry VIII, in 1542. In his obituary in the Annals of the Four Masters, Conn Bacach O'Neill was stated to have 'spent his age and time without blemish or reproach'.
