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April was the Month of the Shattered Hearth

Ireland

A Plaque Too Far…

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A Plaque Too Far… TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DERRYVEAGH EVICTION AD 1861 \

Players and Places

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WHO’s WHO An evolving Who’s Who and Where and When of the Derryveagh Evictions and its Aftermath (In progress… Add your players!)

Feared more than God Almighty

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Jack Adair was one of the most unpopular landlords in this country, and I heard a story of him asking one of his agents one day if he was afraid of him. The ...

The Adairs of Donegal

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Dr. Robert Spiegelman “The Adairs of Donegal: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Game Plan” in Donegal Annual: Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society no. 59 ...

Ascendancy

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Ascendancy The lords and other landowners of Ireland, known, together with their relations as the Ascendancy, long after they had ceased to be in the ascenda...

The Great Hunger

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content gallery Severity of the Famine in Ireland, 1845-49

Donegal

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content gallery County Donegal: At a Glance

Derryveagh: The Eviction Zone

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content gallery Adair cleansed most Gaels from the region around Loch Gartan (R) to own the private m...

Cromwell’s Impact

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content gallery Effect of Cromwell on Land Ownership in Ireland 1641/1703

Adair’s Homeland

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content gallery In Queen’s County (Laois), where Adair was born and reared. (See Belle Grove nr. Ball...

Self-Consuming Consumers

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By the 1860s, big house life for most landlords had returned to one of splendor and plenty. Most owners spent lavishly on maintaining them as they had done i...

The Saga Begins: A Way to Say Mine

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Adair first saw Glenveagh in 1857 wheile on a tour of the area and, in his own words, he was ‘enchanted by the surpassing beauty of the scenery.’ After his v...

First off the Lot…

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The family of the Widow Mc Award was the first to face the terror of the Crowbar Brigade. The Sheriff, accompanied by Adair’s new Estate Manager, approached ...

On the First Night, and counting…

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At night the scene became fearfully sad. Passing along the base of the mountain the spectator might have observed near to each house its former inmates crouc...

What the Famine Couldn’t Do…

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By two, Wednesday afternoon, the terrible work had been accomplished and a deathly silence descended over the whole area. The Derryveagh District had been cl...

Numbers Alone Cannot Express…

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The official Derryveagh Eviction Report tells us that there were 46 houses from which 47 families were evicted. 159 children were put out on the road. 28 hom...

A Debate & The Vote

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The Debate William Scully MP “[Derryveagh is] a case of oppression that could not be paralleled in any part of the world out of Ireland [whose] “scenes were ...

Sent to Another Plane of Being…

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…[T]o be transported so far [away], the chance of ever coming back is so minute that it was almost as absolute a fate - Australia - as death is. It’s the sam...

Oceans of Consolation

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When Irish Australians spoke of ‘home,’ they often called to mind a social environment peopled by relatives or neighbours… The Victorian ideal of home as a f...

Aftermath: A View of Glenveigh Castle…

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At last we came in sight of Loughveigh lying cradled among the rocks, and got a glimpse of the white tower of Glenveigh Castle. There is a small skirting of ...

Aftermath: A View of Derryveagh

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Since Mr. Adair depopulated Derryveigh, and gave it over to silence, the roads have been neglected, and have become rather difficult for a car. The relief wo...

Leaving Home: On the Road to Exile

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On the day they were to set out for Liverpool, a strange scene was witnessed. The cavalcade was accompanied by a concourse of neighbours and sympathisers. Th...

Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman

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Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman I was called out of my little den to see a woman, one of the evicted tenants of Mr. Adair. She was on her way to ...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part Three

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With the advice of the last stanza, I, for one, fully agree. Let Irishmen beg no act of grace from an alien Senate,- no miserable mouthful of liberty flung a...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part One

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“The following pages are the result of no stretch of imagaination, no creation of fancy. The Glenveigh evictions, by which two hundred and forty human beings...

Bad Reviews: From the Times of London

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Bad Reviews: From the Times of London To invoke the aid of the sheriff and the presence of the resident magistrate to turn out some fifty families, numberin...

500,000 Curses Ballad

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Here we took another road to visit Glenveigh and see Adair’s castle. On the way we were informed by a woman, speaking in Irish, that a process-server near Cr...

Poetic Justice

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To form the street, if one may call it street, Where ducks and pigs in filthy forum meet; A scrambling, careless, falter’d place, no doubt; ...

All creation groans and travails

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“All creation groans and travails…” Is the reason Adair first goes to America because Europe, England and Ireland’s Great Cattle Plague was a Threat to his ...

Post-Eviction Ironies: So Stately and Grey

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“Where the mountains arise to the oft-changing skies, And the Castle stands stately and grey; Where the calm lake lies still ‘neath that wild ru...

Karma 1: Cause and Effect?

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In 1887, Mrs. Adair raised Rathdaire Church (Church of Ireland) to her husband’s memory. Within a few months time, their grand Rathdaire mansion suddenly bur...

Cornelia’s Credo

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Cornelia’s Credo “So every time has its own special joys, and the great thing is to miss as little as possible, and to share as much.”

Depths I Hardly Knew Existed…

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I found it extremely moving as I drove up the road to Churchill from Letterkenny, realising that I was coming up the road my great-grandparents had struggled...

Silent Land: Shattered Hearth

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Visiting in 1990, Monsignor Tony Doherty of Sydney Derryveagh’s first returning descendant offered its epitaph: “April was the month of the shattered hearth.”

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Derryveagh

A Plaque Too Far…

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A Plaque Too Far… TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DERRYVEAGH EVICTION AD 1861 \

Players and Places

1 minute read

WHO’s WHO An evolving Who’s Who and Where and When of the Derryveagh Evictions and its Aftermath (In progress… Add your players!)

Feared more than God Almighty

1 minute read

Jack Adair was one of the most unpopular landlords in this country, and I heard a story of him asking one of his agents one day if he was afraid of him. The ...

The Adairs of Donegal

less than 1 minute read

Dr. Robert Spiegelman “The Adairs of Donegal: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Game Plan” in Donegal Annual: Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society no. 59 ...

Ascendancy

less than 1 minute read

Ascendancy The lords and other landowners of Ireland, known, together with their relations as the Ascendancy, long after they had ceased to be in the ascenda...

The Great Hunger

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Severity of the Famine in Ireland, 1845-49

Donegal

less than 1 minute read

content gallery County Donegal: At a Glance

Derryveagh: The Eviction Zone

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Adair cleansed most Gaels from the region around Loch Gartan (R) to own the private m...

Cromwell’s Impact

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Effect of Cromwell on Land Ownership in Ireland 1641/1703

Adair’s Homeland

less than 1 minute read

content gallery In Queen’s County (Laois), where Adair was born and reared. (See Belle Grove nr. Ball...

Self-Consuming Consumers

less than 1 minute read

By the 1860s, big house life for most landlords had returned to one of splendor and plenty. Most owners spent lavishly on maintaining them as they had done i...

The Saga Begins: A Way to Say Mine

less than 1 minute read

Adair first saw Glenveagh in 1857 wheile on a tour of the area and, in his own words, he was ‘enchanted by the surpassing beauty of the scenery.’ After his v...

First off the Lot…

1 minute read

The family of the Widow Mc Award was the first to face the terror of the Crowbar Brigade. The Sheriff, accompanied by Adair’s new Estate Manager, approached ...

On the First Night, and counting…

less than 1 minute read

At night the scene became fearfully sad. Passing along the base of the mountain the spectator might have observed near to each house its former inmates crouc...

What the Famine Couldn’t Do…

less than 1 minute read

By two, Wednesday afternoon, the terrible work had been accomplished and a deathly silence descended over the whole area. The Derryveagh District had been cl...

Numbers Alone Cannot Express…

less than 1 minute read

The official Derryveagh Eviction Report tells us that there were 46 houses from which 47 families were evicted. 159 children were put out on the road. 28 hom...

A Debate & The Vote

3 minute read

The Debate William Scully MP “[Derryveagh is] a case of oppression that could not be paralleled in any part of the world out of Ireland [whose] “scenes were ...

Sent to Another Plane of Being…

less than 1 minute read

…[T]o be transported so far [away], the chance of ever coming back is so minute that it was almost as absolute a fate - Australia - as death is. It’s the sam...

Oceans of Consolation

less than 1 minute read

When Irish Australians spoke of ‘home,’ they often called to mind a social environment peopled by relatives or neighbours… The Victorian ideal of home as a f...

Aftermath: A View of Glenveigh Castle…

2 minute read

At last we came in sight of Loughveigh lying cradled among the rocks, and got a glimpse of the white tower of Glenveigh Castle. There is a small skirting of ...

Aftermath: A View of Derryveagh

2 minute read

Since Mr. Adair depopulated Derryveigh, and gave it over to silence, the roads have been neglected, and have become rather difficult for a car. The relief wo...

Leaving Home: On the Road to Exile

less than 1 minute read

On the day they were to set out for Liverpool, a strange scene was witnessed. The cavalcade was accompanied by a concourse of neighbours and sympathisers. Th...

Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman

1 minute read

Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman I was called out of my little den to see a woman, one of the evicted tenants of Mr. Adair. She was on her way to ...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part Three

1 minute read

With the advice of the last stanza, I, for one, fully agree. Let Irishmen beg no act of grace from an alien Senate,- no miserable mouthful of liberty flung a...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part One

2 minute read

“The following pages are the result of no stretch of imagaination, no creation of fancy. The Glenveigh evictions, by which two hundred and forty human beings...

Bad Reviews: From the Times of London

less than 1 minute read

Bad Reviews: From the Times of London To invoke the aid of the sheriff and the presence of the resident magistrate to turn out some fifty families, numberin...

500,000 Curses Ballad

3 minute read

Here we took another road to visit Glenveigh and see Adair’s castle. On the way we were informed by a woman, speaking in Irish, that a process-server near Cr...

Poetic Justice

4 minute read

To form the street, if one may call it street, Where ducks and pigs in filthy forum meet; A scrambling, careless, falter’d place, no doubt; ...

All creation groans and travails

1 minute read

“All creation groans and travails…” Is the reason Adair first goes to America because Europe, England and Ireland’s Great Cattle Plague was a Threat to his ...

Post-Eviction Ironies: So Stately and Grey

less than 1 minute read

“Where the mountains arise to the oft-changing skies, And the Castle stands stately and grey; Where the calm lake lies still ‘neath that wild ru...

Karma 1: Cause and Effect?

less than 1 minute read

In 1887, Mrs. Adair raised Rathdaire Church (Church of Ireland) to her husband’s memory. Within a few months time, their grand Rathdaire mansion suddenly bur...

Cornelia’s Credo

less than 1 minute read

Cornelia’s Credo “So every time has its own special joys, and the great thing is to miss as little as possible, and to share as much.”

Depths I Hardly Knew Existed…

less than 1 minute read

I found it extremely moving as I drove up the road to Churchill from Letterkenny, realising that I was coming up the road my great-grandparents had struggled...

Silent Land: Shattered Hearth

less than 1 minute read

Visiting in 1990, Monsignor Tony Doherty of Sydney Derryveagh’s first returning descendant offered its epitaph: “April was the month of the shattered hearth.”

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Donegal

A Plaque Too Far…

less than 1 minute read

A Plaque Too Far… TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DERRYVEAGH EVICTION AD 1861 \

Players and Places

1 minute read

WHO’s WHO An evolving Who’s Who and Where and When of the Derryveagh Evictions and its Aftermath (In progress… Add your players!)

Feared more than God Almighty

1 minute read

Jack Adair was one of the most unpopular landlords in this country, and I heard a story of him asking one of his agents one day if he was afraid of him. The ...

The Adairs of Donegal

less than 1 minute read

Dr. Robert Spiegelman “The Adairs of Donegal: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Game Plan” in Donegal Annual: Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society no. 59 ...

Ascendancy

less than 1 minute read

Ascendancy The lords and other landowners of Ireland, known, together with their relations as the Ascendancy, long after they had ceased to be in the ascenda...

The Great Hunger

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Severity of the Famine in Ireland, 1845-49

Donegal

less than 1 minute read

content gallery County Donegal: At a Glance

Derryveagh: The Eviction Zone

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Adair cleansed most Gaels from the region around Loch Gartan (R) to own the private m...

Cromwell’s Impact

less than 1 minute read

content gallery Effect of Cromwell on Land Ownership in Ireland 1641/1703

Adair’s Homeland

less than 1 minute read

content gallery In Queen’s County (Laois), where Adair was born and reared. (See Belle Grove nr. Ball...

Self-Consuming Consumers

less than 1 minute read

By the 1860s, big house life for most landlords had returned to one of splendor and plenty. Most owners spent lavishly on maintaining them as they had done i...

The Saga Begins: A Way to Say Mine

less than 1 minute read

Adair first saw Glenveagh in 1857 wheile on a tour of the area and, in his own words, he was ‘enchanted by the surpassing beauty of the scenery.’ After his v...

First off the Lot…

1 minute read

The family of the Widow Mc Award was the first to face the terror of the Crowbar Brigade. The Sheriff, accompanied by Adair’s new Estate Manager, approached ...

On the First Night, and counting…

less than 1 minute read

At night the scene became fearfully sad. Passing along the base of the mountain the spectator might have observed near to each house its former inmates crouc...

What the Famine Couldn’t Do…

less than 1 minute read

By two, Wednesday afternoon, the terrible work had been accomplished and a deathly silence descended over the whole area. The Derryveagh District had been cl...

Numbers Alone Cannot Express…

less than 1 minute read

The official Derryveagh Eviction Report tells us that there were 46 houses from which 47 families were evicted. 159 children were put out on the road. 28 hom...

A Debate & The Vote

3 minute read

The Debate William Scully MP “[Derryveagh is] a case of oppression that could not be paralleled in any part of the world out of Ireland [whose] “scenes were ...

Sent to Another Plane of Being…

less than 1 minute read

…[T]o be transported so far [away], the chance of ever coming back is so minute that it was almost as absolute a fate - Australia - as death is. It’s the sam...

Oceans of Consolation

less than 1 minute read

When Irish Australians spoke of ‘home,’ they often called to mind a social environment peopled by relatives or neighbours… The Victorian ideal of home as a f...

Aftermath: A View of Glenveigh Castle…

2 minute read

At last we came in sight of Loughveigh lying cradled among the rocks, and got a glimpse of the white tower of Glenveigh Castle. There is a small skirting of ...

Aftermath: A View of Derryveagh

2 minute read

Since Mr. Adair depopulated Derryveigh, and gave it over to silence, the roads have been neglected, and have become rather difficult for a car. The relief wo...

Leaving Home: On the Road to Exile

less than 1 minute read

On the day they were to set out for Liverpool, a strange scene was witnessed. The cavalcade was accompanied by a concourse of neighbours and sympathisers. Th...

Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman

1 minute read

Aftermath: Interview with an Evicted Woman I was called out of my little den to see a woman, one of the evicted tenants of Mr. Adair. She was on her way to ...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part Three

1 minute read

With the advice of the last stanza, I, for one, fully agree. Let Irishmen beg no act of grace from an alien Senate,- no miserable mouthful of liberty flung a...

Preface to a Tragedy: Part One

2 minute read

“The following pages are the result of no stretch of imagaination, no creation of fancy. The Glenveigh evictions, by which two hundred and forty human beings...

Bad Reviews: From the Times of London

less than 1 minute read

Bad Reviews: From the Times of London To invoke the aid of the sheriff and the presence of the resident magistrate to turn out some fifty families, numberin...

500,000 Curses Ballad

3 minute read

Here we took another road to visit Glenveigh and see Adair’s castle. On the way we were informed by a woman, speaking in Irish, that a process-server near Cr...

Poetic Justice

4 minute read

To form the street, if one may call it street, Where ducks and pigs in filthy forum meet; A scrambling, careless, falter’d place, no doubt; ...

All creation groans and travails

1 minute read

“All creation groans and travails…” Is the reason Adair first goes to America because Europe, England and Ireland’s Great Cattle Plague was a Threat to his ...

Post-Eviction Ironies: So Stately and Grey

less than 1 minute read

“Where the mountains arise to the oft-changing skies, And the Castle stands stately and grey; Where the calm lake lies still ‘neath that wild ru...

Karma 1: Cause and Effect?

less than 1 minute read

In 1887, Mrs. Adair raised Rathdaire Church (Church of Ireland) to her husband’s memory. Within a few months time, their grand Rathdaire mansion suddenly bur...

Cornelia’s Credo

less than 1 minute read

Cornelia’s Credo “So every time has its own special joys, and the great thing is to miss as little as possible, and to share as much.”

Depths I Hardly Knew Existed…

less than 1 minute read

I found it extremely moving as I drove up the road to Churchill from Letterkenny, realising that I was coming up the road my great-grandparents had struggled...

Silent Land: Shattered Hearth

less than 1 minute read

Visiting in 1990, Monsignor Tony Doherty of Sydney Derryveagh’s first returning descendant offered its epitaph: “April was the month of the shattered hearth.”

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presentations

Past Events

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2007 Events APRIL, NYC: ACIS Conference Dr. Spiegelman presents on the Derryveagh Evictions & America at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Confer...

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coillte

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