Irish-Welsh Ancestry

In 1901, James Kenny was in his late 60s and living at 8 Great Ship Street, Dublin. His occupation was recorded as an engine fitter, a skilled trade that had once provided a modest living. But by the turn of the century, James was a widower, his wife having died six years earlier. He shared his one-room home with his twenty-year-old daughter Caroline Johnson and two of his grandchildren, eighteen-month-old Edward Johnson, and seven-year-old Jane Dunne. Great Ship Street was a narrow...

A Department of Defence stamp dated March 15th, 1933 , marks a significant appeal from Denis McCarthy of Ovens, Co.Cork. Writing to request a gratuity or pension. McCarthy outlined his extensive service and subsequent hardships during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Military Service and Condemnation Denis McCarthy joined the Irish Volunteers in 1917. The Company he served was based at Srelane. Srelane is located between the Ovens Bridge bar and the turn off for the Lee Valley Golf...

Statement of Denis McCarthy: Volunteer, E Company, 3rd Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, Irish Republican Army Denis McCarthy of Kilcrea, Ovens, Co. Cork, served as a Volunteer with the 3rd Battalion of Cork No. 1 Brigade during the Irish War of Independence and remained active through the Civil War period. His testimony, given in 1935 to the Advisory Committee, provides an insight into the dangerous and uncertain conditions faced by IRA Volunteers operating in the Cork countryside during one of...