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- undated — T. D. Sullivan — *Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept*T. D. Sullivan's Bantry/Berehaven/O'Sullivan Sept — the 19th-c. Bantry-nationalist history of the family's region
T. D. (Timothy Daniel) Sullivan's local history of Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept — the late-19th-c. nationalist treatment of the same Beara region t…
- undated — Family photographs (a photographed colour print)The O'Sullivan Seer's house at Carraig a Phréacháin, Beara
A modern colour photograph (re-photographed from a print) of the house associated with the **O'Sullivan Seer** ("the Seer O'Sullivan" / an Sáirséalach-type Bear…
- undated — Castletownbere local-history heritage guide / town-walk pamphletCastletownbere local-history walking-tour pamphlet — the family's market town
A local-history walking-tour pamphlet for **Castletownbere** (= the principal town of the Beara peninsula, the administrative/market centre for the Murphy paris…
- undated — *From Beara To Butte* — companion EPUB to the documentary of the same name*From Beara To Butte* — the central documentary/EPUB on the very migration this archive narrates
Companion EPUB to the **"From Beara to Butte" documentary** — the central secondary source on the same Beara peninsula → Butte, Montana migration arc that this …
- undated — West Cork history EPUB — most plausibly the O'Halloran 1916 work in EPUB form (matches the paired O'Halloran PDF in the same inbox)West Cork history EPUB — provisionally identified as the O'Halloran 1916 EPUB edition (verify)
EPUB version of (most plausibly) W. O'Halloran's 1916 *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork*, paired in the inbox upload with the s…
- 1846-12-31 — The Times, p.8
A correspondent writing from Berehaven, on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, describes the collapse of famine relief on the 10th of December 1846, when public w…
- 1847 — Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph — *The Poems of J. J. Callanan* (1847 ed.)The Poems of J. J. Callanan (1847) — the Cork Romantic-nationalist poet's collected verse
*The Poems of J. J. Callanan*, 1847 edition. Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795-1829) was a Cork-born Romantic-nationalist poet, often grouped with the early Young-…
- 1850-04-07 — Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland, Eyeries (Diocese of Kerry), Microfilm 04286 / 05Baptism of Patrick Murphy, 7 April 1850, Ballycruane: son of James Murphy and Margaret Uonhi
The Eyeries baptism register for 7 April 1850, the first entry of the month: "Pat. Murphy" in the margin, and in the entry "P.", lawful son of "Jacobi Murphy et…
- 1858-04-04 — Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland, Eyeries (Diocese of Kerry), Microfilm 04286 / 05Baptism of Patrick Murphy, 4 April 1858, Gort: son of Joseph Murphy and Margaret Crounhane
The Eyeries baptism register for 4 April 1858: "Patricius Murphy" in the margin, and the entry "Patricium Murphy", lawful son of "Josephi Murphy" and Margaret "…
- 1890-04-28 — Irish Examiner, p.4THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN BEREHAVEN.
A prosperous-season report on the **Berehaven spring fishery**: over 200 fishing smacks (from Arklow, Dublin, France, Isle of Man) and ~50 yawls working the gro…
- 1890-11-12 — Kerry Sentinel, p.3THE IMPENDING DISTRESS. CASTLETOWNBERE.
Report of a public representative meeting at the **Castletownbere Union** boardroom, held after routine board business on a Thursday in November 1890, to hear t…
- 1907-11-26 — Fall River Globe, p.8"MORTY OGE" AND JOHN PUXLEY.
A Fall River notice promoting a serialised history of the Beara peninsula running in "The Searchlight," a weekly published in Brockton, Mass. by **William D. Dw…
- 1916 — O'Halloran, W. — *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork*W. O'Halloran's 1916 history of West Cork — the standard secondary source for Beara antiquities, Morty Oge/Puxley, and the regional past
W. O'Halloran's 1916 *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork* — the standard regional history of the Beara/Bantry world the Murphys c…
- 1916 — Chapter extract from O'Halloran (1916), Chapter XIX (10) — "Puxley and the Famous Morty Oge"O'Halloran 1916, Chapter XIX — 'Puxley and the Famous Morty Oge'
The Puxley/Morty Oge O'Sullivan chapter from W. O'Halloran's 1916 West Cork history, held as a distinct citable extract alongside the full book. Opens: "A Welsh…
- 1918-12-10 — The Anaconda Standard, p.7ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX
Most consequential single clipping in this Stage 6 ingest for the Beara / Butte family arc. James M. McCarthy of the Centennial Brewing company in Butte receive…
- 1918-12-10 — The Butte Miner, p.5M'CARTHY'S NEPHEW IS DROWNED NEAR IRELAND
Companion to the Anaconda Standard's "ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX" on the same day — same drowning, different paper, more compact report. James J. McCarth…
- 1918-12-14 — The Butte Independent, p.1Irish Fishing Village Is Shrouded in Gloom of Sad Drowning Fatality.
The Butte Irish weekly's report of the drowning at Eyeries in November 1918, printed four days after the Butte dailies. It introduces a letter to James J. McCar…
- 1920-12-31 — Westropp, Thomas Johnson — *The Promontory Forts and Traditions of the Districts of Beare and Bantry, Co. Cork* (journal article)Westropp 1920 — promontory forts and folk-traditions of the Beare-and-Bantry districts (JRSAI)
T. J. Westropp's 1920 *Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland* article on the **promontory forts and associated folk-traditions of the Beare and…
- 1967-04-09 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Dan, 9 April 1967: 'Dad was born in Balykrewan ... about the year 1854'; her mother's two fathers
Patrick and Ellen's daughter Terese answers family-history questions from "young Dan": Dan Murphy (born 1954), then twelve or thirteen, who had a school family-…
- 1971-09-20 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Imelda, 20 Sept 1971: her father's sister married 'Tailor Sullivan'; his father 'left for America some months before he was born'
Terese writes to her niece Imelda, who is about to fly to Ireland, and tells her what she learned on her own trip of 1938. On her brother James: he spent his e…
- 1992-05-29 — The Montana Standard, p.4Tracing Murphys back to Ireland
ARCHIVE-DEFINING CLIPPING. A "letter to the editor" published in the Montana Standard's "Our readers speak" section on 29 May 1992, submitted by Donald V. Murph…
- 1999 — 'Stories as told by Riobard O'Dwyer', on the IRL-KERRY pages at RootsWeb; first sent by him to the IRL-KERRY mailing listRiobard O Dwyer, 'The Dream': his uncle Robert and the four men drowned with him off Pointe Ranna, 12 Nov 1918
Riobard O Dwyer's own telling of the seine-boat drowning of 12 November 1918 and of what his family believed followed from it. In my own words; his text is his …
- 2006-10-07 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Famine oral history — 'Norry Tenpenny' of Allihies and the death-march to Bunmahon (Black '47)
A Beara Famine oral history relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer. In my own words (verbatim text held privately in notes.md per the NEHGS CC BY-NC-ND restriction): "Norr…
- 2006-11-25 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara folktale — 'Tis a hard life the women have' (a Dursey Island role-reversal tale)
A humorous Beara folktale relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights). A man ploughing on **Dursey Island (Baoi Bheara)** comes in to din…
- 2012-01-31 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara wit — 'An Irish Prayer' (from his Butte 'From Beara to Butte' visit), 'Dan and the Pope,' 'Every old stocking finds an old shoe'
Three pieces of Beara wit relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **An Irish Prayer** — Ó Dwyer recounts that **while in Butte, …
- 2012-02-01 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara tales — 'The Carpenter's Coffin' and the blacksmith 'dentists' of Adrigole and Eyeries
Two humorous Beara folk-tales relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **The Carpenter's Coffin** — Paddy the carpenter lies in a …
- 2018 — Norelene O'Dwyer, 'The Ballycrovane Seine Fishing Tragedy, 1918', centenary article in the annual Christmas newsletter (Ardgroom/Eyeries), 2018Norelene O'Dwyer's 2018 centenary article on the Ballycrovane seine-fishing tragedy: the five dead with ages, and the survivor Patie Healy, 19
A local historian's centenary account (she is Robert O'Dwyer's niece) of the loss of the follower off Pointe Reanna, Kilcatherine, on 12 Nov 1918. The dead as p…
- 2025-01-10 — Emma Verling's English translation of Martin's "Gort Broc" (Badger's Field), story 102, "The Sinking of the Béal a' Chrobháin Follower"The seanchaí's account of the Ballycrovane follower lost in November 1918, in Emma Verling's translation from 'Gort Broc'
A first-hand storyteller's account ("That happened during my lifetime"), from the Irish-language book "Gort Broc", of the loss of the follower of the Béal a' Ch…
- 2026-09-04 — Email correspondence between Luke Murphy and the Eyeries parish office, Diocese of Kerry, 14 Aug to 4 Sept 2026Eyeries parish office, 4 Sept 2026: the 1881 parish marriage entry names the fathers only, 'James Harrington and Myles Lyne'
A report, by email from the parish secretary, of what the Eyeries parish marriage register holds for Patrick Murphy and Ellen Lyne (married February 1881). She …