OBITUARY PATRICK (VINCE) MURRAY

SHARED FROM THE IRISH ECHO

Patrick Vincent (Vince) Murray
1940 – 2011

Vince Murray presented Ireland Calling on Sydney's 2RDJ-FM.

Vince Murray passed away peacefully at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital on Friday, December 23, 2011. He had suffered a massive stroke in early November and never recovered. He was 71.

Born in Knockcroghery, Co Roscommon, he had a younger sister Mary, who passed away in 2011 after Vince had returned to Sydney following a visit home to see his family. He is survived by one brother, Harry, who lives in Galway.

Vince suffered a very early setback in life when at the age of 16, his mother passed away.

In the early ’60s, a period of high migration from Ireland, Vince hit for England.

He worked in various jobs, from nursing to the reception desk at a major psychiatric hospital. Vince’s management skills were recognized at an early age and he became assistant manager of a rehabilitation hostel for the mentally ill in Essex.

During this period, Vince had a passion for radio and being a broadcaster. He would spend many hours making mock radio programmes.

In 1973, Vince emigrated to Australia, settling down in Sydney.

He worked at Osti’s fashion house before moving on to assistant manager for the NSW Housing Commission. He was quickly promoted to manager of the Waterloo complex in Sydney and was next transferred to the Riverwood office as property manager.

Vince’s passion for radio broadcasting continued and was very much part of his other life away from work. In 1975 he, along with three others, formed radio station 2RDJ-FM.

In the following years, after many submissions to the broadcasting authority and trial broadcasts, 2RDJ-FM acquired a licence to broadcast on community radio. Vince was up and going and soon hit the airwaves.

He was very proud of his Irish heritage and along with the author, founded the programme Ireland Calling. As the producer and presenter, Vince’s passion for Irish culture was paramount to the programme.

He was the voice of the Irish in Sydney for more than 25 years.

Vince continued to present Ireland Calling up to his retirement in 2010. During his years, he served a term as chairman and secretary of the board. In recognition of his service to 2RDJ-FM, Vince was appointed its first patron in 2010.

I would like to thank the Irish-Australian community for the support and compassion they extended to Vince in his final weeks and days. To Fr Tom Deveraux for the sacramental support and to Ken Maurer (Maurer & Bracks funeral directors) for his advice and assistance.

Thanks to the staff at Bankstown-Lidcombe for the care they extended to Vince. His family in Ireland spoke of the comfort they felt in the knowledge that Vince was not journeying alone in his final days and hours.

It was Vince’s wish to be taken back to Ireland and laid to rest with his family in Knockcroghery, Co Roscommon.

* A memorial service to celebrate the life of Vince will be held at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Rockdale, at 7pm on January 20, 2012.

http://www.irishecho.com.au/2012/01/13/voice-of-irish-sydneysiders-goes-quiet/15069

A HISTORY OF IRELAND IN 100 OBJECTS - THE IRISH TIMES - SAT, JAN 14, 2012

We are so fortunate to live in an age where we can share the history and culture of other lands by the click of a button.... Read more about the wonderful and intriguing history of Ireland in the article that follows...

FINTAN O'TOOLE
The Domhnach Airgid, circa 1350

The Domhnach Airgid – or Silver Church – is a splendid exercise in medieval retro. It is not just an antique; it is a very deliberate display of self-conscious antiquity.
One of the reasons the Anglo-Normans provided a far more potent threat to the established order in Ireland than the Vikings had ever done is that these newcomers were enormously interested in controlling the Irish church.
The reform of a supposedly decadent Irish Christianity was the key ideological justification for the Anglo-Norman invasions. This also justified the supplanting of native by foreign abbots and bishops.
Long before the coming of the Anglo-Normans, however, the Irish church was in touch with the reforming movements of European Christianity, including those in England. This was especially true of the Hiberno-Norse towns of Waterford and Dublin, whose bishop Giolla Pátraic was consecrated in 1073 by the archbishop of Westminster, whom he recognised as "primate of the Britains".
The reorganisation of the Irish church into territorial dioceses on the continental model was likewise completed before the Anglo-Norman invasion. 


For the full story, go to the link below...


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0114/1224310228113.html




Where to see it National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, 01-6777444, museum.ie

'SAVE THE FORMER CHURCH OF IRELAND GRAVEYARD' KILRUSH

One more project for this week!! Paul O Brien who will speak to us this Thursday is looking for volunteers this Saturday morning, 21st January, 2012

Subject: 'Save the former Church of Ireland Graveyard'

From Paul: Hopefully, some members of the Clare Roots Society may be interested in the following project that the Kilrush Local History Group is currently undertaking. I attach some photographs of the graveyard. These photos illustrate the terrible condition of the graveyard.

 Most importantly we need VOLUNTEERS!

A tidy-up of the CoI graveyard, Kilrush is taking place next Sat morning 21 Jan. At 10am. 

Please bring some of the following: Gloves, wellies, black bags, clippers, securtares, watering can, soft brush and dry cloths. Camera is optional.

All  are welcome.

Kind Regards,

Paul O'Brien

(Kilrush Local History Group)

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CLARE CHATTER 16 Jan 2012

Courtesy of Clara Hoyne...

John Grenham has some interesting info on Limerick this week. Also a reminder re our meeting this Thursday night with Paul O Brien speaking on The Family Papers of the  Glynn Family, Kilrush. This will be held in the Ennis Civic Offices, Drumbiggle at 8pm.

Also on Thursday night on TG4 Manchán Magan tells the extraordinary stories of our houses and who lived in them before us.  Next Thursday 19th January at 10pm programme 2 MOUNT VERNON (just outside Kinvara Co. Clare) will be broadcast:

"Cé a Chónaigh i mo Theachsa?" - Episode 2 - MOUNT VERNON

TX: TG4 10 pm Thurs 19^th Jan 2012

 Mount Vernon has battled the elements of the Atlantic Ocean on the ragged shores of the Burren in Co. Clare since 1788.  It was built by Colonel Persse a friend of the first president of the United States, George Washington.  Persse's grand nephew, Ireland's greatest art collector, Hugh Lane, bought the house in 1880.  When the Lusitania was torpedoed and sank in 1915, Lane was on board and sank with the ship and his latest collection of Monet, Ruben and Rembrandt paintings. The house was passed onto Lane's aunt, Lady Augusta Gregory, one of the most pivotal figures in the Irish cultural renaissance.  It was in Mount Vernon, Manchán will discover, that she entertained WB Yeats, George Russell, Sean O'Casey, JM Synge and George Bernard Shaw and he'll find out why Yeat's dedicated his famous poem to Gregory's nephew.

And from the  Old Kilfarboy Society Miltown Malbay 

A table quiz will take place on Friday 20th January in Lynch's (Friel's) Bar, Miltown Malbay, in support of Oidhreacht an Chláir.

It will commence at 9.00pm; tables of three, Quizmaster Michael Gray.

All are welcome

Kind Regards

Clara

LIMERICK CHRONICLE 18 FEBRUARY 1852

Courtesy of Mary Mooney

Limerick Chronicle 18 February 1852

DEATHS

At her residence, in Henry -street, on Sunday, Anne, the beloved and attached wife of the Rev. Thomas Meredith, Methodist Clergyman, of George's-street Chapel, in this city, This amiable lady fell a victim to fever, caught while attending the bed of a domestic female. The remains of Mrs. Meredith were yesterday conveyed to Maryboro' for interment.

This morning in Clare-street, at an advanced age, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Byron.

At his father's residence, George's-street, Cork, Joshua R. Keays, eldest son of White Keays, Esq.

At Gurrane, county Cork, Bartholomew Golden, Esq.

At Newmarket, aged 74 years, Dorothea, relict of the late Charles Bunworth, county Waterford, and sister of the late Thomas Campion, Esq. of Peak House, co Cork.

Anne, relict of the late John Hunter, parish of Knockbreda, county Down, mother of William Hunter, Presbyterian Minister, Bandon, aged 84 years.

At his residence, Rushmount, Daniel Geran, Esq. one of the coroners of the county Cork.

In Ennis, Mrs. M'Nay, wife of Mr. James M'Nay, grocer.

Mrs. Nolan of Ballinderry, near Tuam.

At Clarke's Bridge, Cork, aged 29, Mr. Patrick O'Connor, of the establishment of Messrs. Fitzgibbon and Co.

At Blackrock-road, Ellen, wife of Mr. William K. Cahill, of cork.

At his residence, Coolmain, Hibernicus Scott, Esq. aged 78.

At Kinsale, Jeremiah Leonard, Esq.

At the residence of her son, Mr. Thomas Kennedy, Pass, Mrs. Kennedy.

In Kilkenny, Mrs. Alicia Kennedy, aged 83 years.

At Leixlip, , Mr. Patrick Dempsey.

In Mecklenburgh-street, Mrs. Catherine Carroll, relict of William Carroll, Esq. M.D., and sister of the Rev. Alexander Nicholson, Rector of Moyleny and Munsterboice.

At Charlemont-street, in the 80^th year of her age, Mrs. Ann Cunningham.

At Upper Castle-street, Tralee, Cherry, relict of Richard Blackall, Esq.

At Donaghendry Rectory, county Tyrone, Margaretta, daughter of the Rev. James Geraghty.

At Ballykilbeg House, Downpatrick, Thomasina, wife of John Brett Johnston, Esq.

In Derry, William, son of the late Alderman Leeky.

At Ross House, Cheltenham, the Dowager Lady Stuart Menteath, relict of Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, Bart. Of Closeburn Hall, Dumfriesshire, and Mansfield, Ayreshire, N. B.

At Waterloo-crescent, Dover, Emma Colebrooke, daughter of Lieut - Colonel Everest.

Charles Stoodley, ESQ. Plymouth, formerly a lieutenant of the 2d (Queen's Own) Regt. Of Dragoons.

At his residence, Down House, Red Marley, Worcestershire, George Dowdeswell, Esq. formerly Secretary to the Government of India, and Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal.

At Fareham, Harriett, relict of the late Lieut. Douglas Lawson, R.A. aged 84.

At Hodfield-grange, Essex, Osgood Hanbury, Esq. aged 87.

At Exeter, aged 80, the Rev. C. Tucker.

At Ashcroft, Cirencester, Raymond, son of the late Joseph Cripps, Esq. M.P.

At Paris, aged 48, Lieut. Maxwell Blacker, 21^st Fusileers, son of the late Lieut-Colonel St John Blacker.

At Ostend, Mary, wife of Rear Admiral Bourchier.

At St. Francisco, John Dooley, Patrick and Joanna Fitzmaurice, James Brogan, all of Ireland.

At Brooklyn, Michael Sweeny, county Donegal.

Drowned at Auckland, New Zealand, Piers, son of the late Piers Geale, Esq, Mountjoy-square, Dublin.

NEW IN IGP ARCHIVES Jan 1st - Jan 15th

Courtesy Christina Hunt...

New in the Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives from Jan 1st - Jan 15th
(does not include obits and vital records added).

Ireland (Country) Genealogy Archives - Military & Constabulary
Royal Irish Constabulary with no native county stated 1842 (JOHNSTON, BRENNAN)
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/countrywide/military.htm

Antrim Genealogy Archives - Military
1840-1841 Royal Irish Constabulary men
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/antrim/military.htm

Armagh Genealogy Archives - Military
1840-1841 Royal Irish Constabulary men
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/armagh/military.htm

Dublin Genealogy Archives - Deansgrange Cemetery
Deansgrange Cemetery, St. Patricks Section, pt 10
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/deansgrange-ndx.htm

Dublin Genealogy Archives - Headstones - Mount Jerome, Dublin
Mount Jerome, Dublin - Parts 31 - 35
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/mt-jerome-ndx.htm

Fermanagh Genealogy Archives - Church
Derryvullan (CoI) Marriages 1847-1903 (Tirkennedy, Enniskillen)
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/fermanagh/church.htm

Tipperary Genealogy Archives - Military
1842 Royal Irish Constabulary men
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/tipperary/military.htm

Sligo Genealogy Archives - Military & Constabulary
1842 Royal Irish Constabulary men
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/sligo/military.htm

Wexford Genealogy Archives - Military & Constabulary
1842 Royal Irish Constabulary men
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/wexford/military.htm

Wicklow Genealogy Archives - Military
1842 Royal Irish Constabulary men
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/wicklow/military.htm

Wicklow Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Glenealy Cemetery
www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/wicklow/photos/tombstones/markers.htm


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Christina
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LIMERICK CHRONICLE 8 NOVEMBER 1870

 Courtesy of Mary Mooney

Limerick Chronicle 8 November 1870

MARRIAGES

Trayner and Bourke - At the Vincentine Church, Sunday's Well, Cork, John V. Trayner Esq. Dublin, to Maggie, third daughter of the late Patrick Bourke, Esq. Nelson-street Tipperary.

Perry and Hearty - At Cork, John, second son of John Perry, Patrick-street, Cork, to Kate, daughter of William Hegarty, Mayor of Cork.

Grindley and Stephens - At Kilcullen Church, George Howel Grindley, Baggot-street, Dublin, second son of the late Howel Grindley, Esq. Dublin, to Catherine Jessy, second daughter of Thomas W, Stephens, Esq. Ratharagad, Dunlavin, co Wicklow.

Handy and Tarleton - At Geashill Church, Alexander Kingston Handy, Esq. JP of Parke House, Kinnegad to Margaret Frances, eldest daughter of Robert Weldon Tarleton, Esq. of Newtown House, Tullamore.

M'Lean and Nugent - At Drumcondra, Parish Church, Geo. H. M'Lean of Dublin, to Rhoda, youngest daughter of William Nugent, of Ivy Lodge, Goose Green, Drumcondra, county Dublin.

Preston and Shute - At All Saints Church, Knightsbridge, Major William Berthon Preston, Bombay Staff Corps, of Minestud Lodge, Hampshire, to Frances Anne Maria, daughter of the late Thomas Deane Shute, Esq. of Burton and Bramshaw.

Jardine and Twining - At St. Mary's Walthamstow, the Rev. Charles John Jardine, third son, of Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart,. Of Applegarth, to Martha, eldest daughter of Edwd, Twining, Esq. of Walthamstow.

Stacey and Tyler - At St. Peter's Pimlico, the Rev. J. T. Cyril Stacey, of Tockington, Gloucestershire, to Emilia Blanche, third daughter of the Rev. Roper Trevor Tyler, rector of Llantrithyd, Glamorganshire.

DEATHS

Burton - On Sunday morning, at nine o'clock, at Carnelly House, the residence of her brother, Francis N. Burton, Esq. D.L. High Sheriff of the County Clare, Cecilia, third daughter of the late Henry Stewart Burton, Esq. D.L. Carrigaholt Castle.

Bourke - This morning, at the residence of her son, the Rev. John Bourke, P.P. Pallaskenry, at the advanced age of 82 years, Mrs. Jane Bourke, relict of the late Mr. James Bourke, formerly of Caherelly, county Clare.

Sandys - At Newtown, Waterford, Horatio, relict of the late Rev. F. R. Sandys, of Barnfort Rectory co. Kilkenny.

Greene - At Dunmore East, John Greene Esq. second son of the late Major Wm. Greene and the Hon. Mrs. Greene, late of Janeville, county Waterford.

Dalton - At Crohill Lodge, co Kilkenny, James William, second eldest son of the late, Dr. D'Alton, of Ballyroan, Queen's County.

Adam - At Belmont, Galway, Emily Helen, wife of William Adam, Esq. late Captain 72^nd Highlanders.

Fraser - At Northumberland-avenus Kingstown, co. Dublin, Eliza Fraser, widow of the late Staff-Surgeon Archbold Campbell Fraser.

Marks - At Dorset-square, N.W. London, Edith, daughter of the Rev. Professor Marks.

Cole - At Finchley, Frances Blanche, wife of the Rev. T. H. Cole.

Fredricks - Capt. John Jestyn Williams Fredricks, of Abermellte, Glyn Neath, in the county of Brecon.

Whitmore - At Cadogan-place London, Emily Harriet Octavia, youngest daughter of the late General Sir George Whitmore K.C.H. Royal Engineers.

Logan - At Eastbourne terrace, Hyde-park, London, Major General George Logan, Retired Liet. Madras Army.

Pinhorne - Suddenly at St John's Vicarage, the Rev. G. Stanley Pinhorne, vicar of St. John's, Beckermet, Cumberland.

Dale - At Bouverie-street, Folkestone, George Henry Dale, Captain Royal Navy.