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Miscellaneous possibly related families
Miscellaneous Flanagans in the area (note though that it is a common surname):
Michael Francis Doyle thought he was a cousin.
[Frank Flanagan's memoirs] say he was: "A relation of mine".
Nothing to Joe Doyle's family though.


   
(Left) Michael Francis Doyle and his wife Nancy, after audience with Pope Pius XII, Jan 1951.
(Right) Michael Francis Doyle with the new Pope John XXIII, 1958. See full size.
Michael Francis Doyle,
born c.1880, Irish-American,
international lawyer, very wealthy,
mar Nancy ---, no issue,
came from America to advise Roger Casement's defence in 1916,
friend of George Bernard Shaw,
devout Catholic, he was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,
he left about £40,000 to repair the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem,
close friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
adviser to Harry S. Truman, US President 1945-53, at start of Cold War, "Truman's right-hand man",
NUI conferred Doctorate of Laws on him,
Nancy fl 1951,
he was part of an American syndicate that purchased Kenmare House, Killarney, Co.Kerry in 1957,
he fl 1958.
Listed as cousins of Sr. Padua at her funeral 1936:


Mr. J. Byrne, and his wife.
Dev's wife:
Eoin O'Mahony, the scholar, traveller and amateur genealogist, and friend of Frank Flanagan, claimed that Eamon de Valera's wife was a relation of these Flanagans.
Liam Cosgrave says this is not true: "As far as I am aware the views of Eoin O'Mahoney are based on his vivid imagination which had great flights of fancy".
Think W.T. Cosgrave said "That was the only thing that Dev and I ever had in common, was that we both married Flanagans.".
John Flanagan remembers hearing as a child that De Valera was somewhere in the family tree.


Laurence Flanagan,
of Carbery, Co.Kildare, had issue:

  1. Sinéad Flanagan,
    born 1st June 1878 [grave],
    born Jane or Janice Flanagan, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin,
    mar Eamon de Valera (and here and here)
    and had issue [see DE VALERA in [Burkes Irish, 1976]].
    See their grave, Glasnevin (and here and here and here).
    The singer Sinéad O'Connor was named after her.
Lamphier and Lawlor:
Frank Flanagan said that Lawlor of Irishtown House, Clondalkin, Co.Dublin, were relations.
But Dody Lawlor said they weren't. She said the Flanagans were gardeners to the Lamphiers when the Lamphiers lived at Drimnagh Castle, and that is how the 2 families knew each other.
However John Byrne says there is no record of the Lamphiers ever living at Drimnagh Castle.

In fact, it seems that the Flanagans knew the Lawlors from before they were connected with Lamphier. Whether related or not, Liam Cosgrave says the families were always very good friends:


Lieut. Joseph Lamphier,
NOT Lanphier, French,
mar Bridget --- [born 1788],
he was bur Goldenbridge cemetery, Inchicore, 7th Nov 1838,
family lived 142 James's St, Dublin, before c.1850,
Bridget bur Goldenbridge, 23rd Feb 1870, age 82 yrs,
had issue:

  1. Marianne Lamphier [or Maryanne], born est c.1820,
    mar John Lawlor [born est c.1810] and had issue.
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