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"Ochone! When I Used to Be Young",
sung by Joseph O'Mara in 1901.



"My Love: The O'Rahilly" (2006),
about the death of The O'Rahilly in 1916.



Weather in Dublin

Dublin, Ireland.
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Coming in early 2008


  • O'Rahilly (or Rahilly, or O'Rahilly "Fionn", or The O'Rahilly) of Sliabh Luachra (and Ballylongford and Dublin)

  • Mangan of Shanagolden, Co.Limerick
  • Nolan of Waterpark, Co.Limerick


Coming in late 2008


  • Humphrys (or Humphreys) of Doonane, Co.Tipperary (and Glenstal, Co.Limerick)
  • Ryan (Ryan "Tim" or Ryan "Cadea") of Newross, Co.Tipperary


Coming in 2009


Coming at some point in the future

My wife's three connections to the World family tree:

Augustus Reebkomp.



Barbara Yeats.



Dr.William Kerr.



My possible connection to the World family tree:

Blennerhassett Cashel.

I get Gibbon into Burke's Peerage, 2004:

The Gibbon family descend from the 10th Earl of Pembroke through his illegitimate son. Arthur Gibbon married his granddaughter in 1814.

Burke's Peerage was first published in 1826, and for 178 years their entry for PEMBROKE excluded the Gibbon line because it was illegitimate.

When Burke's Peerage was re-launched in 1999, they said they would include illegitimate lines, so I contacted them in 2000. Due to my research, in 2004 I managed to get a mention of Gibbon inserted into Burke's Peerage. They had been excluded from it for 178 years.

Here is a screen shot of part of the new entry for PEMBROKE in Burke's Peerage (this is pay-to-view at burkes-peerage.net):


Thursday, 15 May 2008

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2008 - 2007 - 2006
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The Blennerhassett Challenge, launch May 2008
Royal Descents
US Presidential election, 2008
Dad, RIP, Feb 2008



My father, with whom I went on family tree research trips for 25 years, died of a sudden and unexpected illness on 27 Feb 2008. His family is heartbroken. He was a great father. I was very close to him.

Contact me if you need the address of my mother to send condolences. Or send condolences through me. Good bye, Dad.




Dad in 2006.
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Full video of The Struggle online

Click to play full 55 minute video of the drama-documentary The Struggle (2003) about the Free State raid on 36 Ailesbury Rd in 1922.

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36 Ailesbury Rd for sale for €20 m
Cashel of Alaska
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Embedded interactive Google satellite maps

Location of the Gibbon graves, Nigg Bay, Aberdeen.


2007
1911 Dublin census online
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My wife's 4th Royal Descent, worked out 2007.
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Lost portrait of Augustus Reebkomp
hanging in Gibbon home, 1913.
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Arthur Gibbon.
O'Meara (later O'Mara) tree now online
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