O’Donnell Family, Donegal Genealogy, Kansas Irish
Posted by: Mike in Irish Families, Uncategorized, tags: Callahan, Donegal, Flight of the Earls, Kansas, O'DonnellIrish Family History curious news and notes. episode 137
From the Irish Roots Cafe at www.Irishroots.com
Among Todays Topics:
1) O’Donnell is the Irish Family of the Day
2) Irish Settlers in Kansas (Book of the Month)
3) The Callahans of Kansas (Book)
4) Searching for: Williams, Rorke, Donelly, Magill
5) Flight of the Earls: The video of the week
6) Donegal is the County of the Week.
7) Ireland was once called ‘Wolf Land’
Timeline for this weeks audio broadcast:
This Weeks Topics: 1:00
Notes from Mike: 2:00
One Minute Podcast 3:59
Book of the Month: 6:30
The Magnificent Seven: 9:30
Irish Name of the Day: 11:30
Sources 15:30
Websites of the Week: 16:30
Curious News and Notes: 18:30
Total Time: 25:50
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Notes This Week:
1) You’ll see I’ve changed some segments on todays podcast,
and include a ‘ one minute podcast’ from one of our other
broadcast series…. I may just do that every show.
2) We’ve added several new courses to our hedge school here,
and one is how to broadcast your family history search, or
create your own Irish family podcast. Students leave with their
own podcast in hand ! We help with the recording and music, etc..
We could also play your recorded search online and get you some
help for the search if you are a graduate of the class !
3) Our Irish Counties show is recording at present. We have
Cork, Kerry, Clare and Limerick for starters. Expect to launch
soon.
4) I signed up for the local Irish Museum and Cultural event last
weekend, it was a workshop on Fiddle, Bodhran, Song, and
Tinwhistle. Well done, with good atmosphere and a cross section
of the community. Connie Dover was the instructor of
song and was great all the way to the finale with the rest of the
session leaders. Connie also used plenty of the Scots influence
in the tunes she selected, which were fun for all, but I reminded
her that I was with the Irish anti-defamation league, just to be
sure she did not go to far !
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One Minute Podcast
(excerpts from one of our seven podcast series )
Todays excerpt is taken from the Irish Hedgerow History podcast:
“Immigration”
Peter discusses the Immigration of the Irish and in particular
his families coming to America as examples. He mentions those
who wrote back to Ireland and eventually sent passage money
for other family members to join them. The packing houses,
the railroads, the city and farm …..
The complete podcast will be coming up soon. You can subscribe
at our home page www.Irishroots.com or on iTunes
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Books of the Month:
The first one I published, and then 2 that I wrote:
1) Conquest of Ireland, The Plantation in Ulster
http://www.irishroots.com/id4055.htm
Following the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 and the flight of the
Earls O’Neill and O’Donnell, the English implemented specific
plans for the plantation of settlers from Scotland and England
to take over the lands of the Irish in Ulster.
The is the complete story as told by Hill, including the names of
the old Irish families and the new settlers, along with the state
of the lands they were settling. ( 4 book set includes: The
Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans; Pynnars Survey of Ireland;
Londonderry Lands and Families; and Names in the Land Grants)
2) The Families of County Donegal Ireland ($36)
http://www.irishroots.com/id4756.htm
A history of the families in the county, with over 1,000 families with bold face
entries, coats of arms, place names.
3) County Donegal genealogy and family history notes ($28)
http://www.irishroots.com/id4805.htm
The book is designed to help anyone research within county Donegal.
I include the old illustrations of family arms, mostly of settler families in
Donegal, as that is who were granted arms, census notes, records
and resources.
(not a collection of family histories, although some are included.)
Two Books on the Irish in Kansas by Patricia Callahan Walkenhorst,
of Keepsake Books, P.O. Box 1751, Blue Springs, MO 64013
4) Irish Settlers of Kansas ($35)
‘Memories of Pioneer Life’. The untold stories of Kansas second
largest ethnic population, the Irish. True stories handed down
of cowboys, Indians, Buffalo, Floods, Border wars and Civil war
events will help you relive the history.
Some fled the Irish famine, some sought the free land rush, and
some were after the Gold at Pikes Peak…
5) The Callahans of Kansas, A Family History ($18.95)
( with Brady, Burke, O’Donnell, Ryan, White, and Young genealogies)
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We Have a Blog Reader and a Podcast !
We have added a blog reader to this blog. The blog reader
is a computerized reader, that simply reads this blog, turning
it into audio. Our podcast is completely different ! I am the
host and it has some things not included on the blog.
To go to my broadcast page for podcasts go to Irishroots.com
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Coming Up:
Was Ireland once called ‘Wolfland’ by invaders ?
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Time to raise our eyes skywards, give thanks, and ask for help !
Here are todays “Magnificent Seven” :
1) Larry Curtis of Rydal, Georgia, your 1659 census has shipped.
2) Margaret Morgan of Park Falls, WI, your Book of Irish Families
great and small, has shipped.
3) Mark Swan of Colorado Springs, your County Meath and
Westmeath Ireland, genealogy and family history notes shipped
4) Marion Drennan of Saint Francisville, LA, your County
Antrim and Belfast genealogy and family history has shipped
5) Lynette Anne Croswell of Victoria, Australia, welcome as a
new member searching for Edward Johnson Williams b. circa
1843 Dublin; and wife Adelina Rorke b. 1847 Co. Tyrone.
6) Rodney Donelly of Newborough, Australia, welcome as a
new member ! Searching for Donelly, and Magill in County Dublin,
and Lambe and Martin in County Offaly.
7) Susan Craven of Enfield, New Hampshire, your County Cork
Genealogy and Family History book has shipped, along with
our ‘Families of County Cork’ book !
Check out our online search list at:
http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/
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Thanks to all of our members - without you these
podcasts would not be possible - !
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Irish Family Name of the Day:
O’Donnell
Todays family history in honor of member:
Donald J. McCrory searching for the O’Donnells of Trough Castle
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Related Spellings of the Name
O’Donel, Donel, McDonnell, Donald, MacDonnell, O’Donnellan
Donal,
Varient Spelling Groups: Several varient spelling groups.
(Taken from the Master Guide to the Various Spellings
of Irish Family Names) http://www.irishroots.com/id4918.htm
History of the Name
The MacDonnells are of separate origins from the O’Donnells
of course, and some MacDonnells are of Argylshire in Scotland,
who settled in Ulster in the 13th century…..
O’Donnell is one of the top 50 names in Ireland, and it
is traditionally centered in County Donegal. The chieftains
were installed at the Rock of the Doon near Letterkenny. There
are several distinguished of the name, including Red Hugh
O’Donnell who rallied with O’Neill at the Battle of Kinsale, fled
to France and died.
An O’Donnell was also part of the ‘Flight of the Earls’ subsequent
to Kinsale, leading to the Ulster Plantation.
There are also traditional families of the name in Clare and
Galway. Arms for MacDonnell are given in County Clare,
O’Hart has also been given as listing Donnell among
the names of Huegonot origin.
In researching the old heralds works, I have seen MacDonnell
and O’Donnell used for the very same family of Donegal.
copyright 2007, IGF, based in part upon
The Book of Irish Families, great and small
http://www.irishroots.com/id4098.htm
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Irish Family Coats of Arms
Here is some of the information given in the Irish Book of Arms
http://www.irishroots.com/id4861.htm
Arms are illustrated for the following families:
1) Mac Donnell of Antrim
2) Mac Donnell of Clare
3) O’Donnell of Donegal
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Coming Up Later in this episode:
This Irish lady is the oldest woman in England !
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The Free Master Index Search of Irish Names
at Irishroots.com finds the family name 527 times
including the following examples :
http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/
1) In Both of our Donegal Genealogy books, of course.
2) F., H., D., and N., O’Donnell in Pynnars Survey of Ireland
3) N. O’Donnell in Names in the Land Grants book
4) Both Mac and O’ in Londonderry Lands and Families
5) Both in The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans
6) The Annals of Ireland (IGF edition) gives many septs of the
name including those of Cavan; Clare; Donegal; The Hebrides;
Kildare; and Tir Connell; O’Donnell poems and O’Donnell Country…
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Websites of the Week:
1) The History of the O’Donnell Family
http://www.howsthecraic.com/ODonnell.html
2) O’Donnell Clan Association Home Page
http://homepage.eircom.net/~vod/
3) Flight of the Earls, O’Neill and O’Donnell,video lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtZzusd-gg
4) County Donegal Ireland Genealogy page
http://www.donegaltown.ie/Article_Listings.aspx?tscategory_id=3&category_name=Donegal+Genealogy
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Curious News and Notes
1) Biographical Entries of 9,700 Irish People, the work of
many distinguished historians, dating back millenniums to 2002.
The most significant publication of the 21st century so far.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1119/1224259108342.html
2) Old Moore’s Almanac is known for its wild prediction but
next year: A magnificent summer from June until August, the
death of Osama Bin Laden, and a royal helicopter crash, but the
sales of sun tan lotion have not yet risen for the occasion.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1119/1224259108486.html
3) Irish Centurian, Peggy Carter was born in 1901 and is now
108 and the oldest woman in Britain. Born in Tipperary, she is
fit and well today, and cooking is her favorite pastime. Her secret
to a long life:
“Be good to yourself and have fun - plenty of it.
http://www.irishpost.ie/tabId/320/itemId/7024/Centurion-Peggy-cooks-up-the-recipe-for-a-long-lif.aspx
4) Boston Irish Film Festival focus on 1910
‘Lad From Old Ireland’; Rory O’More; You Remember Ellen; His Mother…
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Historic-1910-films-to-be-featured-at-Boston-Irish-Film-Festival-70363392.html?utm_source=twitter
5) The Myth of Family Coats of Arms
Well, the chief herald of Ireland, might have just disagreed with this….
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/11/the-myth-of-family-coats-of-arms.html
6) Diddlyi Magazine Launching, music, arts, culture and travel…
http://mag.diddlyi.com/
7) 34,000 years of the Irish Wolf wiped out in 18th century.
They once referred to Ireland as Wolf land and Cromwell wanted them
gone…..
http://mag.diddlyi.com/2009/11/34000-years-of-the-irish-wolf-wiped-out/
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