Seventy Mayo Surnames

       This is a first for Q.E.D.  Estase thought about creating a separate blog just for genealogy, but doesn't intend that this should be material presented more than just occasionally.  The following is a miscellany of surnames from church records of Kilcoman, County Mayo.  These names were noted either because they seemed unusual in spelling or unique to me in some other way.  The dates of the records they were found in were approximately 1820-1840.

Aylesand/Begly/Beylagh/Birmingham/Bisgood/Bohan/Bourke/Cleary/Connelly/Conway/
Costelloe/Cribben/Cuddy/Cunningham/Donelan/Doude/Egan/Fahey/Farrington/Finn/
FitzGerald/FitzMorris/FitzPatrick/Foraker/Flaherty/Gafney/Galligan/Gilmore/Gissian/
Glynn/Gready/Greene/Griffin/Healey/Jordan/Keach/Kelikelly/Kogan/Korigan/Lavelle/
Lardner/Lawer/McGonagle/McGragh/McManus/Millet/Moffitt/Morrifsy*/Mortimer/Newd/
Newlon/Nicholson/Niland/Noone/Prendergast/Quire/Rahgan/Rabbitt/Rieby/Riely/
Rochefort/Shaugnefsy*/Shortcoate/Shower/Steed/Sylk/Tighe/Tuohy/Varrey/Vancil

*These names were entered into the records using the habit from the elegant eighteenth of writing or printing a double-S as "fs".

Irish Anti-Semitism

I am always surprised at what lunatic leftists my cousins across the pond are. I came across a "pro-life" blog called "Thought and Action" that was turgid with anti-Israel, anti- Iraq war propaganda. Need I say again that the Islamic community was extremely friendly to Hitler, and that the fact that the modern left (even in Ireland!) is so friendly to the Islamic world is one of the most damning things about them.

Connected Beneath the Surface

Why is it that when one leftist cause is threatened, all rush out to act? Why is it that the gay rights people come out to defend abortion? Why does ACLU care about immigration. I've never heard the NRA say anything about tax policy. I've never heard the Chamber of Commerce discuss religion in public life. Conservative groups do not seem to be connected the way liberal groups are.

I came upon a preposterous blog by people seeking amnesty for illegals from Ireland. It was called "The Thirty-Third County." Well, I have news for Paddy. America is NOT an extension of Ireland, any more than it is an extension of any other country. If you do not respect America's immigration laws, stay in Ireland. Or go live in France, which is the kind of quasi-socialist paradise most Irish seek. If you do not believe me on that, listen to RTE radio, the Irish version of BBC. I've never heard so much leftist nonsense as I heard on Irish radio. It makes NPR sound pretty moderate, actually.

Gaza Free Ireland

Apparently, my cousins over on the ould sod are all worked up about how oppressed the people of Gaza are. Some of them have even gone to fight jihad against Israel. Well, my Irish friends, you have nothing in common with Islamic weirdos who would have your colleens wearing burkas, and would force you to pay dhimmitude because you are not of the right faith. Incidentally, isn't religious freedom one thing the Irish always wanted from England? Hmmm....

Remove the Cause

"I think they begin at the wrong end. They should have commenced the measure of redress to Ireland at the cottage instead of the park and the mansion. To have gone first to the higher orders of Catholics, to have sought to make them judges, peers, and commoners, I do not know that such a proceeding, had it taken place, would not rather have served to aggrevate discontent, as it might have been construed into a design to divide the interests of the Catholics. Sure I am that without a view to serve or to conciliate the Catholic population, I mean the poor, the peasantry, its effect would be nothing. It would be like dressing or decorating the topmasts of a ship when there were ten feet of water in the hold, or putting a laced hat on a man who had not a shoe to his foot. The place to set out to in Ireland for the relief of the people is the cottage. . . .If you want the attachment of the Irish, begin by giving them some reason to love you. You ask Ireland for bravery and take away the motives for it; for loyalty, and deprive them of the benefits of the Constitution. By the hapless Bill proposed but defeated, at least a Catholic officer might have been enabled to make a career, and need no longer rise to his own degradation. Charles the First asked Selden what was the best way to put down rebellion; to which Selden answered, "Remove the cause." Remove the cause of disaffection in Ireland, and disaffection will end."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan