vandeleur

Dated Monday 30 July 1888. Mary O'Dea's house was the first of three O'Dea households evicted; the second (a sub-tenant) was in error. Vividly described at trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/169707904 , including ...

... The house of Mary O'Dea was the next that was visited. It too. had the doors, windows, and furniture completely removed, and inside, when the sheriff, police, and emergencymen entered the sight was pitiable enough. A turf fire was burning in the big open grate. Beside it sat, or rather crouched, an old woman; the tenant and her daughter stood at her side. Inspector Hill tells the woman to go out, and the daughter replies, "We will only go when we are put out." Mr. Hill said, "You really will have to go, see," and was about to further persuade her when the sheriff stepped forward, and, putting his hand on the old woman, said -- "Come, out with you." Mrs. O'Dea answered, "Yes, I'll go, God help me, but 'tis you who put me out." Mother and daughter then left the house. Quite close stands the cabin of a widow of the same name, Mary O'Dea. It was stated by the under-agent that she was a sub-tenant of the woman last evicted ... ...

Clare Library doesn't know which house this, but suggested Tullycrine for the location.

I know from the other Tulycrine/Tullycreen photos that W.L was refering to the DED rather than the townland of which there are five. www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Tullycreen/ There is this other ODea eviction scene-- not yet digitised-- but in the Clare Library-- that was taken in the Townland of Knockaderreen. There is a mention in the C.L of the bailiff going to the wrong O Dea on the day. Not the above I hope. The other ODea house. for which the census returns tally www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/23547319296/in/datepos...

Sharon Corbet O Mac If this is the Mary O'Dea house, it should be fairly close to John Flanagan's, which was visited immediately before, according to the newspaper report. And then they went to the wrong Mary O'Dea ("sub-tenant"), and then the widow Johanna O'Dea ("the last house ..."). Common sense says that the forces would not have zig-zagged all over the countryside, But then I am flummoxed by the two newspaper reports inconsistencies about Thomas Bermingham. The one says it happened on 30 July; the other on 31. It may well be that the various Australian newspapers lost some of the fine detail in the editor's rush to tell a good yarn, or at least condensed the action. They would have been reprinting reports from actual newspapers and magazines via ship (hence the six week delay in publication) rather than telegraphic short messages. Has anyone been able to find the original of these reports, probably in the Daily News (Dublin?London), the Nation or the Freeman ? There should be more detail and accuracy included.

This Clare Library page - www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam_... - has terrific background information (should anyone be looking for it), including this about the sequence of events ...

... The McGrath eviction [Thursday 26/7/1888 - a photographer turned up - Robert French?] was the one which got most attention and in retrospect, it can be seen with its accompanying tragedy, to have put immense pressure on the landlord. There were two further days of evictions with Mr. French, the photographer, present on both days. On Monday 30th July Patrick Carrig, Thomas Considine, John Flanagan, the Widow O'Dea and Johanna O'Dea from the Tullycrine area were evicted, and a Mrs.O'Dea had her door burst in with a sledge before the evictors realised they had come to the wrong house. On the following day the procession again moved in the Kilkee direction and evicted John Connell, Thomas Bermingham and Thomas Higgins. Thomas Higgins was the last person to be put out of his house and holding in the Vandeleur Evictions of the summer of 1888. ...

An excuse to link to one of my favourite shots ever:

I think this eviction is on the Vandeleur estate, at the far side of Clare from the O'Halloran girls at Bodyke.

Niall McAuley We either linked to it for one of our other eviction pictures, we had it already, or all evictions look the same. I reckon we saw it whenever you last trotted out your favourite pic above.

L_ROY_01769 is "T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside", and appears to be the same house.

This looks like the same house as in this archive image, titled T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside

A sad scene of times past.great image.

My Grandmothers Family ( Liddane ) were evicted from their farm in Rehy, Co. Clare during the closing days of the 19th Century !!! The family scattered to the UK; the USA, and New Zealand !!! The Youngest, Dennis Liddane was killed fighting for the American Army in France; Oct. 10, 1918, about a month before the end of the war. He is buried in France at the Muese Argonne American Cemetery. I don't even think he was an American Citizen. So sad. The family never recovered.

For anyone interested, though we first posted this image a few years back, the events it captures were covered in a 2015 episode of Tríd an Lionsa (available, as of Nov 2015, on the TG4 web-player).

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Any chance please of a hi-res version of this. I think that is "Mr & Mrs Tourist" aka Major and Mrs O'Shaughnessy on the right wearing the same hat, which implies the date is Tuesday 31/7/1888. This is the middle view between and

beachcomber australia Already on the request list - we will have it for you in a couple of weeks.