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The Vandeleur evictions took place between 18 and 30 July 1888. Mr. French, a photographer working for Lawrence, was present at the eviction of Matthias McGrath in Moyasta on 26 July and at some of the other evictions. See `The Vandeleur Evictions in Kilrush 1888: The Plan of Campaign' by Noel J. Mulqueen (1988) and `The Vandeleur evictions, Kilrush 1888', by Ignatius Murphy in The Other Clare, Volume 4 (April 1980), 37-41.

My Grandmother's Family ( Liddane ) were evicted from their farm in Rehy, Co. Clare in the closing days of the 19th Century. Rehy is not far from Moyasta. The family scattered to The UK; The USA; and New Zealand. The youngest son, Dennis Liddane, was killed in France on Oct. 10, 1918 about a month before the end of World War 1. He was fighting for the American Army. I don't think he was even an American Citizen. Dennis is buried at the Meuse Argonne American Cemetery in France. So sad. The family never recovered from the death of the last born child.

Link below story of Relatives from Irelad and the UK visiting the grave of Dennis Liddane in France. www.clarechampion.ie/index.php?option=com_content&vie...

Marine Attack Squadron ( VMA ) 225 As you say, "so sad", especially to be killed so close to the end of WWI. Thanks for all of the above information, and the Clare Champion article is lovely....

A more recent article from the Clare Champion. The name Linnane should be Liddane. In Sept. 2011, I was able to get approval from the US Army for the Purple Heart and two WW 1 Victory Medals for Dennis Liddane. The US Army will not be sending the Medals to me in NY til the Summer of 2012. I will be taking the Medals back to County Clare in 2013. I intend to give these Medals to the people of County Clare. The link to the Clare Champion is below. www.clarechampion.ie/index.php?option=com_content&vie...

I am not sure if this is the same house as 'Patrick' Connell, vividly described in this contemporary newspaper article trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/77502308 and date Tuesday 31 July 1888 ...

... The first tenant to be evicted was Patrick Connell. A turf fire lighted on the road somewhat retarded the progress of the Cavalry and the battering ram, and it had to be extinguished before they could advance. Connell's house -- an old and miserable thatched cottage situated on the banks of the Shannon -- was but feebly barricaded, and the doors and windows were only stuffed with bushes. An entrance was soon made through one of the windows, and then Connell came out and was placed under temporary arrest. The house, not being in a fit condition for a caretaker, was closed and deserted. A short march along the river bank took the sheriff and his men to the premises of Mr. Bermingham ... ...

It looks like it is on the river bank, with a faint high tide mark like the Bermingham battering ram photo ...

The same house is referred to as 'John' Connell's here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000044201 Very confusing!

beachcomber australia I plan on posting that photo in a couple of days. It is confusing.

Clare Library also claims that it is John Connell's house, on their write-up of this picture.

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. ...