Aran Isles ancestry and DNA
Greetings all. I am Helen Donahue, my Donahue line comes from Portland, Maine. I am a volunteer at the Maine Irish Heritage Center in the genealogy department. We have a couple of projects that I thought might be of interest to you. They are through FTDNA, one is the Maine Gaeltacht project and the other is […]
November Snippet ‘Armistice Day 11 November 1918’ – responses
This was obviously not my greatest choice of subject as I only received two responses! But these are good ones Tim Donohue input “Recently we were looking at the history of my wife's Grandfather Everett McMichael of Imperial, Pennsylvania. He served bravely in WW1 and returned after Armistice Day in 1918. While talking […]
‘He bears grudges’ – RTE’s Tony O’Donoghue reacts to Martin O’Neill’s Ireland departure
Martin O'Neill and RTE soccer correspondent Tony O'Donoghue were involved in some very tetchy exchanges during the Derry native's five-year term in charge of the Republic of Ireland. O'Neill famously accused O'Donoghue of a 'verbal attack' after Ireland's 5-1 World Cup playoff defeat to Denmark last year following the UEFA Nations League draw back […]
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round Six
Basil David O'Donoghue 1914 – 1942 Basil O'Donoghue, (Lieutenant RANVR,) died on 7 December 1942 when the ship he was travelling on, the S.S. Ceramic, was torpedoed off the Azores by the German U-boat U-515. He was 28 years of age, and the only son of David Flynn and Florence Mary O'Donoghue, […]
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round Five
Submitted by Diane Donohue
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round Four
Submitted by Diane Donohue
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round Three
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round Two
Submitted by Diane Donohue
‘Lost at Sea’ the October Snippet subject – Responses Round One
Submitted by Dee Gilmore-Stewart From http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=404772.0 According to family history my great grandfather Captain John O'Donoghue was lost at sea. On the family headstone it has his date of death as 31/12/1902. I don't have any other details such as ship, is there somewhere I could find this out ? Submitted by Jim Horgan I […]
What’s going on in The O’Donoghue Society?
My periodic update, in shorthand, on our progress. In the June email I covered the results of our March survey. Projects and volunteering After the survey we set up a number of projects. Here’s three: Laura Bravo, Truman Donoho, Dee Gilmore-Stewart and I will be working on a 12 point programme to improve our communications […]