Irish pioneers and the settlement of New Zealand
The stories of the settling of the new worlds are remarkable to modern folk. This project addresses overall immigration and settlement patterns and describes specific O'Donoghue cases
Progress
Journal articles
October 2008 The Irish in New Zealand – The trials of a Galway family
July 2013 July Challenge: Who was the first recorded O’Donoghue in New Zealand?
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Irish pioneers and the settlement of Australia
The stories of the settling of the new worlds are remarkable to modern folk. This project addresses overall immigration and settlement patterns and describes specific O'Donoghue cases
Progress
Journal articles
May 2000 Dunphys make it in Australia
January 2001 Migration to Australia – 1837 – the O’Donoghues of Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland
July 2001 From Donaghy in Armagh to Donaghue in Australia
July 2003 The diary of Kathleen Donohue Donahue – Queensland to New York in 1907
January 2004 The story of Bridget O’Donoghue – From Limerick to Swan Hill, Victoria
July 2004 Rottnest Island and an O’Donoghue headstone
January 2005 The Australian bushrangers and Bold Jack Donahoe
April 2006 Cratloe to Bendigo
January 2013 January Challenge: Who was the first recorded O’Donoghue in Australia?
July 2014 Irish immigration into Victoria
April 2016 Six generations of our women in unmarked graves 1822-1943
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The Irish Navvy in Great Britain
The story of the Irish navvy starts between 1745 and 1830 when they built the canal system. It ended in the 1960s. They were the source of great stories.
See Irish Roots Issue 56 4th Qtr 2005
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Donahoe Nexus
Objective
The Donahoe Nexus was a quarterly publication of genealogical information about our name which was published in the late eighties/nineties in the USA by a Lynn Wood. This is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in tracing their family history, particularly in the USA – there are around 120 separate people of the name listed in the index of just one volume and another 150 of other names. Lynn clearly dug around in all sorts of records and published everything she found, and there is some wonderful material there.
The LDS library contains Vol. 1 no. 1 (summer 1989) – vol. 8 no. 4 (spring 1997), with some pages lacking.See http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=406462&disp=Donahoe+nexus%20%20&columns=*,180,0
Status
All volumes have been captured and loaded on the Resources area of the web site.
Team members
Paul Dunfee Johnson, Gerry Bade, Pat Donahue Calhoun, Dan Donohue to whom much thanks is due
Project is now completed
World War One and the Irish
Consider the implications for the Irish at a pivotal time in Irish history
Progress
Journal articles
April 2010 A Memorial to Irishmen who died in World War I – 1914-18
July 2011 From the trenches – 1917
January 2014 1914-2014 – Remembering the First World War
April 2014 Sixty O’Donoghues died in the First World War
October 2014 A Dunphy love story from World War One
October 2014 to July 2015 The Story of Martin H Donohoe, war correspondent extraordinary
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The Boer Wars (1880-1 and 1899-1902)
These were pivotal events in Britain's 19th C. empire and there were many Irish in the British Army
Short term objective
Journal article
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1916 – Battle of Somme and Easter Rising
Stimulated by the Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, where so many Irish died, and with the Easter Rising in Dublin this was an extraordinary year to be Irish
Progress
April 2007 The Fenians and the events to the War of Independence included the background to the Easter Rising
Next steps
We have yet to do a specific study of the Somme
Texas Revolution 1835-6
In the Texas Revolution of 1835-36, American colonists in Texas secured the independence of that area from Mexico and subsequently established a republic. Since the 1820s many settlers from the United States had colonized Texas; by the 1830s they far outnumbered the Texas Mexicans. Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna attempted to reverse this trend by such measures as abolishing slavery and enforcing the collection of customs duties. The settlers rebelled (originally as part of a general federalist resistance to Santa Anna's Centralist government, which had overthrown the Mexican Constitution of 1824). Hostilities began at Gonzales on Oct. 2, 1835; the Texans repelled a Mexican force sent to disarm them and won subsequent victories.
In February 1836, Santa Anna, undiscouraged, led a large army across the Rio Grande; he was delayed, however, by the unexpectedly determined defense of the Alamo. Meanwhile, the Texans declared their independence from Mexico on Mar. 2, 1836, and organized a provisional government. Sam Houston led a successful retreat, but other insurgents were defeated and massacred in late March. Santa Anna pursued the rebels, overstretching his supply line and thus isolating his forces on San Jacinto Prairie. There, on April 21, he was routed by Houston and taken prisoner. Mexican troops then withdrew from Texas. The Republic of Texas (with its Lone Star flag) remained independent until 1845, when it became part of the United States.
Short term objective
Find out whether people of our name were involved
Medium term objective
Produce journal article
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The old Gaelic order in Ireland
The Irish fought to maintain their traditional ways under incredible pressure from the English over centuries. What were those ways and what were the final events that brought about the total erosion of the Gaelic system and mores.
Progress
Journal articles
April 2003 Chief Captayne of his nation
October 2008 The Poems of Geoffrey O’Donoghue
July 2010 The Gaelic chieftain of the 17th and 18th centuries
More could be done
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Surname distribution analysis
It would be very helpful to identify the main concentrations of people of our name in Ireland and try to relate them to the historical tribal origin areas. We would have to use records from the earliest to latest times. The starting point might be the 1659 census and the latest the 1901 census when it has been digitised. There are many sources available.
The same principle would apply to the countries to which people of our name migrated.
Progress
Journal articles
October 2001 Distribution of the name in the USA – 1850 to 1990s
This project needs to be undertaken by a number of people. A lot of data sources exist
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