O'Driscoll Past and Present

Used paperback - 2005 - 191 pages - good condition throughout.

The O Driscolls have, for over 1,500 years, been anchored in the ancient district of Corcu Lóegde, now known as Carbery, in West Cork, Ireland. From the twelfth century, O Driscolls were confined to an area consisting of poor land with a long and dangerous coastline, from Castlehaven to Baltimore and the islands of Sherkin, Heir and Cape Clear. The seventeenth century Fínghin Ó Driscoll, Fineen the Rover, although famous in song and story, set in train a series of events and land deals which were to reduce the O Driscolls to poverty and cause their leaders and many of their descendants to emigrate to England, Canada, America and Australia. Those who stayed in Ireland, over time, adapted to new ways and became merchants, journalists, authors, poets, educators, religious and legal figures.

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