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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

February 1917

This is the blog spot that looks back at this month 100 years ago, at what was happening in Cork and the rest of the world. The war in Europe meant rationing at home. We are much luckier with the weather in 2017 although children would probably prefer the snow.

In 1917 snowfalls in Ireland, at least in the south and west, were the heaviest since February, 1892, and probably the heaviest in the whole 50 years (back to 1876).

In February 1917 a section of Na Fianna marched in full uniform to Mass at Blanchardstown, County Dublin for Michael Mallin, who had been executed following the Easter Rising.  Garry Holohan reported that "As the police did not interfere, we got courage and got bolder and bolder. On one route march, the police at James Street stopped us and an Inspector of the DMP grabbed me. However, as the Fianna Scouts became so threatening, I was released."

The Little Review moved from Chicago to New York City with the help of Ezra Pound (who became its foreign editor from May).

Florence O'Donoghue replaced Pat Higgins as Brigade Adjutant in February 1917

Merchant Shipping: 308 British, Allied and Neutral ships lost to enemy submarines, mines, cruisers etc. in the month - ships of 546,000 tons gross (Lloyd's War Losses).

Ø  Feb 1: German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announced unlimited submarine war.

Ø  Feb 2: Fox and Geese by Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Rouvier Day performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

Ø  Feb 3: The United States severed diplomatic ties with Germany after a U-Boat sank the American grain ship Housatonic. Seven more American ships were sunk in February and March as the Germans sank 500 ships in just sixty days.

Ø  Feb 3: Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, won Roscommon North on an abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.

                        Ø  Feb 4: The Germans created the Raad van Vlaanderen (Council of Flanders).

Ø  Feb 4: Birth of Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician.

Ø  Feb 5: Congress overrode Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration and introduced The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act).

Ø  Feb 6: Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Hungarian-born actress, born in Budapest (died 2016).

Ø  Feb 7: Atlantic liner SS California (1907) sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-85 38 nm (70 km) southwest of Fastnet Rock; 41 killed.

Ø  Feb 7: Private John O’Donoghue, aged 17, from Bandon, (who was mentioned last month because he was posted to Belgium on January 1 with the 6th Connaught Rangers) died in an artillery barrage at Kemmel in Flanders. His total army service was 123 days at home and 41 days overseas; 164 days in all.

Ø  Feb 10: Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherland's 1st female professor.

Ø  Feb 10: Records show death of 27046 L/Corporal Cornelius Waters Buckley. Born San Francisco, California. Enlisted Aginagh, Cork.

Ø  Feb 11: Sidney Sheldon, American novelist, was born in Chicago (died 2007).

Ø  Feb 14: British government pledged to Parliament that restoration of Alsace and Lorraine to France was a British war aim.

Ø  Feb 15: San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic centre) dedicated.

Ø  Feb 15: Birth of Ruairi Brugha, Fianna Fáil TD, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Seanad (died 2006)

Ø  Feb 15: The Cork city allotment committee proposed that Fitzgerald’s Park display an eighth of an acre demonstration plot

Ø  Feb 16: First synagogue in 425 years opened in Madrid.

Ø  Feb 16: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and critic (born 1848) died in Paris.

Ø  Feb 17: The armed trawler HMT Clifton was minesweeping at the mouth of Cork Harbour and struck a mine. There was a massive explosion, and the ship disappeared in seconds. There was only one survivor, Sub-Lieutenant James G. Clemens, RNR.

Ø  Feb 17: About 20 miles off Fastnet, U.83 was sank (with the loss of all hands but one officer and a seaman) by Q.5 which, in sinking condition, was taken in tow by the destroyer Narwhaland the sloop Buttercupand to Berehaven where she was salvaged by Ensor of Passage West and resumed trading after the war.

Ø  Feb 19: Dick Emery, actor, born in London, England.

                  Ø  Feb 19: Carson McCullers, novelist, born in Columbus, Georgia.

Ø  Feb 19: P.J. Crowley Limited (opticians) was set up on Patrick Street.

Ø  Feb 20: Ammunition ship exploded in Archangel harbour, about 1,500 died.

Ø  Feb 20: Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premiered in NYC.

Ø  Feb 21: SS Mendi sank off Isle of Wight, 627 died.

Ø  Feb 21: Train near Ciurea, Romania, caught fire & exploded; hundreds died.

Ø  Feb 22: German Navy torpedoed 7 Dutch ships.

Ø  Feb 22: [NS Mar 7] Russian February Revolution began with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd.

Ø  Feb 23: [NS Mar 8] Protesting Putilov strikers were joined by more protestors on International Women’s Day (... but it’s only February in Russia because the Russian calendar had not yet been reformed, so it was 13 days behind other countries).

Ø  Feb 24: British presented the Zimmerman telegram to Woodrow Wilson.

Ø  Feb 24: Red Sox sold Smoky Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland Indians.

Ø  Feb 25: RMS Laconia (1911) sunk by U-50 6 nautical miles (11 km) northwest of Fastnet Rock; twelve killed.

Ø  Feb 25: Margate and Broadstairs bombarded for ten minutes by German destroyers.  The towns suffered light damage with three killed (Mrs Morgan and her daughters) in their home near Broadstairs. The German ships were chased off by HMS Laverock (pictured below), Lance, Landrail, Lochinver and Laurel.

Ø  Feb 25: In the Middle East, newly reinforced and replenished British troops retook Kut al-Amara in Mesopotamia from outnumbered Turks. The British then continued their advance and captured Baghdad, followed by Ramadi and Tikrit.

Ø  Feb 25: Anthony Burgess born in Harpurhey, Manchester (died in 1993).

Ø  Feb 26: Wilson asked Congress for the authority to arm U.S. merchant ships with U.S. naval personnel and equipment, and decided to do so by executive order, citing an old anti-piracy law that gave him the authority.

Ø  Feb 26: 1st jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jass Band One Step" and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Ø  Feb 27: John Connally, Governor of Texas, was born. He was wounded in Kennedy motorcade and in 1971 he removed the US dollar from the gold standard (died 1993).

Ø  Feb 27: Terence MacSwiney was deported from Ireland and interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard Internment camps until June 1917.

Ø  Feb 28: AP reported that Mexico and Japan would ally with Germany if US enters WWI (Zimmerman telegram).

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island.

In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island.

In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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#OTD in 1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island. In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island.

In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…

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1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

1602 – The O’Sullivan Beara’s are driven out of West Cork by the English who had defeated the combined Spanish and Irish forces at the Battle of Kinsale.

Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven, was the last independent ruler of the O’Sullivan Beara sept, and thus the last O’Sullivan Beare, a Gaelic princely title, in the southwest of Ireland during the early seventeenth century, when the English crown was attempting to secure their rule over the whole island.

In the lead up to the Nine Years’ War O’Sullivan kept his…