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Moses Cull – Death of a Coastguard 13 December 2025
Emigrant Stories: Catherine & John Clinnin 31 October 2025
Jeremiah Shea – From Knockadoon to White Court 24 October 2025
Spirits of the Past: The Historical Pub Trade in Ballymacoda Village 26 August 2025
A Corpse for Sale – The Horror of the Famine 15 August 2025
From Stormy Seas to the Somme – The Jones Family Memorial in the Hill Cemetery 23 May 2025
The Coastguard in Ballymacoda 17 January 2025
Researching the Ballymacoda Village RIC Barracks 30 October 2024
Emigrant Stories: Thomas F. Russell 17 May 2024
Compensation Claims after the War of Independence and Civil War 1 September 2023
Ballymacoda & The American Civil War 22 July 2023
A Short History of Knockadoon Camp 8 May 2023
Jerry Aher: A Fenian’s Story 23 December 2022
Shipwrecks Around Ballymacoda #2 – Three Wartime Incidents 7 October 2022
Timothy A. Smiddy – the Ballymacoda Connection to Ireland’s First Ambassador 7 August 2022
The 1856 Fishing Tragedy at Knockadoon 24 July 2022
A Snapshot of Ballymacoda from 1942 3 July 2022
Michael Farrell – From Ballymacoda to the Crimean War 29 May 2022
Searching for Missing Friends: Ballymacoda Emigrant Advertisements in the Boston Pilot 22 May 2022
Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún 20 February 2022
The Manchester Martyrs 3 January 2022
A Copper Mine in Knockadoon? 25 November 2021
Ballymacoda & World War I 30 October 2021
The Ballymacoda Company, Cork No. 1 Brigade, 4th Battalion 8 October 2021
The Ballymacoda and Knockadoon Gin Craze in 1851 23 August 2021
Thomas ‘Bowler’ Cullinane: An Exile’s Return 13 August 2021
Peter O’Neill Crowley and the 1867 Fenian Rising 16 July 2021
Fr. Peter O’Neill 15 May 2021
Shipwrecks Around Ballymacoda #1 – The Tadorna 24 April 2021
William Hennessy, the ‘Candy King’ of Cambridge & Boston 16 April 2021
Liam Hoare: Oration by Florrie O’Donoghue 4 April 2021
The Killing of Captain Liam Hoare in Ballymacoda, April 8th 1921 13 March 2021
The Story of Pat Hennessy 28 February 2021
The Murder of Patrick Hanlon 12 February 2021
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s Visit to Ballymacoda 29 January 2021
The Coast Watching Service in Ballymacoda 22 January 2021
The Story of Thomas Ahern 13 January 2021

RECENT COMMENTS

Julie Hyde on Compensation Claims after the War of Independence and Civil War 5 October 2023
Dad was finishing off names and addresses before I could read them out. Such a brilliant resource. Talking with my…
Jimmy Collins on Michael Farrell – From Ballymacoda to the Crimean War27 March 2023
Thanks for reading Sally, and for the comment.
Sally Farrell on Michael Farrell – From Ballymacoda to the Crimean War27 March 2023
Hello It was delightful to read this article about my Great Great Grandfather "Red Mick". My sense of him as…
Brian Morgan on Jerry Aher: A Fenian’s Story1 March 2023
Wonderful article. I read it with much interest. My mother’s aunt was Mary (Cahill) Aher. Mamie was married to Thomas…
Jimmy Collins on Michael Farrell – From Ballymacoda to the Crimean War21 December 2022
Hi Richard, thanks for the comment, and greetings from Ballymacoda. I recently received a copy of the land grand awarded…

Ballymacoda Emigrants

Surname	First Name	Country
Aher	Jeremiah	United States
Ahern	Patrick	United States
Cashman	Margaret F.	United States
Clinnin	John	United States
Collins	Mary	United States

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