by Paul Gorry | Sep 8, 2021 | Cecil Leitch, Ernest Carter, Family History, Golf History, Great War, Hezlet Family, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Joseph Gorry, Kildare, Lionel Munn, Naas, Royal Co. Down, Vagliano Trophy, War of Independence |
A hundred years ago this very day my grandfather, Joseph Gorry, reached the zenith of his amateur golfing career. Very probably for him it felt like failure. The events of that day became the stuff of golfing legend in the family. His daughter, Joan Gorry, was...
by Paul Gorry | Aug 20, 2021 | Ant and Dec, Baptists, Census Returns, Derry, DNA, Family History, Genealogical Virus, Genealogy, Graveyards, Kilcronaghan, Professional Genealogists, Television |
I’m led to believe that it was Mark Twain who said ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good story’, but who knows? Who cares? Truth is a commodity much less valuable than perception. Get a celebrity into a graveyard, show him any old gravestone and tell him...
by Paul Gorry | May 21, 2021 | Gordon Bennett, Joseph Gorry, Kildare, Local History, Motor Racing, Naas |
Gordon Bennett !!! This photograph was taken on Wednesday 1 July 1903 in South Main Street, Naas, Co. Kildare. What was happening was the weighing of the cars for the 4th Gordon Bennett Cup Race, the first to be held outside of France. The race took place the...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 5, 2021 | Alice Terry, Genealogy, Hollywood Stars, Rex Ingram |
It’s now exactly a hundred years since the name Valentino was first noticed by cinema audiences and became synonymous with romance. On 6 March 1921 the silent motion picture The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had its first public showing at the Lyric Theatre in New...
by Paul Gorry | Feb 18, 2021 | Baltinglass, Genealogy, Graveyards, Joseph Jackson, Kilmurry, Kiltegan, Rathvilly, Scarlatina |
It is impossible to imagine the mental state of John Jackson during his meeting with Dr. Dockeray 150 years ago this very day. John’s mind may have been in turmoil; it may have been numbed by grief. Whether Dr. Dockeray visited his farm in Kilmurry or John travelled...
by Paul Gorry | Jan 11, 2021 | Books, Genealogical Office, Genealogy, Guide Books, Margaret Dickson Falley, PRONI, Registry of Deeds, Wallace Clare |
Margaret Dickson Falley’s publication, Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research, is remarkable, yet the vast majority of people now pursuing Irish genealogical research have never heard of it. The most remarkable thing about Falley’s two-volume work is that it was...
