Famous Irish Graves -They are dead but where are they buried.

Europe had a new royal house last week. In Dublin newspapers appeared a personal pronouncement: "I, Prince Michael Neale, landowner, will assume the title of Prince of the Saltees at the conclusion of the war. Also I wish it to be known that no one will be permitted to enter the Saltee Islands without a permit issued by me." Anybody caught interfering with the millions of birds or their eggs which inhabit those islands will be severely dealt with.
Prince Michael Neale is Eire's No. 1 manufacturer of cattle dip. As a County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands. Since his first name was legally Prince, it was easy for a farm boy to daydream: "Some day I'll own those islands and become a real prince." He took to calling the Saltees "Paradise."
By last year he had sold enough dip to buy the Saltees. He began planting 3,000 trees, developing his domain as a luxury tourist resort. He also talked about recruiting a private army.
But last week Prince Neale had a right royal headache. To a reporter the Dublin prince-presumptive confided: "My wife, a Liverpool woman, is a bit shy about using the title of Princess. . . ." He added thoughtfully: "Anyone who does not call me Prince will be ignored


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SIR WILLIAM WILDE, ONE OF IRELAND'S GREATEST EYE AND EAR SURGEONS AND FATHER OF OSCAR WILDE, ON EYESTRAIN AS A CAUSE OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

T. E. C. Jr MD

Sir William Wilde (1815-1876) is remembered today, if at all, as the father of Oscar Wilde. Largely forgotten is that he was not only a distinguished archeologist and statistician but also the dominant figure in otology and ophthalmology of the Dublin School of Medicine, which was at its peak during his lifetime.1
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/5/664

Birth: Dec. 27, 1821Death: Feb. 3, 1896
Lady Jane Francesca "Speranza" Wilde nee Elgee. She was a writer, translator, poet and nationalist. She was also a staunch fighter for equality for women and a writer of Irish folklore. She was also the mother of the famous poet, writer, dramatist and wit, Oscar Wilde. During his imprisonment, Oscar Wilde was refused permission to visit his mother's grave.

Burial:
Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green
Greater London, England
Plot: She was buried in a paupers grave, which until recently was unmarked. Her new headstone is surrounde [unmarked]

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
No man does. That's his.

THE FUNERAL OF MARY JANE KELLY
James Marsh

It was on Monday 19th November in 1888 that the mortal remains of Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper's fifth and final known victim were taken from the Shoreditch mortuary and interred at St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery in Leytonstone.
Since the horrifying facts of Mary Jane's death were revealed at the inquest, a great wave of sympathy for the unfortunate girl was felt in the area. No relatives came forward and Joseph Barnett, her one-time live-in lover, had not the means to meet the cost of her funeral. Thus it was that Mr H Wilson, the Sexton attached to St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, put his sympathy into practical form and met the total cost of the funeral himself.
Mary Jane was laid into a polished oak and elm coffin with metal fittings. The following words were engraved on the brass coffin plate: 'Marie Jeanette Kelly, died 9th November 1888, aged 25 years'. Two wreaths of artificial flowers and a cross made up of heart seed were placed on the coffin, and it was put into an open hearse drawn by two horses and followed by two mourning carriages.
An enormous crowd had gathered outside the mortuary throughout the early hours of that morning, completely blocking the public thoroughfare, and a large number of police constables were placed there to keep order and protect property. The lone bell of St Leonard's began tolling at noon and this appeared to draw all the residents of the neighbourhood together, along with the already vast crowd waiting outside the mortuary.
There were many women in the crowd. Some drawn there by sadness and grief, and others by curiosity which related to the horror of the manner in which poor Mary Jane had died. The wreaths and cards on the coffin were Inscribed by many friends who had used the same public houses as the murdered girl.
When the coffin appeared at the main gates of St Leonard's, borne on the shoulders of four men, the waiting crowd became visibly distressed. Some of the men and women surged forward In an effort to touch the coffin as it passed. Women with tears streaming down their faces were screaming "God forgive her". and every man there removed his hat and stood with bared head In respect for this poor dead Irish girl. It was reported that the sight was quite remarkable and that the emotion shown by the crowd was natural and unconstrained.
Two mourning carriages followed the hearse. One containing Joseph Barnett, a female representative of his former Landlord, John McCarthy, and another woman. The other held five women, some of whom had given evidence at her inquest and were 'unfortunates', like Mary Jane. These mourners had prepared themselves for the ordeal by having a couple of drinks in a public house close to the gates of St Leonard's before the ritual began.
After a tremendous struggle with the crowds, the open hearse, with the coffin fully exposed to view, set off at a very slow pace and the whole crowd appeared to move simultaneously in attendance. The police constables on duty had great difficulty In obtaining free passage for the small procession through the mass of carts, vans and tramcars which had been brought to a standstill by the crowds.
The distance from St Leonard's to St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery in Leytonstone was approximately six miles. As the small funeral procession made It's way along Whitechapel Road the crowds on either side were described as 'very great'. In fact the scene was said to be remarkable due to the hundreds of men and women who escorted the coffin. This number rapidly thinned away when the procession reached the suburbs where the horses pulling the open hearse and following carriages broke into a steady trot.
Mary Jane's funeral procession arrived at St Patrick's at two o'clock. The body was met by Father Columban OSF (Order of St Francis), who was accompanied by two acolytes and a cross bearer, at the door to the little chapel of St Patrick, and the coffin was carried to an open grave in the north eastern corner listed as No 16, Row 67.
Joseph Barnett and the weeping women who had accompanied him as principal mourners knelt by the graveside while Father Columban read the service. There was still a large gathering of people outside the locked gates who were denied entry while the burial service was taking place. After the service, Barnett and the mourners visited' The Burbeck' public house which still stands close to the cemetery gates today

Napoleon and Dr. Verling on St. Helena

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Napoleonic scholar J. David Markham has again produced a book of singular importance to the understanding of the Napoleonic era. Few periods of Napoleon’s career capture the imagination more than that of his exile on the island of St Helena from 1815 to his death in 1821. Those years have provided more than their share of controversy, from the unfortunate treatment of Napoleon by the British governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, to the question of exactly how Napoleon died. Many of the people involved in Napoleon’s exile have published their memoirs or journals, and it seemed that there was nothing else left to learn. That is, until David Markham’s book, Napoleon and Dr Verling on St Helena arrived on the scene. Central to Napoleon’s six years on the island was the question of his medical care, and a succession of doctors was appointed to fulfill that role. The best doctor appointed to care for Napoleon was the Irish doctor, James Verling, on the island as medical officer to a British military unit. Verling, unlike other medical personnel on the island, actually had a medical degree and was clearly the best physician on the island. But the tension between Lowe and Napoleon was such that Napoleon would never accept a doctor appointed by his British jailor.

Even so, Dr. Verling treated members of Napoleon’s staff and was involved in the often petty and always fascinating events of the island. Verling kept a journal that until now had not been published in its entirety. Verling’s journal gives us a fresh and fascinating view of life in some of Napoleon’s last years. Verling never treated Napoleon. This was unfortunate for Napoleon, as a doctor of Verling’s ability might well have properly analyzed what was happening to destroy Napoleon’s health and taken steps to deal with the problem. It has now been scientifically proven by the most modern analysis conducted by Dr. Pascal Kintz, President of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists, that Napoleon was poisoned. The scientific analysis of Napoleon's hair indicates that the source of the arsenic was mineral. This is the most toxic form of arsenic, and was used in France for many years as rat poison. These results were accomplished on the latest scientific analysis equipment that was just manufactured. This confirms all the previous testing made on Napoleon's hair on my behalf.

Verling would have been just the doctor to recognize the symptoms, make the proper diagnosis, and alert the British to the need to remove Napoleon from any possible source of poisoning. While this might not have led to his freedom, it might well have allowed him to die of old age after having dictated far more of his memoirs than he did.

http://www.napoleonichistory.com/napoleon_and_dr__verling_on_st__helena_57270.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Roche_Verling

Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836) was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the Reform Club, who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena and became his physician, having been surgeon on board the Bellerophon when the emperor surrendered himself. He is remembered as the author of Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice From St. Helena (1822) a book which charged Sir Hudson Lowe with mistreating the former emperor and created no small sensation on its appearance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Edward_O'Meara

And Catherine de Valera Wheelwright, mother of Eamon de Valera, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916 and president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973.

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About a mile further north is Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. Among the famous there are Louise Brooks, one of the great actresses of the silent film era. She was both a great sex symbol of the times and a highly praised actress. She had two husbands and dozens of lovers. She wrote that, among others, she had a one-night affair with Greta Garbo.
Long after her film career ended and she was living in near obscurity in New York City, she was rediscovered as the result to two film retrospectives in her honor, one in Paris, the other in Rochester. She moved to Rochester in 1956, living there for the rest of her life. She died in 1985 at age 78.
Also interred at Holy Sepulcher is Francis Tumuelty, who made a fortune selling fake medicines. He happened to be in London at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders (1888). He was arrested on a charge of homosexuality partly because somebody with the London police believed a homosexual was more likely to have committed the five (or 11, depending on who's counting) Ripper murders.
Tumuelty fled to France and then to the United States, where New York refused to extradite him because there was no hard evidence to connect him to the Jack the Ripper murders and because the crime he was charged with, homosexuality, was not an extraditable offense.
In 1913, Chief Inspector John Littlechild of the London police wrote a letter speculating Tumuelty was in fact Jack the Ripper, but Littlechild was never actually part of the team investigating the murders.
A historical oddity about Tumuelty is that two decades prior to the Jack the Ripper murders, he was briefly detained as a suspect in another famous murder case. In 1865, he was held for a while as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was released when authorities realized they had mistaken him for someone else.

Also permanently residing at Holy Sepulcher is mystery writer Edward D. Hoch, who published more than 900 short stories, about half of them in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Col. Patrick O'Rorke, who helped repel a Confederate assault on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, is here. It helped assure the Union victory in the war's turning point engagement.

In Rochester, N. Y. a quiet old lady who dresses mostly in black was told that her son had become President. ''I am very happy to hear the news," said Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. She bore Eamon de Valera where Manhattan's Chrysler Building stands today. The President's father (a Spaniard) is dead and so is his stepfather, Mr. Wheelwright. Several times Eamon de Valera has visited his old mother in Rochester.


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<H1 class=firstHeading>Thomas Joseph Wheelwright b. December 1890 d. 22 July 1946


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December 1890 birth: Manhatten
7 June 1916 ordination: Redemtorist Priest, Mt st Alphonsus, Esopus, NY
22 July 1946 death: Pennsylvania
Notes

According to US State Dept Archves, Father Wheelwright, CSSR, did much to help save his half-brother's life aftre the 1916 rebellion. Died in an automobile accident 1946 while taking another priest to the hosptial.

Ousted King Dermot invited the Normans
By Peter Beresford
</I>In the late autumn of AD 1175 the scribe making an entry into the Annals of Clonmacnoise thought that he had good news to report to the people of Ireland.
“Cadhla Ó Dubhtaigh returned out of England from Henry FitzEmpress (Henry II), having obtained the peace of Ireland and the kingship of the same over both Foreigners and the Irish for Ruadrí Ó Conchobhair, and his kingdom and all provincial kings making tribute to Ruadrí as High King of Ireland.”
The scribe, who had taken over the task of keeping the annals up to date from Abbot Tighernach (c. 1020-1088), was either misinformed or was putting the best and most optimistic light on a bad situation.
It had been in 1169 when Norman adventures, at the invitation of the ousted King Dermot MacMorrough of Leinster, came to Ireland in order to put him back on the throne of his provincial kingdom.
Their leader, Richard FitzGilbert de Clare (nicknamed Strongbow) had married Dermot’s eldest daughter Aoife and thought this made him heir to Dermot’s kingdom. But the Irish law of succession did not allow for primogeniture. Kings had to be elected. Then in 1172 Henry II of the Angevin Empire came hot foot to Ireland in case Strongbow carved out an independent kingdom that might challenge his empire.
Although the High King, Ruadrí had managed to gain a few victories against the Normans, Ruadrí realised that he did not have the means to sustain a protracted campaign against the well-armed, centrally organised forces of the Normans. So he opened negotiations with Mylor FitzHenry, Henry II’s chief representative among the Normans in Ireland.
In 1175 Ruadrí appointed plenipotentiaries to go to meet Henry II who was ruler of the Angevin Empire with its capital at Anjou in Normandy. It is sometimes forgotten that England was then only a conquered province of that empire. Henry was neither born nor died in England and spent little time there. However, he agreed to meet the Irish negotiators at one of his castles in England — Windsor.
The Irish were led by Master Lawrence, described as the “Chancellor of the King of Connacht”. It is interesting that Lorcán, this was his Irish name, Chief Brehon to King Ruadrí, has been mistakenly identified as another Lorcán who also accompanied the Irish contingent. This other Lorcán was the Archbishop of Dublin (known today as St. Lawrence O’Toole). It is apparent in the text of the Treaty that they were two different people.
Archbishop Lawrence (c.1128-1180) was the son of The Ó Tuathail of Leinster. He signs the Treaty merely as a witness where it is clearly stated that he is “Archbishop”. The name of “Master Lawrence, Chancellor of the King of Connacht” appears as heading the negotiators at the top of the document.
His name appears with his fellow negotiators who are Cadhla Ó Dubhtaigh, the Archbishop of Tuam, and Cantordis, Abbot of Clonfert. Archbishop Cadhla is recognised as the senior ecclesiastic negotiator present who brings back “the peace” for Ireland.
Did the Treaty of Windsor, signed by the parties in the octaves of Michelmas (October 6) 1175, give peace to Ireland and recognise Ruadrí as remaining High King? The answer is no.
In fact, under the native Irish law system of the kingly successions, Ruadrí could not legally surrender his kingdom as High King. He had to abdicate his office and nowhere in the treaty is he referred to as High King. He is called King of Connacht, which royal line he came from before his appointment as High King. Ruadrí had been High King with much opposition among the other provincial kings.
The last native claimant of the High Kingship was from the Ulster kingdom, Brían Ó Néill. He became King of Ulster in 1241 and at a meeting of the Irish kings was elected High King of Ireland in 1258. He was killed in 1260 at the Battle of Downpatrick and his head was sent to London to be exhibited.
What the Treaty basically agreed was that the Ruadrí could remain as King of Connacht and King of any Irish territory over which he could exert authority that had not been conquered by the Normans. This was on condition that he pay feudal dues to Henry II who would now become Lord of Ireland and Ireland became part of the Angevin Empire.
Henry II, in his turn, had to pay feudal dues to the Pope who had encouraged and approved his conquest of Ireland. He had to pay a penny for every house in Ireland to the Papal coffers. This payment continued until May 15, 1213, when Pope Innocent III increased the annual tribute to 300 marks.
As for bringing peace in Ireland, more and more Norman adventurers arrived and began to carve out their own territories with sword and fire. The borders of the Irish provincial kingdoms were pressed back as the Kings fought to defend their territories. However, these Normans soon adopted the Irish language, Irish law and social customs.
Initially, the Irish people greeted The Treaty of 1175 with dismay and anger. Even in his own kingdom Ruadri found great opposition. He clung to power for 11 more years but, in 1186, was forced to abdicate as King of Connacht. He entered the monastery of Cong where he died in 1198.
One of his sons, Conor Moin, became King for three years and managed to inflict a major defeat on John de Courcy, the Angevin Viceroy. But in 1189 Conor was assassinated and after some period of instability, Ruadrí’s half-brother, Cathal Crobhderg (Cathal of the Wine Red Hand) was inaugurated as king at the traditional site of Carnfree. His reign was to last 23 years and he did much to stabilise the kingdom.
For almost 400 years, until 1541, the Irish kingdoms survived, if not with the same territories as they had in 1175 but with the same dynasties, laws and social structures. The Angevin Empire had vanished, England had asserted its independence and French was no longer the language of its ruling and middle classes.
Henry VIII not only broke with Rome but also announced that his title would be King of Ireland and no longer suzerain Lord of Ireland. He demanded the surrender of the titles and lands of the native Irish kings and their nobility. Should they surrender, they would be given English titles, agree to adopt the English language and English law.
The year 1541 saw the start of the real conquest of the Irish nation