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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…

#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…

Three Cheers for Breffni!

Breffni Photography Club Photographer of the Year (CPOTY) Trophy 2017, 2nd Place in the Advanced Section. Image ©Julie Corcoran.

Another Breffni Photography Club year comes to end with the presentation of the Club Photographer of the Year (CPOTY) awards; well done everyone (after the superbly well run A.G.M, yes I am the club secretary).

We’ve got a great committee put in place for the 2017/18…