Introduction Life of P. S. O'Hegarty (1879–1955)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Summary
Take my case for instance. I was born in Cork city. My father's people had been there for generations… his mother was a Protestant, named Rock, and Rock I am sure was a corruption of Rocque, which surely was Huguenot. The name has now died out… My mother came from Macroom, but her mother was named Grainger, which is a sound Cromwellian name, and her people still live near Macroom where they are solicitors & land agents and so on, and Protestants of some sort.
Patrick Sarsfi eld O'Hegarty (Padraig O h-Eigeartaigh), was born in Carrignavar, Co. Cork, on 29 December 1879, the eldest of two, the younger, Jack (known later as Sean 1881–1963), born to John and Katherine (née Hallahan) Hegarty. P. S.'s father, a probable member of the Munster IRB, and also a Cork man from Macroom, was a plaster-and-stucco worker by trade. Katherine came from West Cork farming stock, the daughter of a forester from Macroom, Patrick Hallahan, and Katherine Grainger who lost two of her uncles during the Great Irish Famine of 1845–1849. In the lean years that followed, as with many other families of this generation, the Hegartys and the Hallahans emigrated to the United States.
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- P. S. O'Hegarty (1879–1955)Sinn Féin Fenian, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010