Category: Laois

Just Me, The Bees & The Dead

16/8/2024

On the journey home last Tuesday, I stole some time-out, some me-time. Killermogh Graveyard was perfect – quiet, solitary, peaceful.

This plot had no headstone that I could see. Close up inspection of the lavender revealed that I was not alone.

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LaRue - LeRewe

19/5/2024

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Another Cemetery Rambling

I cannot remember a time when I did not know that Danny LaRue was from Cork, from Horgans Buildings to be precise. I suspect that my grandfather’s pride in The Lough parish was the source of my knowledge. I knew that LaRue was a stage name. The fact that his birth name was Daniel Patrick Carroll was not as well remembered hereabouts.

He came to mind when I took some time-out, some me-time, a recharge. I pass the sign for St. Laserians once a week or so. One day recently demanded some me-time – just me and the headstones, perfect.

Bridget LeRewe was one of the first people I met in the cemetery. My first thought was on ‘LeRewe’, a surname not registered previously, and any connection with ‘LaRue’, which did appear more appropriate for a drag artist.

Six weeks later, the web has educated that Rewe; Rouse; Rowse; le Rouse; Rouze; leRus; Russ; Ross; and, Rous all appear to derive from ‘le rous’ meaning redhead – potentially appropriate for an Irish Bridget.

HEADSTONES FROM ABROAD

A few years back, when X was Twitter, I spotted a response from Damian Shiels to John Tierney about how interesting it would be ‘to pull together some of the Irish headstones thar make reference to America or family there, they are great way of visualising the diaspora.’

I did respond to the tweet with some such headstones encountered on my travels. This blog post has been a prompt to start the pulling together of American, and other country, references on headstone - HERE There is only a small number listed for now. I rely on the motto that ‘there is only one way to eat and elephant, one bite at a time’.

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A Brave Father & Two Worthy Sons

10/7/2019

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There have been quite a number of tweets today remembering Kevin O’Higgins who was killed on his way to Mass in Booterstown Avenue, Co. Dublin on this day in 1927 – Barry Sheppard including a cartoon of Gordon Brewster from the Evening Herald; This Day in Irish History; RTE Archives; Minister Charlie Flanagan; and, The Irish At War.

Come Here to Me, and Stair na hEireann give information on the man and the assassination.

All of this reminded me of the memorial which I spotted in Stradbally, Co. Laois last year. I was particularly taken with the inscription, ‘A Brave Father and Two Worthy Sons’. This was more significant when I read an Irish Times article today that Kevin O’Higgins father was murdered in 1923 by the I.R.A. in revenge for I.R.A. men executed by the Free State on direction of Kevin O’Higgins.

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Hung, Drawn, Quartered and Burnt

28/12/2014

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Since starting this blog, I have read a small number of plaques regarding Martyrs.

Recently, outside Durrow in Co. Laois, I came across another plaque to Martyrs who were, upto then, totally unknown to me.

At least I now know a little about John O’Molloy, Cornelius o’Doherty and Geoffrey O’Farrell – and also that there are quite a number of Irish Martyrs.

“Franciscan Memorial

In memory of the three Franciscan Friars

John O’Molloy, Cornelius O’Doherty, Geoffrey O’Farrell

Martyred 15th December 1588

They had been inspired preachers of the Word of God to their people in the Catholic tradition and had ministered throughout Leinster. According to records, they were captured and first beaten with sticks and scourged with whips. They were then offered rich rewards to abandon their beliefs which all three rejected. As a result they were hanged, drawn and quartered and their remains burnt in Oldtown, Abbeyleix.”

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Just Me, The Bees & The Dead

LaRue - LeRewe

Another Cemetery Rambling

HEADSTONES FROM ABROAD

A Brave Father & Two Worthy Sons

Hung, Drawn, Quartered and Burnt

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MIXED MESSAGES.

Just Me, The Bees & The Dead

LaRue - LeRewe

​Another Cemetery Rambling

HEADSTONES FROM ABROAD​

A Brave Father & Two Worthy Sons

Hung, Drawn, Quartered and Burnt

Author

Archives

Categories

Blogs I Read & Links

Another Cemetery Rambling

HEADSTONES FROM ABROAD