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Verschoyle
The Verschoyle family was a prominent Irish landed family of Dutch descent. The surname is pronounced in Ireland as "Ver-Skoil" and in England as "Ver-Shoy-Ul". History The family of Verschoyle (Verschuyl) were Dutch Huguenots who emigrated from the Netherlands to Ireland in 1568, having suffered from religious persecution due. Other accounts state that they travelled to Ireland with William of Orange, and later married into ancient Irish clans. The family coat of arms features three boars heads on a chevron, with the motto ', which roughly translates as "steadfast and constrained". Pedigree According to the pedigree in Gens ''Van Der Scuylen'', 600 years of Verschoyle history, with information added from ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', the following lineage is described: Early in the 17th century two of the name said to be brothers, Henrik and William, were resident in Dublin. Henrik Verschoyle, of Thomas Street, Dublin; married Judith, to whom he devised a share of his goods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Goold-Verschoyle
Brian Goold-Verschoyle (5 June 1912 – 5 January 1942) was an Irish member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who was recruited by the Soviet NKVD as a courier between its mole (espionage), moles and their handler (espionage), handlers in London. After being sent as a radio technician to Republican Spain, in 1937 he revealed his disaffection with the Moscow party line. Abducted by being lured aboard a Soviet freighter, he was smuggled to the USSR and died as a prisoner in the Gulag in 1942. He is one of only three Irish people who can be formally identified as victims of Stalin's Great Purge. Early life Brian Goold-Verschoyle was born in Dunkineely, County Donegal into a family from the Anglo-Irish gentry. His father, Hamilton Frederick Stuart Goold Verschoyle, a barrister, was a pacifist who supported Home Rule Crisis, Home Rule. After a childhood spent during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, Civil War and schooling at Portora Royal School, Portora Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Verschoyle
Barbara Fagan Verschoyle (died 25 January 1837), was a land agent and philanthropist in Dublin. Early life Born Barbara Fagan in the early 1750s to Bryan and Elizabeth Fagan in Dublin, Verschoyle was the sixth daughter of eight in the family. Her father was a land agent for the FitzWilliam estate in Dublin and brewer for the brewery on Usher's Island in Dublin. When her father died in 1761, her mother continued running both businesses until her own death in October 1789. The FitzWilliam estate at this time was undergoing significant development in the Merrion street and surrounding area. In 1750, there were believed to be about 35 breweries in the city. Family Barbara Fagan took over the family business at some point after her mother died, certainly by 1796. The Catholic Fagan married a Protestant merchant, Richard Verschoyle of the Verschoyle family. Her husband was born in Donore, County Meath in 1751 to Joseph and Margaret (Mottley) Verschoyle. His paternal lineage was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Verschoyle
Moira Hamilton Verschoyle (17 December 1903 – 13 January 1985) was an Irish novelist and playwright. Life and career Verschoyle was born in Limerick and raised in Castle Troy on the banks of the River Shannon, where she was privately educated by governesses. She was born into the Verschoyle family, a prominent landed family of Dutch descent, the daughter of Captain Frederick Thomas Verschoyle, who had been a 2nd Brig. South Irish Div. R.A. and was now a Land Agent, and his wife Hilda Caroline Hildyard Blair, of royal Plantagenet descent. Her grandfather was Hamilton Verschoyle. Verschoyle had an older brother Frederick and an older sister Hilda. Verschoyle worked on the London stage during and after the Second world war. Verschoyle married Horace de Heriz Smith (later Heriz-Smith) of Bordighera, Italy, in Penang on 3 April 1922. He was an experienced planter in Malaya and they divorced. She returned to the UK within a few years and he later remarried. While based in Sussex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Verschoyle
Hamilton Verschoyle (3 April 1803 – 29 January 1870) was a 19th-century Ireland, Irish Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1862 to his death. The Verschoyles were of Dutch Huguenot origin who fled to Ireland in 1568 to escape religious persecution and quickly became prominent in Dublin. Hamilton Verschoyle was the third son of John Verschoyle of Cashelshanaghan, County Donegal, and Henrietta Preston. He was educated at Oswestry School and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1829. His first post was that of Curate at Newtownforbes after which he was the Vicar, incumbent at the Episcopal Chapel, Baggot Street, Dublin, Episcopal Chapel, Upper Baggot Street in Dublin. Promoted to be the Chancellor of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin Cathedral in 1855, he also served on its Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, Diocesan Education Board and was briefly Dean of Ferns before his appointment to the episcopate as the third Bishop of Kilmore, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''The Woman's Daughter'' (1987), ''The Journey Home'' (1990), ''Father's Music'' (1997), ''Temptation'' (2000), ''The Valparaiso Voyage'' (2001) and ''The Family on Paradise Pier'' (2005). He is a member of the artist's association Aosdána. Career Bolger's early work – especially his first three novels, all set in the working class Dublin suburb of Finglas, and his trilogy of plays that chart forty years of life in the nearby high-rise Ballymun tower blocks that have since been demolished – was often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Later novels are more expansive in their themes and locations. Two novels, ''The Family on Paradise Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th century. ''Huguenot'' was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans. In his ''Encyclopedia of Protestantism'', Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the ''dragonnades'' to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Women's Hospital
Nottingham Women's Hospital, colloquially known as "Peel Street", was a maternity hospital which closed in November 1981. Its records are held at the Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham. History The hospital was inaugurated as a result of a merger between Nottingham Castle Gate Hospital and Samaritan Hospital Nottingham. It was thought that the two hospitals unnecessarily duplicated work. The new hospital, which was built on a site previously occupied by a building known as Southfield House, became operational in 1923, and then officially opened on 5 November 1929. Patients began to enter in 1930. After medical services had been transferred to Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, the hospital closed in November 1981 and the site was partly cleared. The main building was converted into flats, now called Charleston House, in 1982. In June 2011 another building on the site was refurbished, extended and occupied by public house chain Wetherspoons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguenot Families
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th century. ''Huguenot'' was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans. In his ''Encyclopedia of Protestantism'', Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the ''dragonnades'' to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoked al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Families
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Ce ..., the body of water which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter Uprising
The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798 and the first armed conflict of the Irish revolutionary period. Sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed from May 1916. The nature of the executions, and subsequent political developments, ultimately contributed to an increase in popular support for Irish independence. Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Citizen Army
The Irish Citizen Army (), or ICA, was a small paramilitary group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) established in Dublin for the defence of workers' demonstrations from the Dublin Metropolitan Police. It was formed by James Larkin, James Connolly and Jack White on 23 November 1913. Other prominent members included Seán O'Casey, Constance Markievicz, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, P. T. Daly and Kit Poole. In 1916, it took part in the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection aimed at ending British rule in Ireland. Following the Easter Rising, the death of James Connolly and the departure of Jim Larkin, the ICA largely sidelined itself during the Irish War of Independence by choosing to only offer material support to the Irish Republican Army and not become directly involved itself. Following the ICA's declaration in July 1919 that members could not be simultaneously members of both the ICA and the IRA, combined wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
