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Contents
Foreword .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Subcribers to Eglish Historical Society ................................................................................................................................................................
Contributors’ Biographies ...................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Right Arm ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Early History
Eglish – Ancient and Modern ........................................................................................................................................................................................
Antiquities of Eglish from Earliest Times to the Penal Era .........................................................................................................
The Townland Names of Eglish ..................................................................................................................................................................................
Droim na Sealg ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Ulster Plantation and its Aftermath ...........................................................................................................................................................
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Church History
The Baptist Community at Eglish ............................................................................................................................................................................ 74
Derrygortreavy Parish Church ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
The Presbyterian Church at Eglish .......................................................................................................................................................................... 84
St. Patrick’s Parish, Eglish from the Penal Times .................................................................................................................................... 91
Poem composed in 1934 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 105
The Parochial House and the Curate’s Nursery ......................................................................................................................................... 106
Fairy and Folklore
Folktales from Cadian (1984) .........................................................................................................................................................................................
Folktales from Cadian (Ulster Journal of Archaeology) ............................................................................................................................
Maura and the Fairies ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Christmas Candle .................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Folklore and Tradition in the Brantry ....................................................................................................................................................................
Untitled poem by James Burke .............................................................................................................................................................................................
Mayflower ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Man is Such a Phenomenon, Has no one Stoppt to Wonder? ......................................................................................................
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Fraternities, Famine and Associations
The Brantry Boys of ’98: The Lie of the Land ............................................................................................................................................
Faith and Fatherland .................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Masons in Eglish ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Orange Order in Eglish ............................................................................................................................................................................................
The Great Famine (1845–50): Its impact on the Townlands of Eglish ...........................................................................
A Famine Relief Scheme ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
A meeting at Derrygortreavy Church April 2, 1914 .............................................................................................................................
Gaelic League in Eglish ........................................................................................................................................................................................................
From Courier & News, Boland L.O.L. 375, 14.7.1932 .......................................................................................................................
Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in Eglish ........................................................................................................................................
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People 1
Arthur O Neill (1734-1816), The Blind Bard of Tyrone .................................................................................................................
Arthur O Neill from The Armagh Guardian, 21 April 1916 ..........................................................................................................
I’m Living in America ................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Patrick James O’Byrne, Dean of Armagh (1810-19), and the Contemporary Scene .......................................
Pat Donnelly .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Thomas Reid’s Travels .............................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Education and Industry
Education in Eglish in the Nineteenth Century ........................................................................................................................................
Derrylatinee Primary School ............................................................................................................................................................................................
Eglish New School (The Courier & News, 29.6.1933) .........................................................................................................................
The Wee School on the Hill ............................................................................................................................................................................................
The County of Tyrone ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Linen Industry and Mills in Eglish .............................................................................................................................................................
The Star of the Mulboy Hill ...................................................................................................................................................................................................
Shops and Workshops in Eglish over the years ...........................................................................................................................................
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Families and Memories
The Byrne Family .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
St. Patrick’s Parish – Some Family Reminiscences .................................................................................................................................
Some Stories from Bygone Days .................................................................................................................................................................................
Old Tyrone ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Foxes of Cormullagh ....................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Hamills – A Family at Roan 1885-1935 ...............................................................................................................................................
An Emigrant’s Farewell to Erin .......................................................................................................................................................................................
A Penal Cross ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Memories of the 1930s/1940s ........................................................................................................................................................................................
The Hacketts and the Mullens ......................................................................................................................................................................................
The Longs of Carrowcolman: 100 Years of Engineering .................................................................................................................
The Moore Family of Kilnacart ....................................................................................................................................................................................
P. J. Moore Address ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Blackwater ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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People 2
Father Hughes of Eglish (1846–1923) .................................................................................................................................................................
An Saggart Mór ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
An Ode to Eglish and its Soggart Aroon ....................................................................................................................................................................
William Thomas Latimer, 1842-1919, Churchman and Historian .....................................................................................
Mick Daly of Sessiagh ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................
P. J. O’Connor Duffy – Teacher and Poet ..........................................................................................................................................................
‘P. J. O’Connor Duffy Again!’ (from The Courier & News, 21.8.1930) .............................................................................
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Sport and Recreation in Eglish
Road Bowls ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Country Sports ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Allen’s Wedding ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Gaelic Games ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Other Outdoor Sports .............................................................................................................................................................................................................
Indoor Sports .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Some More Glimpses of the 20th Century
Extract from The County Tyrone Directory for 1902 .................................................................................................................................
World War I ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
David Somerville ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Fírinneach ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Sacrifice ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Killybracken Neighbours .........................................................................................................................................................................................
‘Eglish War Memorial Unveiled’ (from Tyrone Courier, 8.7.1920) .........................................................................................
An Incident from the Troubles of the 1920s – The Caulfield Arms Raid ....................................................................
Alexander’s Big Straw Stack .................................................................................................................................................................................................
‘Eglish and Brantry Notes’ (from Tyrone Courier, 8.7.1926) .........................................................................................................
Ruth Hanna Dickson ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
Dr. Thomas J. Kerr ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Hills of Brantry ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Continuity and Change: A Socio-Economic Study of Eglish ....................................................................................................
Bishop Bloomer ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Sir Francis Verner Wylie .......................................................................................................................................................................................................
Folklore and Tradition – Keeping the Flame Alive ................................................................................................................................
Mabel Nelson ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Derrygortreavy .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Cormac McAnallen ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Graveyards/WWI Casualties/Heads of Households Survey
St. Patrick’s Old Cemetery – map .............................................................................................................................................................................
Eglish Old Cemetery ................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Early Families recalled in Placenames and Stone .....................................................................................................................................
Graveyard inscriptions – Eglish Old Cemetery ..........................................................................................................................................
St. Patrick’s New Cemetery – map ...........................................................................................................................................................................
Graveyard Inscriptions (Church of Ireland) – map ................................................................................................................................
Graveyard Inscriptions (Presbyterian) – map ................................................................................................................................................
World War I – Eglish Roll of Honour ..................................................................................................................................................................
Heads of Households in Eglish: 1664–1911 ..................................................................................................................................................
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Aerial photographs in The Book of Eglish – Where the Oona Flows and on this website were taken by Fergus McAnallen