Qualla: Ballymacoda https://qualla.com/ballymacoda en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballymacoda https://qualla.com/ballymacoda Ballymacoda: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ Ballymacoda is the kind of village it is easy to miss. Population 185 at the last census. A church, a couple of pubs, a GAA pitch named for a priest, and a clutch of houses spread along a back road in East Cork between Youghal and the sea. Drive past too fast and you see nothing remarkable. Slow down and you find a village that, across three centuries, produced three Irishmen who matter - a Hiberno-Norman bard who wrote Jacobite war poetry in Munster Irish, an emigrant who continued writing Gaelic verse from rural New York in the 1830s and mailed it home, and a Fenian leader who died with a rifle in his hands at the age of thirty-five. For a place this small, Ballymacoda has carried more than its share.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/r/ballymacoda-wp/gc4r-ballymacoda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballymacoda: The Bay and Its Birds https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ The geography that defines Ballymacoda is the bay just north of the village. Ballymacoda Bay is shallow and intertidal - mostly mudflats at low water, channels of brackish water at high - and is one of the most important wintering grounds for waders and wildfowl on the Irish sout...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/r/ballymacoda-wp/gc4r-ballymacoda-the-bay-and-its-birds.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballymacoda: Piaras Mac Gearailt, Jacobite Bard https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ Born around 1709 into a Hiberno-Norman gentry family fallen on hard times, Piaras Mac Gearailt - Pierce FitzGerald in English - became the most accomplished Munster Irish poet of his generation. The Hiberno-Norman families had ruled large parts of Munster since the twelfth centur...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/r/ballymacoda-wp/gc4r-ballymacoda-piaras-mac-gearailt-jacobite-bard.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballymacoda: Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún and the Letters Home https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún was born in Ballymacoda in 1777 and emigrated to Deerfield, New York in 1826, in the wave of pre-Famine Irish migration that few histories now remember. He settled on a small farm, raised a family, and continued for the next thirty years to write poetry in...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/r/ballymacoda-wp/gc4r-ballymacoda-p-draig-phiarais-c-nd-n-and-the-letters-home.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballymacoda: Peter O'Neill Crowley and the Fenian Rising https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ Peter O'Neill Crowley was born in 1832 to a Catholic farming family in Ballymacoda. He grew up tall, intelligent, and politically angry. By his early thirties he was a sworn member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Fenian movement, organising for the planned national upris...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/r/ballymacoda-wp/gc4r-ballymacoda-peter-oneill-crowley-and-the-fenian-rising.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballymacoda: The Village Today https://qualla.com/ballymacoda/ The 2016 census recorded 185 people in Ballymacoda itself, though the parish extends well beyond the village and has many more. Fr. O'Neill's GAA fields hurling and Gaelic football teams in the Cork county championship and in the Imokilly divisional competition; in 2019 they won ...

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