Qualla: Borrisokane https://qualla.com/borrisokane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Borrisokane https://qualla.com/borrisokane Borrisokane: Introduction https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit Dylan Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 14 April 1861, during the aftermath of the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter that opened the American Civil War, an Irishman named Daniel Hough was killed when a cannon misfired during the Union garrison's surrender salute. He was the first Union soldier to die in the four-year war that would claim more American lives than any other conflict in the nation's history. Hough had emigrated from a small town in North Tipperary called Borrisokane some years earlier. He was buried in Charleston in a hasty grave near the fort. His town - 1,117 people at the 2022 census - has a long and disproportionate record of sending its sons across oceans into other people's wars, and getting them killed there.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Borrisokane: From O'Carroll to Annesley https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the Normans arrived, Borrisokane belonged to the O'Carrolls of Ely, descendants - by their own claim - of the ancient Cianachta. The O'Kennedys held tower houses in the surrounding townlands. After the Cromwellian Plantation of the 1650s, the lands passed to a different se...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-from-ocarroll-to-annesley.mp3 0:06 2 full Borrisokane: 1920-1921: the small war https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 26 June 1920, around 200 IRA volunteers attacked the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Borrisokane. The attack failed; one volunteer was killed - Micheál Ó Cinnéide, whose nephew Michael O'Kennedy would later serve as Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Commissi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-1920-1921-the-small-war.mp3 0:06 3 full Borrisokane: Stella Days https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 1930, the David Clarke Memorial Hall opened in Borrisokane, dedicated to the local landlord David Clarke and built in cut stone in a gable-fronted memorial style. The hall hosted musical and theatrical productions and from the 1950s housed the town's small cinema. Michael Door...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-stella-days.mp3 0:06 4 full Borrisokane: The hill of fairy Una https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit Calum Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 2.5. Four kilometres east of Borrisokane rises Knockshegowna - in Irish Cnoc Sí Úna, the Hill of Fairy Una. Edmund Spenser is believed to have used the name in The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), where Una personifies the True Church and travels with the Redcrosse Knight - a figure represe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-the-hill-of-fairy-una.mp3 0:06 5 full Borrisokane: Andrew Robinson Stoney, the real Barry Lyndon https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit PawełMM, CC BY-SA 3.0. Andrew Robinson Stoney was born in Borrisokane in 1747. A career soldier who lived large and chose his wives for their money, he became infamous for marrying Mary Eleanor Bowes, the wealthy widowed Countess of Strathmore, in 1777 - and then attempting to seize and rape her, abuse...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/j/borrisokane-wp/gc6j-borrisokane-andrew-robinson-stoney-the-real-barry-lyndon.mp3 0:06 6 full Borrisokane: The town that took root in other places https://qualla.com/borrisokane/ Photo credit Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Borrisokane diaspora produced more than soldiers and screen anti-heroes. Áine Minogue, born here in 1977, became an internationally known Celtic harpist, now resident in the United States. Eugene Esmonde, who lived at Drominagh and was descended from a local landed family, wa...

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