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Bulfin, Eamonn

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  • 1892-1968

Eamonn Bulfin was born in Argentina to Irish parents. His father William Bulfin of Derrinlough, near Birr, County Offaly, had emigrated to Argentina in the 1880s and became the editor of The Southern Cross newspaper. On the family's return to Ireland, William Bulfin enrolled Eamonn in Pearse's school, St Enda's in Rathfarnham, and he later attended University College Dublin. Eamonn joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1913, and along with some fellow St Enda's students created home-made bombs in the school's basement in preparation for the Easter Rising.

Notable for raising the 'Irish Republic' flag over the GPO In the Easter Rising of 1916. Following the insurrection he was condemned to death, but was reprieved and deported to Buenos Aires after internment in Frongoch in Wales along with the other Irish soldiers of the Rising. In 1920 he was elected Chairperson of Offaly County Council in absentia and held the post when the decision was taken to rename King's County as Offaly. He returned in 1923 on the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 and was active in local politics.

Bulfin, Michael

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  • 1865-

Michael Bulfin is related to the Bulfins of Derrinlough (William Bulfin and Éamonn Bulfin). Younger brother of William. Born 1865, he remained in Derrinlough and ran the family farm. Looked after minors after death of father in 1892. Also had an auctioneering business which got into financial difficulties and disappeared suddenly in 1900 leaving all debts behind him. Nothing further is known of him.

Bulfin, William

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  • 1863-1910

William Bulfin of Derrinlough, near Birr, County Offaly, emigrated to Argentina in the early 1880s to work as a gaucho on the pampas. He met his wife, Annie O'Rourke, while working on the ranch of an Irish landowner, John Dowling. He later moved to Buenos Aires where he worked for The Southern Cross, an Irish-Argentine newspaper, and published stories under the pseudonym 'Che Buono'. He subsequently became the proprietor of the newspaper and its success allowed him to acquire properties in the city and suburbs of Buenos Aires. He corresponded with leading Irish nationalists, setting up a branch of the Gaelic League in Argentina and clearing some of its debts in 1903. William and Annie decided to return to Derrinlough with their young family in 1902 and continuing with his nationalist outlook, William enrolled their son Eamonn in Pearse's St Enda's school.

In 1907 he published his famous volume 'Rambles in Éirinn' based on his bicycling trips around Ireland.

Bury, Alfred, 5th earl of Charleville

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  • 1829-1875

Alfred Bury was the youngest son of Charles William, 2nd earl of Charleville and his wife Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois Campbell. His brother the 3rd earl and wife both died in their mid-thirties leaving five young children as wards of court. Alfred was named as their guardian and brought them up in Charleville Castle. He married Emily Frances Wood but they had no children. When his nephew and former ward, the 4th earl, died at the young age of 22 in New York in 1874, the earldom reverted to Alfred. He was only to be Earl of Charleville for one year as he died in Brighton in 1875. He had no male heirs and the title became extinct.

Bury, Arabella, 3rd countess of Charleville

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  • 1822-1857

Arabella Case was the youngest daughter of Henry Case of Staffordshire. She married Viscount Tullamore in 1850 just prior to his succeeding to the earldom of Charleville in 1851. She lived in Charleville almost continuously from that time with their five children, but died from a bout of scarletina in 1857 at the age of 35.

Bury, Beaujolois Eleanora Katherine

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  • 1824-1903

Lady Beaujolois Eleanora Katherine Bury was the eldest daughter of Charles William Bury, 2nd earl of Charleville and his wife Harriet. She married Captain Hastings Dent of the Coldstream Guards in 1853.

Bury, Capt., Kenneth, Howard-

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  • 1846-1885

Captain Kenneth Howard was the eldest son of James Kenneth Howard and was an army officer. He married Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury in 1881 and on their marriage he assumed the second surname and the arms of Bury by royal license. They had two children, Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and Marjorie Howard-Bury. He died in 1885, while his children were very young. Lady Emily who had inherited the Charleville estate in 1875, lived until 1931.

Bury, Catherine Maria,1st countess of Charleville

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  • 1763-1851

Catherine Maria Dawson was the daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson and married firstly James Tisdall, and had two children by him, James Thomas Townley Tisdall and Louisa Tisdall. She married Charles Bury in 1798 shortly after the death of James Tisdall from epilepsy. They had one son, Charles William, who succeeded his father in 1835.

Her daughter by her first marriage, Louisa Tisdall (1796-1882), married George Marlay, and many years later in 1912, her grandson, Charles Brinsley Marlay, bequeathed his estate at Belvedere, Mullingar, County Westmeath to his distant cousin Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury. Charles Brinsley Marlay also inherited Catherine Maria's papers which are now housed in the University of Nottingham.

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