High Sheriff of Queen's County, 1869/1870
IE NIVAL/DW
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1929-2002
Executive Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
IE IJA/J584
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1921-2002
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b. 1811
Sheldon Usher, son of Mister Usher and Elizabeth Neville, was born in the year 1811. His father died when he was very young, and his mother remarried to Sir Edward William Crosbie, 6th Baronet (1794-1860), in 1821. In September of 1824 he wrote his father requesting permission to join the Navy.
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1898-1920s
A nationalist political party founded by William O'Brien in 1898, in Westport, Co. Mayo, its main objective was to force landlords to break up large uncultivated grasslands, surrender them to the Congested Districts boards, and redistribute them to tenants of smaller agricultural holdings. By 1900 it had 462 branches in 25 counties.