The March Of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2021
- The re-enactment of the O'Sullivan Beara great march, made for RTE television
the 400th anniversary of the famous March of O'Sullivan Beara, led by Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beara, chieftain of the O'Sullivan Beara clan, which was the culmination of a cycle of events that took place after the Battle of Kinsale - which saw Irish and Spanish forces defeated by a crown army.
The march got underway in December 1602, when the clan left Beara, with a view towards travelling to Leitrim to meet up with the O'Rourkes. The journey saw the clan pass through Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo and Sligo. In mid-January 1603, the O'Sullivan Bearas reached their final destination, with just 35 from an original party of 1,000 men, women and children - the rest having either settled along the way, or died as a result of hunger, exposure or in battle.
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Warm regards from a chilly Ireland to my O'Sullivan brethren worldwide!☘
Blessings Mike.
I love the O'Sullivan story, I wish someone would make a good movie about it, great story of self righteousness, courage, resilience, strength and determination against the odds, the Irish people have a fantastic story to tell throughout history and I feel a sense of pride knowing my blood is OSullivan blood.
I totally agree with you, The Flight Of The Earls and Donal Cams March should be known by a wider audience as it is an amazing story, and feat. And O'Sullivan is a name (and Clann) to be proud of being a part of.
Yes a lot of pride knowing I’m Sullivan blood my He was my 9th great grandfather and I’m a descendant of his son John osullivan
Not sure how distantly or not I’m related but I know for fact our name was changed when my ancestors migrated here to the U.S. Originally our last name was O’Sullivan but we changed it after migrating to the U.S. during/ after the great famine. Blessings fellow clansmen
@@kingjsolomon blessings.
I wish for a united O Sullivan family, Hail from Australia.
Blessings from the UK.
Amazing !! I named my son Donal Cam !! First read this tale in the Irish atlas and encyclopedia 1901. My grandfather Daniel Christopher O'Sullivan had the passage marked with toilet paper 😁🚬☘️
Great true story and an amazing hero to all O'/Sullivan's. I want to come to Ireland and do some of the march one day and truly pay my respects to the great man.
You know, the Chieftain of the other branch of the O`Sullivan clan (O`Sullivan Mór) is said to have moved out of his Dunkerron castle and disappeared somewhere in Co Kerry. (The castle was given to Cromwell`s supporter William Petty.) If this is true, i.e. if O`Sullivan Mór simply became a commoner instead of going abroad with the wild geese, then some O`Sullivan`s today may have royal blood in them. O`Sullivan Beare was definately counted as royalty. I recall reading this was recognized by his peers throughout Europe during some sort of royal census at the time. This is also partly why he was welcomed by the King of Spain.
According to my family tree Relationship
Donal Cam O'SULLIVAN
MY 11TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER. I am so proud to be a descendent of this brave man. Great video. Thank you.
Thanks, and great ancestry, he was certainly a hero.
We are related then. I am a descendent of his brother, Sir Owen Reagh O'Sullivan!
@Red Dirt Bluegrass My 4th great grandmother was Nancy Sullivan. Her father was Uriah Sullivan, and his father was John Sullivan. I traced that line all the way back to Donal Cam O'Sullivan. I am not sure why the dropped the O'.. ????
Name • •
John Thomas O'Sullivan I
Reason This Information Is Correct:
The will of John Sullivan d.1698 establishes his name as John. This is further supported by the will of his father in law, Owen Hayes, when he refers to him as John Sullivan. Over the years numerous genealogists have referred to him as John Thomas(sometimes citing two beloved relatives as reason for both names) but there is no documentation for any of this.
(This was Owen Donel O'Sullivans son) Owen was the ancestor who came to Virginia.
We are related too! He's my 9th great-grandfather and Nancy Sullivan is my 6th great-grand aunt. Love seeing the connections all across the world!
Exactly whats happening now in Ireland, we are being replaced.
I just found out that this is my 12th great grandfather!!!!!!
My maternal great grandmother was Sullivan, she married a Flaherty.
God bless O S B . Love from clan O,Donegan ☘🇮🇪
Thankyou, fantastic stuff.
It wasn't on YT and I thought it deserved to be! God Bless.
James Sullivan descended. He went to Canada
Just found out I’m a direct descendant.. my 9th great grandfather…
Good roots. :)
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20:35 Interesting, that's the same tune as Waltzing Matilda, probably the most famous folk song in Australia.
Waltzing Matilda is originally an Irish song I believe. It has certainly been covered a few times by Irish artists, best of all probably The Pogues. I realise that it commemorates Anzac Day for the Australians and New Zealanders, but I'm pretty sure it was adopted from the Irish.
@@ShoestringShane Many irish tunes have been adopted and adapted by us colonials down here in the south
@@ShoestringShane Sounds like it was improvised, I'm from LM and never heard that version before. The Pogues song you are thinking of is "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" actually a different song.
@@adrianred236 yes I think I was wrong and that it is originally an Australian folk song borrowed by The Pogues. The Pogues song And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is most certainly based on the Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda.
Waltzing matilda is from the tune of a german marching song
Well he defintely shot the Sheriff
I used to wonder why O`Sullivan Beare took women and children with him on the march north, but of course he had to. The Dursey Island massacre made it clear the English were carrying out a genocide. George Carew was the commander (he was a bit of a nut, apparently he had his men restrain random Irishmen so he could strangle them after the death of his brother). Elizabeth the first honoured him, so she must have thought such behaviour was honourable. After the massacre, Carew and his family stayed at a fort on the site of Shandon, St Anne`s Church of Ireland on the north side of Cork city. Hence the name Shandon (Sean dún - old fort).
It just proves that the Irish were seen as second class citizens even in their own country, and that the English Anglo-Normans were deeply racist against the Celtic nations. I guess we only have to look at the way Scotland and Wales have been dealt with by the English over the past couple of millennium to see this is true. Being Irish Diaspora, but born in England, I was born after the era of the famous 'No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish,' slogans in boarding houses in London and the like. I didn't really notice any prejudice growing up, apart from the typical English, Irish, Scotsman jokes. But when I look back I had a very English teacher in primary school that used to bully me, he singled me out specifically and tried to turn the class against me, but being the class clown I always had them on my side, which infuriated him! I have wondered more recently whether that was because of my very Irish name, I really believe it is highly likely to have been! It just makes me embrace my 'Irishness' even more deeply.
It depends did you grow up during the 70’s, 80’s etc
@@oscarosullivan4513 yes I did, born 1973. Looking back I guess there was a lot of prejudice, but maybe I didn't notice it at the time being young. I also grew up in a small village which was somewhat shielded from the main town back then, and was quite a close community where everyone knew everyone. But I do think the teacher just took a disliking to me and I'm sure my name swayed his decision.
@@ShoestringShane Thanks
How do you differ between the Beare and the Mors within the Clan ?
There are lots of branches from the original Súilleabháin Clann, Mor and Beare were just the 2 largest and most powerful. Mor in Gaelic just means 'big/great', they were the largest Sullivan Clann. Beare was the 2nd largest and got its name from the Beara Peninsula in Ireland, where they were situated. There are lots of other clanns which came from the same line, e.g. O’Sullivan MacCragh, MacCrohan, McGillycuddy, and Labhrais-Clanlawrence, and lots of variant spellings, which could possibly have stemmed from other branches.
One document which is worth checking out is called 'Eoghanacht Genealogies', which tells the mythology /history around the Sullivan Clann, as well as that of many of the great Irish Clanns. A quote from 'Eoghanacht Genealogies';
'This Suilleabhain's real name was Eochaidh and how did the by-name
originate?
Once there came a British druid on a trip to Ireland. Lobhan Draoi his
name. he came to Eochaid and rendered him much services at the time;
Eochaid offered him many valuables and gifts in payment, but the druid
would not take any reward but sought the one eye which was in Eochaid's
head and for his honour and fearing that the druid would satirize him he
gave it to him. St. Ruadhan was at that time with Eochaid and was witness
of this unreasonable request. He said: "I will it, if the Lord wills it.
That your eye shall go into the head of Eochaid in place of his own eye."
God granted this miracle for Ruadhan. The eyes of Lobhan were transferred
to Eochaid and he saw with them; hence he was called Suilleabhain (the
eyes of Lobhan).'
[source: freepages.rootsweb.com/~mallorybrody/genealogy/Eire/Munster/Eoghanacht_Genealogies.htm ]
Thanks for the reply Shane.
@@ShoestringShane That's interesting, I've always assumed that Sullivan derived from the Irish for 1 eye.
@@adrianred236 that is certainly one interpretation. Noone is actually sure the true origin, but it is most likely either 'Dark Eye', 'One Eye', or 'Hawkeye'. Whilst the written mythology also gives us 'From The Eye Of Lobhan The Druid', which is probably the most unlikely, having been written down by monks and/or historians some 5 centuries after the fact!
Could anyone put a date to a map I seen of Ireland and its called
""The Kingdom of Ireland""
It doesn't have any borders on it but does say the 4 counties... I would love to find out this date .... the writing on the map is something like this....
Well it was a lordship according to English law until 1542, and a kingdom thereafter untill the "act of union" in 1800 so somewhere in between.
All according to English law but the Fenachas or Brehon still existed in 1542 and there were many powerful families operating independent of the English King.
Lord Donal "The Swarthy" O'Sullivan Bere
1460-1520
BIRTH 1460 • Kerry, Ireland
DEATH 1520 • Kerry, Ireland
17th great-grandfather Learning my actual Heritage
Superb, love it. Welcome cousin.
@@ShoestringShane people have no idea the family is very very large
As English attack his home Osullivan is away attacking Irish People maybe we just deserved to be Conquered
He wasn't attacking other Irish clans, they had sold out to the English and they were attacking the O'Sullivan clan, so he was having to defend himself and his clan on all fronts, from both the English and other Irish clans.