Series 6 - Henry O'Mahoney memoir excerpts

43pp

Kerby A. Miller created revised versions of the Henry O'Mahoney memoir from Mary O'Mahoney Lupton's original transcript created in 1933. The Lupton version was provided to Miller by Bridget Lynch, University of California, Berkeley, in 1976.

Excerpts of Kerby A. Miller's typed transcript and Bridget Lynch's 1976 photocopy of Henry O'Mahoney's 1933 memoir. Henry O'Mahoney (1842-1937) was well known in West Cork for his Land League activities from 1880 to 1882 in the Ballydehob and Schull areas and was imprisoned under the Coercion Act of 1881. O'Mahony fought in the American Civil War before returning to Ireland, and would return again to the United States upon his release from prison to become a successful cattle rancher in Texas, much of which is covered in his memoir. Per Miller: 'It's important to understand that this is Mary O'Mahoney Lupton's transcription of her father's orally presented autobiography. So, it is not an "original" document authored by Henry O'Mahoney; before I "received it," it may have gone through several editions and revisions.'

The complete copies of Kerby A. Miller's transcript and Bridget Lynch's photocopies, along with Miller's notes and research on the O'Mahoney family, are found in P155/11/2.