LANGAN'S HISTORICAL A-Z, INDEX & DIARY BY George Langan

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  • WILLIAM DANAHER. (Liam O’Danchair) By George Langan.

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    We were left with the following account on the Danaher family from Colm Danaher, son of master William.  ‘In the middle of the 17th century, two brothers Maurice & Philip Danaher left their home in North Tipperary. They were escaping the landlord Brodel’s persecution…a Cromwellion officer who was rounding up hundreds of young people to be dispatched to the West…

  • TOM LANGAN (CAPTAIN STEELE) By George Langan.

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    Tom Langan (Captain Steele) Tom Langan who lived in Glenagragra was one of the best-known men in Munster during the 1798 Rising. He was known locally as ‘Captain Steele’ because he allegedly killed a man of that name during the said Rising in Co. Wexford. Tom, along with Gerald Fitzgerald, brother to John Bateman Fitzgerald, Knight…