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centuries of invasions, the plantation of foreign settlers, and other major
social disruptions in Ireland, it is interesting to note the fixed location
(most likely due to the lack of opportunity to move elsewhere) of the family
name. We can see this clearly during one 50 year period (chosen simply
because the statistics exist):
1890 : 33 of the 42 birth registrations for the name Lucey were in Co Cork, 4 were in Co Kerry, and only one was outside of Munster. 1911 : There were 42 families of Lucey/Lucy in Co Kerry, and a further 21 families of Lucid. The I.G.I. as at August 1984, listed about 1000 entries of the name in all of Ireland, most of these were for births, christenings or marriages in either Co. Cork or Co. Kerry. The only ten entries not in those two counties were:
Some of these are arguably different names altogether; and it is also worth noting that it is not unusual for individuals to travel from the place of their birth in order to marry. It may be that some of the names have been translated from Gaelic to produce the name Lucy in Ulster, where Close would have been a more common Anglicization. A later edition of the I.G.I. contains a few hundred additional entries which have not yet been thoroughly examined. For purposes of comparison, the following figures have been extracted from the birth indexes for Ireland of 1890 (contained in Irish Genealogy - a Record Finder, edited by Donal F. Begley, Heraldic Artists 1981 [copy held at City of Kew Library, Melbourne]):
The references to the name Lucey that I have been able to discover from references in modern history (say, the past 200 years) are gathered on the next few pages below. 1822 WHITEBOYS: In the district around Macroom, a series of encounters between the local people (who were refered to at the time as the Whiteboys) and the imposed ruling class in early 1822 led to the murder (including that by hanging) of a number of people. On 24 January, 1822 at Carriganima, 7 miles north of Macroom, a party of men stopped the mail coach and wounded the coachman. Armed forces later arrested 21 men (and killed 2 in the process). At trial, 10 men were judged to be guilty of the offence of stopping the coach, and on 28 February, 1822, Daniel Murphy, Patrick Lehane, Thomas Goggin, and Cornelius Lucey were hanged for the offence. - recorded in West Cork & it’s Story, by Jeremiah O’Mahony. An File by Dáithí Óhógáin, 1982: In this study of Irish traditional poetry, reference is made to one DÓNALL BACACH Ó LUASAIGH Translation by Dr David Lucy: 'My destruction, my hardship, my affiliction, my sorrow, my smoke,
Dan rose and took him up to his room, and gave him his indentures. Mo Scéal Féin by An t-Athair Peadar Ó Laoghaire, 1915. (Translated by Cyril Ó Céirín as My Story by Canon Peter O'Leary) CORMAC LUCY From Chapter VII: We all had fine Gaelic. Cormac himself had it beautifully. A strong, hard, vigorous young man he was at the time There was another boy I had in the school. He belonged to the area
and his name was Daniel Mannix. He is now Archbishop over in Melbourne.)
History of West Cork and the Diocese of Ross by Rev. W. Holland, P.P. 1949. JEREMIAH LUCEY Guerrilla Days in Ireland by Tom Barry, Anvil Books, Dublin, 1949. Barry's account of the activity of the Third (West) Cork Brigade of the I.R.A. in 1920-21. At this time, there were over 12,500 British troops in Co Cork, and the I.R.A. Flying Columns in that county at the same time, never exceeded 310 riflemen. At page 122 of the 1989 paper-back version of the book: Dr. CON LUCEY This book is an account the I.R.A.'s activities in the period of 1916-21, and in particular deals with the small area starting at Macroom to as far west as Ballingeary and Coolea, and starting from Inchigeelagh to as far north as Ballyvourney and the Derrynasaggat Mountains. At page 159 reference is made to: CHRISTOPHER LUCEY : As Christy descended the hill, his view of the road in the valley became more limited. He had actually crossed the road when the Auxiliaries arrived and, seeing him, immediately opened fire on him. He gained the shelter of the house, and had ill-fortune not intervened would have got away from them. Immediately behind the house a mass of rock rose vertically. To provide for such an emergency, as was now Christy's, a ladder always stood in place against the rock. It had been temporarily removed and Christy had no option but to make a detour of the rock. This brought him again into view of his enemies who shot him down. He was not armed. It was a pity, for it was a remarkable fact that that even a shot or two exchanged with these warriors disturbed their aim unduly. A few weeks later these marauding Auxiliaries were trapped at Kilmichæl, a few miles to the south of our area. Seventeen of them were killed. The I.R.A. lost three men. 1u Briogaid Corcaí
In memory of
Seanchas an Táilliúra (Stories from the Tailor) Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1978. Quotes are from the translation by Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin, also published by Mercier. The stories were told by Tim Buckley who had been a travelling tailor. Amongst other things, they make reference to a number of Lucey's in Co Cork from the previous 80 odd years. I had hoped to be able to identify some of these in the International Genealogical Index, but unfortunately, could not. p. 36 : One daughter Téid na mBó had. She spent a while back near Kenmare. She is still alive. She didn't marry. The rest of the family went to America. All except one son who stayed on in Knockaunavona. His name was Tadhg. He married a daughter of Tadhg Creedon from the Top of Coom [in the parish of Kilgarvan]. I think there were four others who went to America. Téid was a cow-herd. Micil Tade and Tade Beag lived to be quite old. It must be twenty-five years since they died. (i.e. about 1917) They are all long since in their graves. Then, Tade Beag, Tade Mór's son: he married Nell Murphy ... they too had a family - five daughters ... And Eleanor : she married Con Lucey in Gorteenowen [in the Ballingeary locality]." Since 1952 (until 1980) Most Reverend CORNELIUS LUCEY. Also Bishop of Ross since 1954. Born at Windsor, Co Cork. Educated at Maynooth, and at Innsbruck. Priest 1927. Co-founder and president of Christus Rex Society for Priests; founder and Superior of La Socieded de Santo Toribio (a missionary and welfare society for the barriadas of Peru). Address: Bishop's House, Cork, Eire. There is no evidence of the Bishop being related to the present writer or not, although my aunt, Margaret M. Lucy (1900-1988) corresponded with him in the belief that there was a direct relationship, until his eminence terminated the correspondence. A book in the Australian National Library "A Christian Alternative
to Communism and Fascism" by Cornelius Lucey (Dublin, 1937, Catholic
Truth Society of Ireland) was probably a work by the bishop.
Kelly's Handbook, 1976, lists: LUCEY, Rear Admiral Martin Noel, C(ompanion of the) B(ath) (1973)
DSC; m(arried) 1947 Barbara Mary daughter of Aaron Key; Captain, Royal
Navy 1961, Admiral pres(ident?) Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1970-72,
Rear Admiral 1970, Flag Officer Scotland & Northern Ireland 1972-74;
Oldways, Houghton, Sussex.
Who's Who in Ireland "The Influential 1000", Dublin, 1984: LUCEY, Michael; Makes passing reference to several Luceys: p.27 : "BRIDEWELL LANE" (1851) ... Members of the Lucey family (Doyle and Jimmy) resided in this lane during this decade and Griffith records that a Daniel Lucey occupied one of the houses and two offices in the last century. The Bridewell was situated at the top of the Lane and is historically notable as the location of where the heads of those convicted for killing Col. Hutchinson were placed on spikes in 1800. (and their 6 skulls were still on public view there, more than 40 years later!) p.28 "Name Changed" Lucy's Lane consisted of eighteen houses and a reading room.
The name of this lane changed on a number of occasions. It had been called
Temperance Lane, The School Lane, Danzig and today .. is Barret Place.
C(harles) LUCEY The author of Ireland and the Irish sub-titled, Cathleen ni Houlihan is alive and well published by Doubleday & Co., New York, 1970 (Cat No. 914.15) Contains map of Ireland, map of Kerry, and photographs.
SEAN LUCY, The modern poet and critic (born 1931) is the author of T.S. Elliot and the idea of Tradition which was published in 1960. He was also the compiler of an anthology entitled Love Poems of the Irish. His first major selection of poems appeared in Five Irish Poets (1970), his first solo collection was Unfinished Sequence (1980). He edited Irish Poets in English, the Thomas Davis lectures of 1972, published Mercier, 1973; Five Irish Poets, also published by Mercier; Goldsmith, the Gentle Master, which was the Thomas Davis lectures of 1983, published by Cork University Press in 1984. I imagine that there are other books which I have not come across. He is believed to have been born outside of Ireland, and is Professor
of Modern English at University College Cork. A.E. Casey mentions (at Vol.
6, p. 2414) a Sean Francis Lucy, born Colaha, Bombay, India, 12 March 1931.
CONN LUCEY M.D., M.R.C.P.I., D.C.H. (Lond.) Senior Registrar, Metabolic Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast A paper by Dr Conn Lucey, entitled Anturan in the Treatment of Gout, is held at the Australian National Library (Call No.: Epam 1780). The 10 page roneod manuscript bears a hand written date of 19:8:1974 (either its’ publication or acquisition date I presume), and reports on the treatment of five gout patients using Anturan (Sulphinpyrazone) and reccomends its’ routine use as a treatment for gout. DENIS I.F. LUCEY Denis Ignatius Finbarr Lucey (b. 1942) is the co-author of Rural Industrialization: the impact of industrialization on two rural communities in Western Ireland written in conjunction with Donald R. Kaldor. Published by G. Chapman, London, 1969, 208 p. maps. 23 cm ISBN 0225488671 Australian National Library call No 338.0183 l935 <00216528> ERIC A.C. LUCEY Directed and produced some films for the Department of Animal Genetics Research Film Unit with the University of Scotland, including : Embryonic Development of a chick - 12 minutes, 1962; Shoreline sediments - 40 minutes, colour, 1967. Copies are held in the National Library of Australia. HELEN LUCEY Co-author (with Valerie Walkerdine b. 1947) of Democracy in the Kitchen:
Regulating mothers and socialising daughters. Virago, London, 1989.
IRISH TELEPHONE DIRECTORY LISTINGS 1990 IRISH "02" Area TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
As expected, the largest list of Modern Luceys is contained in this volume of the Irish telephone book (along with a much smaller listing of Lucy). The following is a list of the main area of each address (i.e. Town, City or District) referred to in the above directory, and adjacent to each address is the number of occasions that the name Lucey appears at that address:
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