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O'Flaherty (/ oʊ ˈ f l ɛər t i, oʊ ˈ f l æ h ər t i / oh-FLAIR-tee, oh-FLA-hər-tee, UK also / oʊ ˈ f l ɑː ər t i / oh-FLAH-ər-tee; Middle Irish: Ua Flaithbertaig; Modern Irish: Ó Flaithbheartaigh [oː ˈfˠlˠahəɾˠt̪ˠəj]) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Galway. The clan name ...
Uniquely among the O'Flaherty family up to that time, Roderick became a highly regarded historian and collector of Irish manuscripts. His friends and associates included his teacher Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ; Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin ; John Lynch ; Edward Lluyd ; Samuel Moleneaux and his father William . [ 2 ]
The O'Flaherty clan has historically used the phrase "Fortuna Favet Fortibus" as a motto. [9] The O'Keeffe family motto is “Forti et fideli nihil difficile” which translates as “For the brave and faithful, nothing is difficult”. [10] The one of the McCarthy family mottos is also "Forti et fideli nihil difficile". [11]
The family lived on the golf course, and James O'Flaherty worked there as a steward. [6] By his late teens, young O'Flaherty had a scratch handicap and a scholarship to a teacher training college. However, in 1918, he enrolled at Mungret College , a Jesuit college in County Limerick dedicated to preparing young men for missionary priesthood. [ 7 ]
Donnell, the son of Hugh O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught, was slain by the sons of Brian O'Flaherty, at a meeting of his own people. 1417. Rory, the son of Murrough O'Flaherty; Rory, the son of Dermot Duv O'Flaherty, and sixteen others of the O'Flahertys, were drowned in the bay of Umallia. Murchad mac Brian Ó Flaithbheartaigh – 1419 ...
The Giants announced Wednesday that Nabers has received permission to don the digit from the family of the late Ray Flaherty, who was a standout end for the G-Men in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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The castle was built by one of Connacht's most notable Gaelic lordly families the Ó Flaithbheartaigh clan (the name later anglicised to O'Flaherty).Aughnanure is one of over 200 tower houses in County Galway, constructed mainly by Gaelic and Anglo-Norman land-owning families.