his family.However, on this final visit in 1754, he was betrayed and
captured by
the English.He was executed and his body towed headless to Cork.The
Lament for O’Sullivan Beare commemorates him.

Father Daniel Sullivan of
Ballylongford

Father
Daniel Sullivan was the parish priest of
Ballylongford in county Kerry from 1823 until his death in June 1832 at
the
time of a cholera epidemic.

Before his death he had
expressed a wish of being buried inside the church. Suspecting,
correctly, that
the cholera epidemic would cause a problem with this, a group of
Ballylongford
people secretly buried him at night, at two o’clock in the morning,
inside the
church. The next day a Catholic
magistrate ordered his body disinterred and then buried in the church
grounds.

This created
much controversy.The body was indeed
exhumed and re-buried "amidst
the execrations and yells of hundreds, who certainly, had it not been
for the
presence of the police,never would have allowed the remains of their
priest to
have been treated with such indignity."

The Sullivan
Family of Berwick, Maine

Owen
O’Sullivan and Margery Brown both arrived in
York, Maine in 1723 on the same ship from Limerick.Owen
was 33 years old at the time and Margery
a nine year old orphan.Twelve years
later Owen O’Sullivan was Master John Sullivan and he married Margery
Brown
despite their 20 year difference in age.They made their home in the Pine Hill area of Berwick, Maine.

John
did
not involve himself in the physical labor of running his farm, but
instead
spent his time studying and reading. While Master Sullivan
poured over
his books, she managed the farm, the household and the six children.
These children inherited the intelligence of their father and the
grit of
their mother. Four were Revolutionary War heroes and two were
Governors.
She used to say: “I have