bring any benefit to them.

A good example that Muhammad alShareef gave about his community in Canada was the masjid encouraging the people to play basketball. People would say lets play basketball, and encourage it because it will lead people to Islam and Allah and the Messenger. He decided that he was going to go memorize the Qur’an instead at a Dar ulUloom school, it took him two years and he finished it. And when he came back and saw the people at the masjid, they were still playing basketball. They were really good, and they almost got into the university teams in their respective school. They then finished their university studies and got married. On Sundays at the masjid they can still manage to play a pretty goodIn
Ireland the “O” prefix for O’Sullivan fell into
disuse with the strengthening of English rule from the 17th century.By 1866 only 4% used it.

The 20th century saw the trend reversed,
although the prefix has not been equally restored in all locations.O’Sullivans were 96% in the Cork area, while
in nearby Bantry they are 80% and in the Dublin area about 83%.The average for all of Ireland is in the order
of 89%.

Outside
Ireland, however, Sullivan
remains the main spelling.The following
is an estimate of the numbers
today.

Numbers (000's)

O'Sullivan

Sullivan

Total

Ireland

40

6

46

UK

2

33

35

America

3

57

60

Elsewhere (1)

1

17

18

Total

46

113

159

(1) Canada, Australia, and
New Zealand.

Early O'Sullivan History

The
time-line below shows some O’Sullivan accounts
from the Irish annals.The conflicts
with their neighboring McCarthys were a recurring feature:

1193.Normans forced Sullivans from Knockgraffan to Cork
and Kerry.
1214.Sullivan boys killed by McCarthy.
1280.Sullivan united with McCarthy against
Normans.
1317.Sullivans rebelled against
McCarthy
1320. The Bantry monastery in O'Sullivan's country founded by
O'Sullivan