Famous Connections | People | Oughterard Heritage Skip to content Date search Contact us Log in Search: Oughterard Heritage A community history of Oughterard, Co. Galway Home About Us Places People Topics catalogue Links Get involved Events You are here: Home>People>Famous Connections Famous Connections Matt Molloy Joseph Bruce Ismay 1862-1937 Barbara Bel Geddes The Titanic Joseph Bruce Ismay was chairman of the White Star Line which owned the Titanic. He was on board its maiden voyage when the disaster happened. One story goes that he was a coward and dressed as a woman to get rescued and that he bought Costello Lodge in South Connemara as a bid to escape the media. It’s said that they found him out and hounded him and that they used to send him the white feather, the symbol of cowardice and it went to his head and that he wound up in a mental home in Essex, England and died there. The other story goes that he was one of the last to be rescued and that he was cleared in an enquiry in the US of any wrongdoing and that he died a natural death in London in 1937. The enquiry was held by his own company. When he moved to Costello Lodge he used to worship in the protestant church in Oughterard and drink in a shebeen near Paddy Festy’s in Recess. These are the stories of Joseph Bruce Ismay, whichever may be correct. Dallas Barbara Bell Geddes who played the matriarch of the Ewing family in Dallas, mother of JR and Bobby lived in Oughterard with her husband, Windsor Lewis and children in the Cappaghgarriff estate on the Glann Road in the late 1950s for a few years. I remember them driving around in their open-top car. Barbara passed away a few years ago and the late Jim and Margaret Kelly worked for them in those days. Tags Cappaghgarriff (1) Dallas (3) Ismay (2) kelly (63) Titanic (2) Time period 2013 This page was added on 23/09/2013. 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Galway Lydon's that appear on Griffiths Valuation 1855 (not a complete listing) Colm De Bhailìs Connoboy Family Convent of Mercy 17th November 1924 Culture Night 2018 Cummin Clancy Daoine & Áit Diane Marie O'Malley Dick Cotter - RIP Distress in the West 1862 Doon Evictions - Parish of Killannin Eamon Connolly, Maghera. Born 14th July 1955 - Died 18 November 2014 Eddie Banks An Appreciation Eddie D'Arcy with Michael D Higgins Fahy-Lee family Family Ancestral Homeland Famous Connections Famous Oughterard Connections: Lord Killanin Farewell to Canon Sean Manning Farewell to Fr. Alan Burke Fay Tuck 1933 - 1980 First holy Communion Photograph 1955 Fr Frank Murphy 1917-2006 Frank McGauley From Galway to New York Garda Sean Sugrue George R O'Malley Gerry Galvin 1942-2013 Greetings from Canada Hickey Family Hubert Walsh, Billamore, Oughterard. I have found my tribe.... Interview with Tom Monahan, Main Street, Oughterard Iris Harben Iris Harben: a life 12 April 1920 – 5 March 2019 J. Bruce Ismay Jack Cleggett, Harold McCullagh, Fr Hyland P.P, Michael O'Flynn, Canon McCullagh taken in the late 1930's James Egan and Julia Cleggett - A Tribute 1995 Jean Rosamund Taylor (1919-2008) Jim and Mary Curran Jim Sullivan's story from his visit to Oughterard with his father Stephen and his brother Dick...when his grandmother Mary Sullivan(nee Darcy) was dying 1919 Joe Pilkington John and Agnes Gill 1947 John Darcy and his wife Mary John Duke Gilmore John Geoghegan & Catherine Halloran John King Remembers John the Yank Joyce's Supermarket Kathleen Maloney Kathleen Mary Theresa Watts, daughter of Willie and Molly Watts, formerly of Camp Street then latterly of Lemonfield. Kathleen recounts a century of memories Ken Monaghan - A tribute Kevin Healy R.I.P. Knockillaree Sixty Years Ago Landowners in County Galway 1871 Linda Welby - A Story to Tell Lines on the death of my Mother Local Actress at Film Fleadh looking for Information on James Duffy, Died 1919 Lost from Oughterard Lydon Grave's in Co. Galway (not a complete listing) Margaret (Peig) Tierney Brown Margaret Lee Shea, Derrymoyle Mark (Mockie) Geoghegan Mark Geoghegan, father of Jackie Geoghegan, Glengowla Marriage Records 1809-1899 Mary Acton Mary Conneely Mary Kate Walsh- Memories Mary Lydon with daughter Maisie C. 1948 Maurice Callanan RIP - A Tribute Maurice O'Scanaill Memorial Cards of People that lived in Leam Memories from Oughterard Show 1983 Memories of Frank O'Halloran Memories of Mary Kate Walsh (née Naughton) 1892-1984 Memories of Oughterard Michael John Joyce - An Appreciation Michael Lee Michael Previté - RIP Michael Waters 1933-2017 Mick Molloy - The World Beater Mick Molloy & Martin Lee Mike Power's Pub Monaghan/Cleggett Family Photo taken about 1894 Morgan & Bab Lydon Morley ready to chase his American Dream Mr. Peter Geraghty Mrs Mary Moloney of Gortacarnaun My family tree & please tell me more 1920s My Friend Bill My Return to Oughterard New Bishop Visits Kilcummin Parish Church Nimble Dick Martin NUALA WALSH OBITUARY - Marion Lydon Obituary - Marion Lydon Obituary: Dr Willis, Oughterard, 1868 Old School Photographs Oughterard Courthouse - A Brief History Oughterard F.C.A. 1950 Oughterard Immigrant Inspection Cards Oughterard Pride of Place 2017 Oughterard Race Committee. 1953 Oughterard Soccer Football Team 1894-95 Oughterard's Famous Connections Our Elvis - Michael John Joyce P. Joe and Jackie O'Malley C.1952 Paddy Geoghegan 20.07.1925 - 06.10.2010 Padraig "Dandy" Kelly - A Tribute Pat Geoghegan, grandfather of Jackie Geoghegan, Glengowla Pat Maloney - R.I.P. An Appreciation Patrick & Timothy Lee Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore Peter and Kate Melia, Derrylaura Peter Coyne and Brothers Phil Furniss Photo memories of Cappagariff - Summer of 1958 Photo's of the O'Connor Family Photograph, Convent Of Mercy, Oughterard 1924 Photographic Memories of the Faherty & O'Connor families and more from Padraig Faherty's photo collection Photos from various events over the past few years Postcard from 1917 Poteen Still Private John Purcell VC 9th (The Queens’ Royal) Lancers Profile of John King Proud to call him my Dad Queen of Connemara Festival August 1974 Remembering Christy Remembering Gerry Clancy October 1951 - July 1986 Remembering Men from Oughterard who Died in W.W.1. Reminiscence Request for information Retirees Oughterard 1996 Retracing Century Old Footsteps in Oughterard Rev. Alexander Dallas Richard George Handover RICHARD LANGRISHE Robert and James Lyons Robert and James Lyons Roland Wirsching 1936-2008 Ronald Stevens Rosamund Previté Interview Russell Worth School Photograph, Convent of Mercy 1924 Seamus O Maille Seamus O'Maille's Memorial Card Seán Conneely 16 June 1941-17 July 2006 Sean Smyth An Appreciation Sheila O'Sullivan - A Tribute St Paul's Oughterard Debs 2007 St. Cuimín of Kilcummin Stephen John Tierney Stephen Lee with John Fahy & his sisters Julia Molloy & Bridget Fahy The Connemara half of Somerville and Ross The D'Arcys of Kiltullagh, Porridgetown East, and Magheramore The Joyce Family The Joyces’ and O’Flaherties The Last Of The Bosses The life and times of Richard Halloran 1925 - 2021 The Mayfly Market The Mons Family of Gortnashingaun at Glann The O'Connor Farmers of Burnthouse Killanin The Oughterard Courthouse Celebrates Heritage week 2016 The Patron Saint of Lough Corrib The Sound of Music - Oughterard Musical April 1968 Thomas Naughton, otherwise Thomas Fahy Naughton, Anglers Hotel, Oughterard Tim Molloy, A Tribute Tom (Mahongy) Walsh Tom Joyce Reminisces Tom McQuinn Tommie Sullivan Glann Tommy Mallon, Boat Builder Tribute to Bartley McDonagh, Maam Cross Tribute to Bob Welby, Portacarron & Ivy Gable Moyvoon Tribute to Frank (Frankie) Kyne 1932-2016 Tribute to John Joe Maher R.I.P. Tribute to Paddy Kelly Walsh's of Oughterard What Happened to Mark Mulvoy? William M. Fine William Mc Donagh, Oldchapel, Oughterard Winifred Donnellan American Newspaper Clippings Mick Molloy Corrib News & Newsletters of old Colm de Bhailís - Colm Wallace Daoine & Áit Genealogy Albert Alexander Lyons Camp Street Faherty Family Kinneavy/Gannon Family Camp Street Lydon Michael John Joyce - Our Elvis Mike Power, Oughterard Railway Gatekeepers Cottage, Magheramore Richard Martin, Clareville Seamus O'Maille Stagpoole Family Stephen Lambert The Kelly Family, Gortnashingaun Townland, Glann The Curley Family The Gill Family The McDonaghs of Billamore The Martins of Ross The Tuam Martyrs Walter Macken Willis Family Copyright the site owners. All rights reserved. Website by CommunitySites