gweedore

Updated: May 18, 2025

He is a typical Celt in appearance, a M'Fadden Roe, sanguine by temperament, with an expression at once shrewd and enthusiastic, a most flexible persuasive voice. All the trouble at Gweedore, he thought, came of the agents. "Agents had been the curse both of Ireland and of the landlord.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

Father M'Fadden of Gweedore, lying in Londonderry jail as a first-class misdemeanant, was brought from Londonderry as a witness for the niece.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

Father M'Fadden spoke freely and without undue heat of his trial, and gave us a piquant account of his arrest. This was effected at Armagh, just as he was getting into an early morning train. A sergeant of police walked up as the train was about to start, and asked "Are you not Father M'Fadden of Gweedore?" "What interest have you in my identity?" responded the priest.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

In this district of Dungloe, too, the women weave and knit as well as at Gweedore; and Father Walker, before he left us for his home, after a most agreeable evening, promised to send me some specimens of their handiwork.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

Father Walker estimates the families in his own parish in round numbers at about thirteen hundred, and in Gweedore and Falcarragh at about nine hundred each. We had some conversation about the great fisheries, which one would think ought to exist, but do not exist, on this coast, such fishing as is done here by the natives being on a very limited scale.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)