Bøger udgivet af David Leahy M.Sc.

Based on a true story of two young women from rural Ireland in the late 1800s. They lived near Lough Sheelin, and this story is based on Newspaper reports at the time. Both women wanted to 'better their prospects' one by marriage and the other by emigration. Life was hard in Ireland at this time, poverty was rife and prospects were bleak. Mary Jane married a Roman Catholic and was consequently shunned by her family, so she elected to emigrate to Connecticut with her alcoholic new husband. They tried to start a new life, but soon the alcoholism took its toll and both were regularly arrested and jailed (despite having 6 kids along the way). Very soon the American dream became a nightmare with bleak prospects to escape from the vicious cycle of drink, fighting and incarceration. Her cousin Elizabeth tried a different tactic, eloping with a rich (much older) local Gent who became estranged from his first wife. Despite objections from her Doctor father, they 'lived in sin' in Rural Donegal until his first wife died. However, Elizabeth got dumped on Grafton Street, the day before the wedding, with her prospective husband developing cold feet and disappearing off to England. She was distraught, but tracked him down to reconcile. Elizabeth persuaded her new husband Thomas to alter his will in her favour, however soon his children discover this and a literal 'battle of wills' ensued. Her father was then forced to flee the country at the age of 64 along with the rest of his family to Australia to escape the ordeal and shame. Elizabeth remained.

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The Leahy / Lahey / Lahy families of County Cavan have a long history in the County. They are a distinct group of 'Leahys' isolated from the other concentrations of Leahyfamilies in Ireland. Several theories of their origins are explored along with rationales and what little evidence that exists to support them. After many years researching the Leahys in Cavan I have come to the conclusion that they (and Leahysin neighbouring counties) are all related. I have studied Church and Civil records along with census data, Wills and most importantly Land Deeds records as well as someprivate collections and have been able to create a 'Top of the Tree' structure thatfits in with all the known data. There are still plenty of holes and isolated groupsthat can't yet be connected, however I present what I see to be the most accurate Leahy family tree in County Cavan from the late 1600s to about the year 1800. This volume is about the 'Origins' and the most early Leahy / Lahy individuals that are on record. Hopefully it might provide some insight to the Leahy descendants worldwide who can't get much further back in their family history research than 'Cavan'.A second volume will describe the various Leahy groups from 1800 onwards

Having spent many hours in the Registry of Deeds I thought it may be useful for others to see thenotes I took on the Leahy deeds / Wills and marriage articles, and also notes on some Privately held deeds. This is a rich genealogical sourceoften overlooked or sometimes avoided as some of the text and language can be difficult to interpretand understand. I appreciate that not everyone has the money or time to come to Dublin and spend daysin the Registry of Deeds to extract this useful information. I systematically went through every Index of sellersfrom 1708 to 1950 and recorded every Leahy / Lahy / Lahey / Lahee / Laghy name and in most cases made notes on the deed (those with no notes have the book No, Page No and Memorial No recorded for the reader to order if of interest). In most cases I recorded the people (and any stated relationships) and land areas covered, acerage amounts and monetary values mentioned. Some deeds of particular interest to me have been transcribed in full.I have set them out in date order and indexed other surnames (witnesses, buyers, solicitors etc.) thatoccur in the deed. It should be noted that Leahys may also be recorded as 'buyers' however there areonly Indexes for the 'Sellers' names. I hope the information will be of use to genealogists somewhere.

Panic Attacks are debilitating. Only the sufferer's of panic / anxiety attacks can truly understand their intensity and debilitating nature. This book is a self-help to aid such sufferers. The author has the direct experience of having suffered from them himself and thus provides a personal viewpoint on what happens during a panic attack and how best to deal with it. He provides and easy to understand description on the psychological basis to panic attacks and also a route to treating not just the panic attack itself but the underlying causes to enable you to return to a 'normal' anxiety free life.