Father Maurice Power was educated at the Irish College, Paris. He was stationed at Kanturk (1825), Cove, Ballyclough (1827-1830), Kilmacabea, Skibbereen (1834), Ladysbridge, Ballymacoda (pastor, 1835-1839) where he built a church, Killeagh (1839-1876). Two fund raising trips to the US, c. 1858, yielded over 4,000 pounds. Some of his sermons in Irish edited and published by Risteard O'Foghlu. Brendan O'Madagain has edited a book of instructions on the Bible, written in his old age, as a thesis for the Ph.D. (also in Irish). His first cousin and housekeeper, Miss Wiseman, strongly disapproved of his habit of keeping open house for all comers. Described as a "holy, humble, and hardworking priest, a tall and powerfully built man." He died in retirement in Youghal on 26 July 1877 and was buried in Killeagh. Father Henry Power, brother of Father Maurice, 1800-1868. Professor, College of the Holy Ghost, Paris (1825-1829). Stationed in Wallstown (chaplain) 1832-1839; Ballymacoda (1839); Killeagh (1841-1859). Died at Killeagh 1 February 1868. Father Maurice sent 20 pounds and Father Henry 10 pounds to the Kilmacabea Famine Relief Fund. If you are interested in a first person account of both Fathers' Maurice and Henry before, during, and after the famine time in Killeagh, I will be happy to send you a copy of Edmund Ronayne, "Ronayne's Reminiscences: A History of His Life and Renunciation of Romanism and Freemasonry." As you may guess from the title, this book is, well, let's say opinionated; however, Edmund was born in 1832 at Gurtrue, lived through the famine (and the "fever" that went with it) while all his family died, and was helped by Father Henry Power. He was educated and went on to found so-called "Hedge Schools" in and around County Cork, eventually emigrating to Montreal, Canada, and finally to Chicago, Illinois. He worked as a teacher, first in Ireland, then in Quebec, and founded and operated a school in Chicago -- until the Chicago fire, that is; there is an interesting story of how the Chicago fire "really" got started. There is also much lambasting of Roman Catholicism, Freemasonry, and just about everybody that ever annoyed the man -- lot's of history, lot's of complaining. The file is large, about 2M, and it's Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) -- you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://www.adobe.com) to view or print it. Let me know if you're interested.