Jean, I have too much respect for the people I have known and know that have earned the title "historian" by diligent study, research, publications, H.Dips, MAs etc. for me to consider meself anything other than a local historian. Here is some further information on the 1846, Castle Tavern / Young Irelander's affair -- Further research has been carried out by local historian Michael Purcell on the Joseph Sinosky / Jozef Szymanowski connection reported in last week's Nationalist. The 1846 August edition of the Carlow Sentinel newspaper spelt his name as Sinowsky describing him as "a driller in the Polish science of pike warfare" and stated "from what we learn, whether his story be well-founded or otherwise, he is a very dangerous character to be allowed to roam about the country at present". In 1897 Carlow historian Michael Brophy, himself a retired officer from the Royal Irish Constabulary carried out research to try find out what became of "Joseph Sinosky". Michael Brophy noted that Constable John Roddy who investigated the case was one of the most competent officers in the Irish Constabulary and had been responsible for the conviction of many criminals with over twenty of them receiving sentences of Transportation to Australia. Michael recorded that when he made enquiries to the authorities in 1880 he was told that Joseph Sinosky had left Ireland for America in 1847 travelling under the name of Joseph Gurley ?. But nevertheless Michael concluded that Joseph had died in Carlow Jail despite the fact that Joseph's name never appeared in the prison records, he believed that Joseph Sinosky was buried in the Felon's Plot in the grounds of Carlow Jail. Of course Michael Brophy had to carry out his research without the aid of "Google" , a source that would have informed him that Jozef Szymanowski died in Rome in 1867 but even therein the mystery is added to when another google source states that the body of Jozef Szymanowski was brought back to Rome for burial in 1867 !. Michael Purcell intends to package all the data he has collected on this case and forward it to the University of Warsaw in order to finally solve the mystery of who was this man who stated he had " given the pattern of thousands of Polish Lances at Limerick and claimed he was in Carlow to give Ireland a hand in her fight for freedom". It has also transpired that James Grimes who owned the Castle Tavern in 1846 is related to the pair known as JEDWARD, for this information Michael is grateful to the concert promoter Davy Grimes. On 22 August 2012 08:09, jean casey <[email protected]> wrote: > Mick, great article on Nationalist, August 7, well done but surely it's > time to drop the "local historian" moniker, what do you have to achieve for > them to call you a "historian" ?. > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Michael Brennan < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > The following article appeared in the Carlow Nationalist newspaper today > > and > > is well worth a read: > > > > "Polish war hero’s part in the struggle for Irish freedom" > > http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/tabId/369/itemId/190/News.aspx > > > > Regards > > Michael Brennan > > http://www.facebook.com/michael.brennan.3152 > > County Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ > > My Laois Page: > > http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >