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Hubert de
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As justiciar (chief political and judicial leader) of England, Hubert de
Burgh, d. 1243, was effectively ruler of England during the minority of King
HENRY III. He was appointed justiciar at Runnymede in 1215, when King John
granted the MAGNA CHARTA to his rebellious barons. After John's death (1216) and the succession
of the 9-year-old Henry, Hubert repelled a French invasion and rapidly became
the most powerful man in the realm, overshadowing the regent, William Marshal,
Earl of Pembroke. He restored royal authority after the prolonged baronial
revolt, but his self-aggrandizement alienated the barons and, eventually, the
young king. Henry dismissed him in 1232.
William de Burgh
The progenitor of the Burkes in Ireland, William de Burgh
was the brother of Hubert de Burgh, Justiciar of England, the second most powerful man in
the Kingdom next to the King. Hubert was a powerful magnate who helped draft the
Magna Carter - Runnymede 1215. The de Burghs had arrived in England from France
along with William the Conqueror during the successful Norman Invasion of England in 1066.
William arrived in Ireland from
England sometime around 1185, after he had been given large tracts of land by
King John and It wasn't long after his arrival, that he took the office of
Governor of Limerick and was given the manors of Ardpatrick and Kilsheelan.
In 1200 A.D. William was
granted the castle of Tibraghty in Co. Kilkenny.
William married a daughter of
Donal Mor O'Brien, King of Thormond which greatly increased his power in the
area and in 1200 he set his sights on Connaught.
After many battles and campaigns sometimes on the side of the O'Connor - Kings of Connaught and sometimes against them, He eventually joined
forces with Cathal Crov Dearg and in a skirmish near Boyle, Co Roscommon his
main rival for the province, Cathal Caragh was slain.
After this skirmish both
William and Cathal Crov Deargh went to the Monastery at Cong where they spent
Easter.
During there stay at Cong, William billeted his soldiers with various
clans around the province but a false rumor was spread that William was dead, at this news, all 900 of William's
soldiers were put to the sword by their hosts.
William returned to Limerick to
form a new army and the following year he marched into Connaught with the sole
purpose of avenging the deaths of his murdered soldiers.
On the banks of the Shannon at
Meelick, he built a castle and from there, laid waste the province, plundering
the monasteries of Clonfert, Knockmoy, Mayo, Clonmacnoise and Cong, burning,
killing and pillaging as they went.
His former ally Cathal Grog Dearg complained bitterly to King John and
William was recalled to England where he surrender his castles to the King. The complaint was taken seriously by the King
and a commission was set up to investigate, but the matter was abandoned, due no doubt
to the influence of Williams brother, Hubert.
William was eventually given
all his castles and land back except for Connaught, which was to remain the
Kings territory.
William returned to Ireland in
1204 & when he died in 1205/6 he was buried in Athassel Abbey which he had
founded 5 years earlier.
William had a son, Robert de Burgh who with his army eventually over-ran
Connaught and parceled up the lands between themselves finally ending the power of the O'Connor and starting the spread of one of Irelands largest families.
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1742
Rev. Dr. Edmund Burke b.Co Kildare IRELAND d.1820 - Parish priest who
emigrated to Canada in 1870. Teacher of math and renowned as a philosopher in Quebec. He was appointed to reconcile
the Indian tribes who lived around Lake Superior & taught them Christianity.
Appointed Bishop of Nova Scotia by the see of Rome.
1743
Aedanus Burke - b. Galway,
IRELAND - d. 1801 Charleston, South Carolina. represented Carolina at congress
and Judge of the Supreme Court in the USA.
1787
John Burke - b. Tipperary
d.1848 the famous Genealogist who founded "Burkes Peerage"
1792
William Burke - b. Cork d. (Hanged) 1829 A notorious criminal who, along with his partner "Hare" sold the bodies
of the recently dead to surgeons in Edinburgh, SCOTLAND for dissection.
Eventually took to suffocating their victims. Hare turned Kings evidence &
Burke was hanged.
1829
Thomas Henry Burke- 1829-1882, Under Secretary of Ireland. He was
murdered by the Invincible in Phoenix Park Dublin, while out walking with Lord Cavendish
under-secretary of Ireland. He was the second son of William Burke of
Knocknagur, co. Galway, and Fanny Xaveria, only daughter of Thomas Tucker of
Brook Lodge, Sussex, by his wife, Maryanne, sister of Nicholas, cardinal
Wiseman. Burke's family was connected with that of Sir Ulick Burke of Glinsk, in
the county of Galway, on whom a baronecy was conferred by Charles I in 1628.
1832
Charles St. Thomas Burke - b.
New York USA - Irish American Actor & dramatist who was noted for his stage
version of Rip Van Winkle.
1833
James
(deaf un) Burke - James (deaf un) Burke v Simon Byrne,
1833. After standing toe to toe for 3 hrs 16 mins (bare knuckles) Byrne
collapsed dying 3 days later. Burke was cleared of any blame, although some said
his fighting spirit died. He regularly appeared in pantomime dressed as a clown between bouts.
1852
 Martha Jane Burke d.1903 - Known as Calamity Jane an American
frontiersman (lady) skilled in horsemanship & the gun.
1860-61
 Burke, Robert O'Hara
Robert
O'Hara Burke, b. 1820, d. June 28, 1861, was one of Australia's
most famous early explorers. An
Irishman, he migrated (1853) to Melbourne, where he joined the police force. Apart from the widely separated colonies around
its coasts, little was known of Australia until its interior began to be
explored, especially after 1840. From then to the end of the century, many
intrepid explorers such as Robert O'Hara BURKE, Edward John EYRE, John FORREST,
John McDouall STUART, Charles STUART, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855),
and Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-48) trekked inland, often with camels, only to
discover its barren, inhospitable, even forbidding nature. They found little to
induce settlement beyond the eastern seaboard.
In 1860, with William J. Wills, Burke led an expedition from Melbourne to
cross the continent from south to north. Well
provisioned and using camels, they reached the Gulf of Carpentaria, a distance
of 2,400 km (1,500 mi), in 6 months. Affected by mishap, mismanagement, and
failure to cooperate with the Aborigines on their return journey, both Burke and
Wills died of starvation at Cooper Creek, in Central Australia. Only one
expedition member, John King, survived.
1886
Billie Burke - b. Washington
D.C. USA d.? American actress
1893
Jack
Burke v Andy Bowen 1893
The longest recorded fight with gloves in New Orleans U.S.A. The fight lasted
110 rounds. Lasting 7 hours 19 mins. it was declared a no contest but later
changed to a draw as both men were unable to continue.
Bourke-White,
Margaret
 Margaret Bourke-White, b.
June 14, 1906, d. Aug. 27, 1971, was a pioneer in PHOTOJOURNALISM. In 1929 her
photographs were featured in the first issue of Fortune magazine. A year later
she became the first foreigner admitted to the USSR to take motion pictures of
industry and social conditions. In 1936 she joined the staff of Life magazine as
one of its first four photographers; her method was to take many pictures in
order to capture a single moment that conveyed the human drama of an event.
Bourke-White collaborated with the writer Erskine CALDWELL, whom she later
married, on a documentary book, You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), a powerful
look at the plight of poverty-ridden Southern blacks. In 1941 she collaborated
with Caldwell on a survey of life in America, Say! Is This the U.S.A.?. During World War II she became the first
woman to be accredited as a war photographer and to fly a combat mission. Dear
Fatherland, Rest Quietly (1946) records her experiences as American troops
liberated prisoners from German concentration camps.
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