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Bantry
Co. Cork
Ireland
Timothy Healy was a son of Maurice Healy & Elizabeth (Eliza) Sullivan
An extract from the book of the Bantry Historian, Donal Fitzgerald:- "In the year 1855 Tim Healy was born in the building now occupied by the Bank of Ireland, where when he was four years old his mother died giving birth to twins. One twin, Maurice, survived and Tim had vivid memories of his mother's and brother's coffins being removed from the house on a very rainy day".
In 1882 he married his first cousin, Catherine Mary Erina Sullivan who was a daughter of Timothy Daniel Sullivan & Catherine (Kate) Healy.
Children of Tim & Erina were:-
Elizabeth Catherine (b. 17 Dec 1883). Sponsors: Thomas Sullivan, Catherine Sullivan
Maev Mary (b. 16 May 1885). Sponsors: Maurice Healy, Frances Sullivan
Erina (b. 13 Oct 1888). Sponsors: Thomas Sullivan, Catherine Sullivan
Joseph (b. 21 Dec 1889). Sponsors: Joseph J. Bigger, Anna Higgin
Paul (b. 1 Mar 1894). Sponsors: Patrick Alexander Chance, Paul Healy
Timothy Maurice (b. 9 May 1898). Sponsors: Joseph Sullivan, Elizabeth Healy Sen.
Timothy Michael Healy K.C., was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His political career began in the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), and continued into the 1920s, when he was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
Brothers Timothy Daniel Sullivan and Alexander Martin Sullivan were MP's. Their sister, Eliza, was the mother of Thomas Joseph Healy, Timothy Healy and Maurice Healy and remarkably the three of these were Members of Parliament too. James Gilhooly, Bantry was also an MP. Castletownbere born Timothy C. Harrington, his brother Edward Harrington and William Martin Murphy were MP's also, so hence the nickname of "Bantry Band".
A plaque on the Fáilte Ireland Tourist Office (former Courthouse) on Bantry Square reads:-
THIS PLAQUE HAS BEEN ERECTED IN COMMEMORATION OF
THE BANTRY BAND
THE SULLIVANS, HEALYS, HARRINGTONS, MURPHY AND GILHOOLY,
WHOSE BRILLIANT DEFENCE OF IRELAND'S CAUSE
IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
WAS ACCLAIMED BY ALL IRISHMEN.
He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Census 1901:
Census 1911:
Family Home in Bantry where they grew up |
