POLITICS
Andrew Treacy, candidate for Roscommon 1954
Blaise Treacy, b. 1935, m. Imelda Laverty, four sons, one daughter; educated at St. Joseph’s Academy Kildare & Institute of Public Administration Dip. Admin.; 1966-1973 Town Clerk Carlow UDC, 1973-1974 Town Clerk Dundalk UDC, 1976-1978 County Secretary Kerry CC, 1978-1984 Assistant County Manager Clare CC, 1985-199? County Manager & County Development Team Wicklow, Director and founder member Wicklow County Tourism Company Ltd.; Member 1991 Tiglin Advisory Committee (Adventure Centre Ashford), IDA Dublin, East Regional Small Industries Board, Cospoir & Board of Horizon Radio (North Wicklow Community Broadcasting Co-Operative Society Ltd). Member of Leopardstown Racing Club & Delgany Golf Club.
Brendan Treacy, Chairman of the Kilkenny City Vintners 2008
Clare Treacy, social policy director with the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) in 2008.
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Daniel Tracey (c1795-1832), physician, journalist and politician. The details of his life in Ireland are sketchy. According to Mullally, the following account was printed in The Vindicator in 1833 after his death. He was born in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, in May, 1795, the son of Michael Tracey, a merchant and ??? Mainfold of Erescourt, Birr Co. Offaly. He was orphaned at a young age and an uncle on his father’s side raised him and a brother and sister. At the age of ten he was removed from a seminary in his native town to a school in Clonmel. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and after graduation studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. He practised medicine in Dublin for several years; but in 1825 he emigrated to Canada with his brother and sister. According to Reynolds, Dr. Daniel Tracey (who changed the spelling of the name) was of an Irish branch of the well-known English family, and by much the eldest of four orphaned children, a graduate of Trinity College and of its medical school, he was a practicing physician residing in Offaly county, Ireland, when the accidental death by drowning of a younger brother, to whom he was fondly attached, led him to decide on a change of residence to Canada. After a shipwreck in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, he arrived in Montreal in the year 1825, having with him his brother, John, then a lad of fourteen years, and his sister, Ann, aged fifteen. The Trinity College record is as follows: Daniel Tracey, Pen. (Mr Morris), Dec 5, 1814, aged 20; R.C., s. of Denis, Mercator; b. King’s Co. (Offaly). A French reference states that his father was Denys (Denis) Tracey a merchant of Offaly and his mother Anne Manford. His life in Canada is well documented. He began the practise of his profession in Montreal in 1825 and lived in either on St. James Street or in the then St. Antoine Suburbs. In 1828 he established the Vindicator, a Reform newspaper, and became its editor. When news of O’Connell's electoral victory arrived in Lower Canada in September 1828 Tracey organized the province’s first Friends of Ireland Society. In May 1832, he was elected to represent the west ward of Montreal in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. He died of cholera in Montreal on July 18, 1832. Daniel Tracey and family of Roscrea, Montreal and Albany Ref:
Finnegan, Mary (1985)
Irish-French Relations in Lower Canada. CCHA Historical Studies, 52, 35-49 Galarneau,
France, Tracey, Daniel, DBC, PUL, 1966, vol.6: 864-865.; Galarneau,
France, L'élection dans le quartier-ouest de Montréal en 1832: analyse
politico-sociale, RHAF, vol.32 (1978-1979), 4 :565-584.; Lapalice,
Ovide (1927) Le docteur Daniel Tracey, Bulletin des recherches historique,
33: 492-493.; Reynolds, Cuyler ed. (1911) Hudson-Mohaw Genealogical and Family Memoirs. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Vol. I pp.255-7 |
Elizabeth
Willoughby Treacy 1821-1896
She was often published in The Nation, and also published work in the Belfast Vindictor. She published her first volume, Poems by Finola in 1851. She married Ralph Varian of Cork, who gave generous representation to northern poets in his anthology. She lived in County Antrim.
1802 Frances Tracy, the catholic,
female owner of the “Freeman’s Journal”
Frances Tracy -
Family from Kildare, Dublin & Wicklow
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Fred Treacy, of Fine Gael, elected to Kinsale Town Council 2004, Mayor 2006. ftreacy@gofree.indigo.ie The
launch of the exhibition, 'Burma: Forgotten Nation, Forgotten People' at the
Blue Haven Hotel, Kinsale, November 6th 2006. Left to right: The Mayor of Kinsale,
Fred Treacy, Janet Twomey of Trocaire, Padraig Fitzgerald, Chairman of
the Kinsale Fair Trade Committee, Justin Kilcullen of Trocaire, Simon
Coveney, MEP, TD, Mary Montaut Co-ordinator BAI and Michael from Burma. |
Harding Tracy and Daniel O’Connell
In 1815 Daniel O’Connell composed a speech regarding Napoleon achievements, his law system, the state of justice in Ireland and of particular note that Judge Day was under the influence of Dublin Castle. Some accounts state that it was delivered at a ‘purported’ meeting in Tralee but O’Connell later stated that it had been held in Cork. O’Connell sent the manuscript of this speech to the ‘Mercantile Chronicle’ in Cork for publication. When the speech was published, Mr. Saurin, the Attorney-General was determined to prosecute and the only person he could find liable was the registered printer, Mr. Harding Tracy. O’Connell could not be convicted as the manuscript of the speech was destroyed, except for a part of which that later became available. The paper was prosecuted and Tracy pleaded guilty in court in Dublin, where O’Connell defended the case. Tracy received a two year sentence, a fine of £300, and find security for the peace, himself in £300 and two sureties for £200 each. Part of the sentence was later remitted but he remained in gaol from May to December 1816. He contracted an illness in prison, which stuck to him till his death. The Tracy family maintained that he was totally neglected by O’Connell. The Dublin Evening Post of the 11 February 1834 is a four page, five column, broadsheet. Four column inches on page 2 and over 3/5th of the back page are given over to the case of Harding Tracy and the “selfishness and treachery” of O’Connell’s character. 1. There is a synopsis of the affair. 2. There follows an account printed in the Evening Mail shortly after Tracy’s death. It states “Mr. O’Connell was counsel for the printer. He first recommended the destruction of the manuscript (for fear of accidents) and then advised him to plead guilty.” It further states that while in jail Tracy received four pages of the manuscript of the speech from a fellow printer in Cork which he could have used to his advantage and O’Connell’s disadvantage, which he did not do. To the hour of his death, he never received a shilling, nor have his family since, from O’Connell. It states that he was greatly indebted for the help received from a fellow prisoner, the Roman Catholic barrister Mr. Eneas McDonnell. 3. There follows on an account from the Dublin Chronicle of the next day added the following: That Tracy never received, nor his family, even his usual wages during the period of his imprisonment. Even in Newgate, when he laboured for the Dublin Chronicle, a journal patronised by Mr. O’Connell, was he paid, nor his family. On his release, he was given a position with the Dublin Chronicle until his death. 4. There is a reply from Daniel O’Connell delivered at a meeting of the Catholic Association on the 3rd July 1824 in which he lays out the charges directed against him; a) That Tracy in possessing the manuscript had O’Connell completely in his power but refused to use it. b) That Tracy had a bed of straw in prison and was neglected. c) That Tracy’s family was left to starve. d) That Tracy had got an illness in prison of which he died. There is a comprehensive reply to the charges. He stated that Tracy did not plead and was eventually released as a result of three affidavits stating that O’Connell was not connected with the publication. O’Connell paid a half guinea a week for a good bed and also got Mr. McDonnell to help him. He paid 32 to 40 shillings for his board. During his imprisonment his wages at the Mercantile Chronicle was paid to his wife every week. Tracy died seven years after being released from jail. 5. There was a copy of a letter sent to the papers by Eliza Tracy the wife of Harding Tracy. She stated that the report of the speech published stated that the purported meeting was held on the 14th April 1815 in a south Parish Chapel of Cork. The manuscript was copied by a living near relative of hers. She states that her husband “Intoxicated by flattering promises, and led away by wily persuasion, he was induced to leave his home and plead guilty to the charge”. Her husband was sentenced on the 18th May 1816. Again, he was seduced in believing that he would be liberated in a few weeks, his fines paid, his family would be afforded every comfort. The promises were not kept and his wages were stopped. She heard that her husband was dangerously ill, and to ask friends for the money to travel to see him. He was in a bad state. Due to the generosity of Mr. McDonnell until his removal. for the first four months he had breakfast and dined with him. He paid for his own bed. His family in Cork received only £3. In jail, he was employed as compositor for the ‘Dublin Chronicle’, in combination with his son, for which he was still owed the bulk of the wages. After his release, an application for aid from O’Connell for a “few pounds”, was replied with two guineas, which is all the support that was ever received from O’Connell. 6. There was a statement from his son. He had an interview with Mr. McDonnell in Kilmainham jail. Mr. McDonald said that O’Connell had pleaded poverty for not having done something for your family and that £400 would not compensate the family for the sacrifices they had made. He said that he had not contradicted O’Connell’s account because they were in dispute and that it would have been attributed to that circumstance. A letter addressed to Dr. Coyne, to rectify the situation was given to the son including the sum of £10. 7. There is a short paragraph stating that Dr. England, owner of the Cork Mercantile Chronicle, had contradicted O’Connell’s account to Tracy’s friends. 8. It is then stated that O’Connell had sent a letter of apology to a relative of Judge Day. 9. There is then an account of two letters sent by Harding Tracy to Mr. O’Connell. The first received no reply and the second resulted in the messenger being abused. 10. It concludes by stating that it was Judge Day’s intercession that secured Harding Tracy release. Fagen in the main backs O’Connell account of events. He states that Harding Tracy was of strong Tory connexions. He names the person who found part of the manuscript as a Mr. Higgins. He states that while in jail, Harding Tracy was employed as compositor for the ‘Dublin Chronicle’ at a wage of over four pounds a week. In addition he states that Harding Tracy son George Tracy, who was an apprentice there had his wages raised. He states that O’Connell secretly aided Harding Tracy. In 1824, after Harding Tracy’s death, the ‘Correspondent’ the paper that he and his son George had worked on after his imprisonment, charged that O’Connell had allowed him to pine in jail, of letting his family starve and of refusing him all assistance when he was released from jail. His son, George, tried to establish the case against O’Connell. Fagen goes on to state that his brother Harding, on his return to Cork, was catechised by George, for stating that they had nothing to complain about O’Connell. Keenan states that Frederick Conway had a different impression of O’Connell’s conduct. Conway recounted the affair of Harding Tracy in the Dublin Evening Post on 11 February 1834. That O’Connell was not a bit worried if those who tried to assist him or took his legal advice ended up in gaol. He always wanted to continue the legal struggle in their behalf, regardless of the risks, they not he, ran. But on no account would he pay to get them out of prison. This had happened with the editor of the Dublin Evening Post, John Magee in 1814, Harding Tracy the printer in 1815, and Edward Hay in 1819. Conway, like the Earl of Donoughmore, was a staunch anti-vetoist. No doubt many other Catholics came to the same conclusions about O’Connell at the same time. Dublin
Evening Post, 11th February 1834 p.2 & 4 Fagen,
William Trant (1847) The Life
and Times of Daniel O'Connell. O’Brien, Cork. Vol. 1, p.307-9 Keenan,
Desmond (2002) The Grail of Catholic Emancipation |
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James Treacy (Trassy), 20 years old shot dead in the 1831 Tithe protest known as the Carrickshock Incident. One of his nephews was the Very Reverend Canon Patrick Treacy, parish priest of Connahy, Co. Kilkenny, who was the featured guest and speaker at numerous Carrickshock commemoration ceremonies. Canon Treacy also headed the local memorial committee. Another nephew, John Treacy, lived at the large family house in Kilkurl through the 1920s and served alongside his brother on the committee. |
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Kelvin
Johnson-Treacy |
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Joe M Treacy, of Enniscorthy, Rehab Group Chairman |
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John Treacy, of Waterford, Chief Executive of the Irish Sports Council since 1999. (see also sports) |
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John Treacy - Chief Exceutive of Fermanagh Enterprises (Board of Enterprise Northern Ireland) 2008 John Treacy is General Manager of Fermanagh Enterprise Ltd a post he has held for 16 years. He works with a staff team of 17 and reports to a board of Voluntary Directors. The Agency has a high profile in the County as a lead organisation in the promotion of local economic development and works in a range of partnerships at local, regional and cross border level to achieve results on behalf of it's micro business clients. Notable recent successes include a National Training Award as well as achieving the highest annual business start up rates outside of the cities of Belfast and Derry. John holds a Masters Degree in Local Economic Development and serves on the Boards of the Fermanagh Local Strategy Partnership, Fermanagh Local Action Group, Enterprise NI and St Mary's High School. He has a strong interest in rural development and lives in rural Fermanagh with his wife and family of three. |
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Ken Tracey – President Ireland
Canada Chamber of Commerce 2007 2008 Ken Tracey was born and raised in Sligo and moved to Toronto in 1989. He studied Electronics at Sligo RTC and Business at Ryerson. After 10 successful years with the PepsiCo organization he co-founded Marketingisland, a marketing technology and services company. Marketingisland have been ranked in the top 20 fastest growing emerging companies in Canada for the last 2 years. Ken is currently the President of the Ireland Canada Chamber of Commerce in Toronto, a board member of the Irish Person of the Year and also sits on the board of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Toronto (EUCOCIT) as Executive Vice President and a board member of Ireland Park Foundation. |
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Keiran Treacy, of
Enniskillin, civil rights leader was sentenced to six months in prison for
taking part in a march in Enniskillen in February 1972.
6
months’ prison for Miss Devlin. Guardian 18/4/1972 p.7
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Michael Treacy, European Director Irish Farmers
Association (IFA) |
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Michael Ó Treasaigh (1924-1973) of Enniscorthy Co. Wexford member of Sinn Féin, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann and many other organisations. He was a member of Enniscorthy Urban District Council for fourteen years, of which body he was twice elected chairman. |
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Noel Treacy, born Ballinasloe, Teachta Dála (T.D. – member of parliament) for Galway East from 1982 for Fianna Fáil, Minister of State at the Departments of the Taoiseach and Foreign Affairs 2004-2007, formerly Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food 2002. Deputy Noel Treacy has been brought in from the cold after he lost his junior ministry after last May's election. He will chair the committee on the Good Friday Agreement a position worth €20,000. Deputy Treacy said he is honoured to have been appointed chair of this committee. "This committee has been established by An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, to oversee any issues arising from Ireland's role as a signatory to the Good Friday Agreement. I have maintained a very strong interest in the affairs of the North throughout my 25 years unbroken service as a Dáil Deputy and I am honoured to be heading up this important Committee." Galway Independent 31 October 2007 It has been stated that Noel Treacy is not a ‘fan’ of Bertie Ahern. |
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Painting by John Trumbull in
1784-6 of Captain Patrick Tracey, born 1711 in Kilcarberry Hill, Enniscorthy,
died 1789 Newburyport Massachusetts North America. His nephew Captain
Nicholas Tracy also followed him to America. The Tracy families of Newburyport
were major players in the American revolution. Captain Nathaniel Tracy
(1751-1796), one of the sons of Patrick Tracey, was the chief financier of
the American Revolution. The following webpage contains a history of the family. Traceys
of Enniscorthy and Newburyport The following are articles on the family: Echo 28
August 1937 (Enniscorthy) Sunday Post 1st August 1937 (Boston) |
Pauline Tracey, 1991, Lesbians Organizing Together (LOT)
Seamus Treacy, Mid-West Regional Authority.
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This autograph book was kept by a Republican in
Mountjoy Gaol in 1917 and it contains the names of Republicans from Clare and
elsewhere: here we see the name of Sean Treacy, Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary,
dated 21/10/17. Clare Library http://www.clarelibrary.ie
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Sean Treacy, (1895-1920) He was born 14 Feb 1895
in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary, son of Denis Treacy and Bridget Allis. From an early age, Seán had nationalist leanings, and in his teens he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) which later evolved into the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In August 1917, Seán was arrested and spent two months in jail. The following year he was rearrested and spent four months in jail. Then on 21 January 1919, along with other members of the IRA's Third Tipperary Brigade, including Dan Breen, Seán took part in the Soloheadbeg ambush in which three members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who were escorting a transportation of explosives, were waylaid and shot dead. This was the first military incident of the War of Independence. A few months later, in Co. Limerick, Seán was seriously wounded in a successful attempt to free an I.R.A. prisoner who was being escorted to jail. He recovered, and throughout the latter half of 1919 and most of 1920 he led attacks against the British in Dublin and Co. Tipperary. But on 14 October 1920, in Talbot St. in Dublin, he was recognised by a police detective and in the ensuing gunfight Seán was killed, in front of the 'Republican Outfitters' at No. 94 Talbot Street. A small bronze shield above the door commemorates the spot. Ref:
Ambrose, Joe (2007) Seán Treacy and the Tan War. Mercier Press, Cork. Breen,
Dan (1924) My fight for Irish Freedom. Ryan,
Desmond (1945) Sean Treacy and the Third Tipperary Brigade IRA. Anvil Books,
Tralee. He
is buried in Kilfeacle Cemetery which is about
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Séan Treacy, born 22nd September 1923 Clonmel Co. Tipperary, 4th child of James and Margaret (nee Kenrick), married Catherine Connolly 4th June 1967. Educated at Maryfield NS, St. Mary’s CBS, Clonmel Technical Institute & UCC Dip Social and Economic Science. 1952-1973 President Clonmel Trades & Labour Council. 1955-1973 Alderman Clonmel Borough Corporation. 1955-1973, 1977-1987 Tipperary South Riding Council. 1957-58, 1961-62 Mayor of Clonmel. Chairman Joint Board of Conciliation and Arbitration Boot and Shoe Industry Ireland, member Executive Council Irish Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, member Executive Council Irish Labour Party, Labour spokesman on Education 1961-5, Industry & Commerce 1965-9 & Local Government 1969-73. 1961-1997 Member of Dáil Éireann He was first
elected to the Dáil in the 1961 general election as a Labour Party Teachta
Dála (TD) for Tipperary South and was re-elected in 7 subsequent elections
and returned automatically in 3 more due to being Ceann Comhairle. He left
the Labour Party in 1987 and was elected as an independent TD in the 1987
general election. He served in 10 successive Dála until he retired from
politics at the 1997 general election. 1973-1977, 1987-1997.Ceann Comhairle (speaker) of Dáil
Éireann & member Council of State He was a member
of the Presidential Commission (acting head of state) from November 17, to
December 18, 1974 and from October 22, to December 2, 1976. 1981-1984 Member of the European Parliament. Chairman: 1973-7 & 1987-97 Civil Service Commission and Local Appointments Commission, Comhairle na Mire Gaile, Irish Parliamentary Association, Committee of Procedure and Privileges Dáil Éireann. Member: Conference of Presidents of European Parliamentary Assemblies. Hobbies: Reading, walking & Travel. |
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Seán Tracy of Laois, one of the seven members of the original army council of the Provisional IRA in 1970.
White RW (1993) Provisional Irish
republicans: an oral and interpretive history. Westport, CT:. Greenwood.
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Shaun Tracey, South Dublin Sinn Féin representative in 2006 and candidate in the general election 2007. |
Tom Treacy, Chairman of Laois Tourism 2002
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Wilfred Patrick Francis (Paddy) Treacy, DSO, SL 420312 (d.1941) He died in the Battle of Britain and was one of fourteen Irishmen who were pilots in WWII. He had 5 (2+3) ‘kills’ (official 3.33) Paddy Treacy joined 74 Squadron with Pilot officer Bryan Vincent `Paddy` Byrne and Sailor Malan and was B Flight commander at the beginning of the war. In Spring 1940, he was the Flight Commander. He flew a Spitfire and saw combat on the 24th (Hs 126 & Ju 88) and 27th May 1940 (Me 109E & Do 17). He went missing in France for the second time in May 1940. In July 1940 he was in Marseille and had escaped three times from the Germans before being arrested by the French. He escaped after capture. Paddy Treacy became Squadron Leader of 242 Squadron seeing combat 1st and 5th April 1941. The Hurricanes of 242 Squadron flew from Martlesham Heath to the Stapleford Tawney airfield on the 9th April 1941. On the squadron's first operation out of Stapleford (20th April) three Hurricanes collided in cloud over the Channel after finding themselves suddenly under attack from German fighters. The pilots drowned when their Hurricanes crashed into the sea, one of whom was Sq Ldr Treacy. Ref:
National Archives UK. Hess,
William N (1966) Famous Airmen: The Allied
Aces of World War II. Arco Publishing. Jones, Ira
(1954) Tiger Squadron: The Story of 74 Squadron, R.A.F., in Two World Wars. |
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William (Bill) Treacy from WexfordLondon GAA President 2007, 2008 |
