Thomas Nicholas Quoyle

Hi Michael, 

William Henry historian and author from Galway has an interesting piece in his book Galway and the Great War (2006), p.207. He cites a letter written to his sister in Galway following the death of Thomas Quoyle by Corp. David Ryder a friend and comrade of his. He also cites Thomas Quoyle in his second book on the subject Forgotten Heroes Galway Soldiers of the Great Wat 1914-1918. (2007), p.204. You may already be aware of these two books.

Regards,

Christy C.

Christy,

 Many thanks for that and I will check it out. We will soon be reaching the 100th anniversary of all those young men's deaths. In recent years they have at last begun to be remembered.

 Michael M.

Christy/Michael,

I recall reading that a son of a Dudley Persse, raised at Ormond View was another Tiernascragh native killed in the Great War. The 1901 Census mentions the Persse Family living at Ormond View at the time - gone by 1911.  By 1911, the "Miss Watsons" were living there. Paddy Killacky of the Old Post Office in Tiernascragh (died at 96), recalled them well. 

Mike

Hello from Tiernascragh.

Thanks Michael for your reminder. Thomas Quoyle Died in action in Galippoli in 1915 and is remembered at the Helles

Memorial in Turkey on Panel 183. I have done some extensive research on this family and am in touch with his cousin

Chris Quoyle in New South Wales in Australia. He served with the 5th. Connaught Rangers having enlisted in Ballinasloe in 1914. We have another connection with WW1 in Tiernascragh also. Michael Finlay was killed in either France on Belgium with the 2nd Leinsters. It is our intention in Tiernascragh to mark both of these in due course.

Nice to see you on here Michael and please feel free to join our parish also.

Thanks.

Pat Madden

Parish Admin.

Tiernascragh.

Many thanks Pat for the information. I first heard of Thomas many years ago when my uncle remarked on the fact that Tiernascragh school had three teachers in a row with a surname beginning with Q. He then mentioned Thomas Quoyle jacking it all in one day and heading off to the war. Nice to know that you have established contact with one of his relatives in Australia.

 Michael.

Mike,

      Thanks for the information on Dudley Persse's son. I wonder was he related to Lady Gregory and also the whiskey distillers in Nuns island?

 Michael