dren and servants. On his rear hung four thousand English soldiers, commanded by Sir George Carew. O'Sullivan marched day and night, constantly harassed by the enemy. With the remnant of his fighting men, O'Sullivan made a stand on the banks of the Shannon and gave battle to the English vanguard while the few surviving women and children were carried across the river in boats made from the skins of his horses killed for that purpose; and he crushed the English advanced line, killing their commanding officer, Manby, and then resumed his retreat. When he finally reached his destination at Leitrim he had left but eighteen soldiers, sixteen servants and one woman, out of the thousand that started from Glengariff. This woman was the mother of the famous Philip O'Sullivan, of the Spanish navy, one of the most erudite writers of the age, and of his brother Daniel, of the Spanish army, who fell fighting the Mohammedans. O'Sullivan himself found refuge in Spain, where he was appointed governor of Coruna. The O'Sullivans had their estates confiscated and their lives declared forfeited by the English crown. "The harrow of the merciless conqueror was over the scattered clansmen of Beare, many of whom still clung with grim tenacity to their lowly homes among the mountains and glens of Cork and Kerry." The following ballad, written by one of the family, the Irish Laureate, T. D. Sullivan, is as proud a possession of the O'Sullivans as the coat-of-arms with its lions rampant and the crest with a dove holding an olive branch in its beak. "Who will hold back when O'Sullivan loudly Young men and old men, afar and anear In calm or wild weather, When called by the shout of O'Sullivan Beare! "Never a coward, a cringer or quailer, Was chieftan of Beare of late or of yore: Fearless at sea and valiant on shore ! From sea-foam and heather, In calm or wild weather, When called by the shout of O'Sullivan Beare!" (I) Timothy O'Sullivan, a descendant of the O'Sullivans of Cork, and father of Humphrey O'Sullivan, of Lowell, was born in the parish of Castle Haven, East Division of West Carbury, county Cork, Ireland, near which his family has been resident for more than a thousand years. He was educated at the common schools of his day, took up farming for his calling, like his ancestors before him and accumulated what for his day and generation passed for a competence. He was known through all that section of the country for his thrift, honesty and uprightness. His character was an example for children and neighbors to follow. He was a faithful Roman Catholic in religion, and a useful citizen. He married Catherine Barry, daughter of James Barry, of the parish of Caheragh, county Cork. He died in Skibbereen. Children: 1. William, born May, 1844; mentioned below. 2. James, born December, 1848; mentioned below. 3. Humphrey, born October 7, 1853; mentioned below. (II) William O'Sullivan, son of Timothy O'Sullivan (1), was born in the town of Skibbereen, county Cork, Ireland, May, 1844. He came to America when a young man, and soon afterward enlisted at Boston in the Second United States Cavalry for three years, and was stationed on the frontier during his term of service from 1864 to 1867. He took an active part in police work and skirmishing with the hostile Indians. He was mustered out at Tucson, Arizona. He remained in that territory for a time, and was a member of the Pioneers' Society of Arizona. He returned east and followed his trade as a carpenter until disabled by an accident that injured his spine. After suffering for many years from this injury, he died from its effects in 1898, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He left a widow and a son Humphrey, born 1873. Another child died young. (II) James O'Sullivan, son of Timothy O'Sullivan (1), was born in Skibbereen, county Cork, Ireland, December, 1848. He was educated in the national schools and apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade. He followed his elder brother's example in coming to America, landing in Boston in March, 1867. He found employment at his trade there, and later in New York, but in the following year made his home in Lowell, where he has continued to reside to the present time. He worked at his trade for about seven years. In 1875 he purchased a shoe store in Lowell, of Frank Brady, and has conducted a large and successful business to the present time, alone at first, later in partnership with his brother Humphrey. When the firm of O'Sullivan igilant cy of 1 accon, shed geet tuan, Rey. D. Me^artie, de1st to general iterature, improvevoice and ændrer tent of those graces en. The training under Fr. sond Tura in good steady in he In an entorical conte 4 for a priz is sterling, in vnser Hall, Cork A Sie Wafred Lawson, Bert, M. P. won the prize, as he did als upon dent ecc (sion in the Rotur da. Dublin, 5. an. 1. 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