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Section 3: Jim O’Callaghan

(Written by Micheál O’Halloran)

James O’Callaghan was born in Kiltormer on 10th May 1875. He married Ellen (Elly) Galbraith Hamilton and they
had 4 children

Michael O’Callaghan
Florence O’Callaghan
Agnes O’Callaghan
James O’Callaghan

Michael O Callaghan + 18th June Maria Berrane
Babtised 6th Oct 1820 (Cappataggle) 1862 Babtised 2nd April 1837(Kiltormer)

Died 26th Nov 1903 (Kiltormer) Died: 20th Feb 1906

James (Jim) O Callaghan
Born: 10th May 1875
(Kiltormer)

+ Dec 1898

Ellen (Elly) Galbraith
Hamilton

James O Michael Joseph Florence Maria O Callaghan Agnes Posie O Callaghan
Callaghan Charles O Callaghan Born: 1900 Loughrea Born: 9th Aug 1908 Loughrea
Born: 1898 Loughrea Died: 18th Mar 1972 Greystones
Died: 22nd Jan 1987 Dublin Teacher
+ +
+
Betty Peter Joseph Francis Kavanagh
Eugene Ryan Born: 1897
(Dublin) Solicitor
Died: 1963 Dublin Died:4th Apr 1968 Greystones

Beatrice Ryan Eugene Ryan (Fr) George Ignatus Ryan Florence Ryan Clare Ryan Joseph Kavanagh Peter Francis Xavier Kavanagh
Born: Mar 1926 Born: 1927 Born: 7th Jul 1928 Born: 4th Dec 1932 Born: Jun 1935 Dublin Born: 21st Mar Born: 13th May 1941 Dublin
Died 8th Jun 2003 1940 (Dublin) Died: 9th April 2015 Dublin
(Dublin) Died 24th Dec 2018 (Alaska) (Dublin) Pianist Died: 30th Oct 2006
Died 28th Mar 2017 (Navan) Dublin 1968 + + 2002
(Car Accident) Dublin +

James Neil Downes Carol Sparks Mary Delores MacKenna
Architect Born: 20th Mar 1948 Born 21st Sep 1946
Died: 20th Sep 1999 Greystones Teacher

Eugene Downes David Downes Lisa Kavanagh Tara Kavanagh Aoife Kavanagh Stephen Kavanagh Alexandra Kavanagh
Born: 28th Mr 1972 Born: 9th Jun 1975 Born: 7th Dec 1968 B: 2th Apr 1970 B: 7th Feb 1973 Dental B: 17th May 1978 B: 12th Feb 1987
Dublin Cultural Attaché Dublin Musician Greystones Accountant Greystones Bank
Nurse Greystones Structural Eng Greystones Teacher
1998 + 1999 + London
+ 2019 +
David Orr Seamus Cassidy 2017 + Andrew
Born 14th Apr 1967 Born 21st Jan 1967 Barry Aine Donohue
Woodley Hawes
Solicitor

Oliver Orr Adam Cassidy Tom Woodley Hugh Woodley Cillian Donohue
Born: 4th Nov 2005 Born: 23rd Sep Born 1st Apr Born 13th Apr 2010 Born: 11th Oct
2000 Greystones 2008 Greystones 2020 Greystones
Greystones Greystones
Elizabeth Carol Cassidy
Nicholas Orr Lucy Orr Born: 21st Oct 2003 Martha Woodley
Born: 29th Nov 1999 Born: 2nd Jan 2007 Greystones Born 13th Apr

Greystones Greystones 2010 Greystones

Family Tree of Jim O’Callaghan

Michael O’Callaghan

(Written by Micheál O’Halloran)
Michael Joseph Charles O ‘Callaghan was the eldest child of Jim and Elly O’Callaghan. He was born on 25th July
1899. He married Betty and they had no children.

Michael Joseph Charles O’Callaghan

Florrie O’Callaghan

(Written by Charles Purcell)
Florence Maria O’Callaghan was the second child of James O’Callaghan and Ellen Galbraith Hamilton. She was
born in Loughrea, Co. Galway on 10 September 1900. She attended St Vincent’s Secondary School in Loughrea
and then went on to Mary Immaculate Teachers’ Training College in Limerick. She ended her teaching career as
Head Teacher at Stanhope Street National School in Dublin.
She married Eugene Ryan, a solicitor with the Irish Land Commission, and they had five children Beatrice (1926),
Eugene (1927), George (1929), Florence (1932) and Claire (1935). They lived on Northumberland Road,
Ballsbridge, Dublin, until Eugene died in 1963 and Florrie died in 1987.

Florence Maria O’Callaghan

Beatrice Ryan

(Written by Micheál O’Halloran)
Beatrice Ryan was the oldest child of Florence and Eugene Ryan. She was born on March 1926 and died in a car
accident on the 28th March 2017. Beatrice never married and did not have any children.

Fr Eugene Ryan

(Extracted from the internet)

Fr Eugene Ryan

Fr Eugene Ryan was born in Dublin on 25 July 1927. He attended O’Connell’s School and Belvedere College and
worked for a while in the Civil Service before coming to Dalgan in 1947.
Eugene was ordained on 21 December 1953 and assigned to Korea where the war was coming to an end. He
began his ministry in Korea with a few years on Cheju Island before becoming pastor of Noan parish in Kwangju
diocese in 1959. Within a year he had opened a Middle School for the war children of that large rural area.
His long career in finance began with an appointment as bursar to the diocese. After studies in the US in 1972,
he returned to Seoul but within a year he was appointed as Regional Bursar in the US. Typically, he managed to
initiate a housing project for the elderly in Omaha before leaving to become Bursar General of the Society in
1983. This was a role in which he was to serve for eighteen years.
Eugene was never one to be tied to a desk and everywhere he served he always had an ‘after hours’ project to
engage in for the benefit of others. The skills he developed in sourcing almost anything on the black-market in
Korea’s post-war economy certainly stayed with him.
Later he could relate well to the issues of World Debt and became the Columban spokesperson at international
forums and helped us all to get a grasp of the problems.
In Ireland, he was a valued member of many committees and devoted himself to the building of the Nursing
Home in Dalgan, which is really a monument to his determination and foresight.
Even when he finally retired from the Bursar role in 2001, he continued to share his expertise by helping the
Church in Myanmar to set up its accounting systems.

Eugene contributed much to the cultural life of the Columbans promoting everything from herbaceous
borders to Grisham’s crime novels and, bravely, even the ongoing saga of the British royal family.
In the last few years, he battled with illness but kept rising again and would surely consider it a victory that he
was found dead in his own chair on 24 December 2018.

George Ryan

(Written by Micheál O’Halloran)
George Ignatus Ryan, third child of Florence and Eugene Ryan, was born on the 7th of July 1928. He did not marry
and died on the 8th of June 2003 in Alaska. He did not have any children.

Florence Ryan

(Written by Charles Purcell)
Florence Celine Ryan is the fourth child of Florence Maria O’Callaghan and Eugene Ryan. She was born in Dublin
on 4 December 1932. She attended school at Loreto Convent, North Great George’s Street, Dublin. She was a
child prodigy at the piano, gave recitals at her home on Northumberland Road, and went on to a lifetime career
in music.
She studied piano under Dina Copeman at the Royal Irish Academy of Music obtaining her LRIAM. During the
period from 1947 to 1953 she won the Under 15, the Under 17, the Fritz Brase, the Hamilton Harty, and the
Pigott Cups at the Dublin Feis Ceoil. She pursued her studies in Paris and Rome, and in Salzburg under Carlo
Zecchi, playing at the Festival in three successive years. Returning to Dublin under Elizabeth Huban, a pupil of
Cortot, she was a soloist with the RTE Symphony Orchestra and recitalist with RTE and the BBC. She also played
in Edwin Fischer’s last Master Class at Lucerne.
Florence met and married James Neil Downes, an architect, and Lecturer in Architecture at the College of
Technology, Bolton Street. They have two children Eugene (1972) and David (1975). Sadly, Neil passed away in
Dec 2021. She currently lives in Milltown, Dublin, and enjoys the visits of her two sons.

Eugene Downes

(Taken from the internet)

Eugene Downes served from 2007–12 as Chief Executive of Culture Ireland, creating a new model for the

promotion and advancement of Irish arts worldwide. In that role he also planned and led Imagine Ireland, a
year-long festival of Irish arts across the US in 2011. From 2000–07 he acted as an international arts consultant,

advising the Irish Government on strategy and curating and producing arts events across Europe, Asia and South
America. Previous experience included the Irish Foreign Service, a spell as Cultural Attaché in Russia and as a

music and opera broadcaster on RTÉ Lyric FM. Eugene is a Board member of Druid and the International
Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), co-chairing its annual Congress in New York in 2012. He has also served

on the Boards of the Abbey Theatre, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Irish Theatre Institute, Rough Magic and
the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, and as a member of the Export Trade Council, the National Forum on

Europe and the Council of National Cultural Institutions. In 2018 he became Director of Kilkenny Arts
Festival.

David Downes

(Taken from the internet)
David Downes was born in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Music
and Composition. He has performed at venues around the world, including Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie
Hall and Wembley Arena, appearing with soloists James Galway and Alan Stivell, the group Boyzone, and the
Washington Symphony, Moravian Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony and National
Symphony orchestras. He has made recordings with Moya Brennan, Clannad, Michael Crawford, Michael W.
Smith and Bill Whelan. He has acted as orchestrator for Riverdance on Broadway and Secret Garden most
notably.
He joined Riverdance where he was Music Director on Broadway, as well as for the American and European
touring companies.[1] Later he and Sharon Browne formed 'Celtic Woman', which has toured across the world
with platinum recordings in the US, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and major following in Asia, Europe and South
America.
He acted as musical director for Irish President Mary McAleese's Inauguration in 2004. He has performed for
U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Claire Ryan

(Written by Micheál O’Halloran)

Clare Ryan was the 5th child of Florence and Eugene Ryan. She was born in June 1935 in Dublin and died on the
30th October 2006. Clare did not marry and had no children.