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Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« on: Monday 04 July 11 20:24 BST (UK) »
I was wondering if anyone has an information as regards Garrett Fitzgerald having a Cork background. 
 
From The Irish Times, May 21 1979, about Garrett Fitzgerald  " 'I can now confirm that my family came from Co.Cork, from a place called Skeheen Upper, between Kilworth and Fermoy'. He tried before to track down his relatives, some one was looking into it for him and he was handed the official confirmation of his Cork ancestry on the platform in Mallow on Friday night."

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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 July 11 22:47 BST (UK) »
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Garret FitzGerald was born in Dublin in 1926


Using Google for info - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret_FitzGerald

This person only died a few weeks ago!
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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 04 July 11 22:53 BST (UK) »
Yes it's odd. He is quoted as saying Skeheen Upper in 1979 and Skeheenarinky in 2008.

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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 July 11 22:58 BST (UK) »
His birth reg is on the IGI Pilot website

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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 July 11 23:17 BST (UK) »
I should have made myself more clear. It's his grandparents connection with Cork that I'm looking for. His grandfather was Patrick Fitzgerald and his grand mother was Mary Scollard,. I have some doubts as to the validity of this

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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #5 on: Monday 04 July 11 23:26 BST (UK) »
Yes - very misleading and no mention of his grandparents

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I was wondering if anyone has an information as regards Garrett Fitzgerald having a Cork background
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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #6 on: Monday 04 July 11 23:40 BST (UK) »
You did post the wiki article, I presumed you'd read it.

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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #7 on: Monday 04 July 11 23:49 BST (UK) »
Only in as much as where Garret was born.  If I had known the connection was via his grandparents - I would have read more of it
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Re: Garrett Fitzgerald ex Taoiseach.
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 05 July 11 04:30 BST (UK) »
The article on his father don't mention any cork connection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_FitzGerald_(politician)

And his mother seems to be from protestant Belfast blood.

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