Word: cloney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, eight years ago, Sean Michael Cloney, 22, a Roman Catholic farmer, married Sheila Kelly, 22, Protestant, in London, she made the usual agreement imposed by the Catholic Church on mixed marriages: the children would be brought up as Catholics. Sean brought Sheila back to his big brown farmhouse called Dungulph Castle, a 600-year-old rebuilt Norman mansion in the southern county of Wexford, two miles from the village of Fethard...
Unphair to Protestants. One day last April, while Sean worked in his fields, Sheila bundled their two children into the car and drove off. Later, a Belfast barrister turned up at Dungulph Castle with Sheila's terms for coming back: Cloney must sell the farm, move to Canada or Australia, agree to let the children be raised as Protestants. Cloney got a conditional order for a writ of habeas corpus for his children's return, and waited...
Peace? Back at the village, Farmer Sean Cloney was having a worse time of it than ever. Insisting that Fethard's Protestants had had nothing to do with his wife's departure, he had continued to patronize their shops and services, found himself shunned by many villagers as a result...
...even the most intransigent fethardist could see that something had to give. Last week Sheila Cloney's father, Thomas Kelly (a Protestant farmer and cattle dealer who lives half a mile outside Fethard), met in Dublin with a representative of the Catholics of Fethard-on-the-Sea. Kelly agreed to do all he could to find the Cloney children and restore them to their father, and the two men released a statement that all Ireland interpreted as a treaty of peace. As a reporter for the Irish Times put it: "There was no rejoicing in Fethard...
...semi-scrub teams looked better than some of the college aggregations that have performed at the Arena this year," Will Cloney, local sports columnist, said this morning in reference to Wednesday night's All-Star House hockey game. Cloney has seen all the Arena games...