O'Driscoll Clan Gathering 2010 - June 25th - 27th, 2010

The schedule may not have been updated on the Baltimore, Ireland link yet but many of the acitivites will be the same as last year.

*** New Feature!! - Check out our newest addition: The Shamrock - the official e-newsletter of the international Clan O'Driscoll! Many thanks to our Editor - Natalie O'Driscoll of Australia!

If, in your recent or distant past you have a blood or marriage connection to a Driscoll, O'Drisceoil, O'Driscoll or Driskell, then you are one of us - family! This is probably one of the most comforting words in the English language. For most of us it elicits a multitude of powerful emotions - a sense of belonging, home, love, and comfort.

It was in this spirit that an idea was born for this website. The hope is to create a network of the O'Driscoll Clan in North America. This includes not only everyone who can trace their family to someone with the Clan name, but those who have married into it as well. Welcome one and all.

Being among the fortunate who attend the annual O'Driscoll Clan Gathering we can honestly say the hospitality offered by our local "relations" in the small hamlet of Baltimore, County Cork leaves us with many warm memories to sustain us through the long months until we can return. We hope every Clan member from all over the world is able, at some point in their life, to participate in the annual event held the last weekend in June. It is well worth the trip.

In the meantime, we'll do our best to use this site as a starting point for putting together the links between the Driscolls across North America and thereby strengthen our family ties.

Start your journey with us by getting familiar with our current Clan Cheiftain and checking out the O'Driscoll profile section.

Although numbers were down some this year (the worldwide economic slump has hit everybody hard!), everyone who did make it to this year's Gathering had a wonderful time. To those of you who normally come but didn't make it this year -- we missed you! To those who've never made it yet -- we can hardly wait to meet you! Start planning now to come to Baltimore, West County Cork, in June 2010 for the next Gathering. We guarantee you won't be disappointed as you mingle with distant "cousins" who travel from around the globe for this event. For more information on the Clan Gathering, check out the Baltimore site at http://www.baltimore.ie/festivals/odriscoll.html Check out Dave Driscoll's site, Driscolls of the U.K., for write ups on this year's Gathering as well as previous years. Officially registered as a Clan: The O'Driscoll Clan is now officially registered with the Clans Of Ireland. Check out their site here to learn more about the organization and find our Clan in their registry.

Many of us took the Ferry to Cape Clear on Saturday (click to enlarge)

New feature on our site:
O'Driscoll Profiles. Check out our latest profile below and please contact us if you have suggestions for Driscolls/O'Driscolls of note who you would like to see profiled here.

O'Driscoll Clan Profile

Poet, author, and lecturer: CIARAN O’DRISCOLL was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in 1943, and presently lives in Limerick. He is a retired lecturer from the School of Art and Design at the Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2007, Ciaran was elected to Aosdána, an institution established by the Irish Arts Council to honour artists and writers who have made an outstanding contribution to art and literature. He has six collections of poetry to his credit, including Gog and Magog, his first collection, published by Salmon in 1987, and re-issued on the internet by the Irish Literary Revival in 2006. His New and Selected Poems, Moving On, Still There, was published by Dedalus in 2001. In the same year, Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the James Joyce Literary Millennium Prize and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.

Ciaran has read from his work and lectured on art and literature at various venues in Europe and America. His poetry has been translated into several languages, and in 2006 an Italian translation of his fourth collection of poems, The Old Women of Magione, based on a year he spent in Italy, was published by Volumnia Editrice (Perugia). Also in 2006, a chapbook of 21 new poems, Surreal Man, was published by Pighog Press (UK). Life Monitor, his sixth full collection, was published in October 2009 by Three Spires Press (Cork). The hardback only (limited signed and numbered edition of 100) is available from Kennys Bookshop at http://url.ie/5awo while the paperback is available from O'Mahony's Bookshop http://url.ie/5aws .

Descendents Tree of Denis O'Driscoll: