{"id":67,"date":"2014-04-30T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2014-07-26T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T09:08:30","slug":"dr-lynchs-business-accumen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/dr-lynchs-business-accumen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Lynch’s Business Acumen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creation of Industry in Ballyvourney<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

An Docht\u00fair D\u00f3mhnall \u00d3 Loingsigh also had a good\u00a0understanding of\u00a0business affairs. When he had won the minds of the people, he knew that the time had arrived to improve the lives of the people as well. He believed that it was not with words alone that people lived.<\/h4>\n

He remembered his mother giving an account of the poverty in Coolea during her youth, and he remembered the men of the neighbourhood working for Cormac Colthurst (local landlord). He knew that there was not much improvement in life since then and that economic aid in the parish was very weak.<\/h4>\n

At that time the people of Coolea and Ballyvourney had to bring everything they needed from Macroom, many miles from their homes and they often by foot. An Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh opened a new general store in the middle of Ballyvourney on the site where the present co-op\u00a0is situated. He made available every sort of seed, fertiliser and food for animals as well as anything a farmer or housewife\u00a0needed, both\u00a0cheaply and conveniently. It\u00a0was said that he had five horses on the road drawing goods to the shop.<\/h4>\n

Click the link below\u00a0to read an article about the closure of Ballyclough Co-Op in 1988 that mentions An Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh –<\/h4>\n

Southern Star 10 Sept 1988 Closure of Ballyclough Co op<\/a><\/h4>\n

He then went on to found a bakery behind the shop and he advertised for bakers. Two Mullane brothers from Millstreet were employed immediately. Their descendants are still in the parish.<\/h4>\n

Shortly after that\u00a0an Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh started facilitating employment for the ladies. He trained young women from the area in lace knitting, knitting, crochet, sewing and quilt making. He founded a knitting factory for the women\u00a0of Ballyvourney and he brought two demonstrators from Scotland in order\u00a0to train the local women in how to use the knitting machines he had purchased.<\/h4>\n

Click the link below\u00a0to read an article about the1906\u00a0Industrial Exhibition at the Oireachtas in Dublin where “all kinds of Hosiery and Knitted Goods come from Dr Lynch” amongst others –<\/h4>\n

Freemans Journal 08 August 1906 Oireachtas Industrial Exhibition Dr Lynch<\/a><\/h4>\n

It wasn\u2019t long until he had twenty women employed in the factory, and it should be noted that\u00a0this happened nearly 100 years ago, in a time\u00a0before anything was known\u00a0about Gaeltana \u00c9ireann, \u00dadar\u00e1s na Gaeltachta or any other authority. He went on to find markets for the products produced in the factory, and furthermore\u00a0he organised cooking and dairying classes for the young women of the area years before the Vocational Educational Committees (VECs) were formed.<\/h4>\n

Ballyvourney Fair & The Breaking of the Boycott <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

An Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh\u00a0understood what a big disadvantage it was to the farmers of Ballyvourney and Coolea not to\u00a0have their own fair. At that time the farmers had to drive their stock to Macroom Fair and often home the same road if they did not sell them. An Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh\u00a0founded Ballyvourney Fair in 1883-1884, but after establishing it something happened –\u00a0the stockbuyers of Munster boycotted the fair because there was no train running to Ballyvourney.<\/h4>\n

But the doctor did not give in to this boycott, so he purchased whatever stock was for sale at the fair (cows, heifers, bullocks, pigs and sheep), he leased a cattle boat and he then\u00a0transported most of the stock to England on this boat from Cork Harbour.<\/h4>\n

It is clear that he was widely known, and that he had personal relationships with a lot of people, not alone in Ireland but in England and in Europe as well. The Cattle Dealers were not too happy with this manoeuver and bit by bit they had to give in and they started to attend Ballyvourney Fair in the same way as they would attend any other fair. The fair succeeded very well in Ballyvourney for 80 years until Macroom Mart was founded in 1962.<\/h4>\n

An Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh’s\u00a0daughter Cathy said in 1970 that her father made great endeavours to bring the railway to Ballyvourney. He was in contact with the Irish Nationalist Delegate \u2013 Dr Charles Tanner M.P. for a number of years and Dr Tanner asked questions in Westminster in the years 1887 – 1889 but unfortunately this campaign did not succeed.<\/h4>\n

Through the creation and founding of the industry, fair, shop, bakery and knitting factory, an Docht\u00fair \u00d3 Loingsigh\u00a0gave great encouragement to the people of the area, and the desire he had to work amongst these people could be seen clearly even after his death. This culture of setting up small, local industries can still be seen in action in Ballyvourney today.<\/h4>\n

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Adapted from \u00c9ighse 2008 speech given by D\u00f3nal\u00a0\u00d3 h\u00c9alaithe – Stara\u00ed \u00e1iti\u00fal de chuid Acadamh F\u00f3dhla \u00f3 Ch\u00fail Aodha, translated into B\u00e9arla by James O’Leary, Col\u00e1iste an tEasbog Mac Aogh\u00e1in, M\u00e1igh Chromtha.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creation of Industry in Ballyvourney An Docht\u00fair D\u00f3mhnall \u00d3 Loingsigh also had a good\u00a0understanding of\u00a0business affairs. When he had won the minds of the people, he knew that the time had arrived to improve the lives of the people as well. He believed that it was not with words alone that people lived. He remembered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drlynchballyvourney.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}