SCULLY, Anti-Scullyism
Some Scullys wonder why when they visit Ireland and introduce themselves, there comes a wee bit of chill in the air. Here might be a reason:
Summary from: Homer E. Socolofsky, LANDLORD WILLIAM SCULLY (Regents Press of Kansas, 1979). In 1868, in Tipperary, tenants attacked and greviously wounded landlord Scully (son of Denys Scully and Chatherine Eyre Scully), for being such a vicious landlord. 100 years later, in a cemetery near Ballycohey, a monument was raised to memoralize "The Fight Against Landordism."(Keep an eye out for descendants of: Michael O'Dwyer; Michael Hanley; Patrick Quinn; William Quinn; John Heffernan; Timothy Heffernan; John Ryan; Denis Hayes; Laurence Hayes; John Greene; John Hanrahan; Kenneth Twomey; Patrick Greene; Michael Foley."
These Scullys had, for 400 years, been prominent landholding Irish Catholics beholden to the British. Descended from the O'Scolaidhe clan, originally from Westmeath, most were pushed into Tipperary and elsewhere during the Anglo-Norman invasion. A poorer branch stayed in Westmeath.
After Charless II Restoration in 17th century, the weathier branch moved back to Tipperary near Cashel. In the 1840s, William's elder brother James was shot in the back by tenants. William continued the family legacy of wringing every last potato from his tenants, even at the worst of the famine, and then began to look to America. He began buying up land in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the 1850s. He was back and forth to Ireland, marying Margaret Mary Sweetman (Dublin) in 1851. In the US, he came under increasing attack for "Scullyism," and his "Scully scalpers," buying up forfeited land, and arranging to have tenants refused credit at local stores unless they could show a receipt for rent payments to him. Through the 1870s and 1880s, newspapers carried stories such as "'Lord' Scully is an Irish leech who can scarcely write his own name. His wealth, obtained by grinding the life blood out of tenants, gives him his title. Scully has been one of the worst curses that ever afflicted Illinois."
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