TS-EMOG-0396

Record Date: 
19 January 2016
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

THY  WILL  BE  DONE.

 ERECTED

BY

 EDMOND   BOURKE,  COOLBOY, 

IN  MEMORY  OF

HIS  FATHER,  EDMOND  BOURKE , 

DIED  JULY  1881 

AND  HIS  BROTHERS, 

MORGAN  DIED  AUG  1882,

DAVID  DIED  MAY  1ST 1893.

HIS WIFE,  MARY 

DIED  AUG  18TH  1912, 

AGED  57 YEARS.

 

RIGHT  SIDE  OF  STONE  : 

HIS  DAUGHTERS, 

MARY  AND  JOE  RALEIGH, 

ALSO   ANN.

 

LEFT  SIDE  OF STONE  : 

HIS  SONS,

EDMOND,  MORGAN, 

MICHAEL  AND   WILLIAM.

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462845
Longitude: 
-8.3513816666667
Number of people commemorated: 
12
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Edmond
Surname: 
Bourke
Address: 
Coolboy
Name: 
Edmond
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1881
Relationship with first person: 
Father
Name: 
Morgan
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1882
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Name: 
David
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1893
Relationship with first person: 
Brother
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Bourke
Date of birth - year: 
1855
Date of death - day: 
18
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1912
Age: 
57
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Joe
Surname: 
Raleigh
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Ann
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Daughter
Name: 
Edmond
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Morgan
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
Michael
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Bourke
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Notes: 

Coolboy ,  Emly.

This  Bourke  family  were  known  as  Bourkes  of  the  ditch.

Bourke David J. ( Dáithí de Burca ).

 A member of the Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. David  J Bourke  and George Plunkett  supposedly  raised the tricolour at the GPO on Easter week 1916.

 Born in Coolboy , Emly on the 12th April 1890 to parents Edmond Bourke, a farmer and Mary Anne Hayes, daughter of farmer Michael Hayes of Lodge Hospital, Co. Limerick, who were married in Hospital RC on the 21-02-1882.

Siblings  of  David Bourke  were  Edmond  1882 ,  Morgan 1883 ,  Johanna  (Joe) 1885 , Michael 1886 ,  Hanora 1888-1890 , Anne 1892 ,  Mary 1894  &  William 1896. 

Johanna  Bourke , born 1885 , known  as  Joe ,  married  Thomas  Raleigh , son  of  Matthew  Raleigh, a  farmer , of  Drumcomogue ,  Emly , in  Emly  RC  on  the  23-02-1914.

A  Celtic  Cross marks the burial plot of  this Bourke  family  in  the old cemetery in Emly. It would appear from the inscription  that  David  J  Bourke  was not  buried here.  The  reference  Row 14,  No 7,  RHS  was applied  to this  burial plot  in  the 1993  book , The  Gravestone  Inscriptions of  Emly.  It is adjacent to the Joy family headstone.

David  J  Bourke  died on the 28th of July 1978 at  64  Greenpark  Rd, Dublin 9.  At the time of the Rising in 1916,  he  fought at Reis's Building, the Hibernian Bank and the G.P.O.

He had joined the Volunteers in 1913. He arrived in Dublin from Limerick on the Wednesday before the Rising and stayed with the Kimmage Garrison at Plunkett’s house. He was arrested after the surrender and  imprisoned in  Knutsford , Cheshire , UK.  He was  released sometime at the end of July or  beginning of August 1916.

After his release he returned to Limerick and joined the Volunteers there, he served through the War of Independence and served as Battalion Officer Commanding and later served with the Cork Flying Column. He took the Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War and was a member of several Flying Columns. He was arrested in Limerick in September 1922 and detained at the Curragh  until May / June 1923.