JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY house at Nancy in Rue St. D:zier. He Irish, at least,· for when they first dewas a Chevalier de St. Louis and died on feated Cumberland, at Fontenoy, their the 7th August, 1745, aged 92 years. His cry was Remember Limerick! - at wife died ·28th August, 1752, aged 88 Lawfeldt there was an adP,itiona.l call • years. When this O'Hegarty went into Avenge Culloden! Here "tbe· Irish exile he brought with him his father, fought like devils." (July, 1747). "They his wife, a. son (Patrick) and a daughter cut down all before them, with a full (Sarah). A sister, with her husband resolution, if possible, to reach his Roy3.l (Colonel Charles O'iDogherty) and a Highness (Cumberland), which they .brother, an Irish Dominican. also accom- would have done, had not Sir John panted ·him. This Father Patrick Ligonier come up with a party of horse O'Hegarty was a noted preacher, who and· thereby saved the !Duke, at the loss .died at St. Malo, 23rd October, 1703, and of his own liberty" (O'Callaghan, p. 469). was buried in the Cathedral there. Here again Patrick O'Hegarty was 22nd. Patrick O'Hegarty, born in wounded and as a, result received a Ireland, found his way into the Irish pension of 1,200 francs. · A Ca.ptain Brigade. His early career is omitted, Hegarty of Berwick's regiment was k111ed but when the immortal Lally was made in the same engagement. In 1748 Patrick Colonel of the new regiment, named was promoted to the rank of Brigadier after him, 1745, Patrick was appointed and Colonel a la suite, etc. He was a his Lieutenant Colonel. Without Lally Chevalier de St. Louis and died about there would have been no victory for 1760. His brothers, born in France, were us at Fontenoy, llth May, 1745. Short Dominique, born 1693. He served, in his s.nd sharp was the order of the clay. youth, in iDillon's Regiment and later Irish baYoiiets swept up the slope against became Comte de Magnieres, etc. Next the hail of English and Dutch bullets. came Denis who died young. Then Ten minutes later the enemy had van- Pierre Andre, born 1700. When at schoor ished. Louis XV revieiwed his victorious with the Jesuits at Caen, at the age of troops on the battlefield. :fifteen, he ran away to join the army ''1\is the royal cortege approache<:{ bound for Scotland to :fight for .Tames III. the Irish R-rigade, the Dauphin ran After the defeat of the Earl of Mar he forward to the brave Lally, who, studied Law, was a protege of Cardinal having been the first to enter, sword Fleury and rose to be iGovernor of the in hand, the enemy's column on 11is Island of Bourbon, etc., etc. His son, right, was wounded, though slightly, Pierre Charles Daniel, was born in the and was sitting on a drum in front Isle of ·Bourbon in 1742 and at the a.ge of the shattered remains of his regi- of three was nominated a l'.eutenant in ment, etc. The :nauphin, announcing Lally's regiment, and at fifteen was n. to Lally the favours intended .for captain. When Lally went to India his regiment by the King, IL.ally ob- Pi'erre diid not go Wi'th him bUt w•as an served': 'Monseigneur, they are likP. A.D.C. at the Battle of Rossbach-where, those of the Gospel, they descend in defeat, an Irish regiment won high upon the blind. and the l~ame,' at the praise from the conqueror, Frederick the same time pQinting to his Ueutenant Great. Later he joined Lally in PondiColonel, O'Hegarty, wounded by a cherry where, in adverse circumstances, bayonet in the eye, and his Major, "he served gloriously." In 1779 he wrote Glassack (Cussack) whose knee was to Benjamin Franklin offering his SE:rpierced by bullets" (O'Callaghan, vices. The last of his male line was p . .364). Charles Jean Patrice Comte O'Hegerty Patrick O'Hegarty was promoted who died 1n 1882. The youngest brother colonel on the field of battle, but, l!ke of Patrick O'Hegairty was !Francois others in the [rish Brigade-promoted Bernard, born in 1703, a Captain in even higher, he still held his lieutenant- Dillon's regiment, who was dangerously colonelcy, under ILally. More important wounded at Fontenoy. He was later a than Fontenoy was Lawfeldt,1 to the Lieutenant Colonel and Commandant of (1-)i f e e l sure that Cathlee Ny Houla.han Oudenarde and Ath up to the evacua.tion wc:mid '!elcome the celebration of a few of the ILow countries. His son, Louis Insh Victories, such as ithese, as an . . . . . · 1 i antidote to the spate of cleilie1brations Francois, was a Lieutenant Colone n commemorating her glorious defeats thP Duke of !Berwick's regiment. which we have just witnessed during ~ the past few years. Must we always This summary gives us some idea of CE~t~rtom this Nation-al Melancholia? the extent of Mr, John 0. Hagarty's 88
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