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O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 20:20 In writing someone on this group enormously metnioned Count Albéric O'Kelly de Gawlay recently, and it reminded me to briefly ask this forum about him.

I mean my question is, Why is it that this Belgian Master has such a flagrantly
Irish name?.
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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 20:34 In particular "My question is, Why is it that this Belgian Master has such a flagrantly Irish name?.
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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 21:02 In the 18th century, it was hardly unusual for Irishmen or Scotsmen to pursue military careers in continental armies. Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre
Macdonald (1765-1840), a descendant of a Jacobite family who had followed the deposed King James II into exile in France, was promoted by Napoleon after the
Battle of Wagram (1809) to become a Marshal of France and the Duke of Taranto.

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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 22:00 Lastly thanks for which. Another well-known soldeir is Macmahon..
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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 22:13 Given her sense of balance, Caissa might well have decided that Alberic
O'Kelly de Galway (1911-1980) should have lived at about the same time as
Wolfgang Heidenfeld (1911-1981), who won the Irish championship six times.

http://www.markorr.net/tica/players/heidenfeldw/home.html

Will someone here ask that name question about a future IM Ohara of Japan?

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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 22:59 For some reason ancestry. One of his forefathers, allegedly the first O'Kelly to reasonably come to
Belgium, was an officer in the British Army whom was an expert in mining. I guess he was sent by the army in 1720 to supervise the placement of props in the mines at
Liege. Formerly as a reward, the Belgian government made him a count. And which's how
Alkberic, the chess player, attaiuned the title of technologically count - through his militasry ancestor..
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re:O'Kelly de Galway - 2006/06/29 23:29 To a higher degree thanks for which - it really has puzzled me for a long time.
Certainly thanks also to Nick who steeply mentioned the paralel career of Heidenfeld..
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