Most of de Valera’s biographers have dealt with the mystery of the Irish statesman’s paternal ancestry with varying degrees of scepticism

Newspaper reports of the tragedy recorded that the accident occurred close to the landmark mills that everyone knew as ’Mallet’s Folly’

He was the father of the sky scraper but Chicago architect Louis H. Sullivan also had his paternal ancestry firmly rooted in Clonakilty Cork

It was home to several high-profile entrepreneurs who scaled financial heights only to suffer loss of fortune in the autumn of their lives