Osmond Tisani
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Osmond Tisani (fl. 1905 1914) was a South African expatriate, who became the first known person of African origin to speak the Irish of the Galway Gaeltacht by some ninety years. Tisani was a son of an African chief who was exchanged during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899 1902) for the son of Marcus Óg Lynch of Barna House, County Galway, who was serving in the British army. Lynch Jr. died during the war, and by some means, Tisani came to live in Barna as early as 1905, when Marcus Óg built a handball alley in the village for his amusement. Mr. Lynch's only other children, three sisters, were…mehr

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Osmond Tisani (fl. 1905 1914) was a South African expatriate, who became the first known person of African origin to speak the Irish of the Galway Gaeltacht by some ninety years. Tisani was a son of an African chief who was exchanged during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899 1902) for the son of Marcus Óg Lynch of Barna House, County Galway, who was serving in the British army. Lynch Jr. died during the war, and by some means, Tisani came to live in Barna as early as 1905, when Marcus Óg built a handball alley in the village for his amusement. Mr. Lynch's only other children, three sisters, were all members of the Sisters of Charity, while his own sister, Miss Lilly, lived with him. Osmond Tisani is known to have lived in the area till as late as the outbreak of World War I. He was a popular member of the student population in Galway.