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Welcome one and all!

If, in your recent or distant past you have a blood or marriage connection to a Driscoll, O'Drisceoil, O'Driscoll or Driskell, then you are one of us - family! This is probably one of the most comforting words in the English language. For most of us it elicits a multitude of powerful emotions - a sense of belonging, home, love, and comfort.

It was in this spirit that an idea was born for this website. The hope is to create a network of the O'Driscoll Clan here in Canada. This includes not only everyone who can trace their family to someone with the Clan name, but those who have married into it as well. Welcome one and all.

Being one of the fortunate who has paid a visit to County Cork during the annual O'Driscoll Clan Gathering I can honestly say the hospitality offered by our local "relations" in the small hamlet of Baltimore, County Cork will leave me with warm memories for years to come. I hope every Clan member from all over the world is able, at some point in their life, to participate in the annual event held the last weekend in June. It is well worth the trip.

In the meantime, we'll do our best to use this site as a starting point for putting together the links between the Driscolls across Canada and thereby strengthen our family ties.

Start your journey with us by getting familiar with our current Clan Cheiftain.

Current O'Driscoll Clan Chieftain

Current Clan Chieftain 2007-

Bruce Driscoll Our immediate past Clan Chieftain, Dave Driscoll of England, broke ground as the first Chieftain to be "from away". On Sunday, June 24, 2007, he passed the O'Driscoll Chain of Office to the first North American to hold the honour: Bruce Driscoll of New Brunswick, Canada. Born in Nova Scotia, Bruce's paternal line in Canada started with W. John Driscoll who was born in County Cork around 1819. No records have yet been found to prove his date of entry to Canada but on November 6th, 1861 he married Lydia Mathewson in Ellershouse, Nova Scotia. From there, the direct line to Bruce was from W. John to: Walter Stewart Driscoll, Clifford Walter Driscoll, Clifford Stewart Driscoll, to our current Clan Chieftain, Bruce Stewart Driscoll. While Bruce's paternal heritage is 100% Irish all the way up the line, he is equally proud of his Acadian roots which so far have been traced all the way through his mother's family line back to 17th century France. Bruce and his wife Marilyn have one son, Dylan Bruce Driscoll, and one daughter, Shauna Lee Driscoll. Dylan and his wife Shirley are the proud parents of a daughter, Norah Ming Driscoll.

During Bruce’s term in office his goals for our Clan include:

- continuing to expand the Driscoll/O'Driscoll Canadian genealogical information on the Driscolls of Canada website so researchers have a wealth of information in one spot;
- holding mini-gatherings at locations in North America (Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Baltimore, Maryland for instance) to get to know more of the North American Driscolls/O'Driscolls and expand awareness of the annual Clan Gathering;
- following the lead of Dave Driscoll before him, to encourage as many families of the Driscoll/O'Driscoll surname to have one male member in their family line participate in the O’Driscolls of Cork DNA project, spearheaded by Colin Ferguson, to enable us to start connecting the O'Driscolls from around the world with the family lines remaining in Ireland.

For profiles of our Clan Chieftains from 1986 to the present, please go to O'Driscoll Clan Chieftains