Happy New Year and Many Thanks to all. Especially to Riobard O’Dwyer for the connections to family history on Bere Island. My husband and I plan to visit Bere Island, Cork, and Dublin in April. This will be our first trip to Ireland and I hope to “walk the ground” my Brady ancestor talked and wrote about. We fly from Houston. It would be such a help if anyone on the group could assist in our plans. Which airlines do you like for the flight from US to Dublin? Is it better to fly into Cork? Does anyone know about an Inn and Cooking School on Bere Island? There was an article in the WSJ but I cannot relocate that. Are there places you recommend we contact for lodging on Bere? in Cork? in Dublin? and last…. Which resources do you recommend for me to visit for family research? Riobard, it was a disappointment but a big help to learn that there are no records for James T. Brady’s birth on Bere Island. I have not learned anything from internet sources that lead my any closer to his Irish history. But I know it will do my head and heart good to be on the ground in Ireland. Thanks go any and all who have the time to email ideas about visiting Bere Island in 2016! Blessings, VIctoria Harrison