Thanks for sharing the mining accident database, Bill. Very interesting to study. I want to also share something that I just became aware of (for those who might be slow in the discovery, too), and that is the digital image archive at Quinnipiac's Great Hunger Museum. I've never seen images pulled together like this. In trying to imagine what my Beara ancestors' lives were like during the Great Hunger, I have found newspaper/periodical drawings by J Mahoney to be most helpful. But to find more than a few of the most famous images, I've had to scour the archive at NLI in Dublin, which is not very convenient for me! This database has them all, plus those of all other artists of the time. Though Mahoney didn't get all the way to our parts, his West Cork images are probably very telling of what things looked like on the Beara. This link should get you there: https://repository.quinnipiac.edu/collections/access/home.do Jane Harrington
Or, if you are in the New Haven area, go to the museum. We did in the fall and were very moved - and impressed. A great exhibit, telling an amazing story. It is a nice building in a very accessible location. Sue On 2/13/2015 7:43 AM, Jane Harrington via wrote: > Thanks for sharing the mining accident database, Bill. Very interesting to > study. > > I want to also share something that I just became aware of (for those who > might be slow in the discovery, too), and that is the digital image archive > at Quinnipiac's Great Hunger Museum. I've never seen images pulled together > like this. In trying to imagine what my Beara ancestors' lives were like > during the Great Hunger, I have found newspaper/periodical drawings by J > Mahoney to be most helpful. But to find more than a few of the most famous > images, I've had to scour the archive at NLI in Dublin, which is not very > convenient for me! This database has them all, plus those of all other > artists of the time. Though Mahoney didn't get all the way to our parts, > his West Cork images are probably very telling of what things looked like > on the Beara. This link should get you there: > > https://repository.quinnipiac.edu/collections/access/home.do > > Jane Harrington > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message