Thanks for the info. Hey what records do you have Cornelius? are you in touch with his family? Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:32 PM Subject: [BEARA] DuMaurier's novel Hungry Hill > Hi Terry, and all, > > Terry wrote: >> Castle in West Cork's Castletownbere. Published in 1942, Du Maurier's >> family >> saga, based on the Irish ancestors of her friend Christopher Puxley, > > Of course you're talking about _Hungry Hill_, Daphne DuMaurier's novel > set in the old Puxley home and the region around it. My grandmother > wore the covers off several copies and used to watch the film version > of it every time it came on TV. Not so much because it's a great > story (it really isn't) but because it was a story about the place > she'd grown up. > > If you can find a used copy on line it's probably worth the price to > get it and read it just for the history of the Beara region. Just > keep in mind that Daphne DuMaurier never actually visited Beara while > she was writing the novel, so she gets some of the detail wrong. > > -- Bill > > ------------------------------- > 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 >