Actually no: It was Walt Whitman. Marge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] More Sullivan and Murphy research > Hi Terry, all, > > Terry <barnes149@comcast.net> writes: > >> As I am just beginning to learn here, could someone explain why >> everything I >> find including Riobards books shows Kilmackowen, Eyeries Parish, Cork, >> Ireland. But when I look up the Griffiths Valuation records they show >> Barony:Bear, Union:Castletown, Townland:Kilmackowen, and Parish: >> Kilcatherine. > > Sure, and wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said, "consistency is the > hobgoblin of small minds?" > > Truth be told, I have no blessed idea why they're different. Perhaps > Riobard can explain it, or perhaps another of the list members who > knows the ins and outs of the Irish system of creating political > subdivisions will be able to enlighten us. > > -- 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

Marge Sullivan <hjmcs@optonline.net> writes: (About the origin of the phrase, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," which I had attributed to Oscar Wilde.) > Actually no: It was Walt Whitman. Inspired by Marge, I looked around the web. It seems the phrase originated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, according to Bartleby's Directory of Quotations. http://www.bartleby.com/100/420.47.html Apparently several other authors, Walt Whitman included, considered the idea worthy enough to borrow. -- Bill