Riobard, We have so enjoyed your stories and can understand if you would like a break. The stories broaden our understanding of the Beara and certainly give us details of the life past. I especially enjoy the Eyeries/Cahirkeem/Allihies ones. I forward many of your emails to my family not on the list and they enjoy them as well.Thank you for sharing, they are very important to us. Don't stop. Hello to Joan from the woman who looks like' the lady'. Marita from Seattle whose relatives were Margaret and Hannah near the grotto On Feb 15, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Riobard O' Dwyer wrote: > *Sorry for putting to the trouble those of you who dropped me a line. > Many, many, thanks for being so kind with your words of appreciation for my > efforts. Must have been the snow that may have been the cause of making me > wonder as to whether you may or may not have received my previous > correspondence. All's well that's well again. I had been wondering as to > whether my "words of wisdom" (???) had taken the wrong turning and had gone > astray.* > *I know you won't mind if I take a bit of a rest in my old age* *now for a > while before I inflict my "words of wisdom" (???) on you again*. *In the > meantime there will, I hope, be many others better qualified to fill in the > many gaps that may still remain for filling about lives and stories of the > people who lived in Beara when there were no such things there as > televisions, u-tubes, and all these modern inventions that one comes across > now. Life was less pressurised and simple then. Old people had more time to > light a pipe, chew a bit of tobacco, sit around the fire, sing an old song, > play an ancient lament on the fiddle or a few jigs on the single-row > "melodgion" and tell all about many, many stories that the Schoolmasters > read out for them about what happened to their ancestors when they crossed > the wide ocean to make a living in America and send a few dollars home to > those left after them. Unfortunately, when many of those stories are left > still to be told, they will probably be lost forever.* > *Kind regards to all from Joan and myself.* > * Riobard*. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message