I ran across the web site below while doing a search for "What is Weed Ashes?" (Salt cured weeds used for bleaching Linen?) on the Down list and thought it might be of interest to this list as well. As you can see from the items below, there are some "good things" here that turns out to be of great interest, at least to me. Genealogy, Archaeology, History, Stories, and Plays, all about the Ireland of old. This should give some of you vivid readers out there, many hours of pleasureable reading in addition to providing you with some worthwhile genealogy related information. The site where the items below came from is at: http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/irishres.htm It certainly made my day and hopefully will you as well! I read slow (or half fast), so it might even make a few days of enjoyable reading for me! Norm Ruddock Irish Literary Sources and Resources <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/medb.gif> Background Texts * The Archaeology of Ancient Ireland <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/archaeol.htm> * The Geography of Ancient Ireland <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/geograph.htm> * The Geology of Ancient Ireland <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/geology.htm> Ancient Irish Literature * On Reading Ancient Literature: The Text and the Context <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/textcon.htm> * "The Fate of the Children of Lir" (trans. Lady Gregory) <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/childlir.htm> * "Oisin and Patrick" (trans. Lady Gregory) <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/oisinpat.htm> * Early Irish Lyric Poetry (trans. Kuno Meyer) <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/meyer.htm> Irish Drama * John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/riders.htm> Irish Prose Fiction * John Banim, The Nowlans <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/Nowlans/nowlcont.htm> (2000 edition) * William Carleton, The Hedge School <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/carlcont.htm> * Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/CastleRackrent/rackcont.htm> (2000 edition) * Gerald Griffin, The Collegians <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/Collegians/collcont.htm> (2000 edition) * James Joyce, "The Dead" <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/dead.htm> * Emily Lawless, Grania, The Story of an Island <http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/Grania/grancont.htm> (Complete. 2000 edition)