Hello O'Brien Researchers, I am looking to contact any O'BRIEN family researchers whose roots lie in Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. In particular, I wish to link up with those whose descendants emigrated from Ireland to Australia in the 1800's. Some O'Briens settled in Capella, Queensland, others in Maryborough, Queensland and possibly the initial O'Brien settlement was in Gympie, Queensland. My association, as a child, was with the O'Briens who settled in Gympie. I visited the Ballyporeen/Clogheen area in 1995 and "walked in the footsteps" of my ancestors. There is a Stained Glass Window in the Church of the Assumption, Ballyporeen dedicated to an ancestor, Thomas O'Brien. In 1995 I visited an O'Brien family in Gorteeshal (adjoins Glenacunna) and a relative, Bart Corbett, in the same Townland who showed me some Caplice family home ruins. My GGGrandmother Alice O'Brien was married to a Michael O'Donnell and they lived in the Townland of Glenacunna at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Michael lived to 105 and died in 1877. I hope that there are some O'Briens on the net who will enable me to link our various families who came to Australia in the last century and of course to relate to those still in Ireland. I hope that this posting will be fruitful. Brian <brianjhickey@msn.com> AUSTRALIA <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/i/c/Brian-J-Hickey