I'm passing along this latest bulletin which should be great news for a number of people. -dja COUNCIL OF IRISH GENEALOGICAL ORGANISATIONS 30th May 2008 'National Library has re-opened Roman Catholic parish registers for Cashel & Emly, Cloyne and Kerry' The National Library of Ireland has finally re-opened public access to the microfilms of the parish registers of the 'closed' dioceses of Cloyne, Kerry & Cashel & Emly. For the past 16 years there has been no public access at all to the microfilms of the registers from the diocese of Cashel & Emly and only limited access to those for Kerry and Cloyne. The issue of access to the microfilms for these dioceses has been a hot issue for many years now and is one that CIGO has raised previously with the Library. The 're-opening' of these microfilms after all these years is terrific news for those who are searching for Catholic ancestors in County Kerry and parts of Counties Tipperary, Limerick and Cork. You can read more about this story <http://www.cigo.ie/news.html> here.