Hi Gill, was pleased to see the advent of your new site which I note covers the Irish in Newport. PLEASE devote some time to Newport, Monmouthshire, where my lot arrived probably in the 1850s -- and are still there. Would be glad to contribute. Regards, David

The IGW County Tipperary website has been updated. The following civil parish webpages have either been added or updated: Cullen, Glenbane, Clonbeg and Dolla. The following town(land) pages have either been added or updated: Addane, Ballycarn, Barnagore, Boherlody, Cooneen, Cooneen South, Coumnagillagh, Curraghleigh, Curreeny Commons, Clonmore, Cullen, Glenbane, Tipperary, Cordangan, Holycross, Nenagh, Cashel, Mullinhone, Newport, Ballintogher, Foilnamuck, Glenduff, Grallagh, Kerane, Kilnashannally, Kilriffet, Knockmeale, Lisgarriff, Lisgarriff East & West, Pollanorman, Tooreen, Traverston, Turtulla, Windygap, Ballinulty, Ballybrunoge, Boherduff, Cloonmanagh, Fortyacres, Garryheakin, Gortakilleen, Gortnabarnan, Illaunmeen, Longstone, Milltown, Monearmore, Rathduff, Rathcabban, The Pike, Cappaghrattin Other items added this month include new civil parish maps with townlands deliniated, Hearth Money Rolls for Iffa and Offa baronies, new Griffith Valuations, and new surname links. You can find this website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip/tipperary.htm If you have suggestions, corrections and additions for this website, please write me off list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Just thought that I'd tell you about a new site which is developing a large section on the Irish in especially Liverpool, Manchester and Wales and Ireland of course! www.originsuk.com Cheers Gill

Hi, Carole, Click on the address at the bottom of this e-mail and scroll down Pat's website page until you find "Browse the Archives" and "Search the Archives" options for the Ireland list. Lots to read at her website, as well. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <CABROWN@aol.com> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:46 AM Subject: [IRELAND] Snippets > I love the "Snippets" Is there an archive of them which I can access in > order to read the ones I have missed? If so how can I access them? > Thanks > Carole

Mike, You can go to this site and put the names in and it will give you the various counties. http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/index.cfm Mike On 1/3/06, michael trowbridge <b_sgun@magicohio.com> wrote: > > List, > I have a 2nd great grandmother by the name of Catherine Mc Carl or > Mc Carroll. Her death certificate says she was born August 13, 1817 in > Ireland and died February 21, 1895 Gallia County, Ohio, USA. > > I am looking for what county or counties that her last name would appear > in Ireland. > > Also if the name was a clan by itself or a sub clan. > > Mike Trowbridge > USA > > > > > ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== > Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup > volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/ > >

I love the "Snippets" Is there an archive of them which I can access in order to read the ones I have missed? If so how can I access them? Thanks Carole

List, I have a 2nd great grandmother by the name of Catherine Mc Carl or Mc Carroll. Her death certificate says she was born August 13, 1817 in Ireland and died February 21, 1895 Gallia County, Ohio, USA. I am looking for what county or counties that her last name would appear in Ireland. Also if the name was a clan by itself or a sub clan. Mike Trowbridge USA

SNIPPET: The county of Offaly (King's) is best known for its stretches of bogland and for its wild Slieve Blooms, which, rare for Irish mountains, are not close to the sea. It is also the site of 'St. Kieran's City' at Clonmacnois, on the banks of the Shannon, where the impressive remains of a large and significant monastic settlement, dating from 545 AD, describe a time when it was a centre of Celtic learning, literature and art, an era when most of the rest of Europe was being engulfed by the barbarian invasion. Another of Offaly's sources of repute rests in the demesne of the Birr Castle, home of the PARSONS family, earls of Rosse for 14 generations. Here in its Gothic-style housing lies the tube of what was, from the 1840s until 1917, the greatest telescope in the world, the 'Leviathan of Birr' which was constructed by Lord Oxmantown (later the 3rd Earl of Rosse) in 1845. An enthusiastic and observant traveller to Ireland, Englishman Richard LOVETT, wrote in 1888 -- "Many interesting tombstones exist at Clonmacnois, and many interesting objects of antiquity have been found there. Among these the museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin possesses a crozier which once belonged to the bishops of Clonmacnois, and which is a very fine specimen of this kind of Irish art. .... The situation is very lovely, the view of the Shannon very fine, the ride or the row from Athlone enjoyable, and even the most superficial inspection of the towers and arches and ruined churches can hardly fail to enrich the visitor with new and deep impressions of the vigorous religious life of Ireland eight hundred or a thousand years ago. Leaving Clonmacnois and following the course of the great river, Shannon-bridge and Banaghel are passed, and finally we reach Portumna. Here a swivel bridge, 766 feet long, has replaced an earlier wooden structure built by Lemuel CO! X, the architect of the still extant Waterford Bridge. There is nothing of special interest in Portumna, but the district around has become notorious in recent years on account of its agrarian troubles. Into these, however, it is not our function to enter. A few miles to the east of Portumna is Birr or Parsonstown, the residence of the late Earl Rosse, whose achievements in connection with the telescope are well known. Birr Castle is a fine pile of buildings, some portions of which are very ancient. About 1610 it came into the possession of the present family by a grant on the part of James I. to Sir Lawrence PARSONS. The great telescopes were built by the father of the present earl some fifty years ago. They are three in number, and are all reflectors; one 18 inches in diameter, one 3 feet in diameter, and the Great Telescope, six feet in diameter and 60 feet long, the largest astronomical instrument in the world. It was first erected in 1842, and although some impr! ovements have been made in the mounting, these are not very important. The concave mirrors are metal in all three, that of the Leviathan weighing nearly four tons. By the aid of these splendid instruments the late and the present earls have added greatly to our knowledge of the nebulae and of some branches of astronomical physics..."

Hello List, My name is Janine, and I am in Wangaratta, North East Victoria, Australia. I am hoping there is some kind soul on the list who comes from; knows of or lives near or in; Bridgetown, South East Clare. As I am interested in finding out more about the area and if there is an historical society connected with the area or even a local historian with whom I could make contact. My 3rd Great grandparents were married there during 1829, they were Michael and Mary Cleary. Mary's maiden name was Nash her father was James and her mother also Mary maiden name Dynon. Michael and Mary had 6 children Patrick b1830 Bridget b1833 My GGGrandmother Ann b183? Mary b183? Sarah b183? Margaret b1846 Ann arrived in Australia First on the "Statesman" in 1853, she was then followed by Bridget and Sarah on the "Epsom" in 1855 and finally Margaret, Patrick and their mother Mary in 1857, traveling with them was Ellen Nash Mary's niece, they arrived on the Jessie Munn. As we can find no entry for daughter Mary that fits the right time and age frame we feel she and her father Michael may have died between 1850 and 1857 while still in Ireland. When Mary Cleary arrived in Australia she was recorded as a widow and at the time of her death in 1886 aged 84, and according to her death certificate Ann, Mary and Sarah had all pre-deceased her. Both Ann and Sarah married in Australia. These are but a few of my clan who braved the unknown to come to Australia. Maybe Just maybe someone will recognize names and or dates it would be fantastic to make contact. Hope to hear from someone soon Janine

Greetings and a Happy New Year to all, I'm new to Irish genealogy and am just beginning to read the website associated with this list and its links. I wish to trace my g-g-grandmother Ellen Grace (Grace being her surname), born about 1832. From shipping records it appears she arrived in South Australia ex Plymouth on a ship containing mostly Irish migrants. She arrived as a single woman in 1856, possibly traveling with another single woman Judith Grace. I have not been able to locate Judith in Australia to date. Both women were servants from County Ripley. Since I have been unable to locate this county, I'm assuming it no longer exists, or perhaps this information is totally wrong. Can anyone enlighten me please? If anyone is researching the same surname, Ellen's father was apparently Oliver Grace, mother's name unknown. Kind regards, Leandra Prior Adelaide, South Australia

Leandra -- There is a book by an individual named Sheffield GRACE, "Memoirs of the Family of Grace," published in 1823 in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, reference number Ir. 9292 g 4. Many old reference books are being published to the Web, try a "google" search of that title. You can also read about the GRACE surname in an Irish surname book and/or the Web which will give the history behind the name (?English) and its connection to Ireland. Jean. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leandra" <colliewobbles@senet.com.au> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 11:19 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Ellen Grace > > Greetings and a Happy New Year to all, > > > I'm new to Irish genealogy and am just beginning to read the website > associated with this list and its links. I wish to trace my g-g-grandmother > Ellen Grace (Grace being her surname), born about 1832. <snip>

Hi, Leandra in Australia -- No county Ripley or townland that I can find in Ireland. However, there is a a placename of "Ripley Court" in Dublin. There is also a "Ripley Castle" in North Yorkshire, England, which may very well have a connection. Per the Matheson Destribution of Surnames (births of 5 or more) in 1890, there were 36 GRACE births in Ireland, principally in Cos. Dublin and Kilkenny. There were 21 in the province of Leinster, 15 oin the province of Munster, and none in the provinces of Ulster and Connaught. However, if you "google" the word group Irish Times ireland.com ancestor you can enter the GRACE surname in a field and it will show several Irish counties that surname appeared in, in the mid-1800s, which would be closer to your dates. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leandra" <colliewobbles@senet.com.au> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 11:19 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Ellen Grace > > Greetings and a Happy New Year to all, > > > I'm new to Irish genealogy and am just beginning to read the website > associated with this list and its links. I wish to trace my g-g-grandmother > Ellen Grace (Grace being her surname), born about 1832. From shipping > records it appears she arrived in South Australia ex Plymouth on a ship > containing mostly Irish migrants. She arrived as a single woman in 1856, > possibly traveling with another single woman Judith Grace. I have not been > able to locate Judith in Australia to date. Both women were servants from > County Ripley. Since I have been unable to locate this county, I'm assuming > it no longer exists, or perhaps this information is totally wrong. Can > anyone enlighten me please? If anyone is researching the same surname, > Ellen's father was apparently Oliver Grace, mother's name unknown. > > Kind regards, > Leandra Prior > Adelaide, South Australia

THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Thursday, October 7, 1824 MURDER-THE MEATH POLICE Mr. Ford presented the following report to the Committee:- I arrived at Rathmollon, on the 28th at twelve o'clock, although I did not receive any communication until eight o'clock in the morning of that day, respecting the necessity of my attendance. On my arrival, I was informed that on the morning preceding, the Coroner went to the house of the father of the deceased, accompanied by Captain Despard, Chief Peace Officer of the District, and Mr. Wilkins, who attended on behalf of the Police, together with the medical men, and several others who had been summoned to attend as Jurors. After having inspected the body, the Coroner adjourned to the village of Rathmollon and proceeded to examine several witnesses, who were examined by Mr. Wilkins, on behalf of the Police. The Court had just commenced the examination of the first witness on the second day, when I arrived and having stated that I attended on behalf of the next of kin of the deceased, the Coroner, at my request, read the deposition that had been taken on the previous day. The report here states the names of the Jury, and the several witnesses who were examined. - The following is the substance of the most material portions of the evidence:- John Duffy saw Police striking the deceased, and heard them cry out,"murder the bloody Papists." Mary Reilly deposed, that she did not hear any riot in the town; there was a noise in her house, but no fighting; there was loud talk in a closet; prevented Delapp, the Peeler, from firing towards the stairs; Delapp said he would have his aim, pointing his gun out to the hall, and witness said he should not, and pushed the gun down, upon which he hit her on the arm-did not see any of the constables beaten; there were no arms with the country people, not even a stick; she did not see deceased in her house that day; heard firing immediately after the police left her house; police drank spirits in her house that day at twelve o'clock; it was their lairing; they did not pay for it; two of them came into her house with Mrs. Lantry, wife of Serjeant Lantry, and two of the police followed; she had no license; police desired her to sell, and that nothing would happen to her. (Here Captain Despard asked her, did not the gauger also permit her to sell spirits, and she replied that he did not;) did not hear or see any persons attempting to take the arms from the police. Lieutenant Ellis, of Summer-hill, (is not of the Police establishment); saw rioting between the police and country people; saw country people coming out of Mrs. Reilly's house without their hats; asked witness to pick them up; saw a policeman knocked down by a countryman; heard a shot, and saw deceased fall; saw several countrymen run away alarmed at the shot; saw deceased taken up about half an hour afterwards; called to the country people to go for the Doctor, and they objected for a long time to come near the window where the witness was. Upon being cross-examined, witness stated that he knew of no riot before the police went into the house; there were no arms in the hands of the country people, but saw one man take something from under his coat, and it was he who struck the serjeant; believe it was a policeman fired the shot; knows him only by his white trowsers; none of the police came to the assistance of the man; the policeman nearest the deceased was the person who fired the shot; heard a woman's voice in favour of the police, and assisting them, and calling on the people to keep off; the people were running away in all directions; the woman's voice was certainly encouraging the police. Patt Kirwan corroborated the testimony of Moran as the to conversation of Delapp at Trim. FOURTH DAY Peter Fitzsimmons saw Cosgrave, the deceased knocked down by the blow of a gun, given by constable, with his two hands on it; one policeman advanced from between two others, and he was the person who gave the blow; there had been a scrimmage at Reilly's house, and it had all ceased at the time the blow was given; deceased was walking towards the police when the blow was given. After this witness was examined, I stated that on the part of the deceased's friends, I would not call any witnesses; that after the particularly insolent manner in which I was spoken to, the day before, by one of the Jury, I would not offer any observations on the evidence. But I was not now admonished at the Juryman's warmth, as I had since learned that he was the firs cousin of Delapp, the constable. I could not, however, omit observing to the Coroner-that where one of his Majesty's subjects had lost his life within a few yards of those who were called the preservers of the peace, not one of them had come forward to give any explanation of the matter. Mr. Wilkins, in reply, said, that he had directed the police to be in attendance, and they were accordingly there, and if I wished I might examine them, but they were already asked, and they said they knew nothing about the affair. I said that was very extraordinary, and I hoped that they would present themselves for examination. The CORONER proceeded to charge the Jury.- He stated that he was no party man, no Orangeman, nor never had been one, and he laboured throughout to shew that the words "Papists," &c. were not used, contrasting the evidence of those witnesses who said they were, with the evidence of Lieut. Ellis, and also with the silence of others.- As in that, I begged leave to observe, that those who were silent to it, were not asked the questions and as for Lieutenant Ellis, he did not hear the expression made use of by Mr. Matthews, ast his own window. The CORONER recapitulated all the evidence, and on the deposition of James Cosgrave, the father of the deceased, observed that if they believed the evidence, and that from the observation made by his father the deceased believed he was dying, and was in possession of his senses at the time he made the declaration, they should find a verdict against the two constables named by the deceased. The Jury retired for a short time, and returned their verdict, "that the deceased, John Cosgrave, otherwise Coskenny, came by his death by means of a wound on his forehead, inflicted by one of the police constables, as yet unknown, by a gun, or some other weapon, at Summerhill, on the night of the 22d of September, of which wound he languished and died on Sunday, the 26th of September, at Isaacstown." I cannot but remark, that the deceased was left from Wednesday to Sunday without any Magistrate calling upon him for the purpose of ascertaining whether he hand any declaration to make. Mr. Mockler, who came to the town with Captain Despard about an hour after the affair occurred, was aware that the man was badly wounded; so was Captain Despard acquainted with the fact. In the early part of the investigation it was sought to prove the man was drunk. Surgeon Trotter, in his evidence, said, his appearance of drunkenness might have proceeded from the effects of the blow. As evidence, how peaceable that Country must have been, I cannot but state that I was informed that serjeant Lantry, who was stationed at Summerhill, passed a fortnight or three weeks at Mr. Mockler's, superintending his harvest labourers. I have been informed of this fact by respectable persons, who stated, that they could prove it, and that it was notorious in the country. If it is not so, and that Mr. Mockler, and Captain Despard should agree with me, that it was not a proper disposal of the man's time, who was paid by the public, they will disprove it. Mr. Ford, after giving in the report, said , there was a circumstance attending this occurrence, which, as expressive of the feelings of the peasantry upon the occasion, he considered it of importance to mention. In the country it is the custom amongst the people to affix to the head of the bed in which a corpse is waked, a cross of ribbon; it is white upon an unmarried person ,and black for a married one, but upon the present occasion, the deceased, who was unmarried, had a red cross attached to his bed, and placed upon the coffin in its progress to the place of interment, and to any one acquainted with the sensitive character of the Irish, it would be unnecessary to observe the effect of such a significant emblem. It was also, he said, a remarkable fact, that the only Catholic policeman in the squad at Summerhill, was removed to another station the day previous to the fair.-(Hear, hear.) He had also to state, that almost the whole of the party of police engaged in this affair, had been tried at various times for acts of violence to the country people. It was resolved, that, at its rising, the meeting should adjourn to Tuesday. Counsellor Bric having been called to the Chair, and thanks returned to the Chairman, the meeting adjourned to Tuesday next. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

LIGHTENINGS VIII The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor dragged along behind so deep It hooked itself into the altar rails And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill, A crewman shinned and grappled down a rope And struggled to release it. But in vain, "This man can't bear our life here and will drown," The abbot said, "unless we help him." So They did, the freed ship sailed, and the man climbed back Out of the marvelous as he had known it. This poem was cited by the Nobel Committee when Derry's Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Perhaps it pertains to the following.... "According to an ancient legend recorded in the medieval Book of Invasions, the Tuatha De Danaan, the People of the Goddess Diana, were a race of benevolent enchanters and enchantresses who conquered Ireland long, long before the coming of Christianity. When their first attempts to make a landing were thrown back from the beaches by the evil Fir Bolg, the De Danaan ships took off from the ocean and flew through the air..."

SNIPPET: Victorian Englishman Richard LOVETT's descriptions of a leisurely visit to Ireland were published that same year (1888) by "The Religious Tract Society." This was the great age of railway travel, before the coming of the motorcar and aeroplane. Per LOVETT -- " Passing first Mullingar, that Mecca of anglers, then Athlone, already described, and finally Athenry, with its ruined castle, ancient gateway, and, if seen on market day, picturesque throng of Galway peasants, the train steams into the spacious Galway terminus, adjoining which is the huge hotel built in the hope that Galway would become, what it doubtless ought to be, a great port for the American trade. The curious man may ramble about Galway, and find much to interest him at every turn. The streets are for the most part narrow, winding and irregular. The houses form a strange jumble. Side by side with substantial buildings of the most approved ninetieth century type, stand houses which carry the observer back to the sixteenth century, and if in their courtyards he were to see a group of Philip the Second's Spaniards, he could hardly be surprised. There is the same strange variety in the faces to be seen. Here, if nowhere else, the supposed typical Irishman is to be met, in tall hat and knee-breeches, with the short up-turned nose, small forehead and receding chin. Here also in the crowd follow faces that recall one after another the Dane, the Saxon, the Spaniard and the Celt. Here more, perhaps, than in most popular centres in Ireland the mixed character of the Irish people becomes evident. There are but few buildings in the town of any special merit' Eyre Square contains the best of the modern structures. Lynch's mansion in Abbeygate Street is a fine example of the kind of house the Spanish merchants lived in three centuries ago. St. Nicholas Church is well worth a visit; the requirements of modern education are met by the Queen's College, a fine Gothic building which stands on the western bank of the River Corrib, in the northern suburbs. The town possesses a very fine harbour, and around it centres much of the business. Into this harbour empties the Corrib, the outlet of the two great lakes, Lough Mask and Lough Corrib, a shallow, rocky, rushing stream, in which at certain seasons of the year the salmon are to be seen in such numbers that - to use the colloquial phrase - 'you might walk across upon their back.' The current is too rapid and the bed too shallow for navigation through the town, and the Eglinton Canal connects the harbour for traffic purposes with the upper part of the Corrib. Few rivers rival the Corrib in the abundance of salmon, and while every facility is afforded for legitimate sport, a good deal of poaching ... is there carried on, if report in this instance speaks truly. At the mouth of the harbour, and forming the southernmost quarter of the town, is the Claddagh, a district inhabited solely by a clan of fishermen and their families; they live in low thatched huts, and are engaged for the most part in the herring fishery. By some authorities they have been considered of Spanish descent, while others, with more reason, hold that they are of Celtic origin. 'The commerce between Galway and Spain was, no doubt, at one time very extensive and important. The Spanish style of many of the houses now in ruins, the traditions and authentic records, prove that Galway was in old times a very thriving, busy, gay, and luxurious city. No doubt many Spanish merchants lived in Galway, and intermarried with natives long before the stern old Warden condemned his own son to death for slaying a Spanish rival. A Spanish face may still be seen in and about Galway - once a week or so; but it appears to me quite certain that the Claddagh, above all other people, had no intermarriage with Spaniards. In proof of this, their present names are nearly all Irish, such as Connolly, O'Connor, O'Flaherty; there are some English and Welsh, as Jones, Brown and Barrett; those first mentioned, however, form the great majority. The Christian names are generally Scriptural, as John, Matthew, Michael, Paul, also Patrick, Catharine, &c.; but they have this remarkable peculiarity, that there are so many persons of the same name that they are distinguished (in the Irish language) by the names of "fishes"; thus, Jack the hake, Bill the cod, Joe the eel, &c. The men and women of the Claddagh, and indeed of Galway County generally, are very fond of gay dress and bright colours; the country women often wear red cloaks, but the Claddagh women wear blue cloaks and red petticoats; the fishermen wear jacket, breeches and stockings home-made and light blue. The women often go bare foot and war the short blue cloak, bed-gown and red petticoat; the head dress is a kerchief of bright colours. ... The appearance of the village of Claddagh is dirty, but the houses are clean enough inside; and be it known that before the famine their houses were models of cleanliness; and we must recollect that those manure heaps which frequently offend the eye in Irish villages have no offensive odour, on account of the deodorizing power of the peat which forms a large portion of the compost. The men and women have generally clean linen, although often covered with rags. It is a general fact worthy of note that in Ireland a dirty outside generally covers a clean heart. Among the groups gathered at the fish market or clustering around Galway Harbour, the stranger will occasionally see a man exhibiting a facial type not common in the crowd, he wears very distinctive knee-breeches or knickerbockers, and his shoes, technically known as pampootas, are made of untanned cowhide with the hair left on, cut low at the sides, with a narrow pointed piece to cover the toes. It is said that experience has proved that such shoes or sandals as these are best suited for the rocky soil such men have to tread. And when the stranger, his curiosity aroused, desires to known whence these men come, he discovers that they are from the Arran Islands. These are three rocky islands lying off the mouth of Galway Bay, abounding in ruins of the most remarkable kind, and inhabited by a simple and kindly race of peasant fishermen." ....

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Thanks Nancy, but so far we can't seem to find any record of them before 1818. But will keep searching. I really enjoy the Ireland mail list. It is so informative. One question I have though, can you tell me what the "Guardians" are or were that has been referred to in some of the 1850 news? Were they a religious group or political or were they the town authorities. Were they for the good of the area or were they rebel rousers? Do you know where I could search for ship passengers list from Ireland? I hope you have a very Happy New Year. Thank you again. If I can help you with anything from FL, US. Let me know! Karen in FL. -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Peregrine [mailto:nancyperegrine@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:46 PM To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRELAND] Cunningham name I have Cunningham ancestors in Doon, Co Limerick. The Limerick & Tipperary counties Goldenpages phonebook (www.eircom.ie) has 1 1/4 columns of Cunninghams currently. If you can find a death certificate, obituary or gravestone for a Cunningham descendant in this country, it may mention place of origen. Happy hunting! Nancy Karen <diggingupbones@cfl.rr.com> wrote: I just joined your Ireland list and find it fascinating. I am wondering if any one can tell me if there was a certain part of Ireland that the name Cunningham was found about 1750-1800? Recently we have proven a connection to a John M Cunningham and his wife Catharine Conrad to our family. His son - John Cunningham, said his father was from Ireland and his mother had German heritage. They both settled in Pennsylvania, in the United States in the very early 1800's - and before 1818 for sure. I don't know if they married in Ireland or met and married in the US. The son John was born in 1818 and said he was born in PA. I can not find any actual written records of John M. and Catharine other than early census records in the US which didn't list all the names before 1850. Did find that John M left a will in 1868, however did not mention his children - some whom had already died. Can any one tell me where to start hunting for them in Ireland? It probably was a pretty common name, however I don't have a clue as to where to look when not researching in the United States. Thank you for your help and I really do enjoy your mail list! I've already learned a lot from it. Karen in Florida, US ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/ ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 24, 1850 MISCELLANEOUS The Lord Bishop of Derry distributed silver medals to the most proficient pupils of Foyle College on Saturday. The tenantry on the Colebrook estate, Fermanagh, have determined on sowing a large quantity of flaxseed this season. Lord de Vesci is assisting his tenantry in the Queen's county as much as possible in the growth of flax. William Summer, a drunken labourer, hung himself in Manchester on Sunday last. He left behind him a piece of paper referring to a verse in the Proverbs, which declares that the drunkard shall come to poverty. On Sunday sub-constable Clinchy arrested a daring ruffian named William Sheahan, in the act of picking pockets in the Dominican chapel, Limerick, during the celebration of mass. The policeman found 26 handkerchiefs with the prisoner! On last Wednesday night an attempt was made to murder Mr. John Robertson, land steward to C.B. Lisle, Esq., of Glasslough, Monaghan, by a gun-shot. Three of the slugs passed through the window and two lodged in the bed where he was sleeping. A barbarous murder was on Friday night perpetrated on Patrick Egan, a pensioner, residing on the townland of Clonasera, King's County, the property of Mr. Usher. The poor man was in bed at the time of the attack. One of the assassins struck him with a pistol and then leaped so violently on his chest that he expired in ten minutes. There was a seizure made of the goods of the Newcastle workhouse on Saturday under a civil bill decree at the suit of Thomas Ambrose, Esq., medical doctor. When the pauper inmates became aware of it they rose against the bailiffs and would have severely handled them only for the officers of the house. The Galway guardians are offered wooden shoes for the Workhouse paupers at 6d. per pair. A Galway Town councillor and Poor Law Guardian lost several of his teeth from the blows of a guest at his hospitable table last week, originating in a dispute about the gentility of their respective families! The following is copied from the Jersey Times of the 12th inst.:- Drowned in the Royal Adelaide, on her passage from Cork to London, the 30th March, Anthony Le Ber, Esq., and his family, consisting of his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldest 16, and the youngest eight, leaving behind one daughter. Respites are received at Cork for two men named Dineen and Linehan, against whom death was recorded for sacrilege. Linehan, convicted of robbing both church and Roman Catholic chapel on the same day, has had his sentence commuted to transportation for life; and Linehan to be transported for seven years. [Transcriber note: Linehan and Linehan mentioned for sentencing and Dineen was not.] The iron bridge intended to cross the Shannon at Athlone, for the railway to Galway, will be commenced in a few days by the eminent house of Fox and Henderson, of Birmingham. This will give a great deal of employment. The materials will be landed at our quays, and conveyed by canal to Athlone. Over 1,100 tons of iron will be used in the magnificent structures which will be 700 feet in length.--Limerick Chronicle. "Exchange is no robbery." While America is sending us her corn, we are sending her our people. Those friendly offices are likely to continue. She will save us the trouble of sowing and reaping, and the hands which lived by the labour they afforded, must betake them to the soil whence the new supplies is coming. There they will raise the crops which they are no longer invited to raise at home and as they produce will increase with the encreased labour and with the enlarged area constantly brought under cultivation, we may every year look for more numerous shipments, and these must depreciate still further the value of land and labour in Ireland.--Cork Constitution. The jury under the commission of lunacy against Richard Warren, Esq., of Skibbereen, have returned the following verdict:- "We find that Richard Warren is not an idiot, nor a lunatic, nor a person of unsound mind, so as to be incapable of managing his own affairs." The costs of this trial will exceed £1000 - the principal portion of which must be borne by the petitioner, William Warren, brother of Richard. The enquiry lasted eight days. The counsel on both sides received near £200, the jury 96 guineas, and the commission 64 guineas. Mr. Timothy Dwyer, an aged farmer, presided at a numerous tenant right meeting, held at Kilcommon, Tipperary, on Sunday last, when the chair was addressed by the Rev. W. Lanigan, Rev. J. Molony, P.P. - who denounced Mr. Sheil as an exterminator, and Sir Timothy O'Brien, M.P., as a barefooted and barelegged adventurer. Lord Clarendon, he said, had legally slaughtered the people of this country and cut the nation's throat, but like Castlereagh, he may yet cut his own! (cheers and laughter.) Rev. John O'Dwyer, Rev. Mr. Mullaly, Rev. Mr. Ryan and Rev. Mr. Meagher, P.P., who addressed the meeting, which passed resolutions in accordance with the objects of their assembly. At Ballinasloe Petty Sessions on Saturday, Michael M'Guiness, Thomas D'Arcy, and Mary D'Arcy, preferred a charge against Francis Blake Foster, Esq., for firing a loaded pistol at them when on their way to Kiltormer on the night of the 9th inst. The case having been proved to the bench, was sent for trial to the Quarter Sessions to be held at Loughrea. On Tuesday 29 persons were dispossessed by the sub-sheriff, out of the property of Viscount Chabot, in Thurles, and 22 persons were evicted from the property of J.B. Fennell, Esq., near Caller. EMIGRATION - Our town was thronged this week with persons proceeding to Donegal and Derry to embark for America, from this county and the counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh; most of them appeared to belong to the respectable class of farmers and traders; the numerous cars of excellent furniture which they were taking with them proved that they were in comparably comfortable circumstances, but dreading the further distress of Ireland, they resolved on leaving their native county before all was gone. -- Ballyshannon Herald. DEATH FROM DESTITUTION - On the 14th inst., the inanimate, fleshless and apparently poverty stricken body of a man of the name of Michael Ryan, was discovered on the road side near the town of Borrisoleigh. An inquest was held on the body and it appeared that the ill fated deceased had been for some time begging about the district, and that nothing could compel him to enter the workhouse.--Nenagh Guardian. On the morning of Thursday, the 15th inst. as George M'Kay, gardener to Viscount Doneraile, was in the act of discharging a gun in the garden, at Doneraile, it unfortunately burst, or rather, the breach flew out and fractured his skull so severely that he died in a few hours. Mr. M'Kay was a man of excellent character and a very skillful gardener.-- Cork Constitution. At Parsonstown Quarter Sessions, on Wednesday, John Slevin, and Michael Mear, for assaulting the habitation of Mr. Redmond Scully, Ballyshane, on Saturday night, the 7th April, were found guilty and sentenced to be transported for 14 years each. GOOD ADVICE - When you visit a theatre or go into a crowd, always pick your own pocket before leaving home. If you fail to do this, the duty may probably be discharged for you by a stranger. From a return just made to parliament, it appears that 300 sailing vessels and six steamers were wrecked last year. NEWPORT WORKHOUSE - On Monday there was a meeting of the Guardians of the above union. - Those present were H.J.H. Browne, J.C. Larminie, Edward Malley, and Francis M'Mannon. The Board unanimously elected Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson as master and matron of the Workhouse and declared Mr. Glanville contractor for repiaring the auxiliary house.--Mayo Constitution. The principals in the murder of Mr. O'Donnell, of Knock, were his domestics, who are now in custody. A female servant was the person who opened his desks after the deed was perpetrated, and paid the murderers of her master who was in the habit of keeping large sums of money on the premises.- The male and female servants concerned intended leaving for America. After committing the robbery one of the murderers went back to the dead body and replaced the keys in his pocket. There was other property stolen which was found buried in a dung pit. As yet no money has been found. Sunday night, through the exertions of George Fitzmaurice, Esq., R.M., a party of the Shinrone constabulary arrested Timothy Cantwell of Ballingraun, near Moneygall, charged with the murder of Mr. Daniel Egan, of Ballydonagh; he is identified, and committed to abide his trial at the ensuing assizes. On Thursday last 96 paupers, male and female, were sent from the Edenderry Workhouse to Dublin, for embarkation to America. Each is to received £1 on arriving at Quebec. Their maintenance in the house and outfit cost the Union £700. Among the male paupers was a son of Edward M'Donnell, who was executed for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Hewson, of Feigcullen Clebe, county Kildare. INCENDIARY FIRE - We regret to announce that the house of a man named John M'Manus, of Colbeg, was maliciously set on fire, and totally consumed by some evil-minded person. He had very recently obtained possession of it, and envy at his success is said to be the the cause of the destruction. - Head Constable Hay and party were promptly on the scene, but their exertions to discover the perpetrators of the outrage were unattended with success.-- Sligo Guardian. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

O GLORIOUS CHILDBEARER O glorious childbearer, O secret womb, O gilded bridechamber, from which hath come the sightly Bridegroom forth, O amber veil, Thou sittest in heaven, the white love of the Gael, Thy head is crowned with stars, thy radiant hair Shines like a river thro' the twilight air; Thou walkest by trodden ways and trackless seas, Immaculate of man's infirmities. -- Joseph Campbell (1879-1944)

SNIPPET: Seamus O'SULLIVAN(1879-1958) wrote: "Music so forest wild and piercing sweet, would bring Silence on blackbirds singing Their best in the ear of Spring." The poet could have been referring to Irish traditional fiddler-player and composer Tommy PEOPLES. Tommy, now in his 40s, was born in Killycally, near St. Johnstown, Co. Donegal, a small town on the border with northern Ireland, and was given his first fiddle lessons from his cousin, Joe CASSIDY. n an area that boasted of a fiddler in every other household, and coming, as he did, from a musical family, it was not surprising that the young Tommy soon developed as a player, quickly absorbing the style, tunes and influences of the locality. Since the last century, cultural links with Scotland had served to shape local fiddle styles into a unique blend of Scots-Donegal-Irish styles. Labourers forced to emigrate to Scotland, to find seasonal employment as potato-pickers, usually returned to Donegal with new songs, stories, tunes and dance. This vibrant blending of Irish and Scottish styles can be heard in the playing of the great travelling fiddle player from Glenties, Johnny D! OHERTY,and Neil O'BOYLE and the late Frank CASSIDY. On leaving "The Bothy Band," in which his fiddle-playing was described in the 1970s as electrifying, Tommy PEOPLES returned to settle in Co. Clare and played under the NY-based Shanachie label. His music has been described as uplifting and joyful, stark, bleak and disturbing, with raw power and poignant emotion - PEOPLES a master fiddler, bending, twisting, shaking each note for its expressive worth, playing with tenderness and frailty, with reckless, impassioned abandon, beauty and haunting sensuality. Should you have the good fortune to witness Tommy PEOPLES play his fiddle in a smoky north Clare pub session, you will see how casually Ireland takes her many master musicians - yet how important they are to Irish lives, their spirit and their culture, for they speak a language which embodies and reflects Ireland's soul. -- Excerpt, Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine(a handful of years ago).