Looking for some family information: James McClincy from Tralee, kerry county. born Feb 5, 1782 married Mary Barret-we think from Kerry county- no info on her. Barnabas McCanna- born 1770 in Donegal county married a Mary L (unknown maiden) both of these men emigrated to USA- settled in PA and had big familieis :):) Thanks "Jean R." <[email protected]> wrote: SNIPPET: Thomas MOORE and Wolfe TONE are seldom thought of in the same context. However, the stereotypes of MOORE ("Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms," and "The Last Rose of Summer") as the sentimental songwriter singing for his supper in English drawingrooms and of TONE as the violent revolutionary obscure essential similarities in the lives and works of the two men. The common factor is the United Irishmen movement of the 1790s. While MOORE never became a violent revolutionary, he was a close friend of many of the United Irishmen and shared their ideals of political liberty and religious equality. MOORE propagated those ideals in his songs and satires long after TONE and Robert EMMET, MOORE's closest friend, had been executed as rebels. MOORE's "Irish Melodies" were influenced by the many songs celebrating Ireland and lamenting her woes which the United Irishmen had written to popular tunes. Yet it was EMMET who discouraged MOORE from becoming actively involved in the United Irish rebellion. When MOORE's 'Letter to Trinity College Dublin Students' appeared anonymously in the Dublin United Irishmen's newspaper in December 1797, his parents were shocked to discover he was the author. In it MOORE asked his fellow students, "Can you see poor Ireland degraded, tortured, without burning to be revenged on her damned tormentors?" and called upon them to "die for Ireland's liberties." MOORE heeded EMMET's advice to obey his parents' wishes that he not participate in the rebellion. Yet the United Irish uprising of 1798 and EMMET's rebellion of 1803 haunted MOORE for the rest of his life. The phrase 'so link'd together' in the last stanza of 'Oft in the Stilly Night' clearly refers to the United Irishmen: "When I remember all/The friends, so link'd together/I've seen around me fall/Like leaves in wintry weather/I feel like one who treads alone/Some banquet hall deserted/Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead/And all but he departed/Thus, in the stilly night/Ere slumber's chain has bound me/Sad mem'ry brings the light/Of other days around me." -- (Mary Helen THUENTE, President American Conference of Irish Studies, Lecturer, English and Linguistics Dept., Indiana University, 'Thomas Moore and the United Irishmen,' Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine Sept-Oct 1991). ------------------------------- 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 Marie Mazucca-Bell --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.