Tom Clark <lot31@earthlink.net> asked: >Hi Listers, first time on this list. Can someone tell me how I may >obtain copies of obits for death in Ballinalack, Mullingar, Westmeath. >These would have taken place in the 1888-1920 period. http://www.nli.ie/newsplan/CountyList.asp?County=30 provides a list of newspapers published in Co. Westmeath available at the National Library in Dublin. Some of these may also be available on inter-Library loan, or purchase from various sources. See: http://www.nross.com/newsiri1.htm Norman Ross Publishing Inc. for 18th and 19th century Irish newspapers on microfilm from the British Library http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.html Abstracts from Irish Newspapers http://booleweb.ucc.ie/collections/newspapers/newspaps.htm Newspaper holdings at University College Cork http://www.iol.ie/~libcounc/corkcity.htm Old Newspapers at the Cork City Library http://www.mun.ca/library/colldev/irish.html Irish Newspapers and Journals at Memorial University of Newfoundland http://www.nli.ie/newsplan/default.htm Newspapers at The National Library of Ireland http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/bnl/ Index to Belfast Newsletter 1737-1800 http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/newscats.html Catalogs of Newspaper Holdings on the Internet http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html The British Library Newspaper Library http://prodigi.bl.uk/nlcat/ British Library Newspaper Catalog http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm Newspapers on Microfilm at Boston Public Library http://tiara.ie/books.html#news Online Irish Newspapers http://www.headlines-irl.com/ Daily Headlines from Irish Newspapers These, and other useful links, can be reached from the TIARA web site. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Irish Ancestral Research Association Acton, Massachusetts | Dept. W, P.O. Box 619, Sudbury, MA 01776 ahern@world.std.com | http://tiara.ie - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -