I have updated the Ireland GenWeb Project's County Tipperary Website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/~irltip/ I have added webpages for Neddans, Nenagh, Newcastle and Newchapel Civil Parishes. Each page includes a map of the parish with all the townlands. There are also pages added for all the townlands located in the parishes. All pages contain links, Family History Library films, dates of religious records and contact with others searching in the parish and/or townland. Many of the townland pages were updated with records, links and pictures. There are now close to 1500 townland pages at this site and 90 civil parish pages. If you would like to add to the site, please contact me off list. Also, if you find areas needing corrections, contact me off the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

THATCHER Bespoke for weeks, he turned up some morning Unexpectedly, his bicycle slung With a light ladder and a bag of knives. He eyed the old rigging, poked at the eaves, Opened and handled sheaves of lashed wheat-straw. Next, the bundled rods: hazel and willow Were flicked for weight, twisted in case they'd snap. It seemed he spent the morning warming up: Then fixed the ladder, laid out well honed blades And snipped at straw and sharpened ends of rods That, bent in two, made a white-pronged staple For pinning down his world, handful by handful. Couchant for days on sods above rafters He shaved and flushed the butts, stitched all together Into a sloped honeycomb, a stubble patch, And left them gaping at his Midas touch. -- Seamus HEANEY

Traveling Alone By Billy Collins At the hotel coffee shop that morning, the waitress was wearing a pink uniform with "Florence" written in script over her heart. And the man who checked my bag had a nameplate that said "Ben." Behind him was a long row of royal palms. On the plane, two women poured drinks from a cart they rolled down the aisle -- "Debbie" and "Lynn" according to their winged tags. And such was my company as I arced from coast to coast, and so I seldom spoke, and then only of the coffee, the bag, the tiny bottles of vodka. I said little more than "Thank you" and "Can you take this from me, please?" Yet I began to sense that all of them were ready to open up, to get to know me better, perhaps begin a friendship. Florence looked irritated as she shuffled from table to table, but was she just hiding her need to know about my early years -- the ball I would toss and catch in my hands the times I hid behind my mother's dress? And was I so wrong in seeing in Ben's eyes a glimmer of interest in my theories and habits-my view of the Enlightenment, my love of cards, the hours I tended to keep? And what about Debbie and Lynn? Did they not look eager to ask about my writing process, my way of composing in the morning by a window, which I would have admitted if they had just had the courage to ask. And strangely enough-I would have continued as they stopped pouring drinks and the other passengers turned to listen -- the only emotion I ever feel, Debbie and Lynn, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, the pair of swans a place to conceal their young.

Hello Jack...did you ever think about trying to "follow the money"? Our ancestor Miles (Myles) Cardiff had 3 bank accounts in New York. Besides his personal one, he and others were co-signers for the "Ire. Benefit Society" and for the "Fenalon Society". It could have been that they were raising money for Irish social welfare reasons, but that Fen prefix has me wondering about revolutionary motives. I found 3 bank entries of deposits in 1854, 1855 and 1859 on an LDS microfilm (I am scrambling to find the # for you) for the New York Emigrant Savings Bank.The bank ledger sheets were a goldmine (for me) of personal info?as the depositor also recorded his occupation, maybe what ship he came in on, family names, present address etc;?Miles even recorded what street he lived on back in Wexford Ireland!?There is a book made of this ledger material called Irish Immigrants Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank by Kevin J Rich, but that just shows the years 1850-1853. ?Maybe that could help ! trace an account? By the way the other 3 co-signers with Miles were Jno (John) Brady, Philip Clancy and Jas. (James) Wilkins. Now you've got me wondering what our Miles was up to!? Alice -----Original Message----- From: Jean R. <jeanrice@cet.com> To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 17 May 2009 6:47 am Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Fenian Activities - Mid 1800s in Ireland Hi Jack - The Young Ireland nationalist group was active in Ireland 1842-8, the group comprised mainly of middle-class graduates from both Catholic and Protestant backgrounds, of Trinity College, Dublin. Young Ireland had little popular support outside Dublin or amongst the Catholic clergy, and was divided over its political strategy. Their legacy lay not in the insurrectionary fiasco of 1848, but with their success in infusing a romantic sense of nationality into subsequent generations of Irish nationalists. No expert here, and doesn't answer your particular queries, but the end of the American Civil War released thousands of Irish-American officers for possible Fenian activities in Ireland. Difficulties of integration and prejudice experienced by Irish immigrants in America kept attention focused on Ireland and her problems while in New York revolutionary groups, which continued to exist after those in Ireland had collapsed, produced men ready to continue the independence struggle - a Fenian organization in America that paralleled that in Ireland. There were also successful recruitments of some individuals in Britain's Irish community and the British army. While Fenian revolutionary activities in 1866 and 1867 were short-lived, defeated by informers, bad weather, a well-prepared government, and a disciplined army --agitation for an amnesty for Fenian prisoners and outrage at the execution of the Manchester martyrs mobilized nationalist opinion on a scale the Fenians themselves had never achieved, and provided the basis for the launching of the home rule movement. On 18 September 1867 Thomas KELLY and Timothy DEASY, two leading Fenians, were being transported from the courthouse in Manchester to the county jail when the police van containing them was attacked. The prisoners escaped, but an unarmed police sergeant was shot dead. Twenty-nine arrests followed, and in November five men were convicted of murder. One was subsequently pardoned and another's sentence was commuted, but three men, William O'Meara ALLEN, Michael LARKIN, and William O'BRIEN were hanged. The deaths of these 'Manchester martyrs' prompted a partial reconciliation between the Catholic church and Fenianism, and a groundswell of popular sympathy for the Fenian movement in Ireland. In addition the rising moved GLADSTONE to initiate reforms that would culminate in his conversion to home rule. A complex personality, William Ewart GLADSTONE (1809-98), British prime minister and Liberal Party leader, son of a Liverpool merchant, educated at Eton and Oxford, his ultimate commitment to Ireland was based on a variety of motives: a profound moral sense; an acceptance, born of the Fenian rising of 1867, that Ireland was a separate nationality requiring distinctive treatment; and, relatedly, the realization that constitutional reorganization was necessary if the essential integrity of the United Kingdom and its interests were to be safeguarded. Save your microfilm-strained eyes! Check out one or more of these transcribed old newspaper resources on the Internet to get a feel of what was going on during a particular time period. If you are interested in a particular location (Charleston, etc.) or an organization, you could try using those keywords there and also conduct some "Google" searches, in general, to locate informative websites highlighting Ireland's past revolutionary organizations and secret societies. . Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Newspaper Abstracts http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.htm Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/ Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Connors" <jjc@nf.sympatico.ca> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:18 PM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Mid 1800s in Ireland > I'm looking for some help and advise, if an ancestor was getting guns and > bringing them to Ireland, say in the 1850s to 1870s time frame and > probably > because of that activity there wa s a ransom place on his head from England > which stated in part, "if the person was caught that he would be hung from > the nearest ship" . One scenario about how the guns were aquired went some > like the following; > > a) Pick up Cod, other fish in St.John's and sail to Charleston. > b) Sell for the fish money, provision the ship and then on to Kingston, > Jamaica > c) Buy fresh fruit, molasses there and sail back to Charleston. > d) Exchange the molasses and fruit for guns, > e) Provision the ship, then sail on to Ireland with weapons. As ransom was > on his head would he stay away from Ulster? > perhaps operating out of Cork or Waterford/ Wexford? > > Does any of this sound legit to any of your researchers. While some of > these > facts may have been altered over time, there appears to be some > consistency > with respect to his either being hung or the ransom to be hung. If this > was > going on, who might be be working with in Ireland. The Young Irelanders, > Fenians, or some other group at the time whose objective was the free > Ireland. > > Any advise would be welcome, my eyes are burning trying to read old > newspapers from micro-film! > > Regards > Jack Connors Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Clare has been adopted! Help wanted: County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Conclusion of an excerpt from a letter to KING PHILLIP II of Spain dated October 4, 1589: Captain Francisco de CUELLAR recounts his adventures after the shipwreck off the west coast of Ireland the year prior that had claimed more than 20 Spanish ships and their crews. -- "When they heard me speak Spanish and call on the Mother of God, they also exclaimed, 'Holy Virgin, be with us.' Then I was reassured, and went up to them and asked if they were Spaniards. They answered, 'Yes, we are, for our sins. Eleven of us together were robbed of everything on the beach, and naked as we were we went to look for some place where Christians dwelt, and on the way we met a troop of the enemy, who killed eight of us. The three of us escaped into a wood which was so thick that they could not find us, and that night God led us thither to these huts, and here we stayed to recover from our fatigue, although there were no people and nothing to eat.' I told them always to commit themselves to God and to be of good cheer, for we were in the neighbourhood of friends and Christians, for I had information of a village that was about three or four leagues away from us, which belonged to my Lord Ruerque (O'Rourke), where many of the wrecked Spaniards had taken refuge, and that although I was very badly used up and wounded we should start on our journey thither the next day. The poor fellows were delighted, and asked me who I was. I told them that I was Captain Cuellar. They could hardly believe it, for they thought I was drowned, and rushed up to me and hugged me almost to death. One of them was a sergeant and the other two common soldiers. And as this tale is ludicrous, and true as I am a Christian, I have written it all out for your Majesty's diversion. I buried myself deep in the straw, taking care not to disturb it or disarrange it from the way it was; and, having agreed to get up early in the morning for our journey, we went to sleep without supper, and without having had anything to eat except mulberries and water-cress. While it was daytime I was already wide awake with a great pain in my legs, and I heard noises and talking, and just then a savage came to the door with a battle-axe in his hand, and looked around at the oats, muttering to himself. I and my companions, who had also waked up, lay still without drawing a breath, peering attentively through the straw at the savage to see what he would do. God willed that he went out and betook himself, with a number of others who had come with him, to work at reaping near the huts, in such a place that it was impossible for us to go out without their seeing us. We lay still, buried alive, talking over what we had better do, and agreed not to get out of the straw or to move from that place as long as those savages and heretics were there; for they belonged to that neighbourhood where the people treated the poor Spaniards whom they caught so dreadfully, and they would have done the like to us if they had found us there, where there was no one to help us but God. All day passed in this way, and when night came those wretches betook themselves to their huts. We waited for the moon to rise, and then, wrapped up in straw and hay, because it was bitter cold, we left that dangerous place without waiting for daylight." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:01 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Part 2: Recount of Shipwreck West Coast Ireland,1588 -- Francisco de CUELLAR/Capt. Spanish Armada <snip>

In this continuation of an excerpt from a letter to KING PHILLIP II of Spain dated October 4, 1589, Captain Francisco de CUELLAR recounts his adventures after the shipwreck off the west coast of Ireland the year prior that had claimed more than 20 Spanish ships and their crews. ---- "That night I came to some huts where they did me no harm because there was a young man there who knew Latin, and God was pleased that owing to the necessity of the occasion we should understand one another in that language. I told him my misfortunes. The Latin scholar took me into his hut for the night, and gave me medicine and supper and a place on the straw to sleep. In the middle of the night his father and brothers came home laden with the spoils of our things, but the old man did not mind that they had taken me into his house and had treated me well. In the morning they gave me a boy and a horse to take me over a mile of road which was so bad that the mud was up to the horse's pasterns. After we had gone past it by a bow-shot we heard a great noise, and the boy said to me, making signs, 'Save yourself, Spain,' for that is what they call us. 'Many Saxons are coming on horseback, and they will kill you unless you hide. Come here quick!' They call the English Saxons. We hid in the cleft of some rocks, where we lay safe without being seen. There were more than one hundred and fifty of them on horseback, and they were going all along the coast to rob and kill all the Spaniards that they could find. God delivered me from them, but as we went on our way we met more than forty savages on foot who wanted to murder me, for they were all Protestants, but they did not do it because the boy who was with me told them that his master had captured me and I was his prisoner, and that he was sending me on horseback so that I might get well. All this did not suffice to secure my going on in peace, for two of those robbers seized me and gave me half a dozen blows, bruising my back and arms, and stripped me of everything I had on, and left me naked as when I was born. By the Holy Baptism that I received, this is true. Then, seeing myself in this plight, I gave thanks to God, supplicating His Divine Majesty to fulfill His will upon me, for that was my will also. The savage's boy then turned to go home with his horse, weeping to see me naked, beaten, and cold. I besought God very earnestly to take me where I might confess myself and then die in His grace. Then I plucked up courage, being in the worst extreme of misfortune that ever a man was, and covered myself with some fern leaves and a bit of an old mat, and protected myself from the cold the best I could. I journeyed on, little by little, in a direction they had pointed out, in search of the lands of that chieftain with whom the other Spaniards had taken refuge, and I came to that peak which they had pointed out as a mark. There I found a lake around which there were some thirty huts, all completely empty, and I looked about for a place to spend the night. Having nowhere to go, I went up to the biggest cabin, as that seemed the best place to take shelter in for the night, for all of them were deserted and empty. As I was going in the door I saw there many bundles of oats, which are made into the bread that those savages usually eat, and I thanked God that on them I had a good place to sleep, when of a sudden I saw three naked men get up at one side, and come forward and stare at me. It gave me a start, for I thought without doubt they were devils, and they knew no better what I could be, wrapped up in my mat and leaves. They were so frightened that they did not speak to me, nor I to them, and I could not see them distinctly for the hut was rather dark; and being much confounded I exclaimed, 'Oh, Mother of God, be with me and deliver me from all evil." ... (to be concluded) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:37 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Recount of Shipwreck West Coast Ireland,1588 -- Francisco de CUELLAR/Capt. Spanish Armada <snip>

SNIPPET: In this excerpt from a letter to KING PHILLIP II of Spain dated October 4, 1589, Captain Francisco de CUELLAR recounts his adventures after the shipwreck off the west coast of Ireland the year prior that had claimed more than 20 Spanish ships and their crews. His story is one of survival in most inhospitable surroundings: It is noted that the Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, has many pieces of jewelry found after the wreck of the Spanish Armada galleon 'Gerona' off the coast of County Antrim in 1588, including a 16th c. Cross of the Order of Santiago of gold and red enamel, measuring 4.4 cm (1-3/4 in.). Per the letter - "When the Englishman saw that I had a gold chain and money, he wanted to keep me prisoner, thinking that he would be offered a ransom for me. I told him that I had nothing to give, as I was only a poor soldier, and that I had got that gold aboard ship. The girl was very sorry to see the ill usage they did me, and entreated them to give me back my clothes and do me no more harm. They all went back to the savage's cabins, and I was left under the trees, bleeding fast from the cut that the Englishman had given me. I put on my doublet and coat. They had even taken away my shirt and some precious relics which I wore in a little jacket of the brotherhood of the Holy Trinity, and which had been given to me at Lisbon. The girl took these and put them around her neck, making signs to me that she wished to keep them, and telling me that she was a Christian, and so she was -- like Mahomet. They sent a boy to me from the hut bearing a poultice made of herbs to put on my wound, also milk, butter, and a piece of oaten bread for me to eat. I poulticed myself and ate. Then the boy went with me along the road, pointing out the direction in which I ought to go, and keeping me away from a village which was in sight of the road, where many Spaniards had been killed, and not a single man on whom the inhabitants could lay hands had escaped. The Frenchman was the cause of doing me this good turn, for he had been a soldier at Terceira, and he was very sorry to see me so maltreated. When the boy turned to go back, he bade me keep straight on to some mountains that seemed to be some six leagues from us, behind which lay a friendly country that belonged to a great lord who was a good friend to the King of Spain, and who harboured all the Spaniards that came to him, and was very kind to them, and had taken in more than eighty of the men from our ships who had gone to him naked. At this news, plucked up courage somewhat, and stick in hand started to walk as best I could, striking north for the mountains that the boy had pointed out." ... (to be continued)

Hi Alice - (See Query below). Are you sure he was in a UK military service as opposed to a non-UK branch of the service? Could Bartholomew have been his middle name? If not, what was his middle name? Apparently he survived to emigrate? Have you "googled" Ballymacoda and/or Ladysbridge to see if you can find anything more? Perhaps the person below is a relative. I found a handful of Murrays (but not Bartholomew) on a service search engine at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm website, with only one born in Ladysbridge, Cork, although I believe I read that some records are not on line. I didn't stop to see what the date below meant, birth or date of service, etc. You can send for that on line, I believe, if you are curious, and there is also a "contact us" form on the website where you send in a question; perhaps someone there can help you for a nominal sum. Perhaps he also went by "Bart" somewhere along the line. Do you care to share here the information you found on his family on the 1901 Cork census? Did you find that census on line? Description Name Murray, Patrick Official Number: 279807 Place of Birth: Ladysbridge, Cork Date 01 October 1873 Catalogue reference ADM 188/446 Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services Piece 279501-280000 Image contains 1 document of many for this catalogue reference ----- Original Message ----- From: dmrkls@aol.com To: jeanrice@cet.com Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:04 PM Subject: British Navy cont'd Jean, thank you for you indepth reply and referrals about the Irish serving in British Navy. My Grandpa, Bartholomew (Batt) Murray was born in Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Co Cork on 2/28/1877. We have never found him on the 1901 Cork census (although we did find his folks). We assumed it was because he was serving in the Navy at that time. He had left Ireland for Boston by 1903 (so he doesn't show up on the 1911 Co Cork census). Other than his baptism, we have never found any record of him. I had hoped there would be a listing of the fellows serving in the British Navy, like perhaps at the time of the 1901 census, all the ships would have had to turn in a roster of folks serving on the ship so they could be counted. I could not find an LDS microfilm to search for this. He would have been just an ordinary deck hand, I'm sure. Any suggestions about where to look for ships' rosters? He did not serve in the Boer War actually as he said it was over by the time his ship got there. Also he claimed to have "jumpd ship"; does that mean I might find him on a listing of deserters? Thank you, Alice. ----- Original Message ----- From: <dmrkls@aol.com> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] question about British Navy > Is there a way to track the Irish lads who served in the British Navy?? my > Grampa supposedly served in such out of Cork Harbor around the time of the > Boer Wars in Africa. Thank you for any leads. Alice

Very useful site, CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) now at http://www.cwgc.org/ A site that honors the fallen. Lots of information here, including a soldier name search engine and personal data on military and civilian Commonwealth-related war deaths for WWI and WWII, other. Oftentimes, names and addresses are given of next of kin (at least, in reference to WWI), some of whom were living in Ireland. You can also identify particular military units or regiments such as the Connaught Rangers, etc.

Fantastic work, once again Pat! Many thanks. -G. Swartz -----Original Message----- From: irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat Connors Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:13 PM To: SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com; irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com; ny irish; IRISH-AMERICAN; Irish-In-UK-L@rootsweb.com; Can-Ontario-Irish-L@rootsweb.com; New-England-Irish@rootsweb.com Subject: [Irish Genealogy] County Tipperary tithe applotments online I have just added to the County Tipperary section of my website, the tithe applotments for Nenagh civil parish in the North Riding and for Neddans, Newcastle and Newchapel civil parishes in the South Riding. All originated in the 1820s. Please read the notes on each page because a couple of these were very difficult to read plus Newcastle had three books. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Clare has been adopted! Help wanted: County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EMAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This Email message, and any attachments, may contain confidential patient health information that is legally protected. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any other party unless required to do so by law or regulation and is required to destroy the information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and delete the message from your system.

DADDY'S CREEL My father spent hours trimming the edge of the newly cut sally rods to make creels for taking turf over the soft soil of the bog to the horse and cart. On top of the load packed into the crates we would burrow a nest to ensure a little comfort on the way home as the horse swayed from side to side walking up and down hill with the heavy load, the sound of the cart wheels scrunching along the pot holed roads. -- Mary Guckian ("Leitrim Guardian" 1996)

I have just added to the County Tipperary section of my website, the tithe applotments for Nenagh civil parish in the North Riding and for Neddans, Newcastle and Newchapel civil parishes in the South Riding. All originated in the 1820s. Please read the notes on each page because a couple of these were very difficult to read plus Newcastle had three books. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Where do you live Maisie? Must be very uncomfortable. Mary >

SNIPPET: For decades Raymond PIPER had been on the trail of the wild orchids all over Ireland. He first saw a wild orchid growing in Belfast in the early Forties; since that time he had tracked down more than 33 kinds in Ireland and had discovered at least five new species, per an eight-page article (with many colorful drawings) in the July-August 1999 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, by Alf McCREARY, writer, author, and award-winning journalist who lives and works in Belfast. An outstanding portrait artist, PIPER lived in, some would say, his cluttered, house at the end of a very rural lane just off Belfast's Malone Road. In that magazine article, PIPER reflected on his lifetime passion for orchids and his lively interest in all aspects of science and art - "If I had had my way, I would have been a botanist, not an artist. From an early age, I was fascinated by all forms of animal life, insects and plants ..." Per his 2007 obituary in the "The Guardian" newspaper: The Irish artist Raymond Piper, who has died in Belfast at the age of 84, was renowned as a portrait painter but will be most remembered for his botanical paintings and book illustrations. Born in London, he moved to Northern Ireland with his family when he was six. He was educated at the Mercantile college (now Belfast high school) and as a boy he was keen on nature and loved to climb Cavehill, the mountain above the city. Piper was passionate about painting and attended evening classes at the Belfast College of Art, although he was largely self-taught. His father's decision, however, to send him to work in the shipyards led to a job as a marine engineer at Harland and Wolff. He used his time there to develop his artist's eye. "When I had a moment or two to spare between jobs," he said, "I would draw someone. I drew everything in those days. I carried drawing books in my pocket. I never drew ships. I drew the Cavehill from the shipyard." He later went on to teach art at the Royal School Dungannon, county Tyrone, before becoming a full-time artist in 1948, with his first one-man show in 1953. Piper established a reputation for skilfully capturing the personalities of his portrait sitters. Among his subjects were the lord mayors of London and Belfast. He also painted one of Ireland's most outstanding naturalists and writers, Robert Lloyd Praeger, the author of the classic work The Way That I Went in 1937. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Piper collaborated with another Irish writer, Richard Hayward, to illustrate a series of discursive travel books about Ireland. They drove thousands of miles all over the country and produced five books in a regional series called This Is Ireland, published by Arthur Barker. Piper's evocative sketches, with distinctive half-tone pencil drawings, portray an Ireland far removed from the Celtic tiger of recent times ... Hayward's enthusiasm for Ireland infected Piper, and it was while working on the final book, Munster and the City of Cork (1964), that he became fascinated with Ireland's wild flowers, especially orchids. Over the next four decades he studied and drew the various species with precision, particularly at the limestone pavement of the Burren region in county Clare, which boasts 22 species of orchid along with some enigmatic variants. He became a champion of the Burren, visiting the area regularly. In 1968 he painted a suite of wild flowers that included mountain avens, twayblade, gentian and wild strawberry in oil on prepared boards. His original orchid drawings now hang in the sitting-room of the Gregan's Castle hotel, near Ballyvaughan, in the Burren. Piper's orchid studies were exhibited in the natural history section of the British Museum in 1974, and in the same year he was also awarded the John Lindley medal by the Royal Horticultural Society. The Ulster Museum in Belfast and the Royal Dublin Society also exhibited his work. In 1987 the Blackstaff Press produced Piper's Flowers, a limited edition that included five of his Irish orchid paintings, and the following year he received the Beck's bursary for outstanding services to botanical illustration. Apart from painting and botany, his interests included music, ballet and reading - his book collection contained a Charles Darwin first edition about the fertilisation of orchids. Gregarious and approachable, (he was known to some as "the orchid man"), Piper had a sharp sense of humour, a wide circle of friends in the artistic world and an interest in the cultural life of Northern Ireland. He lunched regularly in the Wellington Park hotel in Belfast, where the Piper bistro was named in his honour. The hotel also has a permanent exhibition of his work. He was a fellow of the Linnaean Society, as well as a member of the Royal Ulster and Royal Irish academies. He is survived by his two sisters, a nephew and two nieces. Raymond Piper, artist and botanist, born April 4, 1923, died July 13, 2007.

I always love to read Jean's emails. I have kept many of them over the years. She is so thoughtful to send them in. Deanne ----- Original Message ----- From: Maisie Egger To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Paddy GLAVIN -- "Climber" (contemp.) Jean, I LUV the selection of poetry you include on this list. In this horribly hot summer climate where it was 107oF a few days, ago, one can almost feel the damp coolness of the British Isles where beautiful gardens abound. Maisie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 2009-05-20 13:17 Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Paddy GLAVIN -- "Climber" (contemp.) > CLIMBER > > All summer the clematis > wilted in a container > > The trefoil leaves were pale > their roots repressed in silence. > > Until a climber was planted out > back - filled with dark earth. > > Shoots discovered > new found space > > growing with energy from suns > an awareness of moons. > > Now the faint-scented > pink and white flowers > > are dancing in the sky, > foliage spread benignly > > camouflaging > the grey of winter > > looking ahead > to layering in spring. > > -- Paddy Glavin > "Seeing the Wood and the Trees," ed. Rowley & Haughton, Cairde Na Coille, > Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press ( 2003). > > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ > > Great place to get help with your family research. > > County Clare has been adopted! > > Help wanted: County Coordinators > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Clare has been adopted! Help wanted: County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have just added the tithe applotments for the civil parishes of Newcastle and Nantinan online on the County Limerick section of my website. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Jean, I LUV the selection of poetry you include on this list. In this horribly hot summer climate where it was 107oF a few days, ago, one can almost feel the damp coolness of the British Isles where beautiful gardens abound. Maisie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 2009-05-20 13:17 Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Paddy GLAVIN -- "Climber" (contemp.) > CLIMBER > > All summer the clematis > wilted in a container > > The trefoil leaves were pale > their roots repressed in silence. > > Until a climber was planted out > back - filled with dark earth. > > Shoots discovered > new found space > > growing with energy from suns > an awareness of moons. > > Now the faint-scented > pink and white flowers > > are dancing in the sky, > foliage spread benignly > > camouflaging > the grey of winter > > looking ahead > to layering in spring. > > -- Paddy Glavin > "Seeing the Wood and the Trees," ed. Rowley & Haughton, Cairde Na Coille, > Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press ( 2003). > > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ > > Great place to get help with your family research. > > County Clare has been adopted! > > Help wanted: County Coordinators > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

CLIMBER All summer the clematis wilted in a container The trefoil leaves were pale their roots repressed in silence. Until a climber was planted out back - filled with dark earth. Shoots discovered new found space growing with energy from suns an awareness of moons. Now the faint-scented pink and white flowers are dancing in the sky, foliage spread benignly camouflaging the grey of winter looking ahead to layering in spring. -- Paddy Glavin "Seeing the Wood and the Trees," ed. Rowley & Haughton, Cairde Na Coille, Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press ( 2003).

ST. FRANCIS AND THE SOW The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing; as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow began remembering all down her thick length, from the earthen snout all the way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail, from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine down through the great broken heart to the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them; the long, perfect loveliness of sow. -- Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) - A poem celebrating the holiness of everyday life and the need to be allowed to flower in one's own way.

Thank you so much. -----Original Message----- From: irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat Connors Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:51 PM To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Graiguenamanagh Civil Parish > > What will tomorrow bring? Well, thanks for letting me know these tithes are helping you. Today I will be transcribing and getting online Grange Civil Parish in County Limerick. Yesterday, while at my local Family History Center I took advantage of a tithes film someone else ordered so I scanned the Nantinan and Newcastle civil parishes from County Limerick and Neddans, Nenagh, Newchapel and Newcastle from County Tipperary. Those will be transcribed and going online in a few weeks because after Grange, I have some Troy NY census work to do first. Now, if I could only find my Connors/McEntee/Flanagan/Gilhoule people in these tithes! -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Clare has been adopted! Help wanted: County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EMAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This Email message, and any attachments, may contain confidential patient health information that is legally protected. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any other party unless required to do so by law or regulation and is required to destroy the information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and delete the message from your system.