SNIPPET: Readers of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine shared their feelings about the Emerald Isle in the Jan-Feb 2007 issue: Barbara PEPPO, Westfield, IL: "I am now 75 years young. I do not expect to ever reach your shores and the home of my ancestors on both sides of the family (who hailed from Kinsale and Dublin). However, your wonderful magazine takes me back each time I read it. I can almost taste and smell the wonderful rocky cliffs and moss. I still long to go, but as long as your magazine keeps coming, at least for a while I can pretend I am there ..." Don and Emma ELLIS, of St. Albans, WV: "Emma and I have subscribed to IOTW for several years. When we first visited Ireland with the Friendship Force, Michael and Sheila BYRNE were our hosts. More recently we spent 21 days in Ireland in 2004, using your 'Byways Rather than Highways' section of your magazine as our guide, travelling along the minor roads where the scenery was fantastic. Your articles gave us directions and a sense of anticipation to the 'back roads' Ireland. We were able to see the Ireland we remembered from our first visit there in 1981. The bed and breakfast facilities were great, and the proprietors were most helpful in advising us on what to see in each area we visited. We began our trip by basing ourselves in Swords and travelling around the north and northwest, then we moved to a new base southwest of Dublin. Then we began our trek of the perimeter of Ireland, culminating in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. Emma's father had been on a ship which was torpedoed off the north coast during WW-I, and they were picked up and brought to Buncrana. The train station from which he was carried back with his surviving Company was still standing, although it is now used as a restaurant and pub. The local library still has copies of the newspapers published at the time of his ship sinking. Keep the articles coming."