In an excerpt from an open letter to the editor in the March-April 2002 issue of "Ireland Of The Welcomes" magazine, Lilias KELLY, Gosnells, Western Australia wrote this interesting letter with facts which might be of interest: "I have never been to Ireland, but I was taught by Irish nuns and priests in York, Western Australia during the sixties and then in Perth in the seventies. I got a "taste" for their home country through their obvious love for Ireland, especially around St. Patrick's Day each year, I went to St. Patrick's School. When I grew up, my sister got on the family history bandwagon and she discovered that among the many Irish ancestors on both sides of our family, was our mother's grandfather (Edmond CAHILL), who was transported with his brother Joseph from Spike Island, Cobh in County Cork for supposedly stealing a dead cow from a farmer during the famine of the late 1840s. They arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1853 after spending time in Mountj! oy Jail in Dublin and a prison in England. They were transported on a ship called the "Robert Small" and were on the first shipload of Irish convicts to arrive in Western Australia. .I am going to one of the many St. Patrick's Day celebrations planned by the local Irish communities in Perth and Fremantle. Yes, I still celebrate it, even though I teach in a Government school; my kids and I are having a "greenday." The editor replied, "The "Queenstown Story" Centre at Cobh, Co. Cork, should be of interest to you as many emigrants left nearby Spike Island for Australia in the 1840s and 1850s."