When did the Irish begin to keep census records? Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:27 PM Subject: [IGW] Edward A. WILSON - English Antarctic scientist, explorer,fine artist - Visitor, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry 1905 > SNIPPET: The July-August 2005 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine has a very interesting, several-page illustrated article entitled, "Those Kerry Landscapes." The original paintings were done during a 1905 family holiday in the West of Ireland by the late Edward A. WILSON, English scientist, explorer, lecturer and artist. Additionally, there are some of WILSON's charming sketches of British birds and mammals and three old family photographs. The author is Christopher J. WILSON, who lives in Co. Wexford. His Great Uncle, "Uncle Ted," late husband of Oriana (Souper) WILSON, is better known as Edward WILSON of the Antarctic. It is noted that in August of 2005, one hundred years after the Kerry landscapes were painted, eleven stunning watercolours were presented to the Kerry County Museum, Tralee. Back issues of "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazines can be requested at the magazine's website > > A true nature lover, Edward A. WILSON wrote: "... Things of beauty give me the most intense pleasure, which lasts a long time and can be recalled at will for days, months, sometimes years. There is something in it we don't in the least understand." > > "I can't explain to anyone how one so can get to love a bird as to kiss every egg in its nest and to pray for them. The many little loves and pathos and small tragedies (of birds and animals) I have felt deeply and always when quite alone out in the country. I often wonder if they are all lost and gone. They were and are so much to me, and nothing to anyone else. I might try my best to get anyone else to feel what I do over them, but I never could." > > "... How hard it is to live and how hard it is to die. Isn't it a puzzle? And yet what a fund of joy there is in life all the same ... I sometimes think that Time is the only thing that prevents this life from being absolute heaven." > > WILSON was to perish with Captain Robert Falcon SCOTT (RN) eleven miles from safety, during their 1910-1912 Terra Nova Antarctic expedition. > > Christopher J. WILSON is a keen naturalist and ecologist, and Warden of the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, a regular broadcaster on national radio and television, with publications to include "High Skies - Low Lands: an anthology of the Wexford Slobs and Harbour" jointly edited with David Rowe (1996) and "Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks" (with Christopher's brother, Dr. David Wilson. The latter, "Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks,' (2004), D. M. WILSON & C. J. WILSON (ISBN 1-873877-70-6), Reardon Publishing, is available at good bookshops and at Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, Co. Wexford; BirdWatch Ireland, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; The South Pole Inn and the Anchor Guest House, Annascaul, Co. Kerry; Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, and on line at www.edwardawilson.com; www.naturalrapture.ie; www.tomcrean.com; www.amazon.co.uk. All Royalties are being donated to Edward Wilson Memorial projects, per CJW. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >