SNIPPET: The following 2004 book may be of interest to researchers -- "Tides of Change, Memories of a Kerry Childhood," by John CURRAN (Curran Publishing at www.curranpublishing.ie, Toor, Waterville, Co. Kerry. (ISBN 0-9547026-0-3, P/b. "John CURRAN, born into a household of ten children in Kerry in 1941 learned how to dance the Polka Set - they do things differently in Kerry and he devotes a chapter to the ins and outs of 'going dancing.' Sadly an accident while helping a neighbour paralysed John from the neck down in 1978. But grit, tenacity, love and pride and the support of friends and family combined and he wrote this book, controlling his word processor with his chin. It took him six years. I quote from John's son, Mike" -- 'The book tells the story of his eventful life growing up as part of a large family in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 50s. An Ireland that probably no longer exists.....' The review goes on - "Indeed it is, describing as it does the joys and sorrows of a life lived in a large, loving, successful Kerry family with its feet firmly on Kerry ground." -- "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, published in Dublin.