Old books and newspapers are a seldom used but very interesting resource. I happen to have a copy of a December 1800 issue of "The Gentleman's Magazine," ed. Sylvanus Urban, Gentleman, and printed by Nichols and Son, Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-Street, London. Under "News From Ireland" it reads - "Oct 20, At Carlow, as several tradesmen, labourers, &c. were finishing an angle of the new Court house, on a high scaffolding erected for that purpose, they quarrelled amongst each other, which occasioned the planks to give way, when they precipitately fell to the ground; nine were killed on the spot, and the remainder dangerously hurt. It is supposed these unfortunate men were intoxicated." Archival librariy resources include: Newspapers - 1845-1848: The Achill Missionary Herald; Advocate (Dublin); American Celt (NY); Boston Advertiser; Carrick's Morning Post (Dublin); Commercial Advertiser (NY); Cork Constitution; Cork Examiner; Cork Southern Reporter; Daily Tribune (NY); Dublin Daily Express; Dublin Evening Mail; Dublin Evening Packet; Dublin Evening Post; Evening Freeman (Dublin); Evening Post (NY); Farmer's Gazette (Dublin); Freeman's Journal (Dublin); Galway Free Press; Galway Vindicator and Connaught Advertiser; Herald (NY); Illustrated London News; Irish American (NY); Sligo Journal; Southern Reporter; Sun (NY); Sunday Observer (London); The Times (London); Tipperary Vindicator; Tuam Herald (Galway); Waterford Mail; Waterford Mirror; World (Dublin). Contemporaneous Periodicals & Journals: Gardiner's Chronicle (Ireland); Irish Farmer's Gazette (Ireland); Irish Miscellany (NY); The Lancet (London); Post Office Directories (NY); Punch (London); Quarterly Review (London); Shamrock (NY); Tablet (NY); Thom's Directories (NY); The Truth Teller (NY). Emigrant Guides: Author "A Citizen," "Thoughts on Emigration, Education, etc., in a Letter Addressed to the Right Honorable Lord John Russell, Prime Minister of England. London, 1847. William Cobbett, "The Emigrant's Guide - Containing Information Necessary to Persons about to Emigrate," London, 1829. Vere Foster: "Work and Wages or The Penny Emigrant's Guide," London, 1854. John O'Hanlon, "The Emigrants Guide to the United States," Boston, 1851. Patrick O'Kelly, "Advice and Guide to Emigrants Going to the U.S.A." Alexander J. Peyton, "The Emigrant's Friend, or Hints on Emigration to the United States of America, Addressed to the People of Ireland," Cork, 1853. Shamrock Society of New York, "Hints to Irishmen," pub. Dublin, 1817. Thomas Sutton, "The Emigrant's Guide by an Experienced Traveler," NY, 1848. Catherine P. Traill, "The Female Emigrant's Guide," London, 1854. Wiley & Putnam, "The Emigrant's True Guide to the United Sates, comprising advice and instruction in every state of the Voyage to America," pub. London, 1845.