Dear Jean Recently, while researching my Irish ancestors, I came across an "ebook" published on the website www.gutenberg.org/etext/14764 . The title was "Illustrated History of Ireland from AD400 to 1800" written by Mary Frances Cusack and first published in 1868. The full text can be downloaded for FREE. I found it very enlightening, especially on the land laws of the 19th century at the time when so many of Ireland's landless poor were emigrating to the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Your readers may wish to access this book. Another useful websource is the CMCR (Christening, Marriage, Cemetery Records) Project which can be accessed at www.cmcrp.net . I was able to find some very detailed records of my Bandon, Co. Cork ancestors which had been very carefully and thoroughly researched, and which I was able to follow up with my own investigations. Best wishes, Peter Wilkinson Melbourne, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:06 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] "The Home Place" - Thomas Alan ORR (contemp.) b.Bangor, ME>MA>IN w/Scots-Irish ancestors > THE HOME PLACE > > A little west along the road, on higher ground > Beyond the Big Blue River, you can see the house > And barns cut farmer-spare against the cobalt sky, > A mile away across the level stand of beans. > A century hasn't changed the home place much at all. > The windows still throw back the light, defiant as > A young girl's eyes when there's a secret to be kept, > Here she was born, on this two hundred acre range, > Where first her grandfather farmed and now her son, > Where planting could be dry and easy; calving, wet > And hard. How many suppers had she warmed again > Because machinery quit out in the field before > The work was done? Perhaps the peaceful kitchen knows > The hunger laid to rest within its walls, all built, > She says, her eyebrows up, with timbers taken when > They tore the casket factory down. Folks made do then. > > She sold the house some years ago, but kept the land > Because one doesn't trade her soul. Now living in > The neighbouring woods behind, she's near enogh to hear > The massive iron bell out on the shed. How rare it is > To find a life so rooted to a single place, > Just like the rugged elm beside the house today, > Surviving prairie wind and summer lightning. She's > Among the few whose vision of the world improves > By standing still, by watching every harvest come. > And if, in leaner years, she walked these rooms at night > To battle with her ghosts, she must have cast them out. > Her blessing shines. This is a house that's fit for life. > > -- With permission of author, Thomas Alan ORR, from "Hammers in the Fog," > Restoration Press, Indianapolis, IN (1995). Tom's Scots-Irish ancestors > have > a connection to No. Ireland and to Orrs Island, Casco Bay, off the coast > of > ME > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ > > Great place to get help with your family research. > > County Westmeath has been adopted! > > Help wanted: Still need County Coordinators > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Hi Peter in Melbourne, Australia - Thank you so much for contributing to the list! J. xxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter J Wilkinson" <pjw@people.net.au> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] "The Home Place" - Thomas Alan ORR (contemp.)b.Bangor, ME>MA>IN w/Scots-Irish ancestors > Dear Jean > > Recently, while researching my Irish ancestors, I came across an "ebook" > published on the website www.gutenberg.org/etext/14764 . The title was > "Illustrated History of Ireland from AD400 to 1800" written by Mary > Frances > Cusack and first published in 1868. The full text can be downloaded for > FREE. I found it very enlightening, especially on the land laws of the > 19th > century at the time when so many of Ireland's landless poor were > emigrating > to the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Your readers may wish to > access this book. > > Another useful websource is the CMCR (Christening, Marriage, Cemetery > Records) Project which can be accessed at www.cmcrp.net . I was able to > find some very detailed records of my Bandon, Co. Cork ancestors which had > been very carefully and thoroughly researched, and which I was able to > follow up with my own investigations. > > Best wishes, > > Peter Wilkinson > Melbourne, Australia > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> > To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:06 AM > Subject: [Irish Genealogy] "The Home Place" - Thomas Alan ORR (contemp.) > b.Bangor, ME>MA>IN w/Scots-Irish ancestors > <snip>

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