Oops! should have said 90,000,000 records free! Forgot a couple of zeros. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Ancestry is allowing free access to their over 90,000 military records from now until May 31st. You can find the link to the military records on the top of my webpage. Once you click on the graphic, it will take you directly to the military section of Ancestry. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

1. BARNES, John: "Irish-American Landmarks: A Traveler's Guide," pub. Detroit: Gale Research Group (1995). 2. BERNSTEIN, Iver: "The New York City Draft Riots : Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," pub. NY: Oxford University Press (1990). 3. BIRMINGHAM, Stephen: "Real Lace," pub. NY, Harper & Row (1973). 4. BROWN, Thomas N: "Irish-American Nationalism, 1870-1890." pub. NY: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1966). 5. BURCHELL, R. A.: "The San Francisco Irish, 1848-1880," pub. Manchester: Manchester University Press (1979). 6. CAHILL, Thomas: "How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe." New York: Nan A Talse/Doubleday (1995). 7. CLARK, Dennis: "Hibernia America" The Irish and Regional Cultures." pub. Westport: Greenwood Press (1986). 8. CLARK, Dennis: "The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience, pub. Philadelphia: Tempe University Press (1973). 9. CONNOLLY, S. J. ed.: "The Oxford Companion to Irish History." New York: Oxford University Press (1998). 10. COOGAN, Tim Pat: "The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal, 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace." Boulder: Roberts Rinehart Publishers (1997). 11. DEMETER, Richard: "Irish America: The Historical Travel Guide: Apparently more than one volume, pub. Pasadena: Cranford Press (1997). 12. DEZELL, Maureen: Irish America, Coming into Clover: The Evolution of a People and a Culture," pub. NY: Doubleday (2001). 13. DINER, Hasia R.: "Erin's Daughters in America, Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century," pub. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1983). 14. DOLAN, Jay P. : "The American Catholic Experience: A History From Colonial Times to the Present," pub. NY: Doubleday & Co. (1985). 15. DOLAN, Jay P.: "The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865," pub. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1975). 16. DOLAN, Terence Patrick: "A Dictionary of Hiberno-English" pub. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan (1999). 17. DOYLE, David & Owen Dudley EDWARDS (ed.) "America and Ireland: The American Identity and the Irish Connection," pub. Westport: Greenwood Press (1980). 18. DUFFY, Sean (ed.) "The Macmillan Atlas of Irish History," NY: Macmillan (1997). 19. ELLIS, John Tracy, "American Catholicism." Pub. Chicago: University of Chicago (1956). 20. ERIE, Steven P.: "Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985." Berkeley: University of CA Press (1988). 21. ERNST, Robert: "Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863," pub. NY: Columbia University Press (1949). 22. FOSTER, R. F.: "Modern Ireland, 1600-1972." Pub. NY: The Penguin Press (1988). 23. GLAZER, Nathan & Daniel P. MOYNIHAN: "Beyond the Melting Pot," Cambridge, MA, M.I.T. Press (1963). 24. GLAZIER, Michael (ed.): "The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America." Pub. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (1999). 25. GOLWAY, Terry: "For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes," pub. NY: Simon & Schuster (2000). 26. GOLWAY, Terry: "The Irish in America," pub. NY: Hyperion (1997). 27. GOLWAY, Terry: "Irish Rebel: John DEVOY and America's Fight for Irish Freedom," pub. NY: St. Martin's Press (1998).

Great job Pat. Thank you for all that you do. Mary

Thanks Pat for keeping us posted. I look forward to seeing the new photos. It should be noted, however, that previous photos only included the gravestones of those that showed the deceaased was born in Ireland. That is a small percentage of the Irish buried at Calvary whether born in Ireland or not. Of the more than 3-million people buried at Calvary, I would suspect that the Irish would represent "only" half that number, so someone has a lot of work to do. <grin> Dan of Pennsylvania, USA ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I have just completed getting all the new pictures online, almost 1,000 in total. Yes, most of the gravestones are of those that mention a place in Ireland. That is the object of this project! We want to find where in Ireland our ancestors are from, it seems to be the hardest part of our ancestry. Many people from other parts of the country whose ancestors started in NY, don't have the chance to get back to NYC and check their ancestors' origins. So, this is a small part of Calvary and a marvelous gift from two who took time out of their busy lives to help others. Suggestion...even if you don't find your name, or even if you do, if you have the time to check out all the pictures, you just might find a gravestone in the background with your name that is not in the index. It should be noted, however, that previous photos only included the > gravestones of those that showed the deceaased was born in > Ireland. That is a small percentage of the Irish buried at Calvary > whether born in Ireland or not. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I am in the process of putting up photos of another 400 gravestones with Irish names and in many cases, their place of birth. This is a new group of photos donated by Terry Dewhurst to the Queens NY website that I volunteer to host and will add to the already 600 photos donated by Rosemary Mulcahy. You can find them at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyqueen2/ Under Genealogy (top menu bar), click on Cemeteries. On the cemetery page, you will find a link under Transcribed Records Online. I have added 100 new photos online today and another 100 ready to go online and then 200 more to format. Keep watching the site over the next couple of days. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I will be out of the office starting 05/23/2007 and will not return until 06/11/2007.

SNIPPET: Professor Thomas HALTON, MA, PhD, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., shared some childhood memories in the 1996 yearly issue of the "Leitrim Guardian." Here are a few excerpts from his three-page article.... "My late mother's place was Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. As a son of Breifne you could say that I had the best of both worlds, a Cavan Breifne O'REILLY father, and a Leitrim Breifne O'ROURKE mother -- he from Mullahoran, home of the Mullahoran dreadnoughts, and she from outside Dromahair. Both, as luck would have it, from the diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. As a very young woman she was a priest's housekeeper to the curate in Killenummery, who got changed to all kinds of places like Ballingar, Strokestown, Newtownforbes, and finally Loughduff, in Mullahoran parish, where she met and married my dad. After she left the National school she was a sort of an au pair girl to a very musical family in Sligo named FRANKLIN who were very big in the early years of the Sligo Feis Ceol. She kept in touch with them all her life and there was always much hilarity and much reminiscences when she visited. They were obviously very fond of her and she was particularly fond of their only daughter, Kitsy, whose portrait I was delighted to have pointed out to me this summer in Sligo County Library and Museum by the Librarian. I vividly remember my first visit to Dromahair and Sligo, around 1936 when my mother took my youngest sister and myself on holidays, leaving my father and three other sisters to fend for themselves. Getting to Dromahair involved using public transportation - a bus journey to Cavan, and then the Great Northern train through stations like Ballyhaise and Clones to Enniskillen, which called for some rapid crossing of a bridge and, I think then on through Manorhamilton and eventually Dromahair. Her family home was a small farmhouse in Killeen which we reached by walking from the station and up a so-called short-cut through some fields. The second half of the holiday was more exciting. It involved visiting Aunt Brigid, who was housekeeper to a Mr. WALKER, in what my mother described to us as "a gentleman's place" in (I think) Rathcarrick, between Sligo and Strandhill. By my young standards it was an enormous house, which had its own gatehouse, or perhaps two, and a long avenue, and many steps up to the hall door, which had glass panels. We rang, and after what seemed forever we could see Aunt Brigid running along a long hallway. She was very petite, all dressed up in a black uniform and starched cap, white filly apron, bouncy, giggly, and very welcoming. Unmarried herself, she kept asking my mother all kinds of half whispered questions to which my mother would invariably reply: "That's beautiful talk in front of the children." The children were all ears - but were clearly out of their depth. Then we were brought down to the basement, two small rooms of which would be our home for several happy days.! Years later when I saw "Upstairs/Downstairs" on television I knew I had seen it all in my childhood. Even as a child Mr. WALKER seemed to me something of a recluse though he brought my sister and myself painfully slowly round his beautiful gardens and told us the names of strange flowers and the ones that would likely win prizes at the Sligo Show. He also had horses and animals but we weren't allowed into that part of the enclosed yard. A highlight of the visit was climbing Knocknarea, which was within walking distance, and a lot of panic because a fog came down suddenly when we were on the top and it took us hours to get back down. Aunt Brigid will remain for ever enshrined in my memory for sending me at Hallowe'en during my first year in St. Patrick's College, Cavan (1938-39) a box with a barm brack, sweets, KitKats, and an envelope inscribed, "with love from your Aunt Brigit," in which nested a ten shilling note, an absolute fortune for a County Council scholarship boy like myself, whose allowance at any single transaction rarely exceeded a two shilling bit, or, with luck, a half crown. At the time I was a member of Young Crusaders Corner in the "Messenger of the Sacred Heart" which used to run a monthly Essay competition... Mother insisted I write, "how I spent my Summer Holidays," and I got second prize...About the same time and in the same Corner I got a pen-pal and we kept in touch for a couple of years. I remember his name and address: James MENSAH, Box No. 40, Cape Coast, Gold Coast, West Africa, and he used to send me gifts like a copy of "King Solomon's Mines" which I thought was fantastic, and animal skins made into mats or purses."

I have updated the County Down births on my website, the Banbridge, Dromore Kilkeel and Newry sections of the website are also updated , Margaret Whitmore, from Connecticut will also be adding information to the website. Raymond http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com

SNIPPET: Jaspar O'FARRELL's contribution to early San Francisco is remembered today by O'Farrell Street. This Irish-born gentleman surveyed much of Marin and Sonoma counties. O'FARRELL was born in Dublin in 1817. At 24, he was a member of an English survey party in South America. Even before the Mexican American War left the United States in the possession of CA, this Irish-born engineer and surveyor had made his mark there. He arrived in Yerba Buena in 1843 and in 1847 was hired to correct an earlier street plan devised for what would soon become the city of San Francisco. It was his survey that created Market Street as a major thoroughfare running diagonal to the original grid. His decision to extend streets perpendicular to Market Street running south explains why SF has a somewhat disunited street grid plan. It is said that locals were so displeased with his revised plan that he was obliged to leave the city for a time. Ultimately, good fortune was to smile on O'FARRELL. His street plan was accepted and a short time later he and his father-in-law made a major gold strike on the Yuba River. O'FARRELL used the money to expand his existing ranch to 60,000 acres. In 1858 he won a term to the state senate.

SNIPPET: One of the earliest incidents of rising anti-Catholicism in America was the burning of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, MA, just outside of Boston. Rumors were that Protestant girls were being held against their will inside the convent, which also served as a school to many children of wealthy Protestant families. Other rumors told of a secret plot by Irish Catholics to overthrow by force of arms the American republic and turn it over to the pope. A working-class mob of native-born Americans attacked the convent and school the night of August 11, 1834. No one was killed in the incident and wealthy Bostonians rushed to condemn it as the work of delinquent workers and ruffians. In the trials that followed, however, all accused rioters were eventually acquitted and Bishop Benedict FENWICK's efforts to recover damages was also unsuccessful. Fenwick and his successors left the burned remains of the convent untouched for 40 years as a grim reminder of the nativist intolerance. When Bishop Fenwick decided to establish a Catholic college a few years later, he built the College of the Holy Cross (1843) in Worcester, MA, 40 miles away - just to be on the safe side. -- Excerpts, "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History," Edward T. O'Donnell.

BAIT Lamps dawdle in the field at midnight. Three men follow their nose in the grass, The lamp's beam their prow and compass. The bucket's handle better not clatter now: Silence and curious light gather bait. Nab him, but wait For the first shrinking, tacky on the thumb. Let him resettle backwards in his tunnel. Then draw steady and he'll come. Among the millions whorling their mud coronas Under dewlapped leaf and bowed blades A few are bound to be rustled in these night raids, Innocent ventilators of the ground Making the globe a perfect fit, A few are bound to be cheated of it When lamps dawdle in the field at midnight, When fishers need a garland for the bay And have him, where he needs to come, out of the clay. -- Seamus Heaney

MISTY DAYS The light changes quickly as mist rains on the fields where cattle shelter. Heavy drops split, as they hit the backs of the coloured animals, shading their coats. Ducks quack at the pool edge, leaving prints of webbed feet in mushy soil. The dog wanders through the kitchen shaking water from his shaggy coat. Children run along the road, trying to stop the mist, settling on their tiny faces. A cart creaks by, hitting puddles on the road. The harness sheds water onto the horse's body. -- Mary Guckian, "The Road to Gowel" (Swan Press, 2000)

SNIPPET: The Viking raiders who came to conquer Ireland in the 9th and 10th centuries were illiterate, pagan, sea-faring merchants who established the town of Dublin, and other coastal towns of Waterford, Wexford, Limerick, and Cork. The Viking influence on the Irish economy was important. They minted the first coinage in Dublin, and opened up to the outside world through coastal traffic. With such long-term coexistence, there had to be some cultural exchange. Viking craftsmen contributed the popular Ringerike style of carving and produced many significant works of art. And the Irish scholars introduced the literature of Greece and Rome to the Norse. Stone churches built with mortar began to replace the wooden ones throughout the country, and stone round towers appeared on the landscape, usually within the monasteries. They were used as storage for records and treasures of the monastery and as places of refuge for the members of the community. Much of the Norse influence was beneficial to the Irish, but when the invaders sought to expand their power, the Irish stopped them. The Irish won a decisive victory under Brian BORU (self-described in the "Book of Armagh" as the Emperor of the Irish) at Clontarf in 1014. This battle was particularly significant; it was the last successful Irish stand against a foreign invader. By the end of the 12th century the Normans had arrived in Ireland, a country of many small, often warring kingdoms. In 1170 Dermot MacMURROUGH, the king of Leinster, sought the help of the English, especially Richard de CLARE, the Norman Earl of Pembroke ("Strongbow"), in defeating the Irish king Rory O'CONNOR who had banished MacMURROUGH from his own kingdom. For his assistance Dermot offered not only his loyalty to the Normans, but the hand of his daughter in marriage to Strongbow. This drama is illustrated in a painting of the wedding of Princess Aoife and Strongbow, as well as the poem "Dermot and the Earl." Thus began a period of conquest and colonization, a dispossession that would not end for eight centuries. The Norman lords built castles and towns for themselves. It was a time of transformation and upheaval, but in the end the Normans did not effectively conquer the country. In fact, the Normans were assimilated into the Irish culture, becoming "more Irish than the Irish." They learned Gaelic, their names were Gaelicized (De BURGOS became BURKE, GERALDINE became FITZGERALD). Effective English control was now limited to "the Pale," the area including Dublin and about 20-30 miles surrounding it. Everything that went on outside these borders was simply "beyond the Pale" - unacceptable, the turf of barbarians with varying degrees of loyalty to the English crown. A portion of a letter written by Captain de CUELLAR, one of the few survivors of the 1588 wreck of the Spanish Armada off the coast of Ireland, describes his harrowing escape in this "barbarian" territory beyond the Pale. Wanting even more control over the Irish, the English government started a long process of "colonizing" Ireland, removing property from the Irish noblemen, forcing the Irish off their land and settling "plantations" of English settlers. The Ulster land of Hugh O'NEILL, the leading spirit of the Ulster resistance, was planted with thousands of Scots Presbyterians. The political and religious problems between Ulster and the rest of Ireland may well have started here. -- Excerpts, "The Irish, A Treasury of Art and Literature," ed. Leslie Conron Carola (1993).

As a fellow Kerryman with Spanish roots- but Brown hair and blue eyes - I remember a quote I read somewhere that sums us up pretty well (it nailed me anyway) Part poet part dreamer a bit wild and perhaps a bit mad but once you get to know him he's not such a bad article- The Kerryman! ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Good article, Jean! I was listening to Raidió na Gaeltachta last week. Three young ladies were being interviewed because their high school magazine (written in Irish) had just won an award. The interviewer was asking each one of them what they wrote about. He got to the third girl and it went something like this in good Munster Irish: Óstach: Só, cad ar scríobhais faoi? Cailín: Scríobhas faoi mo chol ceathrair. Óstach: Agus cé hé do chol ceathrair? Cailín: Gregory Peck. Óstach: Gregory Peck! Do chol ceathrair? Cailín: 'Sea. Óstach: Bedad! Host: So, what did you write about? Girl: I wrote about my cousin. Host: And who is your cousin? Girl: Gregory Peck. Host: Gregory Peck! Your cousin? Girl: Yes. Host: Bedad! So Gregory's people in Kerry were and are Irish-speakers! Le gach dea-ghuí / Best, - Jerry

And a more gorgeous hunk never walked the earth. And oh that voice! With those brown eyes and black hair, there may have been a touch of The Amada going on there, I'll wager. If so, it was an unbeatable mixture. Fran ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Actor Gregory PECK (b. 1916) -- Mother from Co.Kerry > he was a regular around tralee > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > 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

he was a regular around tralee ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

SNIPPET: Gregory PECK (b. 1916) originally wanted a career in medicine, but eventually found himself drawn to the theater. Born in La Jolla, CA, to a mother from Co. Kerry, he moved to NY in the early 1940s. He won a role in "The Morning Star" (1942) and received favorable reviews. More stage productions followed until his first film roles in "Days of Glory" (1943) and "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944). In these and subsequent films, such as "Spellbound" (1945), "Duel in the Sun" (1946), "The Yearling" (1946), "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), and "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949), Peck gained a reputation as a skilled and conscientious actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor for his fine performance as the compassionate Southern lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962). It was during the filming of "Moby Dick" (1956) in Ireland that Peck developed a lifelong affection for the country.