SNIPPET: In the Sept-Oct 2000 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, readers had various comments: Ambrose H. JACKSON, Orlando, FL, shared: ... "My wife is Irish, having come from Co. Westmeath. We met when I was in the U.S. Air Force stationed in England in 1951. She was a nurse, working in a hospital near our base in Bedfordshire. The nurses used to have a monthly informal dance at the hospital, and when we Yanks arrived at our new base in late 1950, we received invitations to attend the dances. My wife, Pat, and I met the very first time I attended, and obviously we hit it off, because we have been married nearly 48 years. We were married in Ireland, in her church and one of her brothers was my best man. The Priest who married us was the very same one who had baptised her when she was a baby!. The reception was in a hotel in Virginia, Co. Cavan .... On the occasion of our 40th Anniversary, we had a glass of wine there. We have been home nearly every year since that time, and we never fail to have a ball! Even though we can't get around as well as we once ! did, we still thoroughly enjoy our visits to home and family. Pat came from a fairly large family, and my in-laws and cousins keep us fully occupied when we are there ...." Tom GILLESPIE, Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales, Australia, shared: "Catherine RYAN from Tipperary, one of the fifty residents in this hostel who are incapacitated in different ways through strokes and other illnesses, has brightened my life with a copy of your magazine. Paddy DILLON's inspiring account from Castlebar, with the beautiful photographs of people from all nations - 'A Walking United Nations,' gives great hope for a more peaceful world in 2000. Thank you for inspiring an 89 year old Celt with a great hope for the future." Kelly O'GRADY, Fredericksburg, VA wrote: .... "I am enjoying your lovely magazine immensely. but I could not let pass an historical error in Anne HAILES' otherwise wonderful story on the Ulster-American Folk Park - 'From Fairy Water to the New World,' Mar/Apr 2000. New York's Civil War era Archbishop John J. HUGHES was not America's first archbishop. That honour goes to the Most Reverend John CARROLL, 1735-1815. Archbishop CARROLL was the brother of Charles CARROLL, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and an influential and respected friend of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. He was the first American bishop, chosen by Pope Pius VI to head the Diocese of Baltimore in 1789, and the first archbishop of America's five dioceses by 1810. CARROLL founded the country's first Catholic university, Georgetown College, and also established Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, MD, an institution perhaps most famous for its association with Mother Elizabeth A! nn SETON, America's first saint." Christopher O'ROURKE, Providence, RI penned: "I wish to thank Pat KIELY from the Military History Society of Ireland for his response to my letter regarding the Connaught Rangers which you published in the March/April 2000 issue of "IOTW." I also wish to thank the anonymous reader from NY who sent me three excerpts from the different books pertaining to the Connaught Rangers ... I once read a quote somewhere - 'Those who do not recognise the achievements of their ancestors, are very unlikely to achieve anything worthy.'" Mary Lou SAMS, Shumway, IL, wrote to point out that Maureen O'SULLIVAN played Jane in the "Tarzan" movies, and that Maureen O'HARA played opposite John Wayne in "The Quiet Man." My note -- Actress Maureen O'SULLIVAN, a popular Hollywood actress of the 1930s-40s, born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon in 1911, was educated in parochial schools in London, Dublin in Paris. She played the role of 'Jane' opposite Johnny WEISSMULLER's 'Tarzan.' Other films included "Peggy Sue Got Married," and "Hannah and Her Sisters" in which she played the mother of her actress daughter in real life, Mia FARROW. Mother of seven children, O'SULLIVAN also enjoyed a thriving stage career which began in 1962 in "Never Too Late." Other Broadway credits include "The Subject Was Roses" and "Mornings at Seven." She died in 1998. "Maureen O'HARA" was born Maureen FITZSIMMONS in 1921 in Milltown, Co. Dublin, raised in a family active in singing and acting. She studied theater in England and Ireland and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1939. A year later she was in London starring in her first film, "Jamaica Inn." In Hollywood, her first major role came in director John FORD's Academy Award-winning film, "How Green Was My Valley" (1940). She worked with many of Hollywood's top leading men in both dramatic and comedy roles. She left Hollywood for St. Croix in the 1960s after marrying aviator Charles BLAIR, but kept a home in Co. Cork and maintained connections with several Irish-American groups. In 1999 she was honored as Grand Marshal of NY's St. Patrick's Day Parade.