Hi Mick, I have found the items you posted very interesting - not least because they slow history down to the daily reality of what was going on across the county, from dancing mania to constable muggings to the liberation of prisoners to the frantic struggle to think what on earth one should get Princess Wotshername for her wedding present. Best wishes to you and Jean, Turtle Turtle Bunbury www.turtlebunbury.com Old Fort, Tobinstown, Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland Mob: + 353 - (0) 87 - 6453 486 Skype: turtle1847 Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author and travel writer based in Ireland. He will be speaking at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco on Monday 15th February 2010. His subject will be 'Around the World in 1847 - An Irish Perspective'. Turtle's acclaimed 'Your History in a Book' venture offers an innovative way to transform your family history into a compelling read. Turtle's seventh book, Vanishing Ireland - Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World, with photographer James Fennell, was the 5th biggest selling hardback - and the top-selling Picture Book - in Ireland's non-fiction charts over Christmas 2009. On 18 Feb 2010, at 21:30, michael purcell wrote: > We have only a few more items to post dealing with the 1922 period > of Irish > / Carlow history. > The extracts published to date were from the pages of 15 Nationalist > and > Leinster Times newspapers > recently uncovered in the Pat Purcell Papers combined with some > reports from > Irish Republican Police records. > I hope the details have been informative and interesting for our > Listers. > I thought we should share the data because the events recorded > represent > a very crucial, defining period in Ireland's history. > We are now coming up to the commencment of the Irish Civil War > ( sometimes > referred to as the War of Brothers), > but I feel that Listers may have had enough details of this sad and > devastating juncture in our history. > However, here in Ireland the depth of the divisions from this period > and the > legacy of the conflict remains with us to the present day, > mick. > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must > subscribe to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the Subject box. > No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >