See also "Sable Wings Over the Land, Ennis, County Clare, and its Wider Community During the Great Famine" by Ciarán Ó Murchadha, published by Clasp Press, 1998. Required reading on the subject. Riveting. Analytical. Puts today's vicissitudes into perspective. See also my posting on this book on 8-Dec-2004. Pádraig (the Paddy that was)