If anyone would like to read an excellent book on the famine in Muskerry (mid -Cork) I can recommend Famine in Muskerry by Maire Mac Suibne 1997 published by Litho press Midleton, Co Cork. Regards,Kevin. > > Last night, I happened across a program called Moments in Time that covers different historical events. This one happened to be the Irish Famine and I wish I'd seen all of it. Out of ignorance, I always thought the Irish left to escape the famine. I had no idea that they were actually forced out in many cases. I didn't know about the deadly marches from the rural areas to the ports and I didn't know that the British yanked the Irish out of their homes, destroying the house so that they couldn't return to it. I knew about workhouses but not that they were, for all intents and purposes, a means to work the Irish like slaves in exchange for watery soup. I didn't know about the pestilance and disease that workhouses fostered and how many Irish men, women, and children died there. When I learned that a million had died and another million had been forced by the need to survive to seek a new life away from Ireland, it gave me a whole new view of my ancestors. > > I'd been wondering why only the two brothers came to the States. Now I know that it's possible they were the only survivors of their family. I've always been proud of my Irish heritage but never as much as I feel now. Those two brothers created a legacy that they probably never realized they had...pride in their courage, pride in their strength, pride in the fact that I carry their name, pride in knowing that I...and the rest of you on this list...are making certain that they won't be forgotten. > > Okay. Sunday sermon's over. Just had to put it out there. > > Chris > 2nd great granddaughter of Patrick Sullivan > 2nd great grandniece of Jeremiah Sullivan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > www.ancestralservices.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find the home of your dreams with eircom net property Sign up for email alerts now http://www.eircom.net/propertyalerts

I'm heading to the library tomorrow. If they don't have it, I'm checking Barnes&Nobles. Thanks. Chris kevin <kevinmcc59@eircom.net> wrote: If anyone would like to read an excellent book on the famine in Muskerry (mid -Cork) I can recommend Famine in Muskerry by Maire Mac Suibne 1997 published by Litho press Midleton, Co Cork. Regards,Kevin. > > Last night, I happened across a program called Moments in Time that covers different historical events. This one happened to be the Irish Famine and I wish I'd seen all of it. Out of ignorance, I always thought the Irish left to escape the famine. I had no idea that they were actually forced out in many cases. I didn't know about the deadly marches from the rural areas to the ports and I didn't know that the British yanked the Irish out of their homes, destroying the house so that they couldn't return to it. I knew about workhouses but not that they were, for all intents and purposes, a means to work the Irish like slaves in exchange for watery soup. I didn't know about the pestilance and disease that workhouses fostered and how many Irish men, women, and children died there. When I learned that a million had died and another million had been forced by the need to survive to seek a new life away from Ireland, it gave me a whole new view of my ancestors. > > I'd been wondering why only the two brothers came to the States. Now I know that it's possible they were the only survivors of their family. I've always been proud of my Irish heritage but never as much as I feel now. Those two brothers created a legacy that they probably never realized they had...pride in their courage, pride in their strength, pride in the fact that I carry their name, pride in knowing that I...and the rest of you on this list...are making certain that they won't be forgotten. > > Okay. Sunday sermon's over. Just had to put it out there. > > Chris > 2nd great granddaughter of Patrick Sullivan > 2nd great grandniece of Jeremiah Sullivan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > www.ancestralservices.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find the home of your dreams with eircom net property Sign up for email alerts now http://www.eircom.net/propertyalerts ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks for recommending this book Chris. I've just returned from a month in Ireland, and learned what happened to my ancestors from Co. Clare. They never talked about it, out of shame and because it hurt too much. I think their story needs to be told, so that is what I am beginning to do. Their absentee landlord ordered his agent to "tumble in" all of the houses in their village and turn them out in late March 1847. This was because the potato blight in 1845 and 1846 meant they were literally starving and could not afford to pay the rent. As a group they walked to Killaloe where the priest blessed them and gave them the little help he could, then they walked to the pier head in Killaloe and got friends with boats to take them to Limerick City. Those who were strong enough helped to row. There they were taken by fishing boats to Cobh Harbour in Cork where they bought passage on the first ship going west. The unscrupulous captain overburdened the boat, did not lay in supplies of bread sufficient for the number of passengers, and the water he provided was foul and inadequate also. The passage was 63 days instead of the average 31 days. 40% of the passengers died at sea, and many more at Grosse Isle Quarantine Station and on the inland journey to Ontario. My great-great grandparents had 6 children under 8. Twin daughters age 6 and a 2 year old son did not survive to see their destination. Timothy is buried at Grosse Isle, one of the twins at Kingston, and another God alone knows where, perhaps at sea. Within 9 years the father and 9 children were dead and buried. Eviction was a death sentence in many cases. It seems to me a clear and cruel case of Genocide, nothing less! How terrible it must have been to be starving and at the same time to see boatloads of food loaded under armed guard to go to England. I have English, Scottish and Irish ancestors. I know my English ancestors being ordinary folk did not make the governmental policies of that terrible time, but it has soured me to that part of my heritage! Mary Wilkinson, Ontario, Canada -----Original Message----- From: irl-cork-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-cork-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of kevin Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:49 PM To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Cork] Irish Birth dates > Hedgerow schools>British oppression. If anyone would like to read an excellent book on the famine in Muskerry (mid -Cork) I can recommend Famine in Muskerry by Maire Mac Suibne 1997 published by Litho press Midleton, Co Cork. Regards,Kevin. > > Last night, I happened across a program called Moments in Time that covers different historical events. This one happened to be the Irish Famine and I wish I'd seen all of it. Out of ignorance, I always thought the Irish left to escape the famine. I had no idea that they were actually forced out in many cases. I didn't know about the deadly marches from the rural areas to the ports and I didn't know that the British yanked the Irish out of their homes, destroying the house so that they couldn't return to it. I knew about workhouses but not that they were, for all intents and purposes, a means to work the Irish like slaves in exchange for watery soup. I didn't know about the pestilance and disease that workhouses fostered and how many Irish men, women, and children died there. When I learned that a million had died and another million had been forced by the need to survive to seek a new life away from Ireland, it gave me a whole new view of my ancestors. > > I'd been wondering why only the two brothers came to the States. Now I know that it's possible they were the only survivors of their family. I've always been proud of my Irish heritage but never as much as I feel now. Those two brothers created a legacy that they probably never realized they had...pride in their courage, pride in their strength, pride in the fact that I carry their name, pride in knowing that I...and the rest of you on this list...are making certain that they won't be forgotten. > > Okay. Sunday sermon's over. Just had to put it out there. > > Chris > 2nd great granddaughter of Patrick Sullivan > 2nd great grandniece of Jeremiah Sullivan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > www.ancestralservices.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find the home of your dreams with eircom net property Sign up for email alerts now http://www.eircom.net/propertyalerts ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message