I have just received a note from Waterford Museum curator Willie Whelan, who is computer brilliant and so aware of the gap between Irish information and the Irish Americans/Australians/New Zealanders in need of economical Irish resources. I met with Willie in Dungarvan last week and I hope to conspire with him to increase Irish knowledge and resources for us all, via the internet or any way possible. Here is what Willie told me: You have just stumbled across a common problem. A lot of these books are very short run publications produced by a lone individual or small group of enthusiasts. They normally lose money for the person that publishes them. Bookstores outside of the author's locality won't stock them and when they are sold out that is it. They often do not even have ISBN numbers. The best chance you have of sourcing them is to visit abebooks.com . It searches most of the second hand bookshops in the world. We often buy in rare Waterford history books from New Zealand or America using this site. The address is www.abebooks.com I did a quick search and they have many copies of Beara Women talking. They don't appear to have Riobard O'Dwyers book. They don't have the Driscolls book but they have other books by Eamon Lankford They do have a History Of Bandon by Paddy Connolly They have a Bay Of Destiny by Michael J Carroll Hope this is helpful... Regards, Candi in California

You over looked Canadians! ;-) ***** Reply to the LIST ONLY - Please ***** ***** Thanks for your consideration ***** Pádraig Mór, An Sean Gabhar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zizek, Candi (DHS-DCDC-IDB)" <CZizek@dhs.ca.gov> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:19 PM Subject: Books >I have just received a note from Waterford Museum curator Willie Whelan, > who is computer brilliant and so aware of the gap between Irish > information and the Irish Americans/Australians/New Zealanders in need > of economical Irish resources. I met with Willie in Dungarvan last week > and I hope to conspire with him to increase Irish knowledge and > resources for us all, via the internet or any way possible. > > Here is what Willie told me: > > You have just stumbled across a common problem. A lot of these books are > very short run publications produced by a lone individual or small group > of enthusiasts. They normally lose money for the person that publishes > them. Bookstores outside of the author's locality won't stock them and > when they are sold out that is it. They often do not even have ISBN > numbers. > > The best chance you have of sourcing them is to visit abebooks.com . > It searches most of the second hand bookshops in the world. We often buy > in rare Waterford history books from New Zealand or America using this > site. > > The address is www.abebooks.com > > I did a quick search and they have many copies of Beara Women talking. > They don't appear to have Riobard O'Dwyers book. > They don't have the Driscolls book but they have other books by Eamon > Lankford They do have a History Of Bandon by Paddy Connolly They have a > Bay Of Destiny by Michael J Carroll > > Hope this is helpful... > > Regards, > > Candi in California >