Sorry for the long subject line but these are all the places covered by the 'Rathdowney Review' - with more being added each year. The Review is an annual production - it comes out at Christmas and is in the main sold locally. Those who know of it can order it from the editor about the time it is published. I've mentioned this to people on the Laois lists in the past and anyone who has seen it speaks welkl of it. Published by locals - it's not a profit seeking publication, the locals are simply that - people from the loaclity, not genealogists, historians, journalists - just the kind of people I've spoken of in other mails - people who do something because they love it. It's not possible to order back issues of this Review as only a limited number are published every year and the cost of production is barely covered. This is now in it's 16th year. All copies for this year have been sold to the best of my knowledge. The Review has articles on what's been happening in the locality in the previous year, who married, died, moved away - it carries obituaries, photographs. It also does something else which very few annual local productions do - it has family histories in it. Someone may have died in one of the areas over theyear and so an article may be written about that person and their family - going back a number of generations. All the in laws will be mentioned if they are known. Or else, it may be that someone came home from somewhere - the long lost relative and so an article may be written about that family. Oral history................. If ever it is found that they have made a mistake, someone remembered something incorrectly - the committee makes it known the following year and apologises. I have three copies of the Review and I've just looked through them and made a list of articles dealing with family history - specific people or families. There is lots more to be found in the Obituaries for each area and in articles I have excluded from this list. I'm just posting this in case anyone may be interested in these. For the moment, if anyone has any questions about any of these articles I will not be able to answer them. In time yes. What I would like to do is show this committee if there are people interested in the Rathdowney Review, I would also like to show you that this is what they do, because some of you may be interested in writing your own family history and having it published in the Review. There are few communities in Ireland which do this kind of thing, those of you who have been here will know how little interest there really is in genealogy here. Those who are interested and who do write histories of their localities have to pay to have their 'history' published and are then dependant on selling it locally. Those of you with the interest rarely get to hear about these publications and so lose out. For those articles where the title only gives the first name of the person I have taken the surname and put it in at the end. Jane Articles with a Family History interest from the Rathdowney Review 1997, 1999, 2000 A King and his favourite- The Second Baron of Upper Ossory A Tribute to the Late Seamus Quinlan Ballybrophy Station celebrates 150 years Bergins - Served Ballacolla for Two centuries Births in Rathdfowney in 1899 Campion Family - Ballagh Castle - 5 Generations Dan Daly - A Legend Donaghmore's Workhouse Museum Donoghmore's Heritage Dr. Daniel P. Hennessy Remembered Errill cemetery Eva Keegan - A Special Lady Family Reunion for the Begadons Grennans of Middlemount Henderson's of Cooloutha Jimmy daly Story 1914-2000 John Keegan of Shanahoe - A Famous Son of Upper Ossory Margaret ready to live in her third century - Guilfoyle Paddy campion - A Special Friend from the Past Perry's Brewery Primary Education in Rathdowney and Skeirke in 1835 Rathdowney Births in 1897 Rathdowney Parish Births 1900 Richie - A true Rathdownean - Sheeran Stories from Bygone days Strawberry Fields Forever - Barbers The Cahills of Moore Street The Changing Faces of Garron The Clancy's of Grangemore The Corcorans of Rathpatrick The Coss Family of Kilcotton The Day the Music Died - Ryan The Dillons of Kylebeg The Doherty's of Galmoy The Kelly's of Aughmacart The Life and Times of Paddy Dollard The Long Living Ryans of Garryduff The Loughmans of Granstown and Lisduff The Lynam's of Borris-in-Ossory The Meehans of Coolkerry - an Update The Miney's of Rathdowney The Past Millenium in the Rathdowney Area The Phelans of Aghaboe The Seven Septs of Laois who were transplanted to Tarbert, Co. Kerry in 1608-1609 The Sheridan's and their Music The Wheelers of Rathdowney The Wynne's of Errill