You misunderstood me. We have a large collection of books on Irish history, literature, etc. In general, majority is not Mayo specific. When I speak of ordering books from the local county library, it is in reference to a loan situation. If the book is available within the county system and a few others, I will be able to get it. I was discussing local Irish emigration history over the weekend with a person who is working on a PHD re: Irish immigration. When Government and other groups assisting emigrants were mentioned, I was interested because it was about Mayo. I had picked up along the way information re: assistance in Clare, Sligo and a few others but not Mayo. Since this is a question which comes up time to time with Irish Americans living in this area, I am curious. We question how they were able to pay their passage and many arriving penniless how through hard work, they were able to achieve and give to their children what they did. Assisted emigration was never really mentioned and maybe not many Irish Americans realized it existed. I know I didn't. Just thought it was a rare happening. As an undergrade. I was a history major but didn't take it into an advance degree. Back in the day, it was often referred to as a BA in Political Science. Oceanstrands <oceanstrands@yahoo.com> wrote: Thought you said in our discussion about the Famine, and the fact there was only one Famine, that you had alot of Mayo-specific and Irish history books in your collection and would look at those for information about the Mayo crop failure of 1879. Your county library has to have interlibrary loan??? Libraries have interlibrary loan because each library really can't have all books on all topics but they can borrow them from other libraries. Are you writing a dissertation or historical paper for an organisation about the topic of assisted emigration? --- Mary Ellen Chambers wrote: > The books we have, have very little Mayo specific, > assisted emigration data. That was why I thought I > would GOOGLE and come up with online data. I did, > but again, not Mayo specific. Good idea re: > Westport Heritage at the Quay. Will "E" mail Aidan > to see if he can suggest some avenues/books to > pursue on this side of the ocean. I have a list of > books I got off GOOGLE which I'll submit to our > county library to see if they might have them. > The issue is that this type of reference book is > just not the type they usually have a great call > for, so don't really purchase them for reference. > Your suggestion about Westport Heritage is good. > Thanks > > Mary Ellen > > Oceanstrands wrote: > Hi Mary Ellen, > > 1)Have you looked in the Mayo history books and > periodicals you mentioned you have in your personal > collection? > > 2)Since you're a member of the Westport Historical > Society and know staff there, have you asked them? > > 3) Have you looked in your local public library in > the > US for information about it? > > Oceanstrands > > --- Mary Ellen Chambers > wrote: > > > I have GOOGLED and found information re: > Government > > and private organization who assisted Irish > > emigration to Canada, Australia, USA and other > parts > > of the world in the 19th and 20th century. > > > > However, I can find no Mayo specific data which I > > understand happened. Would anyone on the list have > > any thoughts re: this. Direct me to where it might > > be available. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Mary Ellen Chambers > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > > to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and > > the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Mary Ellen, Are you referring to people who were relocated from County Mayo to the Midlands in the 1950s? Beannachtai, Margaret (Máiread) > You misunderstood me. We have a large collection of books on Irish > history, literature, etc. In general, majority is not Mayo specific. > When I speak of ordering books from the local county library, it is > in reference to a loan situation. If the book is available within the > county system and a few others, I will be able to get it. > I was discussing local Irish emigration history over the weekend > with a person who is working on a PHD re: Irish immigration. When > Government and other groups assisting emigrants were mentioned, I was > interested because it was about Mayo. I had picked up along the way > information re: assistance in Clare, Sligo and a few others but not Mayo. > Since this is a question which comes up time to time with Irish Americans > living in this area, I am curious. We question how they were able to pay > their passage and many arriving penniless how through hard work, they were > able to achieve and give to their children what they did. Assisted > emigration was never really mentioned and maybe not many Irish Americans > realized it existed. I know I didn't. Just thought it was a rare > happening. > As an undergrade. I was a history major but didn't take it into an > advance degree. Back in the day, it was often referred to as a BA in > Political Science.

--- On Thu, 6/12/08 at 1:27 p.m. Mary Ellen Chambers Maryln61@sbcglobal.net> wrote: "You misunderstood me. We have a large collection of books on Irish history, literature, etc. In general, majority is not Mayo specific..." --- On Mon, 6/9/08, at 7:43 AM Mary Ellen Chambers <maryln61@sbcglobal.net> wrote: "... we have collected numerous books re: Mayo History .." I didn't misunderstand you. Assisted emigration was mentioned in Cecil Woodham Smith's The Great Hunger published in 1962 so it's certainly not a new piece of information. A history major of who's history and a history major degree received when? Political science of whose politics? If it was 30 or more years ago, even available data about US history/political science has changed substantially since then. Oceanstrands --- On Thu, 6/12/08, Mary Ellen Chambers <maryln61@sbcglobal.net> wrote: ....Assisted emigration was never really mentioned > and maybe not many Irish Americans realized it existed. I > know I didn't. Just thought it was a rare happening. As an undergrade. I was a history major but > didn't take it into an advance degree. Back in the > day, it was often referred to as a BA in Political Science.