Here is what has been helpful for me (in no particular order) http://www.emigrant.ie/ http://mail.mayo-ireland.ie/WebX?14@^1320@.ee6b2a8 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/temp.html http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/Galway.htm http://www.bess.tcd.ie/roots_ie.htm http://www.irish-insight.com/a2z-genealogy/ http://genealogy.org/~ajmorris/ireland/ireemg1.htm http://freespace.virgin.net/alan.tupman/sites/irish.htm http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk:80/icdl/database/europe/unitedki/insthera/inst/ and for fun http://www.irishbooks.com/books.html http://www.irish-music.net/ also I just finished a great historical novel about the tragedies and national passion of the Irish. Called The BigWind, by Beatrice Coogan, ISBN#1-57098-031-4, ($14.95 in paper USA) it covers the three disasters (the big wind, the famine and the evacuations) that hit Ireland in the 19th century and caused the mass emigrations of the people to the New World. Lots of family names you will recognize are mentioned with brief indications of why they emigrated... It is based upon 15 years of historical research yet is written with enough romance and intrigue to keep the pages turning... great lazy August reading at 684 pages... Jana