FYI: The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) has lots of resources on its site, http://tiara.ie/ Worth checking out.... And probably worth joining. The organization also has monthly (mostly) meetings, free to the public. Next one is May 11. Here's something from the site. ---------------- Upcoming Speakers - May 11, 2007 - Eva Murphy, TIARA member & Betsy McGovern, head of Special Collections at State Library of Mass. "Under the Golden Dome, Genealogical Resources in the State Library of Massachusetts" - June 8, 2007 - Maire Concannon from *Cumann na Gaeilge*<http://www.standingstones.com/gaeilge.html>, The Irish Language Association, will speak to us on *Your Ancestral Home and Its Irish Gaelic Placename *. Maire Concannon is a graduate of University College, Galway, the National University of Ireland, and Boston College. She has been involved with Irish language studies throughout New England for the past 20 years. She has been a teacher/guidance counselor at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury, MA for the past 23 years. She is a past vice-president of *Cumann na Gaeilge* and is a frequent contributor to Irish Language Radio and Media in Ireland. TIARA meets the second Friday evening of every month at 7:30 pm except July and August. The meetings are usually held in Room 511 of Fulton Hall on the campus of Boston College, Commonwealth Avenue (Route 30), Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (*See directions to Boston College<http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-approach.html>and map of campus <http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html>*.) The meetings are free and open to the public, but membership <http://tiara.ie/memb.php>is encouraged. ---------------------- -- --- Richard Danca Newton, MA rdanca@gmail.com ------