TIGS friends, Amazon has had copies of my book and has been distributing them since mid-week. The title is Ballykilcline Rising / From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America. The book is an account of the rent strikers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon,?who were evicted in 1847 and '48 and "assisted" to New York by forced emigration. My book considers the social, economic, and political conditions in Ireland before the Famine that led to the strike and then locates a cluster of the evictees in Rutland, Vermont, and follows their lives and the community they built there for about 20 years as the marble industry boomed. Some of them, for instance, took part in labor actions in Rutland and lost their homes a second time. Some of them prospered as Vermont farmers; some of them went farther west -- to join an earlier settlement of Kilglass Parish people in LaSalle County, ILL, or to go on to the Minnesota frontier before it became a state. One family had a child kidnapped by Indians. I found evidence linking one or two men to the Fenians, who attempted to invade Canada several times during the 1860s. A number of the men fought in the Civil War. One man from Ballykilcline was a suspect in the murder of landlord Denis Mahon of Strokestown. Evidence in the story also suggests, that as their original story-teller Robert Scally (The End of Hidden Ireland) suggested, there may have been?an "underground?market" for their Crown passages across the Atlantic.?The story focuses on about a dozen families for whom mini-profiles are provided.?It also mentions Albany and Troy in several places. Anyone who had ancestors from Famine Ireland likely will be interested in the information about conditions in both Ireland and the U.S. in the middle 19th Century. And genealogists may be interested in the records tapped to produce this story. Mary Lee Dunn

Cogratulations on your publication   I can only imagine the amount of work that went into this A.E Fadden “Beware the people who moralize about great issues; moralizing is easier than facing hard facts.” - John Corry --- On Sun, 7/20/08, maryldunn@aol.com <maryldunn@aol.com> wrote: From: maryldunn@aol.com <maryldunn@aol.com> Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ballykilcline book now in distribution To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 9:10 AM TIGS friends, Amazon has had copies of my book and has been distributing them since mid-week. The title is Ballykilcline Rising / From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America. The book is an account of the rent strikers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon,?who were evicted in 1847 and '48 and "assisted" to New York by forced emigration. My book considers the social, economic, and political conditions in Ireland before the Famine that led to the strike and then locates a cluster of the evictees in Rutland, Vermont, and follows their lives and the community they built there for about 20 years as the marble industry boomed. Some of them, for instance, took part in labor actions in Rutland and lost their homes a second time. Some of them prospered as Vermont farmers; some of them went farther west -- to join an earlier settlement of Kilglass Parish people in LaSalle County, ILL, or to go on to the Minnesota frontier before it became a state. One family had a child kidnapped by Indians. I found evidence linking one or two men to the Fenians, who attempted to invade Canada several times during the 1860s. A number of the men fought in the Civil War. One man from Ballykilcline was a suspect in the murder of landlord Denis Mahon of Strokestown. Evidence in the story also suggests, that as their original story-teller Robert Scally (The End of Hidden Ireland) suggested, there may have been?an "underground?market" for their Crown passages across the Atlantic.?The story focuses on about a dozen families for whom mini-profiles are provided.?It also mentions Albany and Troy in several places. Anyone who had ancestors from Famine Ireland likely will be interested in the information about conditions in both Ireland and the U.S. in the middle 19th Century. And genealogists may be interested in the records tapped to produce this story. Mary Lee Dunn ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Did you pay your 2008 Dues? Troy Irish Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you. It has been years of work, but fascinating, challenging, and fun! And I met so many wonderful people in doing it. And the story just keeps going. Another researcher recently came forward who thinks his wife's family stems from a Bally evictee who settled in Lawrence, MA, and whose children then moved on to Colorado and California. Mary Lee -----Original Message----- From: austin fadden <aefadden@yahoo.com> To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 2:54 pm Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ballykilcline book now in distribution Cogratulations on your publication can only imagine the amount of work that went into this A.E Fadden “Beware the people who moralize about great issues; moralizing is easier than acing hard facts.” - John Corry --- On Sun, 7/20/08, maryldunn@aol.com <maryldunn@aol.com> wrote: From: maryldunn@aol.com <maryldunn@aol.com> ubject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Ballykilcline book now in distribution o: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com ate: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 9:10 AM TIGS friends, Amazon has had copies of my book and has been distributing them since mid-week. he title is Ballykilcline Rising / From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America. The book is an account of the rent strikers in Ballykilcline, County oscommon,?who were evicted in 1847 and '48 and "assisted" to New ork by forced emigration. My book considers the social, economic, and political onditions in Ireland before the Famine that led to the strike and then locates cluster of the evicte es in Rutland, Vermont, and follows their lives and the ommunity they built there for about 20 years as the marble industry boomed. Some of them, for instance, took part in labor actions in Rutland and lost heir homes a second time. Some of them prospered as Vermont farmers; some of hem went farther west -- to join an earlier settlement of Kilglass Parish eople in LaSalle County, ILL, or to go on to the Minnesota frontier before it ecame a state. One family had a child kidnapped by Indians. I found evidence inking one or two men to the Fenians, who attempted to invade Canada several imes during the 1860s. A number of the men fought in the Civil War. One man rom Ballykilcline was a suspect in the murder of landlord Denis Mahon of trokestown. Evidence in the story also suggests, that as their original tory-teller Robert Scally (The End of Hidden Ireland) suggested, there may ave been?an "underground?market" for their Crown passages across the tlantic.?The story focuses on about a dozen families for whom mini-profiles are rovided.?It also mentions Albany and Troy in several places. Anyone who had ancestors from Famine Ireland likely will be interested in the nformation about conditions in both Ireland and the U.S. in the middle 19th entury. And genealogists may be interested in the records tapped to produce his story. Mary Lee Dunn ==NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== id you pay your 2008 Dues? roy Irish Genealogy Society ttp://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the li st, please send an email to Y-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' ithout the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ==NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== id you pay your 2008 Dues? roy Irish Genealogy Society ttp://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message