Hello, Friends, Hope you all had a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. Irish Central this morning has a story on the conditions in Roscommon created by Famine based on the Mahon estate archive and as analyzed by Ciaran Reilly in his new book, Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine. Here's a link to that story: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/Roscommon-archive-reveals-in-fighting-and-criminality-among-Irish-during-Great-Hunger.html I have not yet seen the book though I ordered it in early September through Amazon. I canceled that order today (it was taking too long) and will now try to get it sooner through the publisher, Four Courts Press, in Ireland. If you recall there was a book launch event for it at the Famine Museum in Strokestown on Nov. 19, so it is "out." Best Wishes to All, Mary Lee Dunn