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1. [Irish-in-UK] "Derry" - Meath-born Francis LEDWIDGE (d. 1917) Soldier Poet Killed in Flanders [1]
DERRY By day a place of wheels and looms That struggle in a narrow space A shout of children in the slums And girls with labour- stained face By night a queen with victory crowned. For all her years of loud turmoil She spreads her beauty all around, Reflects her glory in the Foyle -- Slane, Meath-born Francis Ledwidge
2. [Irish-in-UK] Thos. KENNY burial info. [1]
Good Morning Listers: I found this posted on the DERBYSGEN-rootsweb list archives by Michael Spencer in 2003, and thought perhaps he may be on a lister's tree. I do not have anymore details and Thos. KENNY is not related to me at all. RISLEY Burials 1770 - 1843 19 Feb 1827 Thos. KENNY a native of Ireland, Dundalk age 36 Hope it helps a fellow researcher. Trish
3. [Irish-in-UK] Maura O'GRADY - "Our Hideaway" (contemp.) - Mayo>Dublin artist/writer [1]
OUR HIDEAWAY Steps down from the busy street I know a quaint and sequestered place Where the black laths caress white walls And arched doorways are low and deep set; Where pewter tankards have retired to high shelves And old books are resting nearby Where coach lamps glow And dried flowers hang their pretty heads; Old pots and pans sit by the fire While a sewing machine backstitches on the past; In this room of memories We talk of old times and old ways And when the music flows On flagstone floor we tap ou
4. [Irish-in-UK] Message in a Bottle, Susan MOON -- trip to Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry 1981 -- (O'CONNOR) [1]
SNIPPET: At the end of August, 1980, Susan MOON and her sons, Noah and Sandy, sailed from Montreal for London on a Polish passenger liner named for a Polish king of old. The boys were 12 and 9 at the time. They were on their way to live for a year in the south of England. Susan had taken a year off from teaching to work on a book, and she wanted the three of them to have an adventure together. She had rented out their house in Berkeley, CA, and had found a cottage in a little village called Dittisham-on
5. [Irish-in-UK] "A Leitrim Woman" -- Lyle DONAGHY (1902-1949) [1]
A LEITRIM WOMAN People of Ireland -- I am an old woman; I am near my end; I have lived, now, for seventy-five years in your midst; I have grown up among you, toiled among you, suffered with you and enjoyed with you; I have given and received in faith and honour; what was to be endured I have endured, what was to be fought against I have fought against, what was to be done I have done; I have married in my country; I have borne two men-children and three women-children, two sons and three daughters of a F
6. [Irish-in-UK] Blasket Islands/Kerry - Robin FLOWER/Yorkshire Scholar & Poet (1881-1946) O'GRADY [1]
SNIPPET: Robin FLOWER (1881-1946) was born at Meanwood, Yorkshire. After a distinguished undergraduate degree at Pembroke College, Oxford, Flower joined the British Museum (now the British Library) in 1906 as an assistant to the Department of Manuscripts. He was to spend the rest of his working life in the Museum, becoming Deputy-Keeper in 1929, until his premature retirement of ill-health in 1944. Robin FLOWER was a scholar poet who lived out his years in a rigorous journey to define the nature and t
7. [Irish-in-UK] Sligo Artist Jack B. YEATS (1871-1957) -- Exhibited Dublin, London, New York (WHITE) [1]
SNIPPET: The auction houses have quickly learned to appreciate the buzz created any time a John Butler ("Jack") YEATS painting comes up for sale. With the March 1999 opening of the Yeats Museum at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, the creations of the Sligo artist can be now studied and appreciated away from the slam of an auctioneer's gavel. Alongside the works of his prolific, artistic family, Jack B. YEATS has truly come home. For all the Irishness of his subject matter, his appeal lies in his
8. [Irish-in-UK] The Blasket islands - Off the coast of Kerry [1]
SNIPPET: The fame of the Blasket islands stems as much from their contribution to literature as to their unearthly beauty. Three autobiographies by islanders have becomes world classics: Tomas O'CROHAN's "The Islandman," Peig SAYERS' "An Old Woman's Reflections, and Muiris O SUILEABHAIN's "Twenty Years A-Growing," and there are many others. These writings encapsulate a rich oral tradition of storytelling, poetry and folktales, and translators have captured much of the musical turns of phrase, sheer b
9. [Irish-in-UK] Valentia Island & Atlantic Telegraph Co. -- Victorian Travel Circa 1888 (LOVETT) [1]
SNIPPET: Valentia Island - Per Victorian traveller, Richard LOVETT (circa 1888): The island is separated from the mainland by a strait half a mile broad. (Referring to old photos by LAWRENCE of Dublin) - In the circle is depicted the view of Valentia pier; it is identical with that obtained from the windows of the hotel, which is so placed as to face the pier. In the extreme right is the mainland from which the ferryboat starts. The other picture represents Knights Town as seen by the wayfarer about to mak
10. [Irish-in-UK] "Suitcase" - Padraic O'FARRELL (contemp.) [1]
SUITCASE "Check his belongings" the solicitor said. They were in a suitcase, Twenty-four inches by twenty. Ninety-one years of life Covered a corner of the kitchen table. Everything! Childhood - photographed with mother. Youth - 1932, Galway Championship Football medal. A signet ring - Romance? Middle-age fling - binoculars; a smart pair. Spectacles of age, every lens stronger. Watches that had told each minute of his single life. Letters remindful of events, A Treasury of the Sacred Heart Of contemporari
11. [Irish-in-UK] "The Song of the Old Mother" - William Butler YEATS (1865-1939) Dublin>London [1]
The Song of the Old Mother W B Yeats I Rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head, And their day goes over in idleness, And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress; While I must work because I am old, And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.
12. [Irish-in-UK] Kate MURPHY, Co. Fermanagh -- 1897 Irish Fair, Grand Central Palace, Manhattan [1]
SNIPPET: 1897 Irish Fair -- Kate MURPHY was just one of thousands of visitors to attend the 1897 Irish Fair at the Grand Central Palace in Manhattan. For several weeks people from all over the metropolitan region had come to see the handsome displays that the Irish societies had assembled in an attempt to present in capsule form something of Ireland's rich cultural heritage. One exhibit in particular, though, seemed to attract most of the attention. Irish soil, directly imported from the old country, had
13. [Irish-in-UK] Memory Lane (from Australia) - LAWLER/Co. Wexford [1]
SNIPPET: An Australian gentleman shared warm memories of his mother in the Nov/Dec 2004 issue of "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine published in Dublin. Graeme GOLDSWORTHY, Bilambil Heights, New South Wales, Australia wrote: "On 16th March 2004, in far-off Australia, a remarkable Irish lady died, aged 104. She was my mother - Bertha LAWLER, born in 1899 in the old Glebe House, formerly the rectory of the parish of Kilcormick in Co. Wexford, where her grandfather, Canon Edward LAWLER, had been Rector
14. [Irish-in-UK] "Grandfather" -- Belfast's Derek MAHON (b. 1941) [1]
GRANDFATHER They brought him in on a stretcher from the world, Wounded but humorous; and he soon recovered. Boiler-rooms, row upon row of gantries rolled Away to reveal the landscape of a childhood Only he can recapture. Even on cold Mornings he is up at six with a block of wood Or a box of nails, discreetly up to no good Or banging round the house like a four-year-old -- Never there when you call. But after dark You hear his great boots thumping in the hall And in he comes, as cute as they come. Each nig
15. [Irish-in-UK] Irish strays in 1851 census Scotland: [1]
Came across some Irish KERR's in the 1851 census index in Lanarkshire, Scotland. thought some of you might be interested? These are all KERR surname. name age birthplace Parish district page no HENRY 25: Ireland: Rutherglen/ 16: 26: 4: Carmichael: FRANCIS: 43: " " 14: 16: 5: ANDREW: 35: " New Monkland 30: 10: 18: / Goven: Mr
16. [Irish-in-UK] Workhouse site [1]
This is a good site to describe and give the history of the workhouses. There is a link for the Irish workhouses. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
17. [Irish-in-UK] "The Brooch" - Kathleen JAMIE b. Scotland - Winner, Major Awards/UK [1]
THE BROOCH All I have is small enough to be held in one hand -- an agate brooch. It's pierced like an implement or tool for a purpose we've outgrown, perhaps a loom-weight. The agates are brindled, grey, like carded wool, or the rings inside a cup, drained, set to be washed on the table. Nothing more remains of the woman who wore it, pinned to her plain coat; Just this: her gift, my heirloom, stones. -- Kathleen Jamie was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1962. She has won several major awards in the
18. [Irish-in-UK] "A Chorus" - Derry's Seamus HEANEY (contemp.) [1]
SNIPPET: In 1995, an unassuming man from South Derry, a rural Catholic and farmer's son, won the Nobel Prize for Literature almost 30 years after he published his first book on poetry. Born in Mossbawn in 1939, Seamus HEANEY joins other literary giants such as YEATS, BECKETT and SHAW. HEANEY has described his work - "Poetry grows like a moss inside you and at certain times you start picking it off. You can't sit down and do it just by willing it." Following ceasefires, HEANEY wrote an article in a Scottish
19. [Irish-in-UK] More Recent Visits to Ireland [1]
SNIPPET: In the Jan-Feb 2004 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, Lisa CLIFFORD, Millersville, PA, shared a recent visit to Kilkee, Co. Clare: ".... In Ireland, two summers ago, we came up to Kilkee from Cloghane on the Dingle Peninsula, and had the loveliest stay of our trip at the Nature Quest Lodge, in Co. Clare, just a few miles east of Kilkee at Blackweir Bridge. Our hosts, Eugene and Felicity O'KELLY were the warmest and most generous people, and their knowledge of the area guid
20. [Irish-in-UK] Author Donal HORGAN on 19th-century Ireland [1]
SNIPPET: Donal HORGAN lives in the city of Cork and is a school teacher with a life-long interest in tourism. Author of "Echo: Killarney and its History," HORGAN's most recent publication is "The Victorian Visitor In Ireland: Irish Tourism 1840-1910." It is available from bookshops and was published by imagimedia. There is also an article by Mr. HORGAN(accompanied by several marvelous old photographs) in the May-June 2003 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine. Up until the 1820s, the jo
21. [Irish-in-UK] "The Walk" - Ms. Eithne CAVANAGH (contemp.) Formative years, Co. Wicklow [1]
THE WALK Pewter sky, seabirds at rest, white stones smoothed by Atlantic movement lie; gargoyle driftwood, rusted metal, a child's sandal lost one Summer day. The lone walker holds a stone time frozen egg, feels its roundness, marvels at its whiteness. Tongue on stone, salt, wind-whipped tears mingle on stinging spray. The walker throws the stone in a great arching circle to the waves, throws another and another, yet another madly trying to empty cobble beach into the ocean. Easterly, a crescent glows, p
22. [Irish-in-UK] Ask About Ireland website [1]
SNIPPET: This website just came to my attention. If you are interested in a particular village, lets say, type the placename into the "search" window. Follow instructions (using the asterisk) if unsure of spelling. Lots of nice photos, data at the website - a work in progress. http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php
23. [Irish-in-UK] Ireland Birth Index July update [1]
The Ireland GenWeb Project now has the 1864 Ireland Birth Index online through the letter K. The Ls are almost completed and we are currently working on the Ms. You can check out the index on the IGW Project homepage at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
24. [Irish-in-UK] Resources: Ellis Island "Gold Search" - New Soundex Surname Converter - Canadian/USABorder-CrossingRecords (St. Albans) - Griffith's Valuation [1]
RESOURCES: Your best resource may be the living members of your families, including those you haven't been in touch with for years. If you feel your family may have crossed the USA/Canadian border after 1895, check out the excellent microfilmed St. Albans (VT) District emigration/immigration/border-crossing record set at branches of the National Archives (USA) or at your local LDS (Mormon) Family History Center. This is my very favorite record set! The records were stored in Vermont but apply to any
25. [Irish-in-UK] Roger CASEMENT's Role - The Easter Rising April 24, 1916 [1]
SNIPPET: Born into a strict Presbyterian family, Roger CASEMENT (1864-1916) rose to international prominence as a humanitarian in the British colonial service for his reports exposing abuses of native workers by colonial powers in Africa and Latin America. He was knighted for his distinguished service in 1911 and retired two years later. By this time, through membership in the Gaelic League, he had been transformed into a passionate Irish nationalist. In 1913, he helped form the Irish Volunteers and th
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