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1. [IGW] NEW BOOKS Spring/Summer 2003 [1]
BOOK REVIEWS: 1. "Ireland," by Patrick Mahe an Philip Plisson (Hatchette Illustrated) large-format h/b. Irish-Breton journalist Patrick Mahe formerly of Paris-Match combines with celebrated marine photographer Philip Plisson to produce an "absolutely lovely book - a great start to "Hatchett's Illustrated" series launched in Britain and Ireland early 2003. The quality of photograph is outstanding, most images are recorded from the seaward side - producing a view not so commonly seen. Per review, "I nev
2. [IGW] "Donkeys" by Edward FIELD (b. 1924 NYC) [1]
DONKEYS They are not silent like work-horses Who are happy or indifferent about the plow and wagon; Donkey's don't submit like that For they are sensitive And cry continually under their burdens; Yes, they are animals of sensibility Even if they aren't intelligent enough To count money or discuss religion. Laugh if you will when they hee-haw But know that they are crying When they make that noise that sounds like something Between a squawking water-pump and a fog-horn. And when I hear them sobbing I sudd
3. [IGW] "A Reformer To His Father" -- James SIMMONS (b. 1933) [1]
For Father's Day -- A REFORMER TO HIS FATHER We shared not one idea in thirty years Of occasional bicker and chat. One night of loud Useless argument, unique and useless tears Of mine surprised us. We paused, astute and proud, Unreconciled. I think I had stopped hearing Your words, and heard around me the rest, Unknown, remote and thought I was comparing The sound of your worse with their best. Subservient to love I bent my head Stiffly. You laughed; nervous, elated, and laid Nicotined fingers light
4. [IGW] Kansas City 1901: The Cathedral School Commercials Baseball Team [1]
SNIPPET: For the poor boys growing up in the tiny houses and tenements around Kansas City's packinghouse district, career prospects were slim. In 1901, the help wanted ads of the newspapers Journal, World and Star listed vague "opportunities for hustlers," and positions for butchers, and boilermakers at 30 cents an hour. So in order for the sons and grandsons of Irish and other immigrants to escape the rail yards, foundries and packing plants, they had to be trained in the arts of commerce. In 1889, th
5. [IGW] Moore, Montreal, County Cloughlin, Ireland [1]
Montreal Star 31 Mar 1887: Death: Moore: In this city on Thursday the 31st inst., Jane Cunningham, wife of Hubert Moore, native of County Cloughlin, Ireland aged 80 years and 2 months, Funeral will take place on Saturday 2nd April at 2 o'clock p.m., from her son-in-law's residence 40 Papineau square, to St. Luke's Church thence to Mount
6. [IGW] "A Refusal to Mourn" -- Belfast's Derek MAHON (b. 1941) [1]
A REFUSAL TO MOURN He lived in a small farm-house At the edge of a new estate. The trim gardens crept To his door, and car engines Woke him before dawn On dark winter mornings. All day there was silence In the bright house. The clock Ticked on the kitchen shelf, Cinders moved in the grate, And a warm briar gurgled When the old man talked to himself; But the door-bell seldom rang After the milkman went, And if a shirt-hanger Knocked in an open wardrobe That was a strange event To be pondered on for hou
7. [IGW] Irish Catholic Chronicle...28 Sep 1867 "Irish Poor Law" (Louth -- Workhouse/Dundalk) [1]
Forwarded with permission -- Irish Catholic Chronicle And People's News of the Week Dublin, Ireland Saturday, 28th September 1867 THE IRISH POOR-LAW AND IRISH GUARDIANS It is no wonder that the poor should have, as they have, a horror of the workhouse, and that they prefer to beg and starve on the highway rather than accept an asylum which is more like a prison than a benevolent institution, with this exception, that the criminals are better fed than the honest poor, whose downfall in life has drive
8. [IGW] John McGAHERN, "The Leavetaking" (1974) [1]
John McGAHERN wrote,"The doorman in black evening dress tore our tickets in two and we went out of the day into the artificial light of the dancefloor. The band was playing as I entered. The men and women faced each other across an empty floor, where three or four couples, dancers who had gone to dancing schools, were displaying their steps. As the floor gradually filled, those with less confidence took courage. When the floor was filled all dancing was reduced to one happy universal shuffle. As each
9. [IGW] "The Queen's Last Ride" -- ELLA (WHEELER) WILCOX (1850-1919) -- CONNOR/PRATT [1]
BIO: Speaking today of Queen Victoria - I found a little volume of poetry entitled "Poems of Power" by Ella Wheeler WILCOX, published in London in 1910 by Gay & Hancock, Lt., 12 & 13, Henrietta St., Covent Garden, London. (Per the poetess, the title of her volume refers to the divine power in every human being, the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness and that is the idea which many of her verses endeavour to illustrate). When Queen Victoria died, Ella, who was born in WI in
10. [IGW] Irish Migration to New Zealand (1870-1914) [1]
SNIPPET: The Irish presence in NZ began with the earliest white settlement. Levels of migration of 2,000 persons or more annually characterized most of the period 1870 to 1914. Thereafter, Irish migration dropped sharply. In 1881, the Irish as a multigenerational ethnic group comprised about 18.9% of the pakeha (non-Maori) population. That was their high point and the proportion slid slowly downward thereafter, but as late as 1951 it was 16.7%. Roughly 3 out of 4 persons of Irish ethnicity were Catho
11. [IGW] "Father and Son" -- F. R. HIGGINS (1896-1941) [1]
For Father's Day -- FATHER AND SON Only last week, walking the hushed fields Of our most lovely Meath, now thinned by November, I came to where the road from Laracor leads To the Boyne river -- that seemed more lake than river, Stretched in uneasy light and stript of reeds. And walking longside an old weir Of my people's, where nothing stirs -- only the shadowed Leaden flight of a heron up the lean air -- I went unmanly with grief, knowing how my father, Happy though captive in years, walked last with m
12. [IGW] "Cashel of Munster" -- Wm. ENGLISH (d. 1778), trans. S. FERGUSON [1]
CASHEL OF MUNSTER I'd wed you without herds, without money, or rich array, And I'd wed you on a dewy morning at day-dawn gray; My bitter woe it is, love, that we are not far away In Cashel town, though the bare deal board were our marriage bed this day! Oh, fair maid, remember the green hill side, Remember how I hunted about the valleys wide; Time now has worn me; my locks are turned to gray, The year is scarce and I am poor, but send me not, love, away! Oh, deem not my blood is of base strain, my girl,
13. [IGW] Irish American Newspaper, August 13, 1894 [1]
Forwarded with permission -- LIMERICK. On July 25th, Mr. HOBSON, Sub-Sheriff of the county Limerick, with two bailiffs, proceeded to Mungret for the purpose of evicting a tenant on the estate of the Rev. Mr. GWYNNE, named John BRIDGEMAN. When the sheriff, who was accompanied by the agent, Mr. Donal O'BRIEN, arrived at the house, it was found that a large crowd had collected, evidently inclined to offer resistance. Mr. HOBSON formally asked for possession, which was refused, and the bailiffs then endeavo
14. [IGW] "Reflections on Keats' 'Ode To Autumn'" - Joan LAMBERT (contemp.) [1]
For the English on the list -- REFLECTIONS ON KEAT'S' 'ODE TO AUTUMN' The hand that wrote those words has gone, Yet I see, standing here by leafy banks, Those same small mayflies, waltzing One brief hurried spree, And blackberries, jewelled amethysts, sparkling In a shaft of light that fills this evening With pools of molten gold, And, as if his ink had not yet dried, The russet hues of autumn bring his words to life And take my breath away. -- Joan Lambert, 'Poets Corner,' "Best of British Past & Presen
15. [IGW] Voices of Irish Tinkers [1]
Voices of Irish Tinkers -- "We're queer ways travelling people. One night we'll stay and one night we'll not and we'll have the whole camp gone up and thrown into a cart, cocks and roosters and goats and all the crockery and the kettle bar and all your belongings heaped together in a heap on the back of the cart..." "I see no harm in it letting the children do for themselves with a little bit of education, but if it's all the same to you, they gets a fair amount of that at home with all they have to do
16. [IGW] Ireland Newspaper Abstracts [1]
Hi all - Jean has been kind enough to forward some fascinating articles from old newspapers in Ireland and I wanted to share with you Cathy Joynt Labath's website and mailing list information in case anyone wanted to read more of them. The web site address is: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.html Information for joining the old newspapers from Ireland mailing list can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRELAND-OLD-NEWS.html Enjoy! Chris Lopez
17. [IGW] "After The Titanic" -- Derek MAHON (b. Belfast 1941) [1]
AFTER THE TITANIC They said I got away in a boat And humbled me at the inquiry. I tell you I sank as far that night as any Hero. As I sat shivering on the dark water I turned to ice to hear my costly Life go thundering down in a pandemonium of Prams, pianos, sideboards, winches, Boilers bursting and shredded ragtime. Now I hide In a lonely house behind the sea Where the tide leaves broken toys and hat-boxes Silently at my door. The showers of April, flowers of May mean nothing to me, nor the Late ligh
18. [IGW] Irish Catholic Chronicle & People's News; 28 Sep 1867 #1 [1]
Forwarded with permission -- Irish Catholic Chronicle And People's News of the Week Dublin, Ireland Saturday, 28th September 1867 THE TRADES' UNIONS- The Times, in a leader on the despotism and violence of the Trades' Unions, says the public will inquire with some anxiety how these revelations are regarded by the working men in general. It may seem that the masters are wanting in resolution and do not stand by the non-union men, who serve them with sufficient spirit. It must, however, be allowed that
19. [IGW] "Druminchin Hills" (Co. Leitrim) -- Seamus O'ROURKE (contemp.) [1]
On a winter's night in 1993-94 young Seamus O'Rourke left Peter Donohue's public house in Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. He'd take a few pints and by the time he got home his spirits were low. Sitting outside in the darkness he thought about Druminchin, his part of Leitrim, and composed a haunting poem. A carpenter by trade, O'Rourke wouldn't have dreamt of writing anything down, but for days and weeks afterward he would recall and later recite the lines which had flowed that night. His friends Philip and Sean M
20. [IGW] Patrick J. POWER, author "The End of the Honeyflow" (1993) - Father from Co. Wexford [1]
For Father's Day -- Author's Patrick J. Power's collection of short stories, "The End of the Honeyflow," was published by Maywood Books, 9 Maywood Avenue, Raheny, Dublin 5, Ireland, in 1993. Perhaps you can still locate a copy if the subject interests you. Patrick J. Power wrote that no man was prouder of his native county than his father who was born in Park near Duncormick and who joined the Garda Siochana in 1923 For 30 years, his father had carried Wexford in his heart across Ireland from one barrac
21. Fw: [IGW] Surnames Burke & Garrett [1]
I've found this site. Hope it is helpful. Maria http://www.infokey.com/hall/trace.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Rice" To: Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [IGW] Surnames Burke & Garrett > Hi Dorothy, > > Hopefully someone has a surname book on the list, or knows a good website > for same. If so, I hope they will share something about the origins of the > surname. There should also be several good Irish surname books in
22. [IGW] Memorable B&W Photographs Of Ireland - "The Irish Century," M. McCarthy MORROGH (1998) [1]
SNIPPET: Dramatic and memorable b&w photos can be found in "The Irish Century," by Michael MacCarthy MORROGH (1998) - perhaps even someone familiar to you - many from the Hulton GETTY Picture Collection. One of my favorites is a photograph by Fr. BROWNE, S. J., of a little boy in his pedal car in Dublin in 1948 chatting with a gentleman in uniform. Many show children at play and at school, impoverished families gathered around the hearth, toiling in the field or bog, or gutting herring on the quay in C
23. [IGW] RESOURCE: Canada>USA, Irish Border -- Also "Lost Liners/"Empress of Ireland" [1]
See Resource Query Below -- St. Albans (VT) microfilmed record groups, one of my very favorite resources! (See below about the "Empress of Ireland," a ship that some of my family sailed on). Data pertains to any "aliens" crossing back and forth along the ENTIRE border (not just VT) during those years and, as in the case of my father, those coming from Liverpool via Canadian Pacific Railway-owned steamer, (dad's ship was the "Montcalm") then getting off in Quebec City and immediately taking a CPR across C
24. [IGW] Thos. CONOLLY (British Parliament)-- Diary re Fall of Richmond, VA/Confederacy [1]
Dramatic Events of April 1865: Irish fought for both the Union and the Confederacy in the American Civil War, and researchers interested in a beautifully and moving account about the last days of the Confederacy should look for a copy of "Richmond Burning..." (pub. 2002) by Nelson D. LANKFORD, a resident of Richmond and editor of the quarterly journal of the Virginia Historical Society. Lankford weaves testimony from Confederate and Union witnesses, both civilian and military, into his very reader-friend
25. [IGW] Added Note -- Co Wexford (Fethard-on-Sea boycott of 1957) [1]
ADDED NOTE: Thanks to the lister who wrote to tell me that the 1999 film, "A Love Divided," tells the story of the tragic events surrounding the boycott .... SNIPPET: Fethard-on-Sea boycott (1957) was an economic boycott of Protestants in Fethard-on-Sea, Co. Wexford, organized after a local Protestant woman married to a Catholic had refused to honour her promise to educate their children as Catholics, fleeing instead to Belfast. Condemned by the Fianna Fail* government of the day, but supported by a
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