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1. [IGW] "Trip Home to Ireland "-- MURPHY, SLOYAN, MAGUIRE, REYNOLDS, LEE, BRADY, MULVEY [1]
Closing the Distance -- James Murphy, A Trip Home to Ireland September 1930. Age 16, my mother, Kathleen Sloyan, the second of eight children, leaves her home in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo. She will marry, raise three children and die in Brooklyn, NY, at age 53, without ever returning home. We have no photos of her as a child. With my first wage as a paper boy, I bought her a 78 rpm record that had "Mayo" in the title. Her hug was a full world. Her eyes filled, and for years I bought her anything that had
2. [IGW] Circus in Ireland -- Philip ASTLEY (London Showman circa 1784) [1]
SNIPPET: Circus entertainment in its modern form came to Ireland in 1784 when Philip ASTLEY, a former soldier and established London showman, opened a riding school and auditorium for equine displays in Dublin. However, performing animals and travelling exhibitions of exotic species had been known at least from the mid-17th century, while roving groups of performers such as acrobats have even older roots. Astley's success, perpetuated by his son, did not immediately lead to a succession of Irish imitator
3. [IGW] Hatton SMYTH [1]
Hello, I am new to this list, so please excuse me if I broach any protocols! I am seeking advice/info to assist my search for my great grandfather, Dr Hatton SMYTH. The 1881 UK Census said he was living in Poole, Dorset, a 33 year old widower. He was born in Ireland and obtained his medical degree from the University of Dublin. That's all I know. He named his son Clive Hatton Pelham Smyth, so I wondered if Hatton and Pelham were family names. Searches trying to link them, ie the wedding of a Hatton to a
4. [IGW] Kevin WHITE - Boston, MA Mayor (1967-83) -- McGOVERN [1]
BIO: Kevin WHITE's tenure as Boston's mayor (1967-83) made him its first mayor to serve four consecutive terms. The son of two former Boston City Council presidents, White's early years in office were considered successful. He revitalized downtown Boston and attempted to ease racial tensions. His success led presidential candidate George McGOVERN to consider him as a running mate in the 1972 election. Boston's famous 1974 public school desegregation was met with prolonged and vehement protest from Bost
5. [IGW] "Love Of The Horse" -- Barbara DIAMOND (contemp.) [1]
LOVE OF THE HORSE With narrowed eyes they judged the field He informed, the Grey's sire, was a great mover. She remarked, The Chestnut's dam had a sweet mouth. Red, yellow, blue, racing silks of every hue, rippled in the sunlight across the flickering screen. Around the room lay tarnished trophies. Walls, a mosaic of photographs of mares and foals. Room corners holding drifts of magazines and books, listing bloodlines. Stating what sires were standing where, and for how much. The crumbling mansion, revea
6. [IGW] John MONTAGUE (b. 1929) -- "All Legendary Obstacles" [1]
ALL LEGENDARY OBSTACLES All legendary obstacles lay between Us, the long imaginary plain, The monstrous ruck of mountains And, swinging across the night, Flooding the Sacramento, San Joaquin, The hissing drift of winter rain. All day I waited, shifting Nervously from station to bar As I saw another train sail By, the San Francisco Chief or Golden Gate, water dripping >From great flanged wheels. At midnight you came, pale Above the negro porter's lamp. I was too blind with rain And doubt to speak, but Re
7. [IGW] James KENNEY (1780-1849) -- "The Old Story Over Again" [1]
THE OLD STORY OVER AGAIN When I was a maid, Nor of lovers afraid, My mother cried, "Girl, never listen to men." Her lectures were long. But I thought her quite wrong. And I said, "Mother, whom should I listen to, then?" Now teaching, in turn, What I never could learn, I find, like my mother, my lessons all vain; Men ever deceive, Silly maidens believe, And still 'tis the old story over again. So humbly they woo, What can poor maidens do But keep them alive when they swear they must die? Ah! who can forb
8. [IGW] "An Old Lady" -- Derek MAHON (b. Belfast 1941) [1]
AN OLD LADY The old motorbike she was The first woman in those Parts to ride - a noble Norton - disintegrates With rusty iron gates In some abandoned stable; But lives in sepia shades Where an emancipated Country schoolteacher Of nineteen thirty-eight Grins from her frame before Broaching the mountain roads. Forty years later she Shakes slack on the fire To douse it while she goes Into Bushmills to buy Groceries and newspaper And exchange courtesies. Then back to a pot of tea And the early-evening ne
9. [IGW] "Going To School" -- Leslie SCRASE (contemp.) [1]
GOING TO SCHOOL The milkman's horse began to trot, the milk float ran behind, and we who ran and jumped and held were taken for a ride. The milkman turned and growled at us who clung on tight behind, but we who'd run and jumped and held were taken for a ride. The milkman reached and took his whip and flicked it every way, and we jumped off and ran to school -- it happened every day. -- Leslie Scrase, "Poet's Corner," in "Best of British, Past & Present" mag. June 1998
10. [IGW] "Knights of Columbus" - Michael J. McGIVNEY, New Haven, CT - (BOWERS) [1]
SNIPPET: A private society for Roman Catholic men, the Knights of Columbus was founded by Irish-American priest Michael J. McGIVNEY and several laymen in 1882 in New Haven, CT, as a fraternal society designed to provide friendship and care to needy members and their families. An insurance fund was established to pay for the funeral of a deceased member and provide his family with short-term financial support. The Knights also defended Catholicism from attackers. In 1914, they established a Commission
11. [IGW] Catherine McAULEY (1778-1841) -- Founder, "Sisters of Mercy" [1]
BIO: Catherine McAuley (1778-1841), was the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, oen of the two largest and most widely distributed ordres of nuns in Ireland. Born in Dublin into a mixed Catholic/Protestant back ground, she inherited a considerable fortune. Initially concerned with the accommodation and protection of working girl sin houses of mercy, run by a group of ladies living in community and praying together, her sisterhood was persuaded by local priets and the bishop to adopt a formal religious ident
12. [IGW] CANADIAN ARCHIVE LOOK UPS [1]
I am planning to be in Ottawa in March and spend some time at the National Archives. If anyone would like some lookups, please let me know. I will do my best. Debbie Ontario
13. [IGW] "Girl Of The Red Mouth" -- Martin MacDERMOTT (1823-1905) [1]
GIRL OF THE RED MOUTH Girl of the red mouth, Love me! Love me! Girl of the red mouth, Love me! 'Tis by its curve, I know, Love fashioneth his bow, And bends it -- ah, even so! Oh, girl of the red mouth, love me! Girl of the blue eye, Love me! Love me! Girl of the dew eye, Love me! Worlds hang for lamps on high; And thought's world lives in thy Lustrous and tender eye -- Oh, girl of the blue eye, love me! Girl of the swan's neck, Love me! Love me! Girl of the swan's neck, Love me! As a marble Greek dot
14. [IGW] Famous Individuals Named RUTLEDGE (McNAMAR) [1]
Ann RUTLEDGE (1816-1835), became famous as Abraham LINCOLN's first sweetheart. Romantic stories of their tragic love affair are based more on legend that on fact. Ann was the daughter of the innkeeper in New Salem, IL, where Lincoln lived for a time. She was engaged to John McNAMAR, a wealthy settler. He left for the East, and there were doubts that he would return to marry Ann. Meanwhile, she accepted Lincoln's proposal of marriage. But shortly afterward, she became ill and died. John RUTLEDGE (17
15. [IGW] Toomebridge, Co. Antrim -- Ancient Irish farm unearthed [1]
Ancient Irish farm unearthed Rosie Cowan, Ireland correspondent Monday January 13, 2003 The Guardian Road excavations in Northern Ireland have unearthed what appears to be evidence of the island's earliest settlers and first farmers. As the diggers moved in to work on the Toome bypass, outside Toomebridge in Co Antrim, archaeologists found more than 10,000 artefacts, including stone age axe heads and flints from 9,400 years ago, through to bronze age times about 4,500 years ago. Paul McCooey, of Northern
16. [IGW] "A Brigid's Girdle" -- Derry's Seamus HEANEY - St. Brigid's Day, Feb. 1st [1]
A BRIGID'S GIRDLE Last time I wrote I wrote from a rustic table Under magnolias in South Carolina As blossoms fell on me, and a white gable As cleaned-lined as the prow of a white liner Bisected sunlight in the sunlit yard. I was glad of the early heat and the first quiet I'd had for weeks. I heard the mocking bird And a delicious, articulate Flight of small plinkings from a dulcimer Like feminine rhymes migrating to the north Where you faced the music and the ache of summer And earth's foreknowledge ga
17. [IGW] World War II and Ireland's Policy of Neutrality [1]
When WWII broke out in 1939, Eamon de Valera's government announced a policy of strict neutrality. However, Northern Ireland (still very much part of the United Kingdom) was to play a significant role in WWII as England depended heavily upon its factories and shipyards to produce vital war supplies. This invited German attack, and Nazi air raids in April and May of 1941 killed 700 in Belfast and left 100,000 homeless. In violation of official Irish neutrality, German bombers also struck Dublin in May 19
18. [IGW] "Fire Upon the Hearth" -- Katharine TYNAN (1861-1931) - A Tribute to Women [1]
"Fire Upon the Hearth" I am the pillar of the house: The keystone of the arch am I. Take me away, and roof and wall would fall to ruin utterly. I am the fire upon the hearth. I am the light of the good sun. I am the heat that warms the earth. Which else were colder than a stone. At me the children warm their hands:I am their light of love alive Without me cold the hearthstone stands. Nor could the precious children thrive. I am the twist that holds together The children in its sacred ring. Their knot of lo
19. [IGW] "O'Rourke's Table" - Brian LEYDEN (contemp.) [1]
O'ROURKE'S TABLE August bank holiday weekend Sunlight coming through the hazels As we climb the steep path, Fresh bark on the irregular steps Up the slope of O'Rourke's table. "You'll get an indulgence for this," a woman says Stopping at the water gallon half-way up. Printed histories on the notice boards Are an excuse to delay and catch my breath. And hill people twice my age plough on. Sunlight hammers down on the anvil flat Hill-top where the O'Rourkes of Breifne, Held their banquets before that bothe
20. [IGW] Boston's Henry KNOX - Son of No. IRE immigrants/Nation's 1st Sec. of War [1]
BIO: Fort Knox, KY, Knox Co., ME, and Knoxville, TN all bear this gentleman's name: Henry KNOX (1750-1806) was born in Boston to immigrants from Northern Ireland. He was the proprietor of the London Book Store in Boston until he joined a local artillery company at age 18. In 1775 he brought 50 cannon (much needed artillery) from captured Fort Ticonderoga, thus saving them from British capture. KNOX was promoted to brigadier-general after he directed George WASHINGTON's famous 1776 Christmas n
21. [IGW] "Theresa's Friends" - Robert CREELEY (Contemp.) [1]
THERESA'S FRIENDS >From the outset charmed by the soft, quick speech of those men and women, Theresa's friends -- and the church she went to, the "other," not the white plain Baptist I tried to learn God in. Or, later, in Boston the legend of "being Irish," the lore, the magic, the violence, the comfortable or uncomfortable drunkenness. But most, that endlessly present talking, as Mr. Connealy's, the ironmonger, sat so patient in Cronin's Bar, and told me sad, emotional stories with the quiet air of an
22. Re: [IGW] McGinty/Donegal FILBY VOLUMES [1]
Hi Lisa, Check and see if your genealogy library has the Filby Volumes, a set of about 10 volumes. Mr. Filby painstakingly transcribed data from hundreds of passengers lists and fragments thereof of emigrants worldwide to America and Canada over a period of a great, great many years ending circa early 1900s. Maybe you will get lucky. The names are alphabetical by surname but keep in mind alternate spellings. Be sure you keep track of which volumes you have looked in. Jean ----- Original Message ----- Fr
23. [IGW] Philip LARKIN (1922-1985) - "Dublinesque" [1]
Poet Philip LARKIN (1922-1985) was born in Coventry, England. He worked at various libraries including the university at Hull and was at one time the assistant librarian at Queen's University in Belfast. DUBLINESQUE Down stucco sidestreets Where light is pewter And afternoon mist Brings light on in shops Above race-guides and rosaries, A funeral passes. The hearse is ahead But after there follows A troop of streetwalkers In wide flowered hats, Leg-of-mutton sleeves And ankle-length dresses. There is an
24. [IGW] "The Man Upright" -- Thomas MacDONAGH (1878-1916) [1]
THE MAN UPRIGHT I once spent an evening in a village Where the people are all taken up with tillage, Or do some business in a small way Among themselves, and all the day Go crooked, doubled to half their size, Both working and loafing, with their eyes Stuck in the ground or in a board, For some of them tailor, and some of them hoard Pence in a till in their little shops, And some of them shoe-soles -- they get the tops Ready-made in England, and they die cobblers -- All bent up double, a village of hobble
25. [IGW] Added Note -- "The Forge" -- Derry's Seamus HEANEY [1]
Received this response in regards to Heaney's fine poem, "The Forge" -- Dear Jean, My grandfather & two of his sons were blacksmiths. This poem reminds me so much of them. My uncles did show me how they made the horseshoes & I have one as a remembrance. This time was in 1949 on my first visit to beautiful Ireland with my dear Mother. Thank you so much for sharing these lovely poems with us. Best Regards, Mary Jo
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