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1. [IGW] Irish Wolf Hounds -- 1915 San Francisco World's Fair -- Old Missions -- Alcatraz [1]
SNIPPET: In 1848, San Francisco had 820 residents, 200 houses, 2 wharves, 2 hotels, and one newspaper, the "Star," published by an American Sam BRANNEN. When BRANNEN received news of the discovery gold at Sutter's Mill on the American River, about 100 miles to the NE, he led the rush for gold. Only seven persons remained in SF! By 1849, some 40,000 persons had swarmed to the gold fields. As the supply point for the adventurers, SF became a city of tents and shacks filled with gold-hungry men including
2. [IGW] RESOURCE/Lighthouse Keeper records (GB & IRE Database) [1]
Passing this along from another List -- Lighthouse Keeper Database: http://www.lsgb.co.uk/ As an additional part of the ongoing World Lighthouses Project, The Lighthouse Society of Great Britain keeps a computer database of lighthouse keepers in Great Britain and Ireland. We are pleased to answer queries by E-Mail or paper mail .....
3. [IGW] Impressions - Emigrants & Travellers [1]
EMIGRATION: "I was called on deck to smell the land -- and truly the change was very sensible...It was the breath of youth and hope and love." -- Diary of Mary GAPPER. Regarding immigration to Quebec in 1847: "I spent a considerable part of the day watching a shark that followed in our wake with great constancy..the mate said it was a certain forerunner of death." -- Robert WHYTE, "The Ocean Plague, or A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel, Embracing a Quarantine at Grosse Isle in 1847, with
4. [IGW] Women's National Health Assoc/Ireland - Guidelines/TB patients early 1900s [1]
SNIPPET: Where government had nothing to offer, and charity was both insufficient and cold-hearted, the people at the bottom of the heap had to rely on one another. Areas like the Lanes of Limerick or the Liberties of Dublin were looked on with horror by people who lived elsewhere as the abodes of dirt and crime. Within these close-packed streets, however, there was often an enduring spirit of community and mutual help despite all the frictions and hardships. A particularly grim reality for the poorer
5. [IGW] FORDE/GEORGE [1]
Thanks JM for taking the time to locate the parents of my Sarah GEORGE on the census! It was very much appreciated. The Rosina GEORGE you found is Sarah's other sister! (Someone else wrote to say that Sarah, herself is to be found misspelled on a census as Sarah "Georgie") Again - Thanks so much for looking. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: Morganjoemorgan@aol.com To: IRISH-AMERICAN-L-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: FORDE/GEORGE you may be interested in
6. [IGW] Nenagh Guardian News Index no 4 [1]
Index no 4, to the Nenagh Guardian (newspaper, in Co Tipperary) for the years 1838 and 1839 has been uploaded http://www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/nenagh04.htm best wishes Jenny Fawcett
7. [IGW] "Block City" -- Scotland's Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-1894) [1]
For the Scots on the List -- BLOCK CITY What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home. Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me: A kirk and a mill and a palace beside, And a harbour as well where my vessel may ride. Great is the palace with pillar and wall, A sort of a tower on the top of it all, And steps coming down in an orderly way To where
8. [IGW] "International Festival of the Sea," Portsmouth, August 1998 -- Peter KELLY [1]
SNIPPET: Peter KELLY, editor of "Best of Britain, Past & Present" magazine, remarked in the November 1998 issue that a significant find in the shape of a cine film of the ill-fated "Titanic" had been found after 86 years in a garden shed. Footage included the liner at Belfast before leaving for Southampton, icebergs at sea at the point of sinking, taken a day later, footage of Captain SMITH taken a few months earlier and the White Star Line offices in New York besieged by people anxious for news of the d
9. [IGW] "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" -- Adrienne RICH (contemp.) [1]
PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you, much will evade you, at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door. -- Adrienne Rich
10. [IGW] Victorian Travels in Kerry - 1888 (Killarney>>Valentia via Mail-car) O'CONNELL/LOVETT [1]
KERRY -- Victorian traveller Richard LOVETT described visit from Killarney to Valentia by mail-car circa 1888: The mail-car gives many a trait, life-study, amusing incident, or friendly chat, utterly unknown to those who journey in Ireland only by special car or by tourist-crowded coach or omnibus. But he who goes from Killarney to Valentia by mail-car has to get up early. It is timed to leave the post-office at 5:30 A.M., and does so, unless detained by the mail-train being late, a state of affairs w
11. [IGW] Rural Life & Customs - "Fairy Darts," etc. [1]
SNIPPET: In past centuries rural life in Ireland centered on the "clachan" a family commune of cottages with its rituals designed to placate unseen forces and invoke the help of friendly deities to protect the crops and inhabitants. People strongly believed that fairies, witches, elves, earth, seed, the sun, seasons and farm animals were all part of nature and were accorded respect. The crucial principle was harmony with nature, and any activity that ran counter to that was strictly outlawed. The seri
12. [IGW] John Kells INGRAM (1823-1907) -- "National Presage" [1]
NATIONAL PRESAGE Unhappy Erin, what a lot was thine! Half-conquered by a greedy robber band; Ill governed with now lax, now ruthless hand; Misled by zealots, wresting laws divine To sanction every dark or mad design; Lured by false lights of pseudo-patriot league Through crooked paths of faction and intrigue; And drugged with selfish flattery's poisoned wine. Yet, reading all they mournful history, Thy children with a mystic faith sublime, Turn to the future, confident that Fate, Become at last thy friend,
13. [IGW] The Time I've Lost In Wooing" -- Thos. MOORE (1779-1852) [1]
THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. Though wisdom oft has taught me I scorn the lore that bought me, My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. Her smile when beauty granted, I hung with gaze enchanted, Like him, the sprite, Whom maids by night Oft meet in glen that's haunted. Like him, too, beauty won me, But while her eyes were on me, If once their ray Was turned a
14. Re: [IGW] Women's National Health Assoc/Ireland - Guidelines/TB patients early 1900s [1]
Hello Jean, do you have any idea where I could obtain " The Poems of R.D.Williams"? I have tried Amazon both here and the U.K. also abebooks.com. I can follow up on any clue from you or anyone else on the list. Best regards, Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Rice" To: Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 5:15 PM Subject: [IGW] Women's National Health Assoc/Ireland - Guidelines/TB patients early 1900s > SNIPPET: Where government had nothing to of
15. [IGW] "An Old Country Priest Examines His Conscience" - Jim KING (contemp.) [1]
AN OLD COUNTRY PRIEST EXAMINES HIS CONSCIENCE Life here is built on ritual -- Rituals of the Church, rituals of the land -- The codes by which men know where they stand. "Normal" is a blessing eagerly given, "God" an uneasy bedfellow treated As cautiously as a nosey neighbor. Cushioned on a bed of petty expectations My ways have grown lazy -- A comfort seeded in quiet seclusion. Weekly, I polish the platitudes For another Sunday stroll; sermons That soothe the surface of my solitude. Christenings, wedding
16. [IGW] "The Dying Girl" -- Richard D'Alton WILLIAMS (1822-1862) [1]
THE DYING GIRL >From a Munster vale they brought her, >From the pure and balmy air; An Ormond peasant's daughter, With blue eyes and golden hair. They brought her to the city And she faded slowly there -- Consumption has no pity For blue eyes and golden hair. When I saw her first reclining Her lips were mov'd in prayer, And the setting sun was shining On her loosen'd golden hair. When our kindly glances met her, Deadly brilliant was her eye; And she said that she was better, While we knew that she must di
17. [IGW] "The Rare Old Mountain Dew" -- Dublin's Samuel LOVER (1797-1868) [1]
RARE OLD MOUNTAIN DEW Let the grasses grow and the waters flow in a free and easy way But give me enough of the rare old stuff that's made near Galway Bay Come gangers all from Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim too Oh, we'll give 'em a slip and we'll take a sip of the rare old mountain dew thiddle I ay di diddle dum thiddle I ay di diddle dum thiddle I ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey thiddle I ay di diddle dum thiddle I ay di diddle dum thiddle I ay di diddle dum rum a dum dey There's a neat little still at the
18. [IGW] KERNAGHAN-KEENAN MARRIAGE IN ONTARIO, CANADA [1]
Hi, all. I'm looking for descendants of William and Anne Kernaghan of Normanby. He died there in 1883, and Anne died sometime after the turn of the century. They had four children - Wilson, William, Martha (a spinster) and Elizabeth Jane who maried Matthew Mearns (am not sure of the spelling of that last name.) I know where William went but don't have a clue about the others. I have come across some family items belonging to this family and desperately wish to find descendants so I can put it in
19. [IGW] Fw: Added Note -- The Union''s "Fighting 69th/"Irish Brigade" [1]
Dear List -- Thought you might be interested in two of the responses I received regarding my "Irish Brigade" post, and forwarded with permission: Dear Jean, > > It is indeed 'Jack'. I hereby authorize you to forward anything which I might write to anyone or any list whatsoever; and to include my e-mail address, if you choose to do so. The ballad in question is on a CD by Derek Warfield, "Sons of Erin". Here's the URL of the Irish Brigade Store, for further details.
20. [IGW] Maria EDGEWORTH & Charlotte BRONTE -- Famous Women Writers of England w/ Irish Roots -- "The Mentor" 1 June 1915 [1]
The Mentor Association was established for the development of a popular interest in art, literature, science, history, nature, and travel per their magazine which was published twice a month in NYC. Their magazines were accompanied by intaligo-gravure pictures illustrating their subjects. The June 1, 1915 issue featured famous women writers of England to include George Eliot (Mary Ann or Marian Evans, who chose the name "George Eliot" to conceal her identity as a woman), Jean Ingelow, Jane Austen, Elizab
21. [IGW] Valentia Island & Atlantic Telegraph Co. -- Victorian Travel Circa 1888 (LOVETT) [1]
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 make the
22. [IGW] Restoration Projects in Ireland -- Skerries Windmills, other.... [1]
SNIPPET: In 1999 the Skerries Mills Project was opened to the public. Two windmills and a watermill have been restored to working order to show how grain was ground and bread baked before the days of electrical power. Surrounded by green fields and a reed-fringed lake and offering light meals and a craft shop, this is a perfect spot to spend half a day away from the city of Dublin. Windmills were plentiful in Ireland until the more reliable power of steam led to their abandonment in the 19th century. M
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24. [IGW] "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" -- W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) [1]
IN MEMORY OF W. B. YEATS (d. Jan. 1939) Written on the eve of the Second World War 1. He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day. Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet
25. [IGW] "Glenview Hotel Gardens, Co. Wicklow" -- Mary GUCKIAN (contemp.) [1]
GLENVIEW HOTEL GARDENS CO. WICKLOW Down in the gardens I walk among trees and flowers. The colours are a revelation, and every year I see more beauty stretch before my eyes. I wonder at the power of nature and why I am here. On the main road cars fly past, as people return to the city after the long week-end, but in the midst of this enthralling landscape, I think only of Pauline and how she was taken from us three weeks ago. How she would have loved this place of tall trees and birdsong. Most of all, I
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