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Subject: Re: Whiskey Island
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:38:50 EST


Carolyn~
Good point! I considered a "Beach Book". However, I found much of the
research done was quite accurate. In fact, I had thought at first that St.
Bridget was used in place of St. Malachi. The wonderful Lonny McCauley told
me that there was a St. Bridget's in the early days. Just not where the book
places it. She had found this in her research.
In Ireland, families are very curious about the lives of family members
who emigrated in those long ago times. What was their life like, better or
worse, different or similar? Was there any type of persecution for their
religion. They (at least our families in Mayo and Wexford) were not aware of
"The Irish Need Not Apply" signs. The fact that their family members found
their ways to Cleveland and not NYC, Boston or Philli, meant that they had
little information on the Ohio and in our case, Pittsburgh also, Irish
communities. This novel gave them a peak into the status of the post famine
emigrant. I sent over two copies which were being passed around the Westport
area and on Achill.

Mary Ellen Chambers

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