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- Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:23 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: New Brunswick, Canada: searchable immigrant databases
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4773
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:58 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: West Clare places
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7964
Re: West Clare places
Hi Katrina here is a link to a folklore story from the area it is first in Gaelic and then translated into English I will get back to you again about this I am about to lose my internet link take care moc http://irelandseden.ie/explore-eden/loop-head-peninsula-co-clare/local-stories-and-traditions/t...
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:04 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Newtown CT school shooting may involve Clare descendants
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4528
Re: Newton CT school shooting may involve Clare descendants
Hi Sharon You are right Kane would be Keane... We are getting very sad news here of an unfolding tragedy of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Sandy Hook Newtown CT our sympathies to the bereaved families and friends. This has an added poignancy for me personally as I have been to Sandy Hook...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:55 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22920
Re: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
Thanks Paddy sorry I couldn't make it the other evening there will be other lectures good stuff moc66
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:19 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Family history
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6106
Re: Family history
Yea Lyn I will get the info for you in the next few days there are still Russel's and Mulvihils in Kilkee check the census 1901 on this site and National Archives 1911. I was only talking to a Pat Russell a few days ago big into horses I'm from near Kilkee a place called Querrin It should not be too...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:16 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: More help with a placename, please? [Kildisser]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6497
Re: More help with a placename, please? [Kildisser]
Hi John I would say that Kildisser is a corruption of the spelling , Killadysert or Kildysert now the spelling used is Kildysart it is east of Labasheeda at the entrance of the Fergus Estuary from the River Shannon here is a link to info on Kildysart on the clare lib.website http://www.clarelibrary....
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:51 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22920
Re: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
Hi all
The Sound Cloud link is no longer available I have transferred it to another system called mixcloud hope it is accessible to everyone
http://www.mixcloud.com/moc/cammoge-fer ... ster-1849/
Thanks MOC
The Sound Cloud link is no longer available I have transferred it to another system called mixcloud hope it is accessible to everyone
http://www.mixcloud.com/moc/cammoge-fer ... ster-1849/
Thanks MOC
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:38 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22920
Re: Cammoge Ferry Disaster 1849
[quote="pwaldron"]I've found soundcloud very straightforward, but unfortunately two other readers of this forum have reported to me that they have been unable to listen to the programme, so it doesn't seem to work for everyone.[/ I will check it out with our technical people there is another system ...
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:14 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: A comprehensive listing of Clare emigrants - new project?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 75845
Re: A comprehensive listing of Clare emigrants
Re. this Clare Emigrants project I have just spoken with Tom and the Library and work is in hand on a project description, instructions for participation, data entry templates, and list(s) of "taken" and "not yet taken" parishes which will allow volunteers to opt for one of the parishes not yet bei...
- Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:06 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Happy Christmas to all
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6146
Re: Happy Christmas to all
Hi all Belated Seasons Greetings and a Prosperous New Year to everyone, here in NJ and NY on hols visiting friends and relations and I did not get an adaptor until today so I could use my laptop. I have not been on this site of late due to other committments but have followed what is going on. I hav...
- Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:51 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Who do you think you are?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7287
Who do you think you are?
Hi Just on Irish Television RTE1, http://www.rte.ie/tv/whodoyouthinkyouare/ the first of six part series on the family history of Irish personalities. Episode 1 dealt with well known RTE1 reporter Charlie Bird. The journey took him from Dublin to Macroom Co Cork, Bermuda, Portsmouth England, London ...
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:38 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: UK National Archives podcast: Irish Ancestors
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10370
Re: UK National Archives podcast: Irish Ancestors
Hi Yes Sharon the gas guzzlers are to be seen outside every school, morning and evening since the end of August as kids went back to the classroom. The days of, "To School through The Fields” by Alice Taylor are long gone. The country roads are full of these vehicles and some may only carry their ki...
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:54 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Pender/Pendergast in County Clare
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15275
Re: Pender/Pendergast in County Clare
Hi JV I met Frank Prendergast last week in Kilkee hale and hearty; he does not bother with a computer and doesn’t have email so I showed him the forum and your posts. I have printed out these posts and sent them to Limerick. He was delighted to see the discussion on the Pendergasts/Pender. He has a ...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:13 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Books - "Before the famine struck"; ""A starving people"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8671
Re: Books - "Before the famine struck"; ""A starving people"
Hi Paddy I am delighted you were able to read Fr Murphy’s books, I am attaching a report from the EPPI papers on an outbreak of Cholera in 1854 in the Querrin area : http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/moyarta_townlands.htm , http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/townlands/quer...
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:10 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Irish and Clare history book recommendations
- Replies: 18
- Views: 47312
Re: Irish and Clare history book recommendations
Hi Here is a book with a different look on Ireland's maritime history by Bob Quinn "The Atlantean Irish: Ireland’s Oriental and Maritime Heritage" http://www.conamara.org/atlantean.htm . I will be making comments on Paddy's post The importance of the sea & waterways to Clare history this is just a p...