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Hi Jimbo Good work. Your purchase of Fr. Ignatius Murphy’s The Diocese of Killaloe: 1850-1904 is paying dividends. I too failed to find a civil record of the death of Fr. John Clune, You found that the report of his death in the Freeman’s Journal of Mon 14 Jul 1890 gave “yesterday” as the date, but ...

Hi Bev Just something to bear in mind in the course of your research is that Culligan was sometimes spelled “Quilligan”. I’ve looked at the transcription of the Kilrush (St Senan’s) baptisms and see that Sinon’s surname was always spelled Culligan, so that bit of information may not apply to your fa...

Hi Jimbo, When I first read your comment: … would have found it extremely difficult to get his teammates, 16 other Irishmen, to agree upon anything, let alone … I thought those words might have been taken from a report, or letter written at the time, but I see from your reply that the comment is you...

Hi Jimbo Thank you for that very interesting post, especially the work you’ve done on the (at least) four Claremen on the Wolfe Tone team of Brooklyn. I noticed that wrestling is associated with football rather than with hurling. The 1904 photo of the team is indeed a great photo. Here is a photo of...

Hi Jimbo You have done much work on the subject of hurling in a very short time. I found your posting very interesting, and it prompted me to re-read the article you mentioned (by Daniel McCarthy). A book entitled Feakle , by Kieran Sheedy, published by Feakle GAA Hurling Club, 1990, is probably ano...

Hi Jimbo I'm glad you found the sheet music for On Raglan Road for the button accordion. And I'm delighted to tell you that Clare won the All Ireland hurling final on Sunday. They won by a whisker and it was very exciting. It was a wonderful display of speed and skill, combined. The players play jus...

Hi Jimbo The notation for On Raglan Road is same as for The Dawning of the Day (English for Fáinne Geal an Lae) and is available at https://learntinwhistle.com/tabs/the-dawning-of-the-day/, or at https://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/contrib/Tunes/DawningOfTheDayFainneGea...

Last week (5 Jul 2024), the Clare Champion , published an article on Maggie Hinchey, suffragist and labor organizer, by Catriona Crowe, Limerick Genealogy. The article was also published in Irish Genealogy Matters, Vol. 7 No.2, 2024, and is available to read here: https://www.rootsireland.ie/wp-cont...

Here is a great photo from front page of the Irish Times, 25 June 2024; caption: “A fair day: Johnny Meere, Kildysert, Co Clare at the Spancilhill Horse Fair yesterday”: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/06/25/news-in-ireland-irish-weather-julian-assange-natasha-obrien-cathal-crotty-aer-lingus...

Hi Matthew You haven't attached the list and this is probably because the quota for attachments has been reached. I have found that if I delete one of my old attachments (maybe no longer very relevant), I can make a new one. This method might work for you too. Sometimes I have to delete two old atta...

Hi Matthew Richard and Honoria Floyd, Meelick, are mentioned in “News items for Ennis, central Clare, and undertermined places”, contributed by Sharon Carberry on 16 Apr 2008: http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=195&p=373&hilit=Floyd#p373. A notice of Honoria’s death was published in...

You are welcome, Matthew.
I see now that the French know all about Croneens: https://pecheenirlande.info/la-peche-de ... n-shannon/.

Sheila

Hi Matthew I looked in Dineen too, but, as you say, "Cróininí" is not there. But I did find a reference to Croneens in this piece by by Paul Molloy: https://fishinginireland.info/2018/trout-reports/brosna-and-camocor-getting-some-croneen-fishing/. It doesn't tell us what kind of fish Croneens were, ...

Hi Jimbo, Quick note re Patrick Kavanagh: Yes, Yeats would be considered by far the more important poet, but Kavanagh is held in very high regard here, and his poem/song, "On Raglan Road", is much loved. But I want to reply to the main part of your post and am leaving more on that poem to a footnote...

The History of New Quay in 12 Tales , by Kathleen Fawle, was published last year (2023), but I did not know of it until I read a recent review in The Irish Times . The word “tales” in the title has a folksy sound and is a bit misleading, I think: the book is a regular, well researched history of th...