Library Forum

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...

Hi Jimbo, The word "clitter" was also used in Co Clare. Back in the fifties, if you gave cheek, you might get a clitter. I enjoyed reading that next installment of Michael A MacNamara and The Field. Every parish probably has just such a field - representing a principle, or a matter of honour, or an ...

Hi Jimbo, I enjoyed reading about Michael Augustus MacNamara, who was unusual in those times in having attended university. He comes across as a bit pompous; his poetry was certainly very pompous. His mother was Anne (Nancy) O'Dea, but she's Mary on the headstone. Could Michael Augustus have made a ...

Hi Jimbo, Great work on the Leamnalehy McNamaras. In my experience two graves adjacent to each other, with same surname on the headstones, is enough to show that the two families were closely related. And I do not doubt that Martin was indeed a cousin of James, who was living in Waltham, MA. Great r...

Thank you for those kind words. Hoping to be back soon. Sheila

Hi Jimbo

Thank you for that history - all new to me. I'm not able to make contributions for a while, but still very interested of course.

Sheila