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On behalf of the staffs of Clare County Library and Pictou Antigonish Regional Library I'd like to wish you all a very happy Christmas, with special thanks to those of you who have posted such wonderful information over the past year.
Nollaig Shona, Nollaig Chridheil.
Clare Admin

We've added a new Digital Books service to the library website - based on the Open Library and Internet Archive links which Sharon so kindly posted here. We've made a selection - just over 500 titles - from the more than one million full-text scanned books on the Internet Archive, and we welcome any...

On behalf of Clare County Library I would like to add our condolences to Paddy on the loss of his mother. Paddy Casey has been a true friend to the library, and our thoughts are with him. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Clare Admin

Hello all. We had a section under 'Donated Material' on the Genealogy main page called 'Graveyard Inscriptions and Mortuary Cards'. In response to a recent post by MOD I have now split this in two, creating a separate section for Mortuary/Memorial Cards . As always, Clare County Library welcomes don...

Chapters 3 to 5 of the Delahunty Family History (donated by Catherine Delahunty, Dunedin, New Zealand,) deal extensively with the Francy Hynes murder.
Clare Admin

Thanks for that link Paddy. I've put links to the English and Irish language versions of the placenames database on our (Clare) Places and Placenames page . This page is one of the main points of entry for the whole website - http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/places.htm Regards, Clare ...

Thank you very much for this link, Sharon. Clare County Library has already transcribed and published the bulk of the report on our site ( click here ), and we have now placed a link from that to the scanned document on Google Books . We have made it a little easier for people to find particular nam...

On behalf of the staffs of Clare County Library and Pictou Antigonish Regional Library I'd like to wish you all a very happy Christmas, and a very special season's greetings to all those who posted (and replied to) so many interesting topics over the past year. Nollaig shona daoibh go léir. Clare Ad...

Thank you for this alert, Paddy. We've added a link to the Clare names on the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild website on our Genealogy Links page (under Emigration Records). See http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/links/genealogy.htm . As you say, there is a substantial set of names on this website ...

You're welcome Jim. We do have some videos taken by Bill Bluett on our website, as well as a substantial collection of his photographs. See http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/film/bluett/bluett_films.htm for the videos and http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?archiveId=5012 for the pho...

Hello Jim. The original Ennis website at http://www.ennis.ie is indeed gone. It was a product of the Information Age Town project, and the photographs were available at http://gallery.ennis.ie. If you look for http://www.ennis.ie now you will be redirected to http://www.visitennis.ie, a new tourism ...

Gabrielle,
to my knowledge "The Other Clare" has never been published on the web. A list of contents for Volumes 1 to 27 is available at http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/Journals/Clare.html.
Regards,
Clare Admin

Thank you for this info, Paddy. We've added a link to the NIAH from our Archaeology page, and we’ll be adding individual links from individual pages in that section to individual pages of the NIAH. The aerial photos (combined with the maps) are really useful. Clare Admin

Barabara's two photographs of St. Tola’s Well in the townland of Mollaneen in the parish of Dysert are now included in Foto, our online photographic collection.

See 00010099.jpg and 00010098.jpg

Many thanks to Barabara for her kind donation.
Clare Admin

"Poverty Before the Famine" mentioned by Paddy above is available online on the History section of the library website. Also online here is "A Guide to Ennistymon Union 1839 -1850" and "Ennistymon Union Minute Books 1839 -1850" - both donated by the North Clare Historical Society . "Kilrush Union M...