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Excellent to learn more of the very active Mons. Nono -- I would never have guessed that he was such a fixture of the Ennis scene. With 10 children I wonder how well that mutton stretched ? I guess the half-barrel of ale was well deserved and much needed. As a personal aside on this, the English-Iri...

Sheila, I now see you have also added onto this thread, for your query on how to access more of John O'Donovan's commentary resulting from his official work in the 1830s while working on the Ordnance Survey around the island. You have seen what he produced for Galway as well as Sixmilebridge CLA. Th...

Before I lose sight of my screen-shotted news item, here is a slice of Clare life in a decade largely lost to time: Freeman’s Journal 26 Sep 1871 p.1 The Christian Brothers’ Raffle, Ennis The following is a List of the Winning Numbers: - Piano, won by Mr. Mitchel, Portumna. Gold Watch, won by D. M’N...

Sheila, not to worry. The digital version of the name book commentary done by O'Donovan is available on askaboutireland.ie, but so that folks are aware that all 32 counties were and are not available, here is the description accessed today on the Royal Academy website: The Royal Irish Academy holds ...

Kurt, I am not overly surprised that you couldn't access the involved newspaper database site by simply landing on the site from the Internet in general. When these free-access days pop up around holidays, I use the link provided in postings by other family historians made on sites like r/Genealogy ...

The celebration of Father's Day in the U.S. has brought free access to Newspapers.com with its very handy search engine. Although I was looking for other items, this one caught my eye since I know the involved library, personally visited during many a lunchtime while working in Waterbury, Connecticu...

I am all ears on anything that provides context for Fr. Quaid's leaving behind his longtime Limerick home ground. Thanks very much for these observations; as you likely know, I don't have access to the Ignatious Murphy work. There was a lot going on in Clare then and specifically this parish's area ...

I realize that more is coming on the Capt. MIchael Macnamera thread, for which the Macnamera side is outlined through the early 1900s. I can't contribute directly on the Finucane-O'Brien birth family of Mary who was the military man's wife, the one who seems to be too young to fit an 1804 wedding (w...

Sheila and Jimbo, I also see a Catholic Rev. James Finucane McNamara as a bit of an anomaly for his time, and I heartily likewise send congrats on connecting the dots revealing his demise. I have spent some of the past days looking over what I can find definitively on his birth family. The good news...

Sheila, this is a much shorter reply than the long one that evaporated when I clicked to post it. My description of the Donlon lecture was lifted from the migration series' webpages, that it would cover Tuke's assisted migrations from 1875 into the early 1900s. The lecture's focus instead was on 188...

,,,who was the Rev. James F. McNamara, parish priest of Kilnoe between 1828 and 1831 / 1832? He does not appear on the 1836 Catholic directory of Irish priests, so he doesn't appear to have transferred to another parish. Jimbo, FWIW going over my extensive McNamara notes, I also am unable to find a...

May 24 online event, requiring registration on a safe site Not squarely a Co. Clare topic, but a great one for those of us who have dipped a toe into the vast lake of immigrants drawn to Minnesota in the 1800s. The Irish were some of the first there, suffering through Native American raids on settle...

It was surprising to me that the Right Rev. Dr. Patrick McMahon felt threatened enough to move from his "country home" to Ennis during the Terry Alt violence of 1831. I failed to discover where the Bishop of Killaloe (diocese) was living at the time (I don't believe it was Killaloe Parish). A candi...

Sheila, I enjoyed reading the modern essays on some very old places in East Clare. The aspect of where and when wooded areas have been cultivated is an interesting take on the subject of land management there. Since I already had to become familiar with the name Matthew Boland in East Clare (my DNA ...

Jimbo, your exposition of pre-1840 diocesan matters at the highest level in East Clare is truly illuminating and well needed by me since my understanding is limited to what a mere parishioner could discern. One nitpicking observation: during your editing window of time, a reader of your posting will...