Library Forum

Mike,

I think that is quite likely the case, that a Browne descendant ordered the report and then made a donation of it to the
library. A good idea, as it gets the information out in public where there is a way to access it.

Thanks,
Sharon C.

Not to stir up controversy, but there is a book by Antoinette O'Brien (the director of the Clare Heritage Center at Corofin) apparently available only at the public library in Buffalo NY. Here are the details: The Browne family of Co. Clare by Antoinette O'Brien Publisher: Ireland : Clare Heritage C...

O.K., I'll wade in on this, since my Patrick Carberry (b.c. 1818)was an East Clare contemporary of Rhonda's Tuohys and there are Tuohys (Jeremiah and Michael) in my family's RC records in the parish of O'Callaghan Mills . Father Darby (Jeremiah) Tuohy was in fact parish priest there, just before Pat...

How did I not think of this one before ?? The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) has a searchable set of newspapers from 1890 to 1910, online although having the usual deficiencies of optical recognition. There is a Kentucky paper which provided all sorts of news from back home in Ireland, inclu...

Today I tried a Google search using "digital collections +history" and found my way onto the Yale University site. Yale has its finding aids online but not the actual documents. Although it is a rarity for a family historian to reach records of a social organization unless they are published in book...

There are some interesting parts of the new Harvard University Open Collections website, for Irish matters (just use Ireland as the keyword). I think I also remember something on medical matters, too, which can be reached by advancing up the organizational links from the one provided below. The phot...

19 April 1851 [London] Daily News The Cork Constitution says: On Saturday last the two steamers from Liverpool were freighted with about 1,000 emigrants notwithstanding that the fare had been raised to 7 s. 6 d., to take shipping in that port for America. The day previous the Lord Broughan and Vaux ...

I stumbled into unusually complete cemetery records (only the first ten years or so were not preserved). The online database is easily searchable, even as to cause of death. There are burials for about a half-dozen people of Clare origin. It seems that some of the families of Clare who also owned pr...

An especially prominent Irish merchant in New York, after the Revolution[ary War, with England] , was Michael Hogan. He was a native of the County Clare, Ireland, and was born in 1766. He became a sea captain, sailed to all quarters of the globe, and married an East India lady of great wealth. He ca...

In the course of reading Rosemary Muscarella Ardolina's book on Old Calvary Cemetery: New Yorkers Carved In Stone, I saw a listing to mention, although I have no way of knowing the relationship of that Thomas Smyth to Tim's family shown in the original posting. Gravestone 5156 (as ordered in the boo...

It took me a while to realize this, but a well-known book by Rosemary Muscarella Ardolina is a Google Book. This is her 1996 one on Old Calvary Cemetery, which is (I believe) technically in Queens County but adjacent to Kings County, which is Brooklyn NY. That location is next to Greenpoint, the par...

Collier's Weekly [publication] 28 Nov 1914 “Michael Collins, of County Clare, has been track foreman at a place called Cowley, Pa., ever since June 15, 1973. He never broke the rules and never neglected his duty, according to the official record. Of course that proves how the Irish hate all discipli...

I am now about to hop into my gas-consuming car for a worthy purpose, which is visiting the state archives for the first time. I will keep my eyes open for Irish-related materials. One of my goals is to learn more about a Moylan who intermarried with a Carberry in Savannah in about 1847. I already f...

Continuing on a generally off-topic tangent, I would expect children's obesity rates to be on the increase in Europe, following what is an established phenomenon now in the U.S. Starting the habit of walking in youth seems to yield a lifetime of health benefits. I have just winged my way through sev...

All right, now my curiosity is piqued - how did you learn about children being picked up by parents in SUVs. I have been thinking that that is just a USA issue. I know that realtors (those selling real estate for a living) tool about the Irish boreens in such vehicles, but are the school yards in Cl...