FRIDAY FOSSICKING 13th May 2022

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

QLD State Library newsletter  Celebrate 120 years of State Library!

Brisbane Writers Festival is on!  and lots more, see newsletter.

GSQ blog ‘Have you wondered?   Pauleen Cass

ABC News: When Nick bought a $300,000 sculpture to 'give back' to his community, it 'ripped the town in half'

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans(84): an orphan’s impact on her descendant | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Origin of Friday 13th.. Wikipedia

Tinteán Magazine

The Irish Civil War    Ulysses @ 100   Are the Torys Irish?     

Playing with Pennies     His First Rodeo A Chéad Róidió

From the Papers    What’s On….   Sixty Years of Ireland     

A postcard from my sister      New Irish Fiction    

Atlas Obscura

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park  7 Perplexing Puzzles      Upton Chamber Massachusetts   China’s Puzzle Balls

Graves of David and Mabel Todd  Thor's Rock England

Can You Merge Africa and Europe? Revealing Ancient Sudan’s Past 

Montreal’s Legendary Melon   Giant 'Luecke' Signature   

Forged Sculptures Tracing the Roots of an Imperial Cuisine

Happy Island Grenadines Who’s A Good Dog?  Blue Front Cafe

Meet a Coconut-Obsessed Cult Leader   Shark Girl New York

World's Largest Hockey Stick & Puck Wage War on Moss Balls

Growing Oil At An Emperor’s Villa   All-Ages Prehistoric Cave Art

Taste Honey Like a Sommelier   Val's Rapid Service

Protective Poison Armor Sweden Solar System  The Mizpah Hotel

World’s Loneliest Post Office   Koi Fish Cafés    Chicken Farmer Rock

The Italian Streets That Don’t Exist Barracuda Lake Philippines

Forestiere Underground Gardens   Real-World Fairy Tale Locations

The Flying Nun Hungary Photo Colorizers Muddy Waters’ Cabin

B.B. King’s Tour Bus  Marilyn Monroe's Crypt

Outback Family History

John Minden Caulfeild – grave tales    No Good at Sewing –

Dollypot – The voice of the men who made the country

The Greatest Polo Match – a verse

JSTOR Daily

Here We Are Again!—How Joseph Grimaldi Invented the Creepy Clown   Ukraine's National Poet     Fast Horses and Eugenics

Deep Zoom: 1836 Broadside “Slave Market of America”

How “Talkies” Disrupted Movies for Deaf People

The Bug in the Computer Bug Story 

Teaching Citizenship in the Falling Ottoman Empire

IRISH CENTRAL

What's your Irish County? County Donegal - IrishCentral 

How sods of turf almost brought the Irish Government to its knees - IrishCentral

Dear Mom, I'm going to Ireland! - IrishCentral 

African American Irish Diaspora Network's Awards Gala - IrishCentral

Here's why planting a native tree in Ireland is the perfect Irish gift this Mother's Day - IrishCentral 

County Cavan: Facts and stats - IrishCentral 

All the basics and some fun facts about: County Fermanagh - IrishCentral 

Details of Ireland's National Famine Commemoration 2022 revealed - IrishCentral 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Pauline Conolly

NUTCOTE – THE ENCHANTING WORLD OF MAY GIBBS

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 6 May 2022

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Walks in the Yorkshire Dales – Walk One: Grassington to Kettlewell

The Legal Genealogist

Stories cut short

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Bertha Blumenfeld Fernich: Another Family Destroyed in the Holocaust

Humoring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Happy Mother’s Day

Hapgoods from Marksbury

The Hapgood family and the founding of the Kin Kin Methodist Church 1916.

allenrizzi

When It Was Time To Say Goodbye

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

 #OTD in Irish History | 9 May:

Family History Across the Seas

Reflections on A to Z 2022

Owlcation

Irish Women and Children Transported to Australia as Convicts 

Tales from the Grave

The catastrophic fate of the Burns boys

The Legal Genealogist

About that mama’s age

elthamhistory

ThrowbackThursday: Poems by Gwendoline Davies

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Social Media Blast Tour: Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott

Better Reading

Book of the Week:Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper     READ MORE

The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham.   READ MORE

The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno    READ MORE

Devil House by John Darnielle      READ MORE

Podcast: Better Reading Top 100: Craig Silvey on the Books that Shaped his Childhood

Podcast: Beth O’Leary on Why She Loves Writing Romance

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th May 2022, interesting newsletters & blogs , Meet Eva Frank, Puritan Fashion Rules, repair old parchment, indigenous gravesites, creepy fake town, Podcast : Ireland and Ukraine, The Joy of Eating Insects (?), Swamp Pop Museum, Humming led her to the world stage, Murder in the Dark, 

and a whole lot more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/05/friday-fossicking-6th-may-2022.html

Headlines of Old

UNCLAIMED LETTERS...Trove Tuesday 10th May 2022, not available to claim, perhaps a clue as to where ancestors lived, examples as to sites that might help trace some of those mentioned.. Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/05/unclaimed-letters-trove-tuesday-10th.html

Keep safe and well. 
This will pass.