Showing posts with label Irish Central. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish Central. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING APRIL 1st, 2016







FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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* FIND MY PAST


* CORK GENEALOGICAL CONFERENCE 3 parts


* DR. PAUL O'BRIEN... KILRUSH AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Letters from Flo Clancy, 1938-1948 giving a great snapshot of life in Kilrush... from weddings to funerals and all in between...
Exploring County Clare's Armada Past.....


* IRISH CENTRAL
JUST FOR FUN...

* SAGS Society of Australian Genealogists
In preparation for the new Badgery's Creek Airport, gravesites are to be relocated.. including those from St. Johns Anglican Cemetery, Uniting (Methodist) Cemetery and family graves from Anchau Winery. Further details... BCplacemanager@infrastructure.gov.au before April 6, 2016.
If you wish to subscribe to SAGS or just get their newsletter, you can do so here complete this form and get more detail. Lots more info on their newsletters , incl. webinars, lectures and specials on books, etc.

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Lots of great reading for you this week...

Geneareaders’ Circle Hornsby Shire Family History Group
Easter Postcards New York Early 1900s Lorine McGinnis Schulze
HMS Waterwitch Alex Daw
* FREE DOWNLOAD

"IRISH LIVES REMEMBERED"  great genealogy magazine. This is the first issue since this was taken over by Eneclann... always a great read.



* FREE IMAGES

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 25th March, 2016





FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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* AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL HISTORY

A place to find the news behind the facts... why not join in the fun?

Australian Social History


* NORTH COAST FAMILIES Past

Newcastle to Lismore and beyond...

* IRISH CENTRAL


* FIND MY PAST

Other military records a few unusual ones



NSW TRANSCRIPTIONS JUST $18, ENDS MIDNIGHT TUES. 29TH MAR 2016

* UNLOCK THE PAST NEWSLETTER 

 Great specials and news of forthcoming events...


* ABOUT. COM

Wills and probate records uncovering hidden relationships

*ANCESTRY



* INTERESTING BLOGS
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th March, 2016




FRIDAY FOSSICKING
Walter Withers

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* CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY




* GENEALOGY eBOOKS

* IRISH CENTRAL

* THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK

> Explore the exhibition website  the story of Shakespeare's life in London and behind his writing



* FIND MY PAST


* QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES

* INTERESTING BLOGS
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 2016  I'm being self indulgent here, but it gives me an excuse to wish you all a belated Happy St. Patrick's Day...
Those Places Thursday - Thatched Cottages of Ireland Kathryn Creeden (Kathryn's Quest)
No.40 (genealogy news and discounts worldwide) Judy Webster... always worth reading
Preparing to Search a Graveyard -- Part One James Tanner (remember to follow with Part Two )


* LATE NEWS
 Great offer from Claire Santry... Irish Genealogy Toolkit

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and just for interest...
Courtesy of Twisted Genealogy



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Thursday, June 20, 2013

MICHAEL KENNEALLY... the face of Ireland .... 2013

This article appeared some time ago in The Irish Times, back in March 2013. I thought it was well worth sharing.


Hill farmer who never left Ireland but featured in array of international pictorials

Pictures of Michael Kenneally travelled the world



Michael Kenneally was a Co Clare hill farmer who lived all his 82 years at the foot of Mount Callan, overlooking the road from Inagh to Miltown-Malbay. He rarely left Co Clare, and never left Ireland. He never owned a car. Yet, through a series of chance encounters, and his own charm, he enjoyed an unusual and joyous relationship with the media that spanned more than half a century.
Kenneally was 24 when the great American photographer Dorothea Lange saw him working in his fields and drew up to the cottage he shared with his mother, Nora. Lange had been inspired by Conrad Arensberg 's book The Irish Countryman , which described an intact rural society where the people and their culture were rooted in the land. Michael was the seventh generation of Kenneally to farm their 70 acres, and in his warmth and rugged handsomeness Lange found her Irish countryman.
Of the 2,400 photographs taken on Lange's trip to Ireland, Michael Kenneally appears more than any other person. He featured in Lange's photoessay that appeared in Life magazine in March 1955. At the time, Life was the biggest-selling publication in the world.
Kenneally married his childhood sweetheart Bridie McMahon in 1959. They set up home in the Kenneally cottage, and ensured it retained its reputation as a welcoming place for family, neighbours and strangers.
Kenneally was the embodiment of the Ireland we like to sell to our tourists. Although Ireland changed much in his lifetime, Kenneally and the life around him in west Clare didn't. It was those qualities that seemed to draw photographers and other visitors to him.
In 1990, New York photographer Pat Crowe came across Kenneally wearing a "'scarecrow' type of a hat and walking along the road carrying a bucket of water". His photos of Kenneally became part of a cover story in Aer Lingus 's Cara magazine.
In 1991, when 75 of the world's leading photojournalists descended on Ireland for the Day In The Life project, it seemed inevitable that one would find her way to Kenneally's home. Stephanie Maze from National Geographic was the photographer, and although her shots of the Keaneallys didn't appear in the book, they were prominent in the documentary film made about that day.
In 1994, Gerry Mullins began researching the photographs taken by Lange on her 1954 trip. His book Dorothea Lange's Ireland opened with shots of the Keneallys, and it became a bestseller.
This prompted the arrival of many photographers and journalists to Kenneally's door, eager to retrace Lange's footsteps. Subsequent articles appeared in Irish, British and American publications.


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