FRIDAY FOSSICKING Jan 8th, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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WISHING YOU EVERY SUCCESS FOR THIS NEW YEAR


ANCESTRY

Just a few of the collections now available as of last year...
*U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
* German Phone Directories, 1915–1981
*Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903–1980
*Virginia, Birth Records, 1864–2014
*Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936–2014
*Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919–1961
*North Carolina Marriage Records, 1741–2011
*Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952
* Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1813
* U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875–1940
* U.S. Wills and Probates

TWISTED TWIGS ON GNARLED BRANCHES GENEALOGY
* Time to Tally Up Your Family Tree for 2016 – Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches Genealogy

LIMERICKS LIFE
* http://limerickslife.com/workhouse-emigration/

IRISH TIMES
* http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/irish-roots-free-range-grass-fed-irish-genealogy-1.2473667

FAMILIES IN BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY
* Made by the British and approved by Jahangir: A 17th-century map of India

TROVE
* Trove’s Old Newspapers – What’s Due in the Next Six Months

OTHER THAN TROVE.. a few to add to your bookmarks
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online
* FINLAND  http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomale...cure/main.html
* ONTARIO- CANADA http://www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html
* Chronicling America
* Remember to use, or apply for if you don't have one, your State and National Library Cards for Australia. These will give you free access tho a whole lot of publications including The Times and a number of Irish newspapers. There are far too many to list here...

* MAPS REVEAL HOW LONG IT TAKES TO TRAVEL IN 1914 AND 2016


IRISH CENTRAL
* 130 years of Irish life in photos
*   Roots Top 100 Irish last names explained
*    News How an ancient Irish title died with the last Knight of Glin  

*    Roots Brooklyn’s forgotten Irishtown and the whiskey wars it waged (PHOTOS) * The funniest named towns and places in Ireland
* Pub with no beer six nights a week named Ireland's best pub
*  What you can find out about your ancestors in Irish Dog Licence Registers

* http://nmni.com/um/What-s-on/Current-Exhibitions/The-National-Gallery-Masterpiece-Tour
ABOUT.COM
* five steps to verifying information found online


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* Hawkesbury heritage & happenings

MAP OF NORTH CLARE

JUST FOR FUN

For those who are of Dillon ancestry as I am, perhaps this will lead you to learn more about your Dillons. Mine are from West Clare... I would love to hear from others who may be connected.

To read more about the Dillon regiment, go to Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon%27s_Regiment

More interesting information about the Dillon regiment is to be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib2.html

Dillon regimental flag, 1745

The Irish Times - Saturday, June 9, 2012

FINTAN O'TOOLE

A history of Ireland in 100 objects Under the treaties of Limerick and Galway that ended Jacobite resistance in Ireland, members of the defeated army were allowed to enter the service of Catholic powers on the Continent.

About 20,000 went to France, and over the first half of the 18th century the so-called Wild Geese continued to seek their fortunes in the armies of France, Spain and Austria. The numbers were seldom huge – perhaps 1,500 recruits a year in the 1720s and 1730s – but, especially for the sons of dispossessed Catholic landowners, foreign military service acted as a way of clinging on to a lost status.

Dillon's Regiment was unique in that it was continuously under the command of members of the same family for more than a century. It was first raised to fight for James II in 1688 by Theobald Dillon, who was killed at Aughrim. In 1691 it was part of the Irish brigade that joined the French army. It served in Piedmont and Savoy in 1691, at the capture of Barcelona in 1697 and in the defence of Cremona in 1702.

But the most famous battle in which the regiment and the larger Irish Brigade took part was at Fontenoy, near Tournai in Belgium in May 1745, at which this flag was flown. It was one of the crucial episodes in the war of 1740-48, when France and Prussia clashed with Britain and the Netherlands over who would succeed Charles VI of Austria.

The French, under the Marechal de Saxe, were losing to the Anglo-Dutch force under the duke of Cumberland when 4,000 men of the Irish Brigade counterattacked with the cry of "Remember Limerick". The butchery at Fontenoy achieved little in the long-term: the war eventually ended with roughly the same balance of power as at its beginning. But Fontenoy was idealised, especially on its centenary, as a glorious Irish victory over England.

The male descendants of former Jacobite landowners proved to be remarkably adept adventurers. Some joined the British imperial service: Peter Warren, from a Jacobite crypto-Catholic family in Co Meath, joined the British navy and made his fortune from captured Spanish ships and astute American trading, founding Greenwich Village in New York. His nephew William Johnson left Meath for the wilds of upstate New York in the 1730s and ended up as both a Mohawk chief and a British baronet. On the other side of the fence, Sir Charles Wogan acted as the most dashing fixer for the Stuart pretenders, ending up as a senator of Rome and governor of La Mancha, in Spain.

The figure of the swaggering officer returned from continental wars epitomised a strain of Catholic male pride. In her great 'Lament for Art O'Leary', Eibhlín Dubh ní Chonaill recalls her husband, a captain in the Austrian army, with his "silver-hilted" sword, fine horse and elegant clothes: the very image of the uppity Catholic. But in truth the Wild Geese were more of a safety valve than a threat to the established order.

The Irish Brigade was disbanded in 1783 as part of the peace between France and Britain after the American war. Ironically, in 1792, after the French Revolution, the remnants of the Dillon regiment joined the British army.

Thanks to Lar Joye

Where to see it National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7, 01-6777444, museum.ie

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0609/1224317543899.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0213/1224311684377.html

Grand old man of Irish acting dies, aged 82

The Irish Times - Monday, February 13, 2012

ALISON HEALY

THE ACTOR David Kelly died in Dublin yesterday after a short illness. He was 82 years old.

He worked in theatre, television and film for more than 50 years and had continued to work up until last year. He was perhaps most highly-regarded for his portrayal of "Rashers" Tierney in the 1980 RTÉ series Strumpet City . He singled it out as one of his favourite pieces of work.

In 1975 he had a brief but memorable role in Fawlty Towers when he played the part of the hapless builder O'Reilly. He often remarked that he had performed on stage for more than 50 years but the nine minutes on Fawlty Towers made him recognisable all over the world.

Kelly was born in Dublin on July 11th, 1929 and educated at Synge Street Catholic Boys School. He started acting at the age of eight in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre but also trained as a calligrapher and was a talented watercolour artist.

He was a dapper dresser and known for his colourful bow ties. He later said the bow ties became his trademark as he tried to look the part of a bohemian artist.

He became a familiar face to British audiences in the 1960s and 1970s when he played eccentric Irish characters in sitcoms such as Oh Father, On the Buses and Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width. He performed in 50 episodes of the Richard OSullivan vehicle, Robin's Nest, in which he played the one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle. Other television work included Glenroe, Ballykissangel and Emmerdale Farm.

He had a long list of film credits including the 1969 version of The Italian Job, Into The West and Waking Ned , which he credits for making him a sex symbol after he appeared nude on a motorbike.

He also appeared in films such as Agent Cody Banks 2, Laws of Attraction, Stardust and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , in which he played Grandpa Joe Bucket. He had been tipped for an Oscar nomination for that role.

On stage he will always be associated with Samuel Beckett because of his legendary performance in the title role of Krapp's Last Tape . He won many awards and acknowledgements for his work, including a Helen Hayes award for Moon for the Misbegotten , and a Screen Actors' Guild nomination forWaking Ned.

He won an ESB Theatre Award in 2003 and an Irish Film and Television Academy lifetime achievement award in 2005.

He recalled that he regularly played people much older than himself. In 2005, he told The Irish Times : "I remember, six years ago, on my 70th birthday, some journalist writing: David Kelly is 70 today. But what I want to know is how come he's been 70 for the past 40 years'. . ."And it's perfectly true. It's a very strange thing." He was asked if he had ever considered retiring and replied "Oh God, no. Ah no . . . I will continue hanging on to the script until they prise it from my cold, dead hands."

Kelly was married to actor Laurie Morton. The couple had two children, David and Miriam. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

A NIGHT IN THE HEART OF ENNIS

The Irish Times - Monday, January 30, 2012

ROSITA BOLAND

Paddy Ryan and John Cahir of St Michael's Villas, Ennis, having a pint in Fawl's pub

Has nightlife died in Irish towns? Not if a recent Friday night in Co Clare is anything to go by. Retailers, restaurateurs and revellers on O’Connell Street, Ennis explain how life goes on

8PM 

It’s a Friday night in mid-January in Ennis, population 24,000, and O’Connell Street is busy. The narrow, curved street, lined with period buildings, is defined at one end by a distinctive commemorative pillar topped with a statue of Daniel O’Connell, who was declared an MP for Clare here in an 1828 by-election.

A rough tally of premises on the street comes in at 77, not counting those above street level. They include six bars, a hotel, six phone shops, two groceries, four shoe-shops, two florists, 12 clothes shops, a charity shop, two jewellers, two newsagents, two travel agents, a Milano, two fast-food restaurants, a camera shop, a bakery, a bookies, a Euroworld discount shop, a Boots, six vacant premises, and the entrance to a shopping centre, anchored by Dunnes Stores, that was built in the early 1990s.

A steady line of cars slowly navigates the one-way street, which is so narrow that there are scarcely three steps from one side to the other, and motorists are usually forced to crawl along to accommodate the jay-walking pedestrians who treat the street as if it is traffic-free.

Jo Walsh is on her way to dinner in Brogan’s bar and restaurant with friends visiting from Dublin, Fiona and John Power. They’ve booked a table and reckon on spending at least €100 tonight between them. “I love the fact this is still a proper street and not a mall,” Fiona Power says. “It has atmosphere.”

 For the full story, see the link below...

A night in the heart of Ennis

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