Genealogy Ebooks "I stand for the first time on a public platform in this country. The great generosity of English to Irish workers has obliterated the memory of many an ancient tale of wrong. I come from Dublin, where most extraordinary things have been happening. Humanity long dumb there has found a voice, it has its prophet and its martyrs. We no longer know people by the old signs and the old shams. People are to us either human or sub-human. They are either on the side of those who are fighting for human conditions in labour or they are with those who are…]]> During the past year the number of orphans elected have exceeded those of any year since that of 1853, the number being 24, equal to the numbers jointly of the yeah 1859 and 1860, which were respectively 14 and 10. They therefore trust that in calling the report which they have now to lay before you a most cheering and satisfactory one, they will be borne out by the details as they are submitted to you.]]> Such a work as this is not to be wholly executed in the closet or study. Great part of its materials are to be sought for in the field ; and every place visited, to make proper inquiry into its antiquities, and its civil and natural history, which last consists of very different branches of science. The topography of each place must be noted; its bearing, distance, latitude and longitude observed, with all the correctness and assistances astronomy, and practical trigonometry, afford.]]> Such a work as this is not to be wholly executed in the closet or study. Great part of its materials are to be sought for in the field ; and every place visited, to make proper inquiry into its antiquities, and its civil and natural history, which last consists of very different branches of science. The topography of each place must be noted; its bearing, distance, latitude and longitude observed, with all the correctness and assistances astronomy, and practical trigonometry, afford.]]> Whatever time could be spared from other occupations was employed some years ago in collecting and throwing into readable form whatever could be got together respecting the castles and abbeys, so many of which are to be found dotted over the County of Limerick, and concerning which so little is popularly known. In the pursuit of such a study the City of Limerick must of course have occupied the most important place, for to omit it would be like leaving out the part of Hamlet in the play.]]> And knowing, that others are curious as well as myself, I shall briefly observe, that the upper ranks are, in manners and customs, just like the gentry of the other parts of the kingdom. There is a slow broadness of provincial accent, and some peculiar singularity of deportment, which marks those, who had not been much out of the country.]]> The English and Scotch are well read in the histories of their country. The Irish are, unfortunately, not so; and yet, what is English or Scottish history to compare with Irish? Ireland was a land of saints and scholars when Britons were painted savages. Wise and noble laws, based upon the spirit of Christianity, were administered in Erin, and valuable books were written ere the Britons were as far advanced in civilization as the Blackfeet Indians. In morals and intellect, in Christianity and civilization, in arms, art, and science, Ireland shone…]]> Behold a nation whose fame had spread over all the earth ere the flag of England had come into existence. For 500 years her life has been apparently extinguished. The fiercest whirlwind of oppression that ever in the wrath of God was poured upon the children of disobedience had swept over her. She was an object of scorn and contempt to her subjugator.]]> A tale of Arson, Loot and Murder. The Evidence of over Seventy Witnesses Great Britain has no quarrel with Irishmen; her sole quarrel is with crime, outrage, and disorder. Genera McCready December 12, 1920. It is obviously in the interests of the Government to find the perpetrators of this outrage .—Sir Hamar Greenwood, December 13, 1920. We are out for peace, but there can be no compromise with murder. Sir Hamar Greenwood, 'December 31, 1920]]> Early in the summer of the year 1849, I was much struck with an account I read in the " Times" newspaper, of the very large mortality from cholera, in the workhouses of the Balinasloe Union, in the County of Galway, in the west of Ireland; I was also, with many others, much shocked with a discussion, which took place about the same time, in the House of Commons, relative to the effects of the famine, in that part of the sister country.]]> His Majesty has been pleased to command that, with the view of doing the fullest justice to Regiments, as well as to Individuals who have distinguished themselves by their Bravery in Action with the Enemy, an Account of the Services of every Regiment in the British Army shall be published.]]> The tale which gives its title to the volume was—as is hinted at in its closing paragraph in great part transmitted to the writer of these pages by the eccentric poet and recluse of Coralstown, the late John Kelly, but necessarily it has received a certain amount of elaboration, and some cognate local traditions have been incorporated with it. I can vouch for the authenticity of the main incidents ; the graveyard is in the vicinity of Kinnegad, but the time of the tragic occurrence is antedated by quarter of a century. The study of folk lore…]]> The editions available run from April to August 1859 and provide a fascinating insight into our ancestors lives and times. For more information, Birth, Death and Marriage records, photos and histories of Lurgan, please visit the Lurgan Ancestry website: www.lurganancestry.com]]> Between Inishmore and Inishmaan is Gregory's Sound, a mile and a half wide, called by the natives Bealagh-ne-Hayte, "Hayte's way." The present name was given to it by the monks, who called the sound " Gregory," in honour of Pope Gregory the Great, after he had converted or aided in converting the Anglo-Saxons to the Christian faith. Between the middle island, Inishmaan, and Inisheer, the eastern and smallest island, is the "foul sound," four miles wide ; and between Inisheer and the county of Clare is the "south…]]> Amid the perhaps unavoidable conflicts of party and opinion, it is somewhat refreshing to feel, that this is a subject, which, while second to none in its bearing upon our welfare as a community, may yet be pursued apart altogether from sectarian principles, either in religion or politics.It has often struck me, how little either the idle or the busy, as they move along the great thoroughfares of our cities and towns, seem to know or think of the social misery, vice, and squalid poverty, which lurk in obscure dens, within, it maybe, a few hundred…]]> The area of the county of Kerry is 1,185,918 acres, and within this area is contained such a wealth of history, of beauty, and interest that it must be in the future, as it has been in the past, a favourite touring ground for multitudes. Two long fiords, stretching out from the Atlantic, run well - nigh to the heart of the county and divide it naturally into three distinct and separate areas, each with its peculiar and widely different characteristics and its particular charm.]]> I have added what is intended to serve as a fairly complete index, so that readers taking the book with them may, I trust, find it useful on their travels for quick reference. The book is divided into Four Parts : Part I., Connemara; Part II., County Clare; Part III., County Sligo; Part IV., Achill Island.]]> The editions available run from May 1849 to April 1850. At a time when Ireland had suffered nearly five years of 'The Great Famine', this document gives a fascinating incite into the lives of people at that time. For more information, Birth, Death and Marriage records, photos and histories of Lurgan, please visit the Lurgan Ancestry website: www.lurganancestry.com]]> Although the Mail Coach referred to in the introductory pages belongs entirely to the past, and the guides and boatmen of that period have naturally changed like the lights and shadows upon the mountains over which they trod, these Killarney memories are here reproduced for the benefit of the present generation. Gorham, of Gorham's Hotel, to whom frequent reference is made, has, in the course of nature, long since departed this life; but Gorham's Hibernia Hotel we find mentioned as standing in the High Street when the late Mr. Windele published…]]> To their Most Excellent Majesties William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. May it please your Majesties, that which emboldened me to lay these papers at your royal feet, was in discharge of the instructions I received from the Governor and Garrison of Enniskillen, humbly to present before your Majesties, together with their Address, a true account of their faithful endeavours for the support of the Protestant interest, and of your Majesties, together with the reasons and grounds upon which they proceeded in this…]]>