continued from volume 10
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 at 08:40:00 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, Apologies for the colossal cock-up that was the last volume. I
have NO idea what was going on with it! Hopefully any gliches have been resolved and you
can all get back to filling yet another volume of this increasingly popular guestbook! :-)
regards, Ciaran
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 at 09:49:36 PM
Email: ellessegirl'@hotmail.com
Name: elizabeth fox
Message: hi everyone from rosses point. this site rules bye
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 at 11:56:30 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day me hearties Pleased to announce the first international seminar on
John B Yeats who met his future wife Susan Pollexfen at Rosses Point in 1862 will be held
at Chestertown New York September 7 - 9, 2001 All details can be had on our Beyond Ben
Bulben website www.geocities.com/benbulben.geo John B was buried in Chestertwon when he
died in New York in 1922. Speakers include eminent biographers on the Yeats family.
Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 at 10:26:54 AM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: This is a test to make sure this bloody thing is still functioning
correctly!
Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 03:52:59 AM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: G'day, met Bertie last night, he had Celia surrounded by burly security
guards when he saw me coming along. Wnated to know who was the thundering gobsh**** sent a
pound of Drumcliff butter to his office to give to me. It appears Celia put the butter in
her suit case . . . and well to put it politelty she had to purchase a complete set of
frillies . . the butter melted! There go the income tax cuts lads!!
Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 at 11:19:41 PM
Email: eafb1952@freewwweb.com
Name: Paul Prado
Message: Enjoyed the site. Good Job. Visited Sligo and Rosses Pt. last year and
enjoyed it ver much. greetings from Sunny Florida! Paul
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 at 12:50:11 PM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: This is another test...Happy St. Patricks Day to you all!
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 at 06:22:34 PM
Email: Sheepdip.com
Name: The sheep on Oyster
Message: Baaa,Baaaa.Howye all doing?I hope as the great day approaches that before
ye all get locked, ye can spend a few moments of quiet reflection remembering some of the
great domestic pets in recent Point history.One of these four legged legends was
Sailor,who made the Greenlands his own,beneath his unassuming outward demeanour lurked the
canine persona of a cold ,calculating, vicious sentinel.Your average Point punter would be
greeted by a dribble of drool on their shoe and a wagging tail , but as many a poor fear
an phoist would surely testify from their padded cell in st columbas, Sailor did not like
uniforms. We still miss him dearly.Shona la naomh Padraig.
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 at 11:31:23 PM
Email: sob@eejitnet.com.gaa
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Great news for yez all. Bertie sans anorack plus Celia is coming to have
high tea on a low table at the E A FitzPatrick gome for widowed and orphaned men here in
New York on the day after Paddy's Day. Now lest yez all go boozing on St Patrick's Day,
yez should bear in mind that Patrick brought the art of writing and reading to our beloved
shores. Just visit the library he founded on Coney Island ... McGowan's Pub. Makes one
wonder how that bloody sheep from Oyster learned.
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 at 11:39:42 PM
Email: HM@palace.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: We are NOT AMUSED!!!! Phil the Greek and I refuse point blank to go
through Australian Emigration & Customs carrying a box of prophylactics with shamrocks
and the Irish tricolour on them. You all know very well that Ian and the good Protestant
people of Belfast would object to the tricolour. Mr. Foley will have to use Australian or
French ones instead. I am aware that these are a gift from the citizens of Rosses Point
and Coney Island for services rendered to you. Could I not present him with the order of
the Garter? Love Liz P.S. Looking forward to having a pint on the 17th.
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 01:02:03 PM
Email: somewhere.com
Name: ladyhawke
Message: MetalMan, do you see what you've done? Now you have me mailing from work
just to find out what happened to you.
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 01:14:53 PM
Email: rossespoint@hotmail.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: This is a Message for Francis Devaney to get in touch with Jimmy Bruen at
the above email address...Francis we are looking to come over to Gran Canaria in May 6 of
us...can you get in Touch please Regards Jimmy Bruen
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 10:56:40 PM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Happy St Patrick's Day my dearest friend Ladyhawke. I have had to lie down
for some time. . . bleedin' piles . . Seagull said t'was the porter . . .too much of it.
However I'm off to the Parade in Sligo today and tonight, me and Seagull will be leapin'
around the flur at Austie's. Kisses and hugs to you. Don't work too hard Himself
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 11:00:31 PM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: OCh me dears, another Paddy's Day. How sweet to read the little gossons
and lassies from Uliad are coming to visit my beloved place of shells. I laughed when I
read young Elizabeth's piece about the you-know-whats. In my day it we used docking leaves
. . man dear, if you only knew the excitment. . . this day brings to me. Tell me on the
q.t. will Ladyhawke and MM hit it off? Love you all my children of Connacht. . .now where
in the honour of God is me mead?
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 at 01:36:11 PM
Email: unafaruki@hotmail.com
Name: UnaFaruki
Message: "Happy St. Patrick's Day" to you all in Rosses Point and area.
Una (Gillen) Faruki
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 at 03:07:47 PM
Email: mjkelly423@hotmail.com
Name: Matt Kelly
Message: Happy St. Patrick's Day from New Jersey, USA
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 at 08:12:24 PM
Email: lukavanagh@eircom.net
Name: Anne Kavanagh Gillen
Message: Happy St. Patricks Day to all at Rosses Point especially all the Finnegans
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 at 03:05:45 AM
Email: seagull@sligo.com
Name: Seagull
Message: Well, what a great day was St Patrick's Day in Sligo and the parade was
lovely, a real treat to see the Irish tricolour well and truly represented by people of
the North and South. Good man John Foley in doing this great deed. And to the begrudger
that asked me colleagues to poop on the parade, well we sat on the roof tops and enjoyed
it. We had a feast after with all the scarps of food around the town. 'Tis a pity you are
such a shower of litter bugs. Slan
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 at 09:10:30 AM
Email: rossespoint@hotmail.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: This is a Message for Francis Devaney to get in touch with Jimmy Bruen at
the above email address...Francis we are looking to come over to Gran Canaria in May... 6
of us...can you get in Touch please Regards Jimmy Bruen
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 at 01:31:49 PM
Email: fran@telecan.es
Name: Francis Devaney
Message: This is for James Bruen esq.Great news James my lad.I will be here until
the last week in May, so give us a ring any night after 10 pm your time. I´ve tried to e
mail you but to no avail. I´m afraid you´ll have to call my dad , or Frances Bruen or
Willy Murphy to get my number.Call us soon, so we can get you sorted out,as I´ve some
other people coming around the same dates. See ya soon Muchacho.
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at 01:05:09 PM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: I have been tracing my family history and have recently discovered, my
Great GreatGradnfather was Patrick Bruen who Married Maria MacDermot, they had 2 daughters
Maria and Margaret and one son, Martin Bruen(My great Grandfather), he then married Anne
Heraty and moved to Glasgow where my Grandfater John Joe was born, I would like any
information on my Great Grandfathers 2 sisters Maria and Margaret, did they move to
Scotland or stay in Ireland ? They were all baptised in Drumcliffe 1n 1859, 1861 and 1864
they all lived in the Raghley area of Sligo. Can I thank Brendan Heraty and Finnoula Bruen
and her sister Imelda (Rossespoint) for all their help. PS I will be getting married on
July 22nd 2000 in the same church as my great grandafter was married in 1894 in St
Patricks, Magerow !! Sean Bruen (now Belfast, originally Glasgow)
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 at 07:11:23 AM
Email: sherry57@Quixnet.net
Name: Sherry Glenn
Message: I live in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A., a beautiful small city at the base
of Puget Sound. We have a sail boat and would love to sail to your village one day, just a
dream, but a beautiful one!! I loved your web site!! What a warm friendly place to visit
online. Sherry
Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 at 02:16:49 PM
Email: somewhere.ocm
Name: ladyhawke
Message: MetalMan, sorry I didn't wish you a Happy St. Paddys Day, but I was having
too much fun. a friend came over from the states and I had to do my duty and show her
around to all the pubs. Wouldn't be fitting of me if I didn't, right? Now as far as you,
please take care. I want you in the best of health when I come up that way to visit this
spring. You will show me around, right??
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 04:54:55 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: My dearest LadyHawke . . .belated greetings are better than none. I hope
your American friend enjoyed her visit. When you visit I and Seagull wil indeed be
delighted to show you around. Hang High Harte and Stand Alone McGowan are cleaning the row
boat up specially for us. We can row the channel in the moonlight and Don Gillen will
croon to us from the shore! .. See ya soon. Do you play golf? Ever yours MM:)
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 04:58:21 AM
Email: HM@palace.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: My lovely people of the Yeats Country. I had the honour of being invited
to Mr Foley's 50th birthday party on Monday 27 March. The invite excluded Phil the Greek!
Who knows I might give him an honour for that piece of pluck. Enjoying my vist here, lots
of rain since I arrived, I broke the drought which proves I am still raining here in
Australia, he.he!
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 11:51:35 AM
Email: ddev71826@cs.com
Name: David T. Devaney
Message: I was born in Massachusetts - now living in Florida. I arrived in 1926 -
son of Paul - Grandson of James and Great Grandson of Peter. Peter (Devanny)Devaney and
his wife Bridget Forrestal (Forrestel) both died in 1877 in Louisburg, county Mayo. Their
six sons and five daughters all came to Clinton, Massachusetts.Their father Peter worked
for a Captain William Houstoun and they lived in Bundorragha, on the shore of the Black
lake at the head of Killary Harbour. My quest is history of the family before Peter and
Bridget. Can you offer any help??
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 at 04:25:34 PM
Email: JDBlakeney@aol.com
Name: William G Blakeney
Message: No message at this point and time
Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 at 01:04:09 PM
Email: somewhere.com
Name: ladyhawke
Message: MetalMan. I look forward to that ride. And no, I don't play golf (I hear a
lot of people get hit by the balls) but I'm willing to have someone of knowledge teach me.
Are you up for it?
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 at 01:36:58 AM
Email: ANNIFARLY@AOL.COM
Name: ANNIE
Message: THANK YOU TO LIVERPOOL JIM FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THIS WEB SITE WHAT A
BEAUTIFUL PLACE IT IS IM SURE THE FOLK FROM CO SLIGO ARE VERY PROUD OF THERE HERITAGE MAY
YOU ALWAYS BE HEALTHY & LUCKY LOVE ANNIE CORNWALL ENGLAND XX
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 at 01:58:19 AM
Email: annifarly@aol.com
Name: annie
Message: hello again to you all im convinced im going there for my easter holidays
,may even travel to cork to visit my 2 brothers ,hope to see you all soon health &
happiness annie xx
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 at 03:28:04 AM
Email: sjlebl@aol.com
Name: Sandi Lyle
Message: A wonderful site to visit. I love Ireland and all the people in it. I
worked for Aer Lingus 36 years ago in New York.
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 at 05:04:36 PM
Email: fran@telecan.es
Name: Francis Devaney
Message: A message for Jimmy Bruen.Jim lad, I have all the info that you wanted ,so
give us a bell.See you soon.......Pronsios.
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 01:27:18 AM
Email: Clune54@aol.com
Name: Roísín
Message: I enjoyed visiting the Rossespoint site. Thankyou for guiding me through.
Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 at 04:08:34 PM
Email: gsoden@commonhealth.com
Name: George Soden
Message: Hello there, This is a fantastic website, is anyone familiar with the
Sodens or the Langs. We are originally from Rosses Point and moved 10 years ago to the US,
from where I am sending this message.I would love to chat with anyone from Rosses Point.
Bye now, George
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 at 08:37:58 AM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Will yez tell me what in the honour of God are the people of Sligo town
doing, half past eight on Saturday morning and not a sinner on the streets. Are yez all
that lazy. Get UP OUTTA THAT
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 at 07:17:07 PM
Email: --------
Name: Ciaran Davis
Message: Hi all, I just want to let those of you who knew her, Harry Ewing's
mother, Mrs. Ena Ewing passed away last night. Those who knew her in Rosses Point will
know what a loss it is to the village. May she rest in Peace.
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 at 11:36:04 PM
Email: mcgoo@ntplx.net
Name: Kevin S. McGowan
Message: I was in Sligo thirty years ago to visit my father's people. Maybe I will
get back one day.
Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 at 02:54:06 AM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy&Christine Bruen
Message: Christine and Myself would like to pass on our very deepest sympathy to
Harry Ewing and Family on the very sad news of Mrs Ewings death.....May she rest in peace
Date: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 at 12:39:57 PM
Email: nicolabruen@nfusl.co.uk
Name: Nikki Bruen
Message: Hello Everybody, it's a long time since I've seen you all - Many of you
won't remember me, but you probably know my dad, Raymond Bruen, and you all know my
Grandad, Patrick (Paddy)Bruen. I really enjoyed your website it's great to catch up on
what's going on. See you all again one day Nikki Bruen
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 at 08:56:49 AM
Email: cyclingbarbie@yahoo.com
Name: eimear keane
Message: hi this is eimear here some of you might know my parents Ann and Dominic
Keane this is a message more for them than for me. We visit you all every summer but I'm
sure someone out there knows who I am (we're of the annoying summer people) see ya I know
my parents would love to get some contact from you so if you get the chance that would be
great. see ya
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 at 08:53:49 AM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: FAO ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS URGENT !!! I am getting married on the 22nd July
this year in Magherow, Sligo, everything is booked etc, except we have been unable to find
a photographer, we have 3 in Sligo and 4 in Donegal, they are all booked, if there are any
full time or even part time photographers who can help, please let me know. It is only a
small wedding of 15 people and he/she will only be required at the Church (St Patricks).
If anyone can help, please e-mail me direct or phone Belfast 01232 866662 daytime -
evening 07808 571041 (mobile) The reception is in Yeats Hotel Thanks Sean
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 10:32:52 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Imagine seeking a photographer on this guest book. Must be a military
wedding when he has to make arrangements like that! I hope you are all looking in on the
'mane' street of Sligo on the camera placed there. The burning question on the sligo.ie
discussion list is who owns the solitary bike that's always parked there. I'll have to
send seagull in there to have a look. How are you going Ladyhawke xxxx:)
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 10:35:58 AM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Hello dears how are you all going. I'm bloody soaked up here on the
misguan. I envy MetalMan all he has are fellows throwing bloody balls on the green. I
hardly get a rest in the afternoon , these infernal flying machines. Ahh now if we only
had them at the battle of the brown bull. Things would be a lot different I tell you. Slan
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 01:46:17 PM
Email: a.rusher@its.uq.edu.au
Name: Ann Flynn Rusher
Message: Just a note from Australia, to congratulate you on a wonderful web page
and I love your animated photo. Regards, Ann
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 01:47:03 PM
Email: babs@sligoweb.zzn.com
Name: Babs
Message: great site! Rosses Point is a really nice place, hope to visit it soon!!
Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 02:50:34 PM
Email: rgspops@airmail.net
Name: Pops Sullivan
Message: Great site. Will be in the area near the years end looking for home sites.
Date: Sunday, April 09, 2000 at 12:22:11 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Can't access the chat room.
Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 at 10:43:02 AM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, Just 3000 more hits and we'll be over the 100,000 mark on our
counter. As far as I'm concerned, that's a phenomenal amount of hits for a site dedicated
to a very small place in just 2 years. Thank you all very much for the support and please
do continue to visit! Regards, Ciaran
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 01:35:15 PM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: FAO MATT KELLY I HAVE TRIED TO E-MAIL YOU WITH NO SUCCESS, MESSAGE COPIED
BELOW NO LOOKING ANYONE ELSE ! I have only sent you one letter, a mix up of e-mails
perhaps. Martin Bruen, my grandfather (John Joe) was born in Glasgow in 1903 and the great
grandparents were married in 1894 Sligo they must have moved between that period over to
Glasgow. I live approx 2 and a 1/2 hours drive from Rossespoint , sligo, the next time I'm
down I'll pick up the maps you require. I will hopefully develop another family tree after
I get my head round the new information, I never thought I would get this far when I
started ! Talking about all the bruens using the same first name, most of the Glasgow ones
start with a J, my dad was called Joseph his brother John and the other brother Martin,
full of imagination these Bruen's !!! Sean
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 11:58:36 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Well, you won't belive this. Didn't meself an' Seagull go into town the
other morning at 3 a.m. Yes 3 a.m.!! Foley tipped us off, he had been looking in on the
web camera on O'Connell St, it was 12 midday with him in Australia. You won't believe
this. The little people were playing their fiddles and the statute of W B Yeats and Lady
Erin were dancing and P A McHugh was looking on, and all the shop window models were there
in their glory leaping about O'Connell Street, Sligo at 3 a.m. Be the Holy Good God!
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2000 at 09:54:41 AM
Email: peter@mary.big.net.au
Name: Beryl and Peter Douglas
Message: G'day strangers; Yes we are all still alive over here..... How have you
guys been thought maybe a huge tidal wave may have washed you 2 over here to Australia....
WIll write more next time Bye 4 now The Aussies
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2000 at 01:45:41 PM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: First there was Dancing at Lughnasa now dancing statues in Sligo. Can
anyone tell me if there's a bus I can catch into Sligo to see this here dancing in the
streets. Imagine Willy Yeats who wrote those lovely lines about the wind coming from
Knocknarea and Cummeen Strand and Clooth na bare...Och the very words make me heart beat
with pride. I wonder is it the Fiddler of Dooney that plays the wind among the reeds.
Och.. I feel a fire in my head. . I must away to Innisfree... Slan Maeve PS Will young
Ciaran soon have the hundred thousand?
Date: Friday, April 14, 2000 at 12:17:07 PM
Email: somewhere.com
Name: ladyhawke
Message: Dear MM. I'm sorry for the delay in answering,but I've been bogged down
with work. So, is the boat ride still on? And I too would like to see dancing statues. And
what does a ladyhawke wear to play golf?
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 at 03:45:27 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: My dearest Ladyhawke . . . yes . . to say yes to yes, as Joyce had Molly
say in the final lines of Ulysses. I will have Don Gillen lubricate his tonsils and the
boat has been polished. Only sadly we may not get to play golf as the West of Ireland is
back at the famous Rosses Point greens after 3 years. Could we go for a walk in the
Hazelwood instead. You can arrive with nothing on but the radio on for all I care my dear.
And yes we will go dancing to the fidder of Dooney and "dance like a wave of the
sea" with Willy Yeats, P.A. McHugh and Lady Erin. xxxxxx P.S. We need 2617 more
visitors to make this site hit the 100,000!!!!!!!
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 at 04:32:59 PM
Email: gerrard@gkilgallon.buyandsell.ie
Name: Gerrard Kilgallon
Message: hello to gerry,louise & christopher. looking forward to seeing you all
again during summer. Gerrard, Bernarde & co.
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 01:08:32 AM
Email: SHYNESUN@AOL.COM
Name: ELIZABETH W. SHYNE
Message: I ENJOYED YOUR CONEY WEB SITE. REGARDS,
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 12:31:43 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: I was on me own in the chatroom from 12noon till 1230pm........ Where is
everyone??????????
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 01:06:34 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Well Jimmy, if you had waited anotehr two minutes, I was here
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 02:08:44 PM
Email: a.e.benton@btinternet.com
Name: aebenton
Message: loved your site. far more interesting than sligotourism.ie site. hope to
be back inrosses point soon.
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 04:48:36 PM
Email: ......
Name: Martin
Message: Hey DEC what did ye do to the "Book of Kells"
Date: Monday, April 17, 2000 at 01:22:51 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Not me Mate, all I have are books on Yeats, Yeats and Yeats and Sligo,
Sligo and Sligo
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 06:01:37 AM
Email: bhoberg@earthlink.com
Name: brian
Message: Dec, I have a question for you I hope you can help me out with. I am going
to be visiting Ireland at the end of this year (Dec. 14-Jan 5). I've become really
interested in learning more about Inishmurray and was wondering if you knew of any of the
local ferry's or ships that may be willing to make a stop at Inishmurray or that woudl be
willing to? Quite honestly one of the only reasons I want to visit Ireland is to make a
stop at Sligo and the surrounding area but would love the chance to visit the island. Can
you help me or would you know someone who could? Thank you kindly. Brian.
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 01:13:06 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Brian, you can charter a boat from Mullaghmore 20 miles due north of
Rosses Point.. Have you read Paddy Heraughty's book Inishmurray Ancient Monastic Island.
Paddy was born there and his knowlege is extensive. Published by O'Brien Press ISBN
0-86278-473-5. If you go to my web site www.geocities.com/benbulben.geo and go to links
page, visit the ancient monuments site in Sligo, those guys have some great tours and
might also assist you with a trip to Innishmurray. enjoy it mate. Any other queries come
back and I will try to assist you. Regards Declan
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 09:43:18 PM
Email: rosspoint@aol.com
Name: Sasha Vanderbilt
Message: We are sad to announce the departure from Newport Rhode Island of our most
esteemed guest and friend Captain George Bruen of Oyster Island Ireland. A party will be
given in his honor by the Friends of Newport Society. His date of departure will be on
April 28, 2000. We wish him well and hope to see him again this Fall in Palm Beach
Florida. Tallyhoo Georgie. Please say hello to the metal man for me. Regards to Austie as
well. We hope to visit you at Shamrock this Summer when you are ashore from Oyster Island.
Fondly, Sasha
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 at 01:58:52 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Now me hearties there are only 380 or so hits to this site and we have
reached the 100,000. When that happens the 100,000 personwho hits the site will recieve a
prize. Seagull will have his feathered friends deliver it anywhere in the world!
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 at 02:02:58 AM
Email: sob@eejitnet.com.gaa
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Well, well Capt George swanning it with the Vanderbilts on Rhode Island.
Why did he not visit our E. A. FitzPatrick Home for Widowed and Orphaned Men, and the half
of Sligo in it! We are only a boat ride from Rhode Island and directly opposite Pier 12
where the Titanic was supposed to anchor. In fact that is how most of our Sligo fellows
ended up here. They all had passage booked on the return trip of the Titanic. The rest is
history as they say. So next time Georgie boy, come and visit us.
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 at 02:30:35 AM
Email: erinsjoy@.COM
Name: bobo
Message: HELLO TO ALL, IN ROSSES POINT FROM A FORMER RESIDENT OF DROMORE WEST
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 at 02:59:59 PM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: Rosses Point will again host the prestigious 'West' Golf championships
after an absence of three years. The Easter event had to be switched to Enniscrone in 1997
when greens at Rosses Point became unplayable. Since then ten greens have been resodded
with many thousand cubic metres of imported Yorkshire turf. The West of Ireland Mens
Amateur Golf Championship has attracted an entry of 144 competitors
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 at 02:16:35 PM
Email: mary.bilderbeck@wcom.ie
Name: Ladyhawke
Message: MetalMan. Well, well. Didn't expect such an eager response. So the boat
ride is on then. Good. And as far as me arriving with just the radio on...interesting
concept, mood music. And you, pray tell, how will you be dressed? Just so I can recognise
you, of course. By the way, Happy Easter everyone.
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 at 11:04:09 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Now Ladyhawke you mean that you come to visit this site and neglect to see
my beautiful photo adorning the front page! I can imagine you with nothing but the radio
on . . . hope its FM! In case you arrive when I and seagull are watching the golf, wait in
Austie's, I will be wearing a blue sports coat with a pink carnation when I come in!!!
Looking forward to our weekend together. Happy Easter to all visitors to theis web site
and to the Yeats Country for Easter. Ladyhawke if you like music we could always go to
Feis Ceoil or Feis Shligigh!!
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 05:51:37 AM
Email: JANDJSMITHX2@HOTMAIL.COM
Name: JIM AND JACQUE SMITH
Message: AT HOME IN THE STATE OF WA. WE BOTH LOVE LIGHTHOUSES, AND PICTURES OF
IRELAND. ONE DAY HOPE TO BE WHERE THESE PICTURES ARE. A BEAUTIFUL PLACE BY THE SEA WITH
THE WIND, THE BIRDS, THAT SOUND OF THE OCEAN IS A SOUND THAT NOTHING CAN COMPETE WITH. ALL
HAVE A GREAT DAY. JIM AND JACQUE
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 12:42:03 PM
Email: markdsolari@aol.com
Name: Mark Solari (Australia)
Message: Top of the mornin' to ya! Thanks for the information on the sinking of the
Arandora Star. At the age of seven, my father lost his father on the Arandora Star. It is
only now through the Internet that I am piecing together details of what happened and
passing it on to him. Hope to visit one day. Best Regards from Down Under.
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 04:18:04 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: My dearest Ladyhawke. . .I pray you will forgive me for not turning up at
Austie's over Easter. . I have found myself in a predicament...and as Willy wrote ..Come
away, O human child/ To the waters and the wild/ With a faery, hand in hand,/ For the
world's more full of weeping than you can understand. You see my dear I have fallen in
requited love with Lady Erin. We are around the same age . . 200 years give or take a few
years! You may had read where Seagull and meself went in to the midnight faery dances in
Sligo's O'Connell Street, and W B Yeats introduced us. The meeting of statues!! I know you
are and understanding Lady. Would you be the Bridesmaid? Cheers MM
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 01:23:24 PM
Email: somewhere.com
Name: ladyhawke
Message: Ah MetalMan, alas I too was preoccupied this weekend. Well, you did once
say that we could be friends so. Going to miss seeing that pink carnation. But tell me,
why did you want FM music?? And yes, I would gladly be in the wedding. I'll be the one
with the lace hanky (boohoo, sniffle sniffle).
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 10:51:25 PM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: My dear Ladyhawke! Lady Erin is thrilled you will be by her side on the
day. I like FM because it is in stereo...I hope those tears will be of happiness.. for me
and Lady Erin. You can see her photo on the sligo.ie site. She lives at Market Cross and
has many sisters throughout Ireland...alas they have not spkke to each other for
centuries.
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 at 12:36:21 AM
Email: sob@eejitnet.com.gaa
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: I received a letter from a group of men in Ireland seeking asylum in the
E.A. FitzPatrick Home for Widowed & Orphaned Men here in New York. Can some one please
supply a reference as to their good character, as after the incident with Frosty and The
Chief Rabbi, I have to be careful( see previous Captain's Log). It would appear these men
are tired or about to be retired politicans, one of them sells tyres. They all claim that
their only belongings could be held in a brown paper bag. However the don't say if this is
a large or small brown paper bag. All details to the above e-mail. Slan Seamus
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 at 09:41:59 PM
Email: pdmsr@intercom.net
Name: Paul D. Meskill, Sr.
Message: I look forward to visiting Rosses Point around May 23rd. and view in
person your beautiful home town. Also, hope to sink a pint in the local pub. Paul
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 01:11:30 AM
Email: HM@palace.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: My beloved friends in Rosses Point what wonderful news. The Metal Man and
Lady Erin are to be wed. Has anyone seen the engagement ring? Please write and tell me
what the ring is like. I do hope that Phil the Greek and I get an invitation to the
wedding. Tallyhoo!
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 10:24:37 AM
Email: -------
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, We need only 1843 more visitors to hit the magical 100,000 mark!
Again, I'd like to thank you all for your continuing interest in this humble site, and
that you'll all continue to visit! I'm particularly enjoying the great and wonderful epic
that is the guestbook! Ciaran
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 04:59:45 PM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Lads and lassies Yippee! were off to a wedding. The last time I was at a
wedding was when himself Manaanan Mac Lir had one of his daughters married, I think it was
Sionna Sionna is the lass that you lot now know as the Shannon River. And do you know how
it got its name? Well if you go over to Glangevlin you will see a sign the Shannon Pot,
the start of the Shannon River. Well..at her wedding didn't she go and sit on the pottie..
and sure you know the rest..No, great bladdered Emer was her cousin six times removed.
Jay, the dancing is great in O'Connell St at night. Slan agus gra Maeve
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 11:47:17 AM
Email: MetalMan@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: The Sligo Bay Lifeboat Crew are holding their annual Roast Lamb Dinner at
Harry's on Sunday, April 30 ay 8.00pm. A limited number of vegetarians can be catered for.
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 09:51:42 PM
Email: vincent.madden@virgin.net
Name: vincent madden
Message: excellent site keep those photos comming especially of coney, this will
keep an emigrant happy
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 at 04:28:40 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: Seagull and myself along with the statues of P. A. McHugh, Lady Erin and
Willy Yeats will be at the Lifeoat Roast in Harry's tonight. How about some nice fish for
Seagull?
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 at 12:26:36 PM
Email: ...
Name: Martin
Message: well Jim from Glasgow did you find it
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 at 01:13:18 PM
Email: macward@ic24
Name: Jim
Message: Enjoyed the captains log, thanks Martin
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 at 04:06:48 PM
Email: dymphnacaulfield@hotmail.com
Name: Dymphna McLoughlin
Message: Have pleasure keeping up to date with my home, Rosses Point. If anybody
sees my dad, Eddie give him my regards and hope to visit in the near future. I hope one
day to take up residence once again as it has never left my heart.I do laugh when I hear
about "Blow ins", I do hope that I would not be considered as one on my
return!Bye for now.
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 at 12:18:47 AM
Email: scooby_manutd@hotmail.com
Name: Curious
Message: Hi there...I was just surfing when I came across this site. I am a native
of Co. Armagh and live near Coney Island in Lough Neagh. I had heard a few stories about
how Coney Island (in USA) got its name...one story being that it had got its name from the
one in Lough Neagh. I read that there is a wishing chair on Coney Island in Rosses Point,
there is also a cross on Coney Island (in Lough Neagh) and it states that St Patrick had
stayed there. I'm not exactly sure what is says as it has been a few years since I've been
on the Island. The island itself would be about 1/2 sq mile or so. I don't know if this
story is true or not and I don't want to cause any arguments over it...but I was just
curious. Anyway, great site...keep up the good work.
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 at 05:05:45 PM
Email: trinity@zoomnet.net
Name: Carol Slavens
Message: Enjoyed my visit to your website! I was in Ireland two years ago, but
didn't get to your area. I look forward to returning and visiting you! Carol
Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 at 03:49:54 AM
Email: seagull@sligo.com
Name: Seagull
Message: How yez all doing? Only 2500 or so more hits and were there. Kieran has
promised me a bag of see from W.A & A.F. Woods in Castle Street when we hit the big
one. Come on there spread the news.
Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 at 04:10:58 AM
Email: scoota@paradise.net.nz
Name: scoota
Message: Okay...I'm addicted! You've caught me lock, stock, n' stockings! Have
visited your site lots of times in the last few weeks and I'm totally impressed! I just
can't seem to stay away now!...so I hope my visits help you hit the 'big one'- can't wait
to see what happens then! I had the wonderful experience of visiting Rosses Point in 1997,
while on holiday - but wait...I'm not really a tourist...I have cousins in Sligo and they
were showing off! Understandably so! I look forward coming back for dinner at Austies one
day! The lamb dinner sounds good!
Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 at 09:46:07 AM
Email: cdavis@ireland.com
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all, Jaysus, ye all seem to be fired up over this 100000 mark! That's
what I like to see, just keep on visiting! In case anyone's interested, Sligo Bay Lifeboat
station launched a "special appeal" last week to help raise £150,000 towards
building the new station boathouse and getting a new boat. I'll put up the press release
for it over the next couple of days. I have a few more images from around the village that
young Kieran has aquired and I'll be putting them up as well. I'll also be putting up some
sort of scrolling banner on the front page that works with all browsers for the purpose of
letting you all know about new additions to our humble site. cheers! Ciaran
Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 at 03:29:00 AM
Email: sob@eejitnet.com.gaa
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: Now, Ciaran, mind your use of words here. Bertie sans anorak plus Celia
got into trouble for adding creeping to it! We are launching an appeal for 5 million
dollars for the E. A. FitzPatrick Home for Widowed and Orphaned Men. (We will be
installing showers in each cubicle) If you just mail me your credit card I will take care
of the rest, tax deductions are available for this great fund from The Boss at Kinsealy.
Please continue to visit this guest book and site. Slan Seamus in a hot and torrid New
York City
Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 at 01:37:44 PM
Email: peterinpdx@aol.com
Name: Peter Henry
Message: thanks to all ,for the kind words , the hug's , and just being there when
dad died . Yours sincerely Peter F.S.Henry
Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 at 03:45:03 AM
Email: MetalMan@sligo.com
Name: MetalMan
Message: I recieved a CD in the mail of Andy Williams crooning "Almost
There". Ciaran will have it on the front page from Sunday, and it will play until we
hit the 100000 mark. Now here is the good news, whoever is the lucky hitter, I will send
them this CD. So every hit is a chance to get this great CD. Included are lovely tracks
such as. "Young man with a horn" "Fanny by gaslight" "Who has the
brown paper bag?" "Who doesn't want to be a millionaire" "You are my
only Ray of Sunshine" (Sung by The Boss) "Mack the Knife" (Sung by Peter
Sutherland) "Tie me Kangaroo down boy" (Has to be Foley) "I'll die for
Ireland" (Patrick Pearse) "I bloody won't die for Ireland" (Eamon de
Valera) So come on count up there.
Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 at 08:11:40 PM
Email: bobbyb@iol.ie
Name: rob heyland
Message: wonderful site i would like to complain however about a certain Johnny
Gillen who you exiled a few years ago to Dalkey in Dublin and who is ruining many people's
lives. Please take him back. I would also like to find a house to rent somewhere on the
coast there. 4 or five bedrooms for two weeks from 7th august this year, preferably with a
patch of grass leading to the waterfront, a small sandy beach and loan of a modest boat. I
can dream, can't I? Please let me know what's available or who I should speak to as Johnny
has been given the task but is far too busy at Finnegan's pub to sort us out. my phone
number is 01 284 8480 all the best rob heyland
Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 at 04:45:52 AM
Email: HM@palace.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: My good man, why not do as I did, contact the Sligo Tourist Board. Phil
the Greek and the corgis and I will be there at the same time as you and your family. We
might meet for cocktails before dinner some fine evening? Do you realise the cost of a
phone call from Sligo to Dublin, you could at least have made it a collect call.
Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 at 02:23:56 PM
Email: gillt@capecod.net
Name: Timothy "slough" gill
Message: Hello Folks, no one was around and i had a few questions about Yeats for
you. I am doing an essay and i was wondering what you thought yeats impact is upon life
today. Tell me what you thought of irish literature in the beginning of the last century
and how it fits today or, tell me to bugger off. thanks for the help and if you know any
Gill's, tell them to sober up and email me. thanks.
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 at 02:30:50 AM
Email: metalman@sligo.ie
Name: metalman
Message: Dear Sir You should visit Beyond Ben Bulben at
www.geocities.com/benbulben.geo for all matters Yeatsian. We at the Point think very
highly of his importance in literature to this present day and in the future. Indeed it
was the spirits and little people of the Rosses who gave Willy and his brother Jack so
much of their work.
Date: Sunday, May 14, 2000 at 11:02:41 AM
Email: MM@sligo.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: C'mon now lads and lassies, we are near the 100,000 hit on this website.
Please do sign the guest book.
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 at 10:12:23 PM
Email: Qmaeve@lastminute.con
Name: Maeve
Message: Put some lead in your pencils folks and help the metal man reach the 100K!
(Has his cousin in Tramore signed up, not to mention his missing cousin Metal man Lucan)
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 at 03:25:47 AM
Email: misseire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Now my dears we are nearly there. Has anyone heard from Ladyhawke
recently? Thre is a rumour that we are soon to have a new front page on this web site.
When is the enxt dance in O'Connell Street MetalMan and has anyone found the owner of the
bike continually parked there? Slan agus gra to you all Maeve at Misguan
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 at 11:06:21 AM
Email: -
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi gang, Maeve, I have no idea where you got the idea that the site is
going to have a new front page, I have a feeling young Devaney is filling your head with
nonsense! I am, however, trying to com up with a decent way of letting ye all know when I
have new pages and images up. Young Devaney came up with the suggestion of a second banner
window that opens when the main page loads. If any of ye have another ideas, out with 'em,
máis é do thoil é!
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 at 02:11:33 PM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran
Message: Hi, We've put up some new pictures of the Blackrock lighthouse and there's
a new addition to the Voyage Home page.
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 08:45:04 AM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: Congratulations to the rosses point web site for (nearly) reaching,
100,000 visitors, all the Bruens in Glasgow are now visiting the site. PS I got a
photographer for the wedding !!!! Thanks for all the help I received, except the one about
a military wedding !!!! Sgt Sean Bruen
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 at 04:54:11 AM
Email: seagull@thepoint.sligo
Name: Seagull
Message: Arrah Sean me ould son, I'm glad you got a camera operator and sure it was
a good joke about the military wedding! If you were stuck I was going to bring my old
Kodak Brownie and do the job for you myself. May you and your missus to be, see the fourth
generation. . and missus Bruen, for a wholly succesful marriage there is to be no
preaching of poverty under the blankets. Bad news on the dance in O'Connell St tonight, it
was too wet, and W B was afraid he might catch a cold. Slan lath agus plaster lath and
hurry on for 590 more to hit the big one!@
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 at 07:26:54 AM
Email: LisaJan61@hotmail.com
Name: Lisa Gillen Richards
Message: Very nice page. I understand there are a lot of us Gillens there. I don't
know when my ancestors came over here to the USA but am always curious because it is not a
common name here. Keep up the good work! PS Oddly enough, I named my son Ross!
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 at 11:31:59 PM
Email: mmay@lisp.com.au
Name: Moira Ismay
Message: Discovered your pages this morning.Great! I have loved the poems of
William.B.Yeates all my life - especially 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' which I learned as
a small child. Best wishes, Moira Ismay http:www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/1132
Date: Sunday, May 21, 2000 at 07:44:59 AM
Email: mistymom@cybercomm.net
Name: Anne Gillen
Message: While I only visited you on the computer, I've been very interested in
hearing about my Gillen name. I'm anxious to hear whatever I can about the Gillen clan,
and try to research the family. Your information on the net is fantastic, and I only wish
I had the means of coming to Rosses Point to see it first hand. Maybe one day. I'm anxious
for the rest of my Gillen relatives to see what I got from this site. I sure wish I could
get more information on the clan. I've sent an e-mail, so maybe someone will answer my
prayer. Again, thanks for the info you've given on this site. God bless.
Date: Sunday, May 21, 2000 at 08:26:04 AM
Email: mistymom@cybercomm.net
Name: Anne Gillen
Message: I'm signing on again, so I can help "boost" the number closer to
the big 10000. This site is absolutely awesome and I'm enjoying it immensley. Keep up the
good work, and I'll be here more often now. Your picgtures are breathtaking and I'm
looking forward to seeing lots more in the future. Great site, great people. Greetings to
all in Rosses Point from a rather rain-soaked Toms River in the New Jersey Shore area.
Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 at 08:42:38 AM
Email: devantm@mail.auburn.edu
Name: Thomas Devanney
Message: Greetings from Auburn, Alabama. Can anyone help, genealogically speaking,
the great grandson of William Devanney? He was supposedly born near Knocknarea and left
for Ohio in the early 20's(?) He also may have had a brother named Michael. Any help would
be appreciated.
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at 12:33:50 AM
Email: MM@sligo.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: Ladies and Gentlemen of the world myself and herself, Lady Erin my dearly
beloved betrothed, cordially invite you one and all to our wedding at 12 in the afternoon
of the 31 May 2000. Alas, this will be a military wedding, her father Mannan Mac Lir and
her mother Sionna had their soldiers arrest me yesterday. . .t'would appear that the
french ones had a defect! The marriage will be celebrated by the High Druid of Sligo
Rt.Rev.Mgr.John Thomas Shorthorn, C.C. P.P, etc.etc. Reception after in all the pubs of
Rosses Point and Coney Island. We will go to Australia to Foley for the honeymoon. RSVP
immediately.
Continued in Volume 12