Continued from Volume 17
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 at 02:14:05 AM
Email: lordlucan@statehotel.ie
Name: Liam of Lucan
Message: DAY 6!!!!!!!!!! Andy Williams is crooning "Almost There" as I
listen to my radio. I'm still laughing at that eejit from the Sunday World and his 'holier
that thou' attitude running to the Castle with scraps of burnt paper.I treid to light the
fire in the drawing room one winter night, that Charlie came for tea, using a page of that
paper. It was such poor quality paper, it wouldn't even light. I wonder should I give the
names of my associates in alphabetical order or just drop them randomly. I imagine there
are a few soldiers don't need hot water bottles these night. One more day lads and we will
have a few scoops to celbrate. You can't keep a good man down!!!
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 at 11:59:04 PM
Email: rightcar4u@yahoo.com
Name: Ryan Devaney
Message: Hey everyone! I like this site. I am trying to learn about my family
background. My grandfather Harry Devaney ran away from home a small boy and joined the
merchant marines in the 1920's does anybody have info? If your a Devaney and want to catch
up .Drop me a note at the yahoo address.RGD
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 at 12:11:54 AM
Email: www.lough-ree-sub-aqua.com
Name: Thomas Mc Glynn
Message: great place and ............................................
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 at 04:41:14 PM
Email: Kieran.Devaney@tv3.ie
Name: Kieran Devaney
Message: Just a reminder to everyone that the Heritage Association is holding a
Burns night in Hackets this Friday evening. Come along for music, dancing and free haggis!
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 at 06:14:34 PM
Email: lordlucan@statehotel.ie
Name: Liam of Lucan
Message: DAY T. Yipeee, I fooled the media. Never thought I would leave in a van
and go directly to the Dail? Now the fun begins. Flood, well that's what it will be floods
of information on the rest.
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 at 09:17:34 PM
Email: ttarpy@juno.com
Name: Thomas E. Tarpy
Message: An excellent site; most impressive.
Date: Friday, January 26, 2001 at 04:56:34 PM
Email: sean.bruen@rft.co.uk
Name: Sean Bruen
Message: Hello to all the Bruen's in Rossespoint, especially Imelda and Finnoula
(bruen) Brendan Herity, if anyone meets them please let them know I'll be down from
Belfast to see them in April. If any of the Bruens in Glasgow visit this site please send
me an e-mail. Slan Sean (Belfast)
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2001 at 02:34:37 AM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O'Gallagher
Message: 'Tis true about Lord Lucan the second, his likes will never pass this way
again. Not my words, but those of Lord Mountjoy when he closed the prison door behind him
on his way out. I have been inundated with applications for political asylum for the past
week. All the requests have come from ODCs' or ordinary decent criminals, there are many
of them in the Joy. Apparantly they are afeared of an onslaught of politicans being
incarcerated in that establishment. 'Twould appear that there are renovations going on in
many cells with toilets and showers being installed and cable television. Something is
afoot in Ireland!
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2001 at 10:40:02 PM
Email: pkinsella@iopener.net
Name: patrick kinsella
Message: On a web search I looked up the :KINSELLA's: and I saw your site. My name
is Patrick Kinsella and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y. My paternal side is Kinsella Via Irland
(and possible Wales) through Newfoundland Canada: My grandfather lived and worked in
Brooklyn and brought up three children, Maureen Veronica, and Patrick my father. I am 42
years of age and have not yet visited Ireland-we are ither from Wexford or cork but one of
my cousins insits it's Waterford. In any event I really enjoed the Kinsella's web site and
fo judging other Kinsella's we are unique pleas excuse my spelling. Patrick John Kinsella
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Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 at 01:27:08 AM
Email: dfoley@interfusion.net.au
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Today Sunday January 28 is the 62 anniversary of the death of William
Butler Yeats. Those masterful images because complete/ Grew in pure mind but out of what
began?
Date: Monday, January 29, 2001 at 10:48:02 PM
Email: le@marketx.sligo
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Having difficulty with the birth of Constance. Some blockage at
Drumcliffe. There is a peeler in the way.
Date: Monday, January 29, 2001 at 10:51:33 PM
Email: smaf@sligo.ie
Name: St. Martin at the Friary
Message: I will be glad when this cold weather is gone. Then we can resume our
midnight dancing in O'Connell Street.
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 10:42:19 AM
Email: _catcat5@excite.com
Name: catherine
Message: Your page is wonderfully rich and simple....good job. I put a link on my
web page to it...hope you don't mind.
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 05:16:39 PM
Email: benjamin609@cs.com
Name: Matt Dennison
Message: Hello! Once again I have come to the Rosses Point home page looking for
information on the Lillie, aka the Aylevarroo. I was surprised to find a photo of a ship
on John Early's page (Aye Aye Aylevarroo) that appears to be just what I'm looking for.
I'd like to know more about this photo. Is it the Lillie, or the later Aylevarroo, or just
one of her sister ships? And from where did this photo originate? I'd be grateful for any
information you could send my way. Thank-you for your time... Matt Dennison Erie,
Pennsylvania, USA benjamin609@cs.com
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 05:36:55 PM
Email: benjamin609@cs.com
Name: Matt Dennison
Message: And on a related note... is anyone out there related to Winnie Durie, who
was born around 1895 in/near Leith, Edinburgh. For a book I'm writing, I need to know who
she was, and if there is any record of her being on the Lillie. Please!
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 05:38:54 PM
Email: bruen@btinternet.com
Name: Jimmy Bruen
Message: Just thought I drop a line in to tell you all that The Sligo Champion
Newspaper is now online at http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 07:45:25 PM
Email: ameyer@weber.k12.ut.us
Name: Alan Meyer, Ph.D.
Message: One of my ancestoral grandmothers was a Gould from Sligo County in the
seventeen hundreds. It's lovely to see such a poetic website from her homeland.
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 08:06:34 PM
Email: leeleann@casagrande.com
Name: Francis L Corrigan
Message: Hello I really enjoy the web site,Iam 64 years old retired and I am trying
to trace my Irish roots. And it sure is exciting,I would love to be able to visite your
great country. I live in Casa Grande Arizona. If anyone who reads this would like have an
e-mail pen pal please anser. LEE CORRIGAN
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 11:33:44 PM
Email: blackmm1@msn.com
Name: Rita Black
Message: I had a lovely visit.Thanks
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 02:38:20 AM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Och me dears, 'tis hard to believe ones eyes these day, The Sligo Weekly
Lyre Players Magazine is now on line! And himself thought is was only for wiping his
nether regions with. The brown bull is getting frisky, sure 'tis St.Bridgets Day today and
the old saying a young man's fancy turns to love or somehting likr that. I have to rush
himslef has a smile and nothing else on! Gra agus slan Maeve
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 02:41:35 AM
Email: pam@townhall.sligo
Name: P.A. McHugh
Message: At last the great papr I founded has come on-line as they say nowadays! I
can now read about the antics going on behind my back here in Quay Street. Is it true that
they recieved a grant from the Harbour Commissioners to do this? One can't imagine Scrooge
doing it himself. If he did there's a grave in turmoil in Sligo! Long live truth in the
news. P.A. McHugh from on high.
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 02:43:44 AM
Email: dmcmurrer@citlink.net
Name: Dorothy McMurrer
Message: My father was Jack Gillen possibly born in Rosse Point. My grandmother was
Mary Gillen, married to Michael Gillen who was drown at sea. Mary Gillen was known as
Nurse Gillen and had her plague hanging outside 7 Emmett Place. She was a midwife for the
town. She was born in 1871 and died in the 1940's. Martin Gillen, my uncle was a detective
for the NYC police dept and visited sligo every year. My cousin Marie Kelly lives in Sligo
and runs a B&B. Her father was Michael Gillen my father's brother.
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 02:45:04 AM
Email: MM@sligo.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: Well I never! And I thought I had seen it all. Begobs imagine Roddy
McGuinn having his name all over the world. When he was a youngster chasing hares for Mick
Harte he never thought that he would be on the www. Still he learned his politics well in
The Rope Walk as a lad in the company of decent men who lived there.
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 05:19:06 PM
Email: jm@nbnet.nb.ca
Name: Mary Henry
Message: I loved your site; the sounds of surf and seagulls took me home to
Pokeshaw, New Brunswick, Canada which is on the shores of Bay Chaleur. Thanks for the
memories. I visited Sligo town 5 years ago.
Date: Friday, February 02, 2001 at 06:06:28 AM
Email: peterann@goes.com
Name: Peter Murricane
Message: Found a website the other day by someone who photographed the headstones
of Rosses Point Cemetary. Suprisingly, 'Daisy Murricane' at 6D4 wasn't in the list. Still
searching.
Date: Friday, February 02, 2001 at 11:02:55 PM
Email: john@e-a-r-l-y.freeserve.co.uk
Name: John Early
Message: Hi Matt Dennison. Please contact re Aylevarroo / Lillie
Date: Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 04:58:54 PM
Email: dstronach@sjm.com
Name: Alexandra (Moreton) Stronach
Message: We were delighted to find your site this Sat.AM. Mrs Aileen (Cochrane)
Moreton,a former resident in the 1940's, passed away recently and her three daughters,
Alexandra, Katherine and Hilary will visit their old home in Rosses Point this summer to
renew some old aquaintances. If anyone recognizes our name please take a moment to respond
to this message. If anyone knows of a cottage or pleasant B and B which may be available
please let us know.
Date: Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 08:24:51 PM
Email: miseeire@gpo
Name: Maeve
Message: Och my dears, little Jmmy Devins is running for the Dail. I looked up all
of the local papers in my archives here on Knocknarea and sure enough isn't he saying what
a young man said in 1961 when he too sought a seat in the Dail to represent Sligo. And the
ould dump is back in the news again!!!! And yez wrote stories about me and a bull, well
there's a lot of bull still going on in Sligo!
Date: Monday, February 05, 2001 at 07:46:14 PM
Email: GrimesM4c3@aol.com
Name: Maria
Message: My family are Gilmartins,other relatives have the surnames, O'Boyle,
McLoughlin, McGowan, Dwyer, McClean, Brady,. Would be grateful if anyone knows anything
about Michael Gilmartin married to Bridgid McLoughlin approx 1880. By the way -Great web
site
Date: Monday, February 05, 2001 at 10:42:10 PM
Email: le@marketx.sligo
Name: Lady Erin
Message: I am in awe of all the names that appear on this website. I think it
absolutely beautiful the way someone submits an enquiry such as as Tom O'Boyle was my
grandfather and he left in 18... These poor innocents abroad should realise that there are
many of that same name in Sligo who left for greener pastures and there all bloody
related. Is there any way you could petition the Corporation to relace my railinmgs, every
in Sligo dog is ruining my stone work.
Date: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 at 04:37:26 AM
Email: moran.e@att.net
Name: Edward and Carol Moran
Message: We fell in love with Rosses Point back in 1979, because of bad lealth have
not been able to return. We enjoy visiting your web sights. Still look forward to playing
golf there again. At 10:00 P.M. it was still light enough to play.
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 at 02:04:08 PM
Email: mary.bilderbeck@wcom.ie
Name: ladyhawke
Message: Just stopped in to say hi to my old friend MM. What have you been up to?
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 at 06:10:13 PM
Email: MM@sligo.ie
Name: MetalMan
Message: My dearestlady friend after herself, Lady Erin of course. A happy new
millenium. All the antics going on in this country makes Lady Erin and meself weep for
Ireland. I suppose that's why it is so wet here at the Point. Apart from that I'm in great
form and I believe we are in for a visit to Rosses Point in late August from the Foley's
from Australia, now that I'm looking forward to and the good weather which I hope is
around the corner, so nice to hear from you. Slainte romhat. Himself MM
Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 01:04:32 PM
Email: mary.bilderbeck@wcom.ie
Name: ladyhawke
Message: MM, the weather here in Dublin has been cold. Everyone is sick. I came
down with La Grippe myself. But flowers have started to bloom, so there is hope.
Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 09:18:44 PM
Email: joe@irishlinks.co.uk
Name: Joe Brennan
Message: Hello to all in Rosses Point. I hope to get up there in August. In the
meantime I'll add you to the Sligo page on http://www.irishlinks.co.uk
Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 11:33:51 PM
Email: fmd@sdcity.sannet.gov
Name: Francis M. Devaney
Message: I am from San Diego, California, born and raised in New York City, and
came upon this website during an Internet search using the name "Devaney." I'll
have to visit some day!
Date: Friday, February 09, 2001 at 11:37:25 AM
Email: Unison.ie
Name: Champion
Message: Rosses Point news: Seafood Fantasia Corr., Ann-Marie Doherty ROSSES POINT
art group will resume classes on every Wednesday, starting on Wednesday, February 7th
(today) from 10.00 to 12.00 in the Scouts Den. Beginners are most welcome. Telephone 77623
as places are limited. THE annual general meeting of the Rosses Point GAA club will take
place (tonight) Wednesday, February 7th at 9.00 in the Yeats Country Hotel, Rosses Point.
A parent representative for each player is desirable. All are welcome. LIFEBOAT Ireland
and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution will host a night of "Seafood
Fantasia" at the Embassy Rooms, Sligo on Monday, February 12th, commencing at 7.30.
It features a night of seafood preparation, cooking and tasting. This night is organised
by John Flynn and the North-West panel of Chefs. Admission is by ticket only. Tickets cost
£5 each and are available locally. All proceeds are in aid of the Irish Lifeboats.
Support would be appreciated.
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 at 07:16:30 AM
Email: newberry58@mindspring.com
Name: Judith Newberry DeVaney
Message: interesting site. I want to explore more though. DeVaney's of Augusta,
Goergia USA
Date: Sunday, February 11, 2001 at 01:22:55 AM
Email: cgillen@fuse.net
Name: Tommy Gillen
Message: My great grandfather's name was also Tommy Gillen. Born ireland 1832, but
where is unknown. My grandfather John Thomas gillen was born 1877, and probably was born
there to, but don't know for sure. Anyway just looking around for leads.
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 at 04:56:46 AM
Email: sligo4u@aol.com
Name: annette cawley
Message: it was great to find such good stories on sligo
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 at 02:36:32 AM
Email: camera man 478@AOL.COM
Name: Mc Gloin
Message: I VISITED ROSSES POINT ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO. I TOOK A BUS UP THERE FROM
SLIGO TOWN CENTER AND THUMBED A RIDE BACK.IT WAS VERY NICE IN AN ISOLATED KIND OF WAY.
COULD WALK AROUND FOR HOURS AND NOT BE BOTHERED. I ALSO TOOK SOME GREAT PHOTOS UP THERE.
IN SLIGO I HAD AGREAT DINNER AND THEN WENT ACROSS THE STREET FOR SOME BEERS.GREAT PEOPLE
,GOOD FUN. I CAN'T RECALL THE NAME OF THE RESTAURANT OR BAR BUT I HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN IN
MY TRAVEL JOURNAL. I ALSO RENTED A BIKE AND HAD A GREAT 20K RIDE OUTSIDE OF TOWN, OVER TO
THE LEITRIM BORDER. ANYONE INTERESTED IN SOME PHOTOS OF THE POINT AND SURROUNDING AREAS ,
JUST WRITE.
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 at 07:25:42 PM
Email: fear@mor.aol.com
Name: fergal O'ferret
Message: Keep up the good work, keep the blue flag flying, and a view of it between
the big houses. As Q Maeve used to say "my way or the highway", Any one got a
few bob for my an Taisce subscription, it's like me unborn lambs (due), Tog go bog eh?
Fergal
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 at 04:11:35 AM
Email: NanaPaMize@cs.com
Name: Dorothy Ann Mize
Message: I have enjoyed your site. My Great Grandmother was Mary Mollie Devaney.
She married Peter Francis Shoemaker in Noonan, Ga. USA in the 1800's. Would love to know
more about her.
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 at 12:55:03 PM
Email: Champion.ie
Name: Champion
Message: The Rosses Point Millennium Sculpture Project has moved another step
closer to realisation. The Sculptor, Niall Bruton, travelled to Rosses Point to inspect
the setting on which the sculpture "Waiting on Shore" will stand. The contract
for the completion of the sculpture was then signed at the Captain’s table in Austies
– an appropriate venue immortalized in the Jack Yeats painting "Memory
Harbour" "For the committee the most encouraging aspect of this project was the
swift and generous response to their appeal both locally and from places like London and
New York", said a spokesperson. "With the creation of the new marina, the
Lifeboat House and the overall improvement of the harbour area, the western end of the
village, already an area of great natural beauty, will be further enhanced by the
sculpture "Waiting on Shore" which like the Metal Man, symbolizes the ethos of
the village and lives past", he added.
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 at 12:58:28 PM
Email: Champion@ie
Name: Sligo Champion
Message: THE Rosses Point Heritage Association are hosting a public lecture and
slide show entitled "Tools, Weapons, Ornaments and Goods from Times Past". It
will be given by Mr. Martin Timoney, Vice-President of Sligo Field Club in the Yeats
Country Hotel on Tuesday, February 20th at 9.00. All are welcome. THE ANNUAL hunt took
place at Rosses Point on Wednesday last with a large number of horses and hounds taking
part. Refreshments were served in Hacketts Lounge, Rosses Point afterwards. ROSSES POINT
art group have recently resumed classes on each Wednesday morning from 10.30 to 12.30 in
the Scouts Den, Rosses Point. Beginners are most welcome. Telephone 77623 as places are
limited
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 at 01:01:42 PM
Email: Champion@ie
Name: Sligo Champion
Message: CLASSES in Ballroom Dancing have commenced in the Yeats Country Hotel,
Rosses Point. These classes started recently and are held on each Wednesday night at 9.00.
They cost £2.50 per person on the night. All are welcome. THE DEATH took place suddenly
at the residence of Mr. Alan Henry, Cregg, of Mr. William Browne, Cregg, Rosses Point and
formerly of Drumiskabole, Carraroe, Sligo. Removal took place from Feehily's Funeral Home,
Cartron Cross, Sligo to St. John's Cathedral, John Street, Sligo. Burial took place after
2.00 Service at St. John's Cathedral to Kilmacowen Cemetery. Sincere sympathy is extended
to his family, relatives, neighbours and many friends. SYMPATHY is extended to the
Jennings family on the recent death of their mother Mrs. Claire Jennings (nee Mahon)
"Gotard", Cornageeha, Sligo. A MEETING of the Rosses Point parish pastoral
council will be held on Wednesday, February 14th at 8.00 in the Parochial House.
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 at 07:03:36 PM
Email: ben@bulbin.so
Name: Ben
Message: Where have all the sea-gulls gone to-nite?
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 at 01:30:21 AM
Email: mistymom@cybercomm.net
Name: Anne Gillen
Message: Hi to all at Rosses Point, a great site-I continue to enjoy it. Am trying
to find some records of a John Gillen and perhaps a Thomas and Mary (Comber) Conry. Does
anyone out there have any info? Sure would like to get a lead in IReland on our family
history. The Conry's daughter, Bridget Agnes is my ggrandmother and we believe she was
born Feb.1833 who married John Gillen and later married a Patrick Gray. We believe that
Bridget and John and 9 children and she and Patrick had two. That's what the census for
New York City shows us. We know of Mary, Delia, Michael Gillen born in Ireland. Thomas
Gray was born in NYC and another we don't have a name for. If anyone has any info we'd be
very grateful to hear from you. Thanks so much for your help. Keep up the good work on
this site, it's tremendous. God bless. Regards. Anne Gillen
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 at 11:02:44 PM
Email: hm@palace.uk
Name: Elizabeth Regina 11
Message: How delightful to read the Place of Shells Lyre on the internet. Phil the
Greek says it is the same news that he read when he visited Mullaghmore in 1949 with his
uncle Louis and that all they have done is to change the date and some of the names of the
Corporation members!! Now that that dreadful man with the long tongue who welcomed our
elder son Charles who wishes to be a S.T. is gone from office, we would consider visiting
Ireland. My problem is with Phil the Greek . . his hands might roam over Ms Larkin!
Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 at 06:12:53 PM
Email: le@mc.ie
Name: Lady Erin
Message: Sir or Madam, I have stood here at Market Cross since 1898 and have heard
and seen many sing 'Who fears to speak of '98', tis a shame that you bloody skitter pipe
can't hold your wind let alone your p.
Date: Sunday, February 25, 2001 at 12:00:27 AM
Email: sgbil@eejit.net
Name: seagull's brother-in- law
Message: Deer Sur/Madam, why in the honour of Moses and the parting of the Red Sea
do we have a whole page from the Sligo Weekly Lyre appearing on this here guest book? I
heard that the crying and weeping from a house in Cartron over the lyre being free is
something shocking. The ghost of Charlie has been heard wailing through the corridors of
power in the Sraid Fionn and poor old Seamus has lost the rest of his hair!
Date: Monday, February 26, 2001 at 10:13:18 AM
Email: cdavisatirelanddotcom
Name: ciaran
Message: Hello all, there seems to be some bother about articles from the Champion
appearing on this here guestbook. I don't know who's putting it up, and to be honest, I
don't really mind either. But for whoever is going to all the trouble, and for all those
who don't know, the weekly "lyre" is available here --->>
http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 01:50:23 AM
Email: rene7483@yahoo.com
Name: Maureen
Message: Enjoyed this very much. Though I've been to Sligo three times on my visits
to Ireland I have never been to Rosses Point. It appears to be a very interesting area. I
would be interested in knowing if you can take a boat to Coney Island.
Continued in Volume 19