Comments for Famine Museum

Comment on About Us by admin

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:32:36 +0000

Hi Courtney,
I will be happy to assist, and will contact you by Email. George.

Comment on About Us by Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:28:38 +0000

Hello, I am from the U.S so I can’t actually visit this museum but I am doing a paper for my college english class and my topic is the Irish potato famine. Is there any way I could be able to do an interview through email or anything like that since I have to have a primary source? That would be fantastic!

Comment on Thurles History by Adele Maeve Ellen Jones

Adele Maeve Ellen Jones — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:38:15 +0000

My great great grandparents (James O’Day and Mary Carrigan) both came from Thurles and were married in Melbourne in 1865. Other O’Days came too and I have the full histories. What I would like to do is come to Thurles again and find the marriage of my 3X great grandmother Ellen O’Day need Ryan and Thomas O’Day (or anything about my 4x great grandfather MARTIN RYAN). Does the cathedral have a service for old marriage or baptism records? I have all the details of all the brothers and sisters of James. All plus Ellen O’Day my 3xgreat grandmother died in Melbourne and are buried in the Melbourne General Cemetary.

Thank you
Adele

Comment on The Famine Potato by Laura Elliott

Laura Elliott — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:47:29 +0000

Thank you for your reply but I have already tried these sites without success. That is why I contacted you for help.

Laura

Comment on The Famine Potato by admin

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:31:10 +0000

Type Skerry Blue seed potatoes into your Internet search engine – several companies are advertising sales of same.

Comment on The Famine Potato by Laura Elliott

Laura Elliott — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:40:43 +0000

Can you please tell me where I can buy Skerry Blue seed potatoes.

Comment on The Battle of Thurles – 1174 by Seán Ó hAonghusa

Seán Ó hAonghusa — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:24:49 +0000

Great to have ready access to such informative, easily-read material. It would help if some well-known landmarks were mentioned to help identify the location of the battle.Míle buíochas

Comment on About Us by Hazel Fullbrook

Hazel Fullbrook — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:03:16 +0000

I am interested in my Gt Gt Grandmother’s marriage which I believe took place in your church 4th September 1852. Her name was Ann Bieble (Bible) and she was married to Thomas Dewdney. I have her father as Arthur Bieble. Would you have any more information in your records about her family.
I would be very grateful for any assistance; thankyou.

Comment on John Molloy – A Letter To his Employer by John G. Molloy

John G. Molloy — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:11:31 +0000

I was born in 1948, when the population of Ireland was 3,000,000. It had been 8,000,000 in 1848, 100 years earlier. As a boy I was taught that one-third of the population died; one-third emigrated and of the one-third that remained, the strongest, most intelligent and most cunning bred new generations.

My eyes well up when I think of the food that England shipped from Ireland during what has come to be known as the famine. A famine is when there is no food. Genocide is when the rulers sell the food to others for profit, leaving their subjects to die.

Comment on Famine History by admin

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:47:41 +0000

Rebecca,
Yes, providing you phone 0504-21133 in advance during the winter months. May To September the museum opens everyday, no appointment needed.