It's true - Bob and I are going back to Ireland the end of this month. I'll be leaving the 26th, a few days before Bob, to do some research in Dublin, then he'll will meet me in Dublin on Friday, Sept. 30th, and we'll head off for Moynalty the next morning, just in time for Saturday Mass at the Church of the Assumption (where Patrick and Bridget were married). We'll stay with Margaret Flanagan as we usually do, for a few days and then head down to Kilkenny for three nights, Cork for a week and will be back home October 16.
Margaret Flanagan lives just outside Moynalty, down the Skearke road from the McKenna-Lynch cottage where we believe Bridget lived when she and Patrick were married. Margaret's husband (now deceased) is the great grandson of Sally McKenna - a cousin? or sister? of Bridget.
But I wanted to let folks know that I was going in case anyone has a particular question or something you'd like me to look into. I plan to spend a day at the National Archives, and a good part of another in the National Library snooping around, reading old newspapers and reports and census records to try to get a better feel for what life was like in Bridget and Patrick's time, and see if what else I might find. There are famine reports from Moynalty that look pretty interesting. Usually there's been something we uncover that brings it just a little closer.
So give me a holler. I'll try to write in here at least once while I'm on the other side of the Atlantic, and for sure when I return.
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