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    July 2000


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    			IN THIS ISSUE
    ~~~~~ Foreword
    ~~~~~ Support us for free
    ~~~~~ New free resources at the site (& a Readers Challenge)
    ~~~~~ News Snaps from Ireland
    ~~~~~ Robert Emmet - Nationalist and Orator	by Kevin Kelly
    ~~~~~ Gaelic Phrases of the Month
    ~~~~~ 36 things you never knew about Dublin 	by David Carey
    ~~~~~ Free Ancestral Map of Ireland Offer
    ~~~~~ Readers Noticeboard
    ~~~~~ Shamrock Site of the Month: 
    ~~~~~ Searcher Site of the Month: 
    ~~~~~ Monthly free competition result
    
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    FOREWORD
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    NEW FREE RESOURCES AT THE SITE
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    IRISH ARTICLES POSTED ONLINE FOR EASY REFERENCE
    
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    NEWS SNAPS FROM IRELAND
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    TENSIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND 
    
    The annual twelfth of July events by The Orange Order in
    Northern Ireland have caused weeklong protests and standoffs
    between the Orangemen and Police Forces. The main trouble
    point is again in Portadown and especially in the small
    village of Drumcree where the local residents have refused
    to allow a Unionist parade until such time as the Orange
    Order enters into discussions with them. So far no such
    discussions have taken place and it seems that the problem
    will roll over until same time next year.
    
    Sporadic rioting in Belfast, Derry and Portadown has caused
    millions of pounds worth of damage to the local business
    community as well as damaging the North's improving image
    as a tourist destination.
    
    CHILD CRECHE FEES RISE TO IR£150 PER WEEK
    
    Weekly creche fees for working couples with children have
    now risen to between IR£120 and IR£150 per week. The
    increases have the effect of making it uneconomical for 
    mothers (or fathers) to actually go out to work as they
    would be better off staying at home and spending time with
    their children than helping to sustain the booming economy.
    
    The government introduced measures to try to increase the
    number of women in the workforce in the last budget and are
    expected to follow up in the next budget with some kind of
    tax relief for couples with children.
    
    TWO IRISH WOMEN ARE AMONG THE WORLDS RICHEST 200
    
    Euro business magazine has declared that 2 members of the
    Dunnes Stores family are among the 200 world's richest women.
    Sisters Anne and Margaret have stakes worth IR£390M in the
    company and are believed to gain a lot more from dividends
    and investments.
    
    CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BEGINS
    
    The single biggest deportation of bogus asylum seekers took
    place when 12 foreign nationals were despatched to Poland.
    The Minister for Justice, John O'Donoghue has promised swift
    action on the further 500 immigrants whose deportation orders
    have already been signed. Ireland has completed a
    're-admission' treaty with Nigeria and Romania and is
    expected to complete a similar signing with Poland. It is
    from these three countries that the majority of asylum
    seekers originate.
    
    3000 applications have recently been abandoned by would-be
    immigrants who have returned of their own will to Britain
    and mainland Europe. The number of staff assigned to dealing
    with the backlog of immigrants seeking refugee status has
    been increased threefold in recent months.
    
    HOUSE PRICES RISE - AGAIN!
    
    An ESRI study has shown that the cost of house purchase has
    risen by over 10% during the first half of 2000. House
    prices rose by 20% during 1999. Dublin is bearing the brunt
    of the increases with a 13% gain during the first 6 months
    of this year.
    
    The Government recently introduced measures to try to remove
    investors from the housing market but the lack of supply of
    housing seems to be the major reason for the continual
    upward surge in prices.
    
    PUB OPENING HOURS EXTENDED
    
    Well it has finally happened! The antiquated licensing laws
    have had a review and it means that Irish public houses can
    now stay open until 12:30 (on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays),
    with a further half hour 'drinking up' time. These extensions
    should see an end to the ridiculous situation whereby locals
    and tourists alike had to vacate pubs by 11:30 (and even by
    10:30 on Sundays a few years ago).
    
    The price of drink has also been frozen (at May 15, 2000
    prices) by the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Tom Kitt, as
    the Government tries to curb spiraling inflation. Needless
    to say the Publicans organisations do not agree with the
    new measures.
    
    DRINK DRIVING ARRESTS SOAR
    
    Over 100,00 motorists were given on-the-spot fines for
    speeding during the first 5 months of this year, compared
    with 175,000 for all of 1999. Nearly 4100 drivers were
    arrested for drunk driving, up 500 for the same period
    last year. The release of the figures have been heralded as
    a success by the Junior Environment Minister, Bobby Molloy,
    who commented that extra detection vehicles and speed
    cameras have been applied to try to curb Ireland's terrible
    record of road injury and fatality.
    
    SPORT:
    
    RACING LEGEND JOEY DUNLOP DIES IN ESTONIA RACE
    
    50,000 mourners gathered at Ballymoney in Northern Ireland
    for the funeral of motor racing superstar Joey Dunlop, who
    lost his life in an accident while racing in Estonia.
    
    ENGLISH SOCCER CLUB TEAMS UP WITH IRISH SCHOOLBOY OUTFIT
    
    Manchester City F.C. have agreed a link up deal with top
    Irish Schoolboy outfit Cherry orchard which will see the
    Dublin club receive IR£100,000 and in return the newly
    promoted Premiership team will have the pick of the crop of
    new talent from the Ballyfermot based academy.
    
    City manager Joe Royle was in Dublin to announce the deal
    and has been quick to sign up Stephen Paisley and Will Flood
    from the club. Everton and Manchester United are among the
    other top English teams who have already established similar
    deals with Irish junior clubs.
    
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    ROBERT EMMET - NATIONALIST AND ORATOR	      By Kevin Kelly
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    Robert Emmet's short, dramatic life came to a tragic end on
    September 20, 1803.  However, although his life was short
    and his struggle in vain, his efforts, vision and idealism
    left a mythic mark on Irish and on the world history.
    
    Born in Dublin in 1778 into a fairly-well-to-do Protestant
    family, Emmet was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. With
    high ideals of fraternity and equality, Robert, like his
    elder brother Thomas, became involved with the United
    Irishmen, an organization formed in 1791 by Wolfe Tone,
    James Tandy, and Thomas Russell to achieve Roman Catholic
    emancipation and, with Protestant cooperation,
    parliamentary reform.
    
    From 1800 to 1802, Emmet resided on the continent with
    leaders of the United Irishmen who had been exiled from
    Ireland following the rebellion of 1798. While there, Emmet
    attempted to enlist French support for an insurrection
    against British rule. With the promise of French military
    aid secured, Emmet returned to Ireland in 1802 and began to
    organize and arm the country in preparation for the French
    landing. However, Emmet's hand was forced in July 1803 when
    an explosion at one of his arms depot's compelled an early
    call for insurrection on July 23. His plan now awry, the
    ill-timed insurrection ended in confusion as various
    factions failed to receive or failed to heed the call to
    arms, and the promised French invasion failed to materialize.
    
    Determined and undaunted Emmet, wearing a green and white
    uniform, marched a small band against Dublin Castle. On
    their way, the group happened upon Lord Kilwarden, the Lord
    Chief Justice and his nephew.  Emmet's followers seized them
    from their coach, piked them to death and then began to riot
    in the streets. Disillusioned by his followers' behavior and
    realizing the cause was lost, Emmet escaped and hid in the
    Wicklow Mountains.
    
    From there, Emmet moved to Harold's Cross to be near Sarah
    Curran, his bride-to-be (Thomas Moore's songs, 'She is far from
    the land where her young hero sleeps' and 'Oh breathe not
    the name' were inspired by Emmet's love for her). Emmet had
    hoped to escape to America but was captured on August 25,
    1803 and imprisoned at Kilmainham. He was tried for high
    treason in Green Street Courthouse where he was sentenced
    to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
    
    When asked if he had any thing to say in response to this
    sentence, Emmet gave what is considered to be one of the
    most famous speeches of the period. Emmet's speech to the
    court (The Speech from the Dock) could be regarded as
    the last protest of the United Irishmen:
    
    ' I have but one request to ask at my departure from this
    world – it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write
    my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph, for as no man who
    knows my motives and character dares now to vindicate them,
    let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest
    in obscurity and peace until other times and other men can
    do justice to them. When my country takes her place among
    the nations of the earth, then shall my character be
    vindicated, then may my epitaph be written'.
    
    Although he held out hope for a rescue, on September 20,
    1803, he was executed. Out of deference to his aristocratic
    background, Emmet was hanged and beheaded but was not
    subsequently disemboweled - as such a sentence usually
    involved. His burial site remains a mystery to this date.
    
    In 2003, Ireland and the world will remember the 200th
    anniversary of Robert Emmet's death and will commemorate an
    earlier period of history in which Irish Protestants and
    Catholics were united under one banner. In remembering those
    times, we can hope, pray and work for a modern era of
    peace and equality in this land.
    
    Ireland has indeed taken 'her place among the nations of the
    world'.
    
    In preparation for the bicentennial of his death, information
    about Robert Emmet currently is being gathered on the internet
    at http://www.RobertEmmet.org.
    
    Kevin Kelly.
    
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    GAELIC PHRASES OF THE MONTH
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    PHRASE:		Scileann fíon fírinne.
    PRONOUNCED:	Skill/awn fyun fir/in/eh.
    MEANING:		Wine lets out the truth.
    
    The following 2 phrases are the equivalent of 'curses'.
    
    PHRASE:		Imeacht gan teacht ort.
    PRONOUNCED:	Im/ockt gon chock/th urt.
    MEANING:		May you leave without returning.
    
    
    PHRASE:		Titim gan éirí ort.
    PRONOUNCED:	Chitim gon eye/ree urt.
    MEANING:		May you fall without rising.
    
    
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    36 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT DUBLIN 	      by DAVID CAREY
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    1. Dublin's O'Connell Bridge was originally made of rope and
    could only carry one man and a donkey at a time. It was
    replaced with a wooden structure in 1801. The current
    concrete bridge was built in 1863 and was first called
    'Carlisle Bridge'.
    
    2. O'Connell Bridge is the only traffic bridge in Europe
    which is wider than it is long and Dublin's second O'Connell
    Bridge is across the pond in St. Stephen's Green.
    
    3. Dublin Corporation planted 43,765 deciduous trees in the
    Greater Dublin area in 1998.
    
    4. Dublin's oldest workhouse closed its doors for the last
    time in July 1969. Based in Smithfield, the premises housed
    10,037 orphan children during the one hundred and seventy
    years it operated.
    
    5. Dublin was originally called 'Dubh Linn' meaning 'Black
    Pool'. The pool to which the name referred is the oldest
    known natural treacle lake in Northern Europe and currently
    forms the centrepiece of the penguin enclosure in Dublin Zoo.
    
    6. None of the so-called Dublin Mountains are high enough to
    meet the criteria required to claim mountain status. The
    Sugarloaf is the tallest 'Dublin Mountain' yet measures a
    mere 1389 feet above sea level.
    
    7. The headquarters of the national television broadcaster,
    RTE, in Montrose, was originally built for use as an abatoir.
    
    8. Dublin's oldest traffic lights are situated beside the
    Renault garage in Clontarf. The lights, which are still in
    full working order, were installed in 1893 outside the home
    of Fergus Mitchell who was the owner of the first car in
    Ireland.
    
    9. The Temple Bar area is so called because it housed the
    first Jewish temple built in Ireland. The word 'bar' refers
    to the refusal of Catholics to allow the Jewish community
    to enter any of the adjoining commercial premises.
    
    10. Tiny Coliemore Harbour beside the Dalkey Island Hotel
    was the main harbour for Dublin from the fifteenth to the
    seventeenth century.
    
    11. Dublin is the IT Call Centre capital of Europe with over
    100,000 people employed in the industry.
    
    12. In 1761 a family of itinerants from Navan were refused
    entry to Dublin. The family settled on the outskirts of the
    city and created the town of Rush. Two hundred and fifty
    years later, a large percentage of the population of 
    Rush can still trace their roots back to this one family.
    
    13. Dubliners drink a total of 9800 pints an hour between
    the hours of 5.30pm on a Friday and 3.00am the following
    Monday.
    
    14. Dublin is Europe's most popular destination with
    traveling stag and hen parties. 
    
    15. Harold's Cross got it's name because a tribe called the
    'Harolds' lived in the Wicklow Mountains and the Archbishop
    of Dublin would not let them come any nearer to the city
    than that point.
    
    16. Leopardstown was once known as Leperstown.
    
    17. The average 25-year-old Dubliner still lives with
    his/her parents.
    
    18. Two radio stations attract over 90% of all listeners in
    the Dublin area.
    
    19. There are twelve places called Dublin in the United
    States and six in Australia.
    
    20. Buck Whaley was an extremely wealthy gambler who lived
    in Dublin in the seventeen hundreds. Due to inheritances, he
    had an income of seven thousand pounds per year (not far off
    seven million a year at today's prices).  He lived in a huge
    house near Stephen's Green which is now the Catholic
    University of Ireland. He went broke and he had to leave
    Ireland due to gambling debts. He swore he'd be buried in
    Irish soil but is in fact buried in the Isle of Man in a
    shipload of Irish soil which he imported for the purpose.
    
    21. The converted Ford Transit used for the Pope's visit in
    1976 was upholstered using the most expensive carpet ever
    made in Dublin. The carpet was a silk and Teflon weave and
    rumoured to have cost over IR£950.00 per square meter.
    
    22. There was once a large statue of Queen Victoria in the
    Garden outside Leinster House. It was taken away when the
    Republic of Ireland became independent and in 1988 was given
    as a present to the city of Sydney, Australia to mark that
    city's 200th anniversary.
    
    23. The largest cake ever baked in Dublin weighed a whopping
    190 lb's and was made to celebrate the 1988 city millennium.
    The cake stood untouched in the Mansion House until 1991
    when it was thrown out.
    
    24. A pint of Guinness in Dublin can cost as much as IR£2.75
    or as little as IR£1.90 depending on where you drink.
    
    25. Strangers are more likely to receive a drink from
    Dubliners than from a native of any other County.
    
    26. There are forty six rivers in Dublin city. The river
    flowing through Rathmines is called the River Swan (beside
    the Swan Centre). The Poddle was once known as the 'Tiber'
    and was also known as the River Salach (dirty river),
    which is the origin of the children's song 'Down by the
    river Saile'. It is also the river whose peaty, mountain
    water causes the Black Pool mentioned above.
    
    27. Saint Valentine was martyred in Rome on February 28th
    eighteen centuries ago. He was the Bishop of Terni. His
    remains are in a Cask in White Friar Street Church, Dublin.
    He is no longer recognised as a Saint By the Vatican.
    
    28. The statue in Dublin's O'Connell Street is commonly
    known as the 'Floozy in the Jacuzzi' while the one at the
    bottom of Grafton Street is best known as the 'Tart with
    the Cart'. The women at the Ha'Penny bridge are the 'Hags 
    with the bags' and the Chimney Stack with the new lift in
    Smithfield Village's now called the 'Flue with the View'.
    The shortlived millennium clock that was placed in the River
    Liffey in 1999 was known as 'the chime in the slime'.
    
    29. Montgomery Street was once the biggest red-light
    district in Europe with an estimated 1600 prostitutes. It
    was known locally as the 'Monto' and this is the origin of
    the song 'Take me up to Monto'.
    
    30. Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda lived in Dublin in the
    Eighteenth century. His job was naming streets. He called
    several after himself. Henry Street, Moore Street, Earl
    Street, Drogheda Street. Drogheda Street later became
    Sackville Street and is now O'Connell Street. 
    
    31. Nelson's Pillar was blown up in 1966 to mark the
    fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 rising. It now lies in a
    heap in a valley in County Wicklow.
    
    32. Leinster House in Dublin was originally built as a
    private home for the Duke of Leinster. At that time, the most
    fashionable part of Dublin was the North Side and he was
    asked why he was building on the South Side. He said 'Where
    I go, fashion follows me.!' .....and to this day the most 
    fashionable part of Dublin is the South Side.
    
    33. Tallaght is one of the oldest placenames in Ireland and
    it means 'The Plague cemetery'
    
    34. There are seven areas in Dublin whose names end in the
    letter 'O'. Fewer than one Dubliner in 20,000 can name them
    off by heart. They are: Rialto, Marino, Portobello,
    Phibsboro, Monto, Casino and Pimlico. 
    
    35. Kevin Street Garda Station was once the Palace of the
    Archbishop Of Dublin.
    
    36. The original name of Trinity College was 'Trinity College
    Near Dublin'. The capital was a lot smaller then.
    
    Best wishes from Van Demons Land!
    
    David Carey.
    (In Australia but from Limerick!)
    
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    READERS NOTICEBOARD
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    READERS TIP REGARDING ENLARGING TEXT ON YOUR PC
    
    Last month we provided a LARGER TEXT site map at the site.
    You can view it here:
    
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    The purpose of the new map was to make it easier for the
    visually impaired and for those who are just fed up reading
    the ever smaller print that appears on web sites (including
    ours!).
    
    One of our readers, Jennifer Cowley, from Canada has
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    READERS TIP REGARDING HOTMAIL 'LINKS' PROBLEM
    
    David Carey of Australia has provided an explanation
    regarding the problem certain HOTMAIL users have
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    (including the links that appear in this newsletter!).
    
    David explained that because their is a 'time out' value on
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    Thanks David!.
    
    'AMERICAN CELTIC' - CELTIC ART ON TOUR IN US 
    
    Until recently, Celtic art was nearly a lost art, a cultural
    remnant of an ancient age. Today, due to the resurgence of
    interest in things Celtic, artists on both sides of the
    Atlantic have mastered the elements of this ancient art form
    and are using these elements to express contemporary ideas,
    while still retaining the essence of the style.
    
    'American Celtic' is an exhibition of Celtic art and will
    tour several cities from October to December including Los
    Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Lexington
    (Kentucky) and New York.
    
    Contact:
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