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		IN THIS ISSUE
~~~ Foreword
~~~ Keep us Free!
~~~ New Free resources at the site
~~~ News Snaps from Ireland
~~~ Irish Halloween Traditions
~~~ The Meeting of the Messages    by Clara Byrne
~~~ Irish Movie Review: Far & Away by Dawn Hayden
~~~ How to solve your Christmas Shopping Problem
~~~ Irish Quotations of the Month
~~~ Gaelic Phrases of the Month
~~~ Shamrock Site of the Month: Ballykissangel
~~~ Monthly free competition result

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FOREWORD
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I hope that this newsletter finds you all safe 
and well. I want to thank you all for your kind 
comments about last month's newsletter. We have 
posted many of them in the Newsletter Forum and 
have also included some poems that readers have 
sent in. Many thanks.

This month we have included our article about 
Irish Halloween Traditions. Just in time too as 
Dublin is already showing signs of the impending 
event with 'bangers' and fireworks going off 
nightly and stockpiles of wood and junk being 
collected for the annual bonfires. 

We also have a true tale from Clara Burke Byrne 
that just goes to show that emails, faxes and 
telephones are not the only ways to communicate.

That's all for now, so.....

Until cold November is upon us,
and the nights are showing black,
'till hot whiskey needs to be taken,
and pints too, mostly black,

'till All Hallow tide has passed,
Concannon to be had no more,
I'll await our next encounter,
with my good tidings to the fore

Best Wishes from Ireland,

Michael.


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NEWS SNAPS FROM IRELAND
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IRA MAY DECOMMISSION ARMS VERY SHORTLY

The IRA leadership may be on the brink of an 
historic decision to put some of its weapons 
beyond use. The Ulster Unionist leader, David 
Thrimble has withdrawn his Ministers from the 
Northern Ireland Executive but has stated that 
in the event of substantial decommissioning of 
weapons that this decision could be reversed.
He has indicated that any such gesture would 
dramatically change the political landscape 
in Northern Ireland.

It is thought that a major part of any such 
development would see the removal of British 
Government security towers in various parts of 
Ulster and especially in Republican strongholds 
such as South Armagh.

The Northern Secretary has announced that the 
RUC will become the Police Service of 
Northern Ireland from Sunday, November 4th.

HUGE THREAT TO THE IRISH ENVIRONMENT

The British Government has been accused of using 
the media saturation of the coverage of the fight 
against terrorism to hide the latest announcement 
regarding Sellafield, its nuclear power plant 
located in Wales.

Situated just a half an hour from the Irish 
coastline the Irish Government has for long sought 
to have the plant closed as it represents the 
single greatest threat to the Irish Environment 
and is a very real target for Terrorists.

Irish Leader Bertie Ahearn has now stated that it 
is Ireland's intention to take the British 
Government to court, starting with the European 
Union court and most likely ending up in the 
United Nations, in an effort to shut down the 
hazard.

AER LINGUS IN DESPERATE TROUBLE

State Airline Aer Lingus is losing over IR£2M a 
day and has slashed the cost of its air fares. The 
Irish Government is seeking permission from the 
European Union to allow it to provide funding to 
the troubled state-owned body.

It seems likely that permission will be given by 
the EU once the viability of the airline can be 
demonstrated. Already a major cost cutting 
programme is under way with up to 2,300 jobs 
expected to go. Staff Unions are insisting that 
favourable redundancy terms be provided for their
members and are likely to strike if they do not 
get what they want.

There is a very real possibility of the Airline 
going bankrupt if the current precarious situation 
is not handled carefully.

Closely watching events at Aer Lingus are the 
managers of the budget Irish airline Ryanair. 
They have already instigated legal proceedings 
against the Belgian Government who have provided 
funding to bail out their own national airline, 
Sabena.

Ryanair are claiming that the money provided will 
be used to try to force Ryanair out of the Belgian 
market and that this is contrary to EU law.

ANTHRAX HOAXES EXPOSE IRELAND'S LACK OF PREPARATION

The spate of Anthrax hoaxes that are sweeping 
major cities worldwide have not escaped Dublin 
where children in a school had to be evacuated and 
given antibiotics while a suspect package is 
tested for the deadly disease.

The Government has reacted by ordering medical 
supplies to treat Anthrax as well as Smallpox. A 
Government information pack is to be sent to every 
household in the country to advise citizens of the 
correct action in the event of a biological or 
nuclear attack.

500 MORE GARDAI TO BE MADE AVAILABLE

It has long been accepted that far too many Gardai 
are engaged in clerical duties that prevent them 
from patrolling the streets and preventing crime. 

Consequently the Government has announced that 500 
civilian workers are to be introduced into the 
system to replace the desk-bound law officials and 
allow them to be reassigned to the sort of work 
for which they were recruited.

RTE FACING JOB LOSSES

The state-owned television company, RTE, has seen 
an advertising shortfall of over IR£10M for the 
year. It had expected a shortfall of IR£7M but the 
recent terrorist attacks and the subsequent global 
economic slowdown have further reduced advertising 
revenues.

IRISH SOCCER TEAM UP TO 20TH PLACE IN THE WORLD

Following on from Ireland's excellent performance 
in finishing second in their World Cup qualifying 
group, the latest FIFA rankings have seen Mick 
McCarthy's team rise one place on the list of the 
top 20 soccer nations.

Qualification for the World Cup finals in Japan 
and Korea in 2002 depends on the performance of 
the Irish team over two matches against an Asian 
qualifier, likely to be either Saudi Arabia or 
Bahrain. 

FIFA has not yet decreed whether the Irish team 
will be forced to travel into the Middle East 
region to play the second match or if both 
matches will take place in a neutral venue, 
likely to be Cyprus, Malta or Italy.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON FINISHES SECOND, AGAIN!

Seven times this season Padraig Harrington has 
finished runner-up in a major golfing tournament 
and he is less than happy with his latest 
performance.

Having made a tournament record 61 to lead Ian 
Woosnam by two strokes in the final of the Cisco 
World Matchplay Trophy he allowed the canny 
Welshman to overhaul him to win by three shots 
and claim his first European tour win in over
four years.

The STG£120,000 runner-up prize should be some 
compensation for Harrington.

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IRISH HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
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The Celts celebrated Halloween as Samhain, 'All 
Hallowtide' - the 'Feast of the Dead', when the 
dead revisited the mortal world. The celebration 
marked the end of Summer and the start of the 
Winter months. 

During the eighth century the Catholic Church 
designated the first day of November as 'All 
Saints Day' ('All Hallows') - a day of 
commemoration for those Saints that did not have
a specific day of remembrance. The night before 
was known as 'All Hallows Eve' which, over time, 
became known as Halloween.

Here are the most notable Irish Halloween 
Traditions:

Colcannon for Dinner: Boiled Potato, Curly Kale 
(a cabbage) and raw Onions are provided as the 
traditional Irish Halloween dinner. Clean coins 
are wrapped in baking paper and placed in the 
potato for children to find and keep.

The Barnbrack Cake: The traditional Halloween 
cake in Ireland is the barnbrack which is a 
fruit bread. Each member of the family gets a 
slice. Great interest is taken in the outcome as 
there is a piece of rag, a coin and a ring in
each cake. If you get the rag then your financial 
future is doubtful. If you get the coin then you 
can look forward to a prosperous year. Getting 
the ring is a sure sign of impending romance 
or continued happiness.

The Ivy Leaf: Each member of the family places a 
perfect ivy leaf into a cup of water and it is 
then left undisturbed overnight. If, in the 
morning, a leaf is still perfect and has not 
developed any spots then the person who placed the
leaf in the cup can be sure of 12 months health 
until the following Halloween. If not.....

The Pumpkin: Carving Pumpkins dates back to the 
eighteenth century and to an Irish blacksmith 
named Jack who colluded with the Devil and was 
denied entry to Heaven. He was condemned to 
wander the earth but asked the Devil for some
light. He was given a burning coal ember which he 
placed inside a turnip that he had gouged out.

Thus, the tradition of Jack O'Lanterns was born 
- the bearer being the wandering blacksmith - a 
damned soul. Villagers in Ireland hoped that the 
lantern in their window would keep the wanderer 
away. When the Irish emigrated in their millions 
to America there was not a great supply of turnips 
so pumpkins were used instead.

Halloween Costumes: On Halloween night children 
would dress up in scary costumes and go house to 
house. 'Help the Halloween Party' and 'Trick or 
Treat' were the cries to be heard at each door. 
This tradition of wearing costumes also dates back 
to Celtic times. On the special night when the
living and the dead were at their closest the 
Celtic Druids would dress up in elaborate costumes 
to disguise themselves as spirits and devils in 
case they encountered other devils and spirits 
during the night. By disguising they hoped that
they would be able to avoid being carried away at 
the end of the night. This explains why witches, 
goblins and ghosts remain the most popular 
choices for the costumes.

Snap Apple: After the visits to the neighbours the 
Halloween games begin, the most popular of which 
is Snap Apple. An apple is suspended from a string 
and children are blindfolded. The first child to 
get a decent bite of the apple gets to keep their 
prize. The same game can be played by placing 
apples in a basin of water and trying to get a
grip on the apple without too much mess!

The Bonfire: The Halloween bonfire is a tradition 
to encourage dreams of who your future husband or 
wife is going to be. The idea was to drop a 
cutting of your hair into the burning embers and 
then dream of you future loved one. Halloween was 
one of the Celt 'fire' celebrations. 

Blind Date: Blindfolded local girls would go out 
into the fields and pull up the first cabbage they 
could find. If their cabbage had a substantial 
amount of earth attached to the roots then their 
future loved one would have money. Eating the 
cabbage would reveal the nature of their future
husband - bitter or sweet!
 
Another way of finding your future spouse is to 
peel an apple in one go. If done successfully the 
single apple peel could be dropped on the floor 
to reveal the initials of the future-intended. 

Anti-Fairy Measures: Fairies and goblins try to 
collect as many souls as they can at Halloween but 
if they met a person who threw the dust from under 
their feet at the Fairy then they would be obliged 
to release any souls that they held captive.

Holy water was sometimes anointed on farm animals 
to keep them safe during the night. If the animals 
were showing signs of ill health on All Hallows 
Eve then they would be spat on to try to ward off 
any evil spirits.

Happy Halloween from Ireland!

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The Meeting of the Messages  by Clara Burke Byrne

Criostoir Kenneally and his girlfriend were taking 
a walk along the Cunnigar on March 16, 1997 when 
they spied a dark glass bottle lying on the beach. 
They picked it up and carried it back to the home 
of Criostoir's patents, Maurice and Anne, in An 
Rinn (Ring) and proceeded to carefully open it 
and retrieve the contents. Inside the bottle was 
a note written on a piece of cloth - the writer 
of the note was a resident of St. John's, 
Newfoundland.

An Rinn (Ring) is a small village in County 
Waterford on the southeast coast of Ireland. The 
Kenneally house overlooks the Bay of Dungarvan 
and the Cunnigar, a two kilometre long stretch of 
beach which juts out into the bay like a pointed
finger. The Cunnigar is a beautiful area and Anne 
Kenneally remembers when folks flocked there to 
picnic on Sunday afternoons. At low tide people 
often stroll along this stretch and this is where 
Criostoir Kenneally and his girlfriend found the 
bottle with the message.

My discovery of this bottle and its contents took 
a circuitous route as I had never met the 
Kenneally family until 1997. My connection to this 
family was also through a message of sorts but one 
which took a more modern route to An Rinn than the 
bottle which floated to shore from the cold 
Atlantic waters.

Technology and a bottle met head-on in Dungarvan 
in March, 1997 as an email message from St. John's 
and a handwritten message in a bottle written by a 
resident of the same Newfoundland city arrived at 
the same time in a small town on the Irish coast, 
a town which many of our ancestors probably 
called home.

My role in this saga had begun about three years 
prior to my visit to Ireland when I returned to 
Memorial University to pursue studies in folklore 
and decided to write my Master of Arts thesis on 
Irish Customs in Newfoundland.

During this period I was introduced to a young 
Irish woman, Deirdre Nuttall, who was in 
Newfoundland doing research. Following her return 
to Dublin we kept in touch and she suggested that, 
as part of my thesis research, I write an article 
suitable for publication which outlined my Irish
ancestry and described my interest in customs and 
traditions associated with St. Patrick's Day. 

I emailed the article to Deridre which she in turn
submitted to several Irish newspapers. I was 
looking for information on St. Patrick's Day 
traditions in Ireland, but especially in Dungarvan, 
County Waterford from where my ancestors had 
emigrated in the mid 1700s. The only response that 
I received came from Anne Kenneally of An Rinn who 
had read my article in the local newspaper, The 
Dungarvan Observer, on March 16, 1997 (note the 
date).

Shortly thereafter she wrote me a letter telling 
me about life in that part of the world and how 
her own interest in emigration spurred her to 
write to an unknown woman on the other side of 
the ocean.

Anne Kenneally and I continued to correspond and 
in June, 1997 I visited Ireland for the first 
time. After visiting Dublin and Galway I headed 
for Dungarvan, County Waterford, the home of my 
ancestors. As a child I had played amongst old 
tombstones in an abandoned cemetery in Tilting, 
Fogo Island. On one of these headstones was 
engraved information about Thomas Burke of 
Dungarvan, County Waterford who had come to this 
new land about two hundred years before I was 
born. Somehow I felt that my visit there was 
really a return to my homeland and this feeling 
was reinforced when I met my penpal shortly after 
my arrival in her part of the world. She 
immediately made me feel at home and ensured that
my visit was really a fulfillment of my dreams.

My new found friend worked in Dungarvan but lived 
in An Rinn (Ring), one of the few Irish speaking 
communities in Ireland, and which is located about 
five kilometres outside of Dungarvan. Anne arranged 
for a Bed and Breakfast in her village and she was 
my host for the next few days as she introduced me 
to the beauty of the Irish countryside. 

We visited many places of interest and beauty and 
I was a guest in her home for dinner one evening 
when she brought forth a large sand and moss 
encrusted bottle and proceeded to tell me the 
story of how it came to be sitting on a shelf in 
her house.

She told me that her son, Criostoir, had found it 
on the beach near their house. Alas I did not have 
time to talk to him regarding the details of his 
discovery. I knew I would eventually return to 
this land and when I did go back in September, 
2000 I did not leave without the story of how a 
bottle with a Newfoundland connection ended up in 
a home in County Waterford where I would be 
welcomed as a friend.

Criostoir Kenneally, the only son of Maurice and 
Anne Kenneally is in his late twenties and has 
spent most of his life in and around An Rinn 
(the Irish name for Ring as it is called in 
English). Criostoir has been involved in the 
fishery in the area and knows the coasts and the 
waters of the area like the palm of his hand. An 
easterly wind was blowing on March 17, 1997 when 
Criostoir and his girlfriend decided to go for a 
walk at low tide. March in the southeast of 
Ireland is not quite as chilly as Newfoundland at 
this time of year (palm trees even grow in the 
area) so walking on the Cunnigar was a great way 
to spend an afternoon.

They were strolling along the beach when Criostoir 
spotted a fairly large black object on the beach. 
Having walked the Cunnigar hundreds of times he 
realized that it was not a rock or other familiar 
debris that he was seeing. When he reached the 
spot where he spotted the object he bent to more 
closely inspect it and realized that it was a 
bottle. The bottle was sealed with a piece of 
cloth tightly wrapped around the neck and this was 
completely enclosed with black tape. 

As Criostoir told me when we spoke last August, 
'the bottle was as dry as a bone'. 

Not wanting to risk damaging their exciting find 
they decided to take it back intact to the home of 
Anne and Maurice Kenneally, where Criostoir 
resided with his parents. The bottle was very dark 
in colour and they were unable to see if it held 
anything but believed that there was something 
enclosed because of the careful way in which it 
appeared to have been sealed.

On arriving home Criostoir began to carefully 
break the seal. Inside was a piece of white cloth 
on which was written a message. The words had been 
inscribed with what looks like a black marker or 
felt pen and were undamaged in spite of having 
spent almost seven years bobbing around in the 
Atlantic Ocean.

The message read:
Dec. 5 - 1990
C.W. Pretty
33 Outer Battery
St. John's
Newfoundland
Canada - A1A 1A7

450  N.M. SE of NFLD

The bottle appeared on the Cunnigar on March 16, 
1990, the same day my article appeared in the 
Dungarvan Observer. A true meeting of messages from 
Newfoundland - what a coincidence!

Criostoir wrote to Mr. Pretty and informed him of 
his find. Mr. Pretty replied and told him that the 
message had been dropped from a ship on which he 
was a crew member. I was interested in the story 
of the message in the bottle and contacted Mr. 
Pretty at his home. He told me that he was a member 
of the crew of the Cable Ship, John Cabot, when he 
tossed the bottle overboard. They had been laying 
cable but at the time when he threw the bottle 
they were 'just steaming'.

I was, and continue to be, intrigued by the many 
factors which played themselves out and found me 
sitting in the Irish cottage of a new found 
penpal friend and reading a message from a fellow 
Newfoundlander. Two very different messages 
utilizing two very different means of 
communication had come together on the southeast 
coast of Ireland, a day before St. Patrick's Day 
in 1990.

Was it mere coincidence or the 'luck o' the Irish'
that brought me to that place and time? 

I think perhaps a little of both!

Clara Burke Byrne

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IRISH MOVIE REVIEW: FAR AND AWAY   by Dawn Hayden
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Far and Away is a Ron Howard directed tale of two
Irish emigrants with very different backgrounds. 
Joseph Donnelly is the son of a poor tenant farmer 
who has ambitions of owning his own farm. Spurred 
on by the death of his father, he initially seeks 
revenge on the landlord who he blames for his 
father's demise before setting out on his long 
voyage.

Of course, the best laid plans are mere fodder 
for the fates and he ends up being rescued by 
Shannon, the daughter of the landlord, with whom 
he absconds to the new world. Upon arriving in 
America, the couple encounter more misfortune and 
lose the few valuables they have. Joseph resorts 
to prizefighting whilst Shannon works in a 
sweatshop.

Fortune does not favour the brave pair and having 
been evicted from their meagre dwellings by a 
Taminy Hall Irish politician wannabe they break 
into a private house to try to get food and 
shelter. Shannon is shot during the break-in and
she is returned to her family who have followed 
her to America.

Joseph initially abandons his desire to become a 
landowner but soon regains his enthusiasm and 
takes part in the great Oklahoma land rush where 
the fastest and the fittest are promised a prime 
piece of real estate - if only they can stake 
their claim. Shannon and her family are their 
too as well as her suitor of old, who was in 
actual fact responsible for many of Joseph's 
woes to being with.

Will Joseph get the land he wants? Will the 
love-hate romance blossom into anything more 
than contempt? Rent it and see!

Starring Tom Cruise as Joseph and Nicole Kidman as 
Shannon, the cast is augmented by Robert Prosky as 
the landlord and Colm Meaney as the Taminy Hall 
crook. This film is great family fun. It is an 
adventure that seeks to show the hopes and dreams 
of emigrants but in a very gentle way. This is not 
a gritty realistic exploration of the coffin ships 
that ferried the Irish poor in their thousands 
across the Atlantic, but is rather and unlikely 
adventure that unites the two different emigrants 
in their common struggle: to make a new life in 
the new world.

Far and Away is not without humour and, once you 
do not try to take it in any way seriously, is 
fine entertainment.

Dawn Hayden.

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IRISH QUOTATIONS OF THE MONTH
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I brought up my children to read and write, and 
there never were children with cleverer heads for 
their books. But there was no place for them in 
Ireland, and they have all gone to America but 
one, and soon he too will be gone

 Peig Sayers, 1873-1958, The Western Island, 1944

No longer shall our children, like our cattle, 
be brought up for export

 Eamon deValera, speech in Dail Eireann, 1934

I've said and written a lot about emigration. But 
maybe soon I'll be writing the Flight of the Earls 
in reverse - about everyone coming back home again

 Liam Reilly, in the Irish Post, 23 August 1997

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GAELIC PHRASES OF THE MONTH
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PHRASE:		An feidir liom cabhru leat? 
PRONOUNCED:	On fay/dur lum kav/roo lath?
MEANING:		May I help you? 

PHRASE:		Cad is ainm duit, le do thoil? 
PRONOUNCED:	Cod is ann/um dwit, leh duh hull?
MEANING:		What is your name please? 

PHRASE:		Cen seoladh atá agat, le do thoil ?                  
PRONOUNCED:	Kane show/lah ah/taw ah/gut, leh duh hull?
MEANING:		What is your address please?


View the archive of phrases here:

 https://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm

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SHAMROCK SITE OF THE MONTH
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