Today started out sunny and bright. I went to the full Irish breakfast this morning and it was just write.
This morning I headed Cohb. This was the last Port of call for the Titanic and one of the last ones for the Luisitania.
More importantly it was the port from which I was in some thousands of Irish left and went to other places . This is where all of my relatives left Ireland and came to Boston. It's a lovely little town and you can tell by looking at the buildings how old it is . There are many little shops and the cathedral is just huge. You can walk along the water and see where the people waited for the Titanic to come and pick them up. You can also feel the atmosphere that must have been felt by the Irish waiting for the new adventure with great anticipation. The train station I'm sure that many of them from different places in Ireland to Queenstown. both the Cunard and the White Star line had offices there. If you close your eyes you can almost hear the Passengers milling around and waiting to get on their ships. It was wonderful.
This morning I headed Cohb. This was the last Port of call for the Titanic and one of the last ones for the Luisitania.
More importantly it was the port from which I was in some thousands of Irish left and went to other places . This is where all of my relatives left Ireland and came to Boston. It's a lovely little town and you can tell by looking at the buildings how old it is . There are many little shops and the cathedral is just huge. You can walk along the water and see where the people waited for the Titanic to come and pick them up. You can also feel the atmosphere that must have been felt by the Irish waiting for the new adventure with great anticipation. The train station I'm sure that many of them from different places in Ireland to Queenstown. both the Cunard and the White Star line had offices there. If you close your eyes you can almost hear the Passengers milling around and waiting to get on their ships. It was wonderful.
This afternoon I was headed to Dripsey, home of the Lonergans. It was about a 30 minute ride from Cork city. It was really a very very small village period they were series of very small villages and Dripsey was one of them. Inniscarra was another.
When I got there I started to walk around and found that all there was was the name and several houses period there was a sign that said welcome to Dripsey and there was a beautiful bridge over a very quickly moving river called the Lee. There were no people around but I hear some banging in a garage and I went over to the door and there were two men in their working on cars. They were pretty helpful period they said first of all that there were no Lonergans left in the area . They have not heard that name at all . They also told me there was no church in the village and the only Cemeteries were over ground and I would be unable to find them. Although I was disappointed they save me hours of looking needlessly. I did drive around the area a little bit inside that many of the farms were dairy farms . I wonder if the family were dairy Farmers.
One of the Mechanics asked me when my family left to go to America. I told them about 1876 and he said will there was a strange thing happened in the village in about 1882 period a woman poisoned her husband to death. I said I don't think that's why my relative has left.
From here I was off to Blarney. I've been to Blarney Castle before but I never expected it to be what it is today. First of all it was €15 to get in. They were Gardens all over the place and lots of gift shops and snack bars . None of that was there when I was there in 1973.
When I got there I started to walk around and found that all there was was the name and several houses period there was a sign that said welcome to Dripsey and there was a beautiful bridge over a very quickly moving river called the Lee. There were no people around but I hear some banging in a garage and I went over to the door and there were two men in their working on cars. They were pretty helpful period they said first of all that there were no Lonergans left in the area . They have not heard that name at all . They also told me there was no church in the village and the only Cemeteries were over ground and I would be unable to find them. Although I was disappointed they save me hours of looking needlessly. I did drive around the area a little bit inside that many of the farms were dairy farms . I wonder if the family were dairy Farmers.
One of the Mechanics asked me when my family left to go to America. I told them about 1876 and he said will there was a strange thing happened in the village in about 1882 period a woman poisoned her husband to death. I said I don't think that's why my relative has left.
From here I was off to Blarney. I've been to Blarney Castle before but I never expected it to be what it is today. First of all it was €15 to get in. They were Gardens all over the place and lots of gift shops and snack bars . None of that was there when I was there in 1973.
I chose not to climb the castle as I did that before and I was really not interested in quick kissing the Blarney Stone. Been there done that! The Gardens were beautiful but I'm not sure the whole thing was worth €15. There was an hour wait to climb the castle and kissed the stone.
My last stop of the day was Dunbar Street and St Finbarr's Church south. This is where Patrick William Twomey was baptised. The church was built in 1799 and I did take a picture of the baptism of font as I believe it's probably the one that was used to baptize him . My grandmother always said that he lived on Glasheen road and that may be but there was no way to figure out exactly where. As they were so no Lonergans in Dripsey there were hundreds of Twomeys in Cork.
Much of Cork is very, very old city and I can really see what their life must have been like. The homes were very small and very close together. The streets are narrow and there was a river running through the city.
Are those some of the city has been modernized and there are administrative buildings that would built by the British it appears to me that Cork was probably a very poor town. People probably flocked here during the famine. It was probably in market for the a farm goods and also a market for the British to sell their goods as well. I actually like Dublin a lot better than Cork . There's really not much here. I can see why they left and came to America.
Much of Cork is very, very old city and I can really see what their life must have been like. The homes were very small and very close together. The streets are narrow and there was a river running through the city.
Are those some of the city has been modernized and there are administrative buildings that would built by the British it appears to me that Cork was probably a very poor town. People probably flocked here during the famine. It was probably in market for the a farm goods and also a market for the British to sell their goods as well. I actually like Dublin a lot better than Cork . There's really not much here. I can see why they left and came to America.
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