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The old year … and the new – 1861

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The Cork Examiner, 31st December, 1861

Photo: EO'D
Photo: EO’D

The Volume of the Old Year’s ended,
The Volume of the New, begun
To what have all these pages tended?
Mark, what is lost, and what is won.

The opening pages are bright and fair,
Now many a blot appears,
See, here the leaves are bleak and bare,
Further on, they are blurred with tears.

Close the book gently,
Lay it away,
To be opened again,
On the Judgement Day.

Now take the Volume for Sixty-two,
‘Tis all unwritten still,
God grant its blots will be far and few,
Perhaps, ’tis the last we may till.

May each high resolve, each virtuous deed,
Be as picturing’s on the page,
It will bring thee joy, in thy utmost need,
And the sorrows of death assuage.
Anon

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Storm – 1861

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Freeman’s Journal 8th August, 1861 p4kinvara oil
Monday evening the poor Claddagh fishermen went out in great numbers, hoping to profit by the myriads of herrings that swarm our bay. It was blowing moderately at the time from the N.W., but a few hours later it blew a regular gale from the westward, scattering the hookers in all directions, obliging them to run, some for Kinvara, and others for Ballyvaughan and Newquay. With difficulty they reached those places of shelter, and we regret to learn that many of the poor people lost their nets and fishing gear in the storm. They mostly returned today and loud are the lamentations of many a poor family in the Claddagh for the loss of the instruments of their labours.

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As Gaeilge – 1861

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The Star (Victoria, Australia) 30th May, 1861 p2

Ireland Jeff Schmaltz - NASA Earth Observatory. Wikimedia Commons
Ireland
Jeff Schmaltz – NASA Earth Observatory.
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During the swearing in of a batch of Irish witnesses at the General Sessions yesterday to appear at the next Circuit Court it transpired that one of them, from County Clare, was ignorant of all languages but his native Erse.
An interpreter was obtained to make know to him the meaning of the recognisance.

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Melbourne – Kinvarra – 1861

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First registered postage stamp of Victoria, Australia 1 shilling, 1855 Wikipedia.org
First registered postage stamp of Victoria, Australia 1 shilling, 1855
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The Argus (Melbourne) 17th October, 1861 p1

ELLEN GALVIN, late of Kinvarra, County Galway, Ireland – your sister Bridget is anxious to hear from you. Inquire Sergeant Johnston, William Street Police Barracks, Melbourne. Also Mary Scanlon, late of Kinvarra, to inquire for her niece at same place.