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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 21 June 2008 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Carty</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:cartyweb@hotmail.com">cartyweb@hotmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">History - Priestless Church<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Preistless Church article on Water Under the Bridge as two
parrallells in Ireland. In the North of Ireland the Covenentars met in
the open while being persecuted by the Church of England under Charles
II, and all the island is peppered with local "Mass Rocks" where
priests on the run preached to their flock either on the open or from
the backs of carts.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Again, there was lookouts, and the Yeomanry were sent to break it up.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Talking of language connections, many dismiss the Dutch influence on
English and Scots here in Ireland. However the Dutch Kerk can clearly
be seen to have influenced the Scots and Ullans word of Kirk, as in
Irish it is Cill, and English has no word I know of similar.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
- Tomas</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">-------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Carty</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:cartyweb@hotmail.com">cartyweb@hotmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">History<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron, i dont know if this post suits the group or not, Ill let you
decide. If it doesnt, delete it, no harm done. It might suit the "Water
Under the Bridge Section".</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
- Tomas</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Tracing familiy branches that have become isolated as a result of
history is something that effects a lot of families, both from the West
looking ot the battlefields of Europe, and from Europe looking out at
the allied powers from where an ancestor may have came.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
My Grandunclue Thomas Reilly was as I understand it, the typical bum...
lived for work and drink, and emigrated to the New World circa 1910
from Ireland. What this has to do with history will be explained later
on.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
He ended up in the Bowery like many another man and indeed Irishman
more than once, and came home every so often during his dry spells to
see family and tell them just how great the New World was. Of course we
had neighbours there who reported his real situation, but all kept
schtum anyway.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
In 1917, he joined the US cavalry, and was stationsed in Germany after
WWI, where he met a local girl, and married her (as our version goes,
whether he did or not we dont actually know). She had two children
circa 1920-1925, and died in childbirth, so he gave the children called
Tom and Ned to her parents who were shopkeepers to be raised, headed
off to the USA and resumed his productive lifestyle as before.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
After another few bouts n the drink, on the dry, he returned home in
1934 and told such horrifying stories of the hell of the gret war his
brother in law (my grandfather) threatned to hammer him is he did not
shut up. The children were fascinated of cource!!! Now the grandfather
was not sqeamish, having come through the Tan War and the Irish Civil
War. (His wifes first cousing was the wife of the Blacksmith of
Ballinalee, General Sean Mac Eoin)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
He joined the British Army in WWII and again headed for Europe, losing
his arms and legs in the Dunkirk saga. Moved to military hospital, we
got a telegram in 1953 that he died of TB in military hospital. Being
with the Brits was taboo in them days, so the telegraph was ignored,
hushed up and where the man was buried we dont know.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Contacts with the Royal British Legion were to little avail, but Ive to follow up a lead they gave me.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
So that was that.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I grew up in the little town of Banagher (or Bannaker as many Germans
misrponounced it) One day my dad was enjoying his few drinks too many
when the owner of Haughs pub come over and said "John, heres a good
one, have you ever heard of two Germans called Reilly?" Dad laughed and
passed no remarks.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
He told my mother when he went home, and she nearly dropped the dinner
plates she was carrying. "They could be Uncle Toms kids" she said. Dad
took the cue to extrat more money for booze from mam, and went
officially to track down the Germans and find out was it them. He got
as far as the second pub down the street, spent the night there and
staggered home declaring they were nowhere to be found, before
sheepishly admitting he never looked for them at all!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
To make a long story short, we are still looking for this branch of the
family, and maybe a Lowlannds memeber might know a German or two called
Reilly, whose grandparents who reared them were shopkeepers. If you do,
or have photos of them, get in touch.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
One of the few pictures I have of him I used in the cover of </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/322275#">my poetry book "Passing by our Planet</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">" and I include below.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That
is him in the US cavalry. Those who went and took pictures and sold
them to the soldiers printied the pictures on postcards, and the
soldiers posted them home. We have one of those cards. Unfortunalty, he
put the postcard in an envelope and wrote a letter along with it, as
opposed to writing on the card!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: History<br><br>Hi, Tom, thanks, and congrats on another book published!<br><br>Family histories do absolutely qualify for inclusion in the history presentation (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/">http://lowlands-l.net/history/</a>). Say the word, and I'll include the story about your relative, or you might tweak it a bit if you wish. Of coarse, your new book can be mentioned in that context.<br>
<br>The same applies if you "donate" a poem or four from the book to the Gallery presentation (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a>).<br><br>And you might like to write something about the Mass Rocks for the History and/or Travel series.<br>
<br>As for <i>kerk</i>, I have a feeling this is a spelling twist on Scots <i>kirk</i>. The short Scots /i/ tends to be pronounced lower than "i" in English "in" and "lid" and is often heard as [e].<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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