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New Haven’s First Catholic Cemetery, November, & Book Signing, October

28 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Janet Maher in Christ Church Cemetery found beneath Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut Irish, Early Irish Catholics in Connecticut, History, New Haven Irish Catholic Immigrants, Ordering From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley, Tombstone Transcriptions

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On November 4 Connecticut’s State Archaeologist, Dr. Nick Bellantoni, will lead a panel discussion with Gary Aronson (Yale University), Sarah Brownlee (Peabody Museum), Dan DeLuca and Anthony Griego, about the discovery last year of the first Catholic Cemetery that surrounded Christ Church in the early nineteenth century. Their discussion will take place at New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave., from 2 to 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Also, a reminder to come if you can to my talk, No Irish Need Apply: Early Irish Settlement in the Naugatuck Valley, at the Mattatuck Museum (144 West Main Street, Waterbury) on October 25, at 5:30, also free and open to the public. My book, From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley: Early Irish Catholics in New Haven County, Connecticut, will be available for purchase. See Table of Contents here. Hope to see you there!

©2012 Janet Maher/Sinéad Ní Mheachair

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Purchasing My Book

26 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by Janet Maher in Connecticut Irish, Early Irish Catholics in Connecticut, History, Kilkenny Mahers, New Haven Irish Catholic Immigrants, Ordering From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley, Origins, Tombstone Transcriptions

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Lynch’s Farm ©2010 Janet Maher, image from our family collection, digitized, restored and hand-colored by the author (pigmented ink on archival paper, 12 1/6″ x 18 3/4″, framed 18″ x 25″) included in From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley: Early Irish Catholics in New Haven County, Connecticut. 

After a bit of editing for unexpected typos that I found, I have reordered my book, From the Old Sod, Early Irish Catholics of New Haven County, Connecticut, which is now in its First Edition, revised, version. It is 399 pages and includes 336 images. It is now back in stock and available for sale. How to purchase my book:

1. From the author! The price is $65.95. I will pay for packing and shipping in the U.S. and will sign it if you’d like. I am offering a price break at three/four ($62) and five/six ($58) copies. You can order my book securely through this blog using PayPal (click below on correct number of copies to activate this feature) or send me a U.S. drawn check at this address: Janet Maher, Department of Fine Arts, Loyola University Maryland, 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210.

Purchase One Copy Here;  Purchase Two Copies Here;   Purchase Three Copies Here;   Purchase Four Copies Here;   Purchase Five Copies Here;   Purchase Six Copies Here.

2. From Amazon.com. If you have purchased it this way and would like for me to sign it, you can mail it to me at the above address and include a self addressed stamped padded envelope for its return.

3. If you live outside the United States, it is possible to purchase my book here: Amazon.com Canada; Amazon.com UK; Waterstones.com. If you would like for me to sign it, please mail it to me at the above address and include a self addressed stamped padded envelope for its return.

I welcome reviews of my book. You can include yours in comment sections on this blog, and/or on the spaces for reviews on Amazon or Barnes and Noble sites.

To see the Table of Contents, please refer to my May 24, 2012 post here.

I hope that everyone who reads my book will enjoy it and will have found it helpful in their own quest to learn more about the earliest Irish Catholics of New Haven County and the Catholic history of Ireland. Thank you for your interest in my labor of love and thank you in advance for purchasing it!

©2012 Janet Maher/Sinéad Ní Mheachair

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Miscellaneous Thoughts, Links.1

22 Monday Aug 2011

Posted by Janet Maher in Connecticut Irish, History, New Haven Irish Catholic Immigrants, Thoughts

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Irish Catholic Immigrants, Irish in the Civil War, Irish Online Links, Links, Saint Bernard Cemetery, Saint Joseph Cemetery

Civil War Graves, Saint Bernard Cemetery, New Haven, CT

Civil War Monument and Cluster of Tombstones, Saint Bernard Cemetery, West Haven, CT

I’m learning daily about blogging and about Word Press, which I find very user-friendly. I’m really happy to be with them! My “Dashboard” shows addresses of web sites that have referred mine, and it’s terrific to see that people are finding me and making comments. With school about to begin I will not be able to post as regularly as I have, but will try for once a week. “Miscellaneous Thoughts,” can be a way to fill in between more indepth pieces.

• Mashpedia has listed MaherMatters on their page about Ikerrin. They also linked a blog by Malcolm Redfellow, who included some text and images from Joseph Casimir O’Meagher’s book. Redfellow discovered an anonymous article in Antiquary (Vol. XIV, July-December, 1886) that is included in O’Meagher’s Some Historical Notices of the O’Meaghers of Ikerrin. He determined that it was attributed to Andrew Carnegie, leading one to wonder – in a chicken and egg manner – who wrote it? Did Carnegie see O’Meagher’s work before it was published and anonymously publish it first in Antiquary magazine, or did O’Meagher include Carnegie’s piece in his work that Dr. William O’Meagher entered into the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in 1890? My bet is on O’Meagher as the author, but we may never know. The Antiquary article can be found online, pages 101-108.

• The links I include in my postings are ones I have found on my own and recommend. Most sites that I had included in my three pages of links (and more within other pages) on my first Maher and Ireland-related website are still active and I recommend looking at them. I think “Ireland’s History In Maps” is a particularly invaluable one. I have already mentioned Jane Lyons’ From Ireland web site, which is chock full of helpful information, but I also want to point out another for which I included a link in a previous post – Pat Connor’s, Connor’s Genealogy. He also extracts information from microfilms and continues to add resources. Mahers can be found in his Tithe Applotments Lists for Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois and in Famine Emigration, Castlecomer Area, Kilkenny. There is much more there that I should also look at! (When such index extractions seem relevant to one’s own research, the next step would be to rent the microfilm and translate the handwriting yourself to ensure that you see the same thing the indexer did.)

• I have discovered two excellent blogs through my involvement with Word Press. One is called A Silver Voice From Ireland, loaded with interesting and eclectic Irish topics. The author recently announced news about another find of an ancient body in a Tipperary bog.

• An amazingly rich resource for those interested in the participation of the many Irish in the American Civil War is Damien Shiels’ blog. Jim Larkin, in Connecticut, has a website about the Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War. His father, Bob Larkin, was instrumental in the erection of a monument honoring soldiers who died at Vicksburg. Larkin is also responsible for gathering together the volunteer group who are currently transcribing Irish tombstones in Saint Bernard Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut. They have already found more than 500!

• As was the case with Silas Bronson Library, in Waterbury, Connecticut, built on what had been the earliest Waterbury cemetery,* it has been discovered that Yale New Haven Hospital was built on top of the site of the first Catholic Church in New Haven. By covering up the footprint of Christ’s Church, the first cemetery was also buried. Howard Eckels and others are working to document burials in this location before Saint Bernard Cemetery** began to be used. That all this good work is being done in New Haven is a monumental step in preserving and noting the important legacy of Irish Catholic emigration to New Haven County in the years before, during and after the Great Famine.

• Neil Hogan, editor of Shanachie, the newsletter of the Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society (of which I am a member) has told me that Sacred Heart University, in Bridgeport/Fairfield, which offers a degree in Irish Studies, has put the archive of Shanachie online. They have also included his excellent book, ‘Strong In Their Patriotic Devotion,’ Connecticut Irish in the Civil War, which I see that Damien Shiels has listed in his own resource of books. (When I get the correct link for the SHU resources, I’ll add them.)

• The topic of the Civil War came up in a comment someone recently posted here. I mentioned Major Patrick Maher, about whom Neil Hogan wrote, and about whom I will add a post, having gone to Cahir, Tipperary, on our recent trip specifically to look for his family’s graves. Some of what I’ve already written in relation to Mahers in the Civil War and about Thomas Francis Meagher can be found here. Major Maher, a stone mason/builder, is also mentioned in a New Haven website, Irish In New Haven.

• For some lovely reveries about Irish ancestors and ancestry and for those particularly interested in County Clare, see That Moment in Time, by Crissouli from Australia.

* When I put up my first Irish-oriented web site I did not include my Maher transcriptions. I did, however, quietly include some images. In the composite image header at the top of this page (Saint Bernard Cemetery), center, the tall brown monument is the tombstone of Catherine Strang Maher, wife of Stephen Maher, about whose lineage I am currently writing. The tombstone by the tree in the far right image is that of Catherine Maher, of Templetouhy, Tipperary, her husband Thomas Maher, Tipperary, and Michael, whom we believe to have been relatives of Bob Larkin.

** In the composite image header at the top of this page (Old Saint Joseph Cemetery), far left is the tombstone of a Maher couple from Templemore, Tipperary. At the far right is the stone of William Maher and siblings, from Queen’s County (Laois).

©2011 Sinéad Ní Mheachair (Janet Maher)

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