Mayo Family History Centres - Information to help trace your Mayo ancestors. Includes a Family History Report sample.
Hope House - Residential treatment and aftercare support to those suffering from alcohol and substance abuse and compulsive gambling.
Newport Historical Society - Information on the society and its aims and work, along with maps, records, including the 1901 census of Burrishoole, and links.
The 'Safe-Home' Programme - Details and history of this scheme the repatriation of Irish emigrants who wish to return home and an enquiry form for applicants or those with a general interest.
Carradoogan - This history of a small Irish hamlet and its people also lists the families from Griffith's Valuation of 1856 of the Village of Carradoogan and later censuses.
Museums of Mayo Network - Alliance of cultural and visitor institutions provides background, a map of Mayo and details of each member location, ranging from houses to areas of natural beauty to museums.
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Society and Culture
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Society and Culture
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Society and Culture May you never leave your marriage alive. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Society and Culture The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
