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433.0. "Escape from the Great White North!" by KAOM25::RUSHTON (Render the day oblivious) Thu Sep 08 1988 16:17

While pondering the impending onslaught of another Canadian winter,
my dim-witted brain cell conjured visions of a green, wet place that
produces a brown inebriant .  Immediately, my wife said "That'll be
your trousers", but I know it was Eire.  So, naturally, I'll spend
some time in pubs in Skibbereen, Co. Cork and also rummage about
looking for dead relatives (O'Brien and Walsh), although I don't
relish the latter (what if they're not dead).

My desk and chair are located in an obscure corner of the
Kanata manufacturing facility near Ottawa, Canada.  Since Galway
has been called 'our sister plant' and some Galway instructors
have been delivering the same course (Basic Problem Solving Techniques
or BPST) that we are trying to deliver, I thought I might travel
to Galway in search of the 'Holy Ale' and to commiserate with anyone
who will listen.

If you can give a listing of B & B's and pubs (I'll be travelling alone)
with a reputation just above fair, in the general Galway area, 
I'd be most ingratiating.

Also, if you are aware of instructors who would be willing to share
insights/problems with the delivery of BPST, then please give them
my MAIL address.

If all goes well and my wife agrees, I should be in Eire between
7-21 Dec. '88.

Slan,

Pat

    
    
    Pat,
    
         My grandfather was Jeremiah O'Brien from Unionhall in Skibbereen.
    Are we related?
    
                                  Dick O.

    >>Are we related?
    >>My grandfather was Jeremiah O'Brien from Unionhall in Skibbereen.

	Well, Dick, it could be but I need to confer with me mum (nee - Eileen
O'Brien).  Fortunately, she's visiting with us this weekend so I shall 
interrogate her about her pedigree.  I do know the family history on her side 
to approx. 1798-1804 when a John O'Brien married a Sheila Walsh in Unionhall.
They died together later, leaving a six year old who was subsequently brought
to London by his maternal grandmother (Walsh).

	So wot's yer excuse for being related to the O'Brien's?

Pat

    
    
    
    Pat,
    
        My maternal grandfather, Jeremiah O'Brien, left Uniohall to
    come to Boston in the late 1800's.  As I recall, he had a brother
    in the RIC who went to Canada during the troubles.  Hence, my mother
    had/has cousins in Canada.
    
        I was in Unionhall some years ago and the farm is still in the
    family.  It is distinctive in that there is the remains of an old
    Norman Keep still standing in one of the fields.
    
        If this is the same family, your fears have been realized even
    before you go to Ireland, ie. you've met living relatives!