These are a selection of some of the wonderful emails and reactions weﾒve been getting from our Diaspora around the world. We are delighted that the Ireland Reaching Out project is finding such a positive resonance!
Just a message to say this is a fantastic idea, I wish you all the best. It is good for Ireland and for the people coming home. Its nice to see something positive. I wish you all the very best with this.
Paul McLaughlin, Donegal
What a wonderful concept, and I'm sure you will be very successful.
Lori Parkinson, Maine, USA
It is such a wonderful site to be able to see so many people that l knew, good luck with the rest of it
Olive Treacy Connolly
I was deeply touched to receive your email. I am the great-grandaughter of a Jane Quilty who emigrated to Australia as a young single woman towards the end of the Famine. Her marriage certificate says her birthplace was Ballinasloe, and gives her mother's maiden name as Dolphin. We also know she lived on a riverside farm near a place called 'Quilty's Pool.' It would be wonderful to meet any Quiltys or Dolphins if I am able to visit Ireland in June ---and perhaps correspond with them by email if you know of any in the Clontuskert area?
Jan Mayman, Australia
What a wonderful invitation, am so thrilled to have received this! I have shared this with family members and I hope that someone in my extended family will be able to come and take part! After spending many years researching my family tree I do feel connected to Ireland, I would love to see the community of New Inn where my ancestors spent many generations.
Patricia, USA - a descendant of the Melody & McGuinness families from New Inn
Thanks for getting back to me. I'm primarily interested because it's the very location my mother spoke to me about during my childhood in America. I've been back to Ireland three times and the last was for a two and a half month stretch. But I was alone and it would be so nice to have like-minded people about me. I have had wonderful and very challenging experiences in Ireland travelling alone. I'm spreading the word among family members.
Alice O'Neill, Los Angeles
Thanks for getting back to me. I'm primarily interested because it's the very location my mother spoke to me about during my childhood in America. I've been back to Ireland three times and the last was for a two and a half month stretch. But I was alone and it would be so nice to have like-minded people about me. I have had wonderful and very challenging experiences in Ireland travelling alone. I'm spreading the word among family members.
Alice O'Neill, Los Angeles
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