Dick - I heard someone call it "The Australian Book of Penguin Folk Songs" onstage one night and I've preferred that title ever since. The text therein is consistant with broadside texts and doesn't really offer anything new.

Keith - There's no way to know whether Stan was 10,000% correct. He read a lot and also made a lot of intelligent guesses that are the hallmark of a good researcher. I think this is a good research topic if you'd like to follow up and write an article on it for one of the folk publications. About one-quarter of the 160,000 prisoners brought out during the transportation period were Irish.

Danny - I've owed Andy O'Brien a phone call for the last couple of weeks. Thanks for the reminder. All I remember from his wedding was that he wore a light blue suit and looked pretty good in it. I'm planning on paying him a visit soon.

Bonnie - Hope you're well. When I see your name, I think of Packie. My wife (another Bonnie) and I have enjoyed meeting him a number of times over the last 10 years. Will you ever come up to Inishowen?

van lingle - I see you like the bouncy ones. They're harder to find.

Mick - Good to see you in Connecticut but the fishing was terrible. I only caught a few small bass, one only slightly larger than the lure he was trying the swallow. Something catastrophic has happened in that pond since the last time I was there.

Thanks, all, for your kind comments.
Dan