Male: Cork on the bank of the River Lee is Republic’s second largest city. A lively hot scene can be found along narrow lane ways and locals are well proud of this form of the old city. I’m quite excited to be in Cork. I have to find out more of that on or the Shea ancestors. I’ve organized a meeting with Brian O’scheck the genealogist who has done much research into the history of the of the Shea clan.
Brian: If people are chasing up their ancestors here in Ireland and the Irish libraries are very helpful but you do need to extract them on to detail and it’s a little bit like it need a list like otherwise. But the churches can be helpful and certain records are in the libraries now from the churches.
People usually know more than they actually aware of you start with the present generation and work back and you get at least to 1820 for the reason of that and if you’re looking to live in your ancestor’s lived in the town perhaps back to 1750 or so and if you have them feel the nations to them and they have Irish name and perhaps one of these DNA project and the could get you further back again.
Male: Brian suggested I visit Curved Haba the place of most immigrants departed during the potato famine of the 1840’s
Brian: The present population of Ireland about 4 million and during the famine times in the 1840’s is was doubled at 8 million and large part of that population were land laborers and during the four or five years of the famine, half the population of Ireland either died or immigrates and the largest immigration point in Ireland was called.
Male: My great great grand father to me the Shea left Ireland during the famine in 1846. What a journey it must have been for a 16 year old boy first to America and chasing gold and went to Australia. We know Timothy came from Kerry is more shy too but we don’t know what part. Maybe then a testing could reveal those.
Brian: Unfortunately it’s only the male, so if the family has only daughters it’s impossible, it’s the way chromosome you do it on. If they are identical twins perhaps their identical DNA and brothers, first cousins, second cousins they will very slight change once we reckon the mutation rates is one in eight generations and there’s a slight scale probability for the DNA.
Our DNA project and what I tried to do was compare typical samples from the tips of three peninsulas in West Cork and Kerry as families are for always there a never moods and from those three samples I am comparing all other samples so they are the blue prints.
Male: I like to wish to return to Kerry, the home of my ancestors, but for now I’m returning to Cork to do story on modern day immigration. Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004 as many as 200 thousand poles have moved to Ireland for work. It's a quite to about 5% of Ireland’s population. This message that I’m paralleled wide in immigration has been a phenomenon of post called with Europe.
I visited Cork’s first Polish restaurant and spoke with the owner Magnolina Copp. I first asked hwy she set up the restaurant.
Magnolina: We did it because we have so many Polish people and so they miss Polish foods and the food is traditional. The kind of foods people eat in Poland for their dinner’s everyday. I think that some Polish people are going to stay in Ireland for good and some other people went to save some money and go back to Poland.
Male: As I wondered along the banks of the River Lee, I wondered whether a hundred and fifty years from now an Irish man with the Polish in to be in the same predicament as me trying to find with a great, great grand father originated from. My search continues.
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