The quarterly journal of the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory always contains interesting articles , book reviews and valuable information on research sites far and wide . The latest edition contains information about Allied prisoners during the Gallipoli war , with a group photograph , and details of the only Territorian captured there by the Turks .
The society's secretary and public officer, June Tomlinson ,wrote a fascinating article about Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, which she visited as part of her extensive research , and was taken on a tour , shown the last resting places of Daniel O'Connell, the tower in which his lead lined coffin was placed bombed by loyalist terrorists in 1971, and that of Charles Parnell , some 60,000 attending his burial.
June included blood curdling information about 19th century grave robbers who used large hooks to place about the necks of the dead to drag bodies out of graves , the parts sold , some for a thriving export market. These robbers were known as the Resurrectionists . At the cemetery bookshop she bought two volumes by a former cemetery guide , Shane MacThomais, who committed suicide by hanging himself on March 20, 2014 in the very cemetery in which he worked.
There is a review in the earlier volume of A FAR CRY Town Crying in the Antipodes , which included one in Launceston , named Chequers, who sounded like a combination of a crow and a laughing jackass (kookaburra) . Many were extroverts displaying degrees of drunkenness, vagrancy, petty crime, wit and abilities that included clowning, singing, with a deep understanding of their communities.
Another article dealt with the isolated Territory township of Lake Nash , 600km east of Tennant Creek , and the influence of early Irish in the region .
