A PARENTS’ HEARTFELT REPLY TO A LETTER HOME FROM THEIR LONG LOST SON Tony Hennessy M.A.G.I. The fortunes of the copper mining community of Bunmahon Co. Waterford rose and fell and rose and fell again throughout the 1800s. By the mid to late 1860s the supply of copper was all but exhausted and real hardship and mass emigration followed. Peter Walsh, a Bunmahon miner and only son of Michael and Johanna Walsh, immigrated to Australia. However his parents heard no word home from Peter for ‘eight or nine’ years and they sadly concluded that he must have died. To their … Read More