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Miriam O'Reilly Birth Place

Please stop changing Miriam's birthplace to Ealing. I have a copy of her birthplace stating Balbriggan.

I notice you reverted the corrected birth place for Miriam O'Reilly. An article quoting O'Reilly on her birth place isn't much good, when she has admitted that she didn't even actually know her real date of birth. Birth records are somewhat more reliable!!! If you able to provide an Irish birth record for O'Reilly for that year, then please provide a source before re-adding.

92.5.36.60 (talk) 23:09, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Miriam O'Reilly did not admit she did not know her real date of birth as such, what she actually said was that her mother might have got the date confused with that of one of her brothers and entered that on her birth certificate by mistake. I find it amusing that you do not put much faith in newspaper articles when that is the source that is used overwhelmingly in Wikkipedia to substantiate entries. And, anyway, as it happens I do have a copy of the birth certificate. or should that be !!!