Ann’s mother, Margaret Cassidy, (2nd from left, with braids) in Connemara. An only child, Margaret was born in Boston and spent many happy summers in Ireland with her cousins. Album: Geraghty Family // Boston & County Galway Categories: USA Tags: #black and white...
Contributed by Ann GeraghtyThe Geraghty album traces the family from County Galway to the Boston area.Ann’s maternal grandfather, Michael Thomas Cassidy, was born in Boston in 1875, but spent a good part of his childhood in Galway. He returned to Ireland with his...
Contributed by Joe FlynnThe earliest image collected here is a tintype photograph of Michael E. Flynn, great-grandfather of our contributor Joe Flynn, with fellow Union Army soldiers taken during the American Civil War. Soldiers often sent studio portraits like this...
Contributed by Mike DwyerMike Dwyer’s family album collection traces generations of migration and connection between the Beara penninsula in County Cork and the United States.The Beara penninsula had a long tradition of copper mining. In the 1870s many of the miners...
Margaret Moore, Kay Mooreand Nellie Moore, 1928. Album: Donnelly Family // New York & Dublin Categories: USA Tags: #1920s #black and white #portrait #river
