Contributed by Gemma Healy-MurphyMy husband, Barry Murphy, and I moved to Canada in the Fall of 2011. We are originally from Tralee, Co. Kerry. We met during secondary school at the tender age of 15 and have been together ever since. Once it was time to go to...
Contributed by Carmel DrumgooleMy parents, Peter and Patricia (Murray) Drumgoole live in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland. They married in 1971 and had five children – two boys and three girls. Peter was originally from Reaghstown, Ardee, County Louth. He built, owned...
Unknown PhotographerÉamon de Valera fund-raising trip June 1919 – December 1920Contributed by Dr. Orla Fitzpatrick from her collectionIn June 1919, Éamon de Valera arrived in the United States for what turned out to be an 18-month stay. He had recently staged a...
Contributed by Patrick M. SheaWith the given name “Patrick” and the surname “Shea”, I have been told hundreds of times that I must be Irish, and I have been asked almost as many times from where in Ireland did my ancestors come. For a sixth- generation Canadian such...
Contributed by Eoin O’ DonovanMy parents Sean and Annette (McEvoy) O’Donovan were married in October 1952, in Dublin, Ireland. Not long afterwards, they had two sons: Neil (b. 15 December 1953) and Eoin (b. 30 April 1955). In mid-1955, Sean joined the Wartburg Cars...
