Contributed by Mark GriffinMark Griffin’s grandparents originated from County Fermanagh and County Clare. His paternal grandmother Annie Brogan was born outside Scariff, on the shores of Lough Derg, in east County Clare. Annie was friends with Jane Maguire, Mark’s...
Contributed by Rich & Gerry GilliganRich Gilligan, and his wife Petria Lenehan, are recent immigrants to New York, having left Dublin in 2015 with their baby girl Robyn. After two busy years in Brooklyn, they are now enjoying a different kind of American life in...
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...
