Contributed by Patsy RyanMichael J. Donnelly was born into a hard-working farming family in the Parish of Upper Creggan, County Armagh in 1895. In 1911, he was employed aged 16 as a servant on a nearby farm. He became interested in politics and joined the Fourth...
Contributed by Seán ConlonThe Conlon family photo album collection features photographs charting a continuous cycle of emigration from the 1870s up to the 1980s. Successive generations of the wider Conlon family have emigrated from Ireland — moving to live in...
Contributed by Eugene and Shirley ClerkinCollection of Clerkin family photographs from Monaghan County.The collection includes photographs of Eugene’s mother Eva from her time spent in England working as a nurse, photographs of daily life on the family farm, informal...
Contributed by Erskine C. ChildersIn the autumn of 1903, by sheer chance Erskine Childers (1870–1922) was seated next to Mary “Molly“ Osgood (1875–1964) at a dinner party in Boston. Love at first sight, an immediate engagement ring offered, the two were married three...
Contributed by Dr. Orla Fitzpatrick from her collectionThis series of photographs shows Cavan-born John Henry Whitfield (1887-1962) and his family in the Canadian city of Orillia, Ontario. The album was compiled by his sister Anna (1884-1956) who emigrated to the...
