Out from Moylough: The Clancy Family in America
Over the past several months I have had the pleasure to exchange emails with Margaret from County Galway. Margaret has shared memories and stories about relatives who emigrated to America in the early...
View ArticleAnd the winner is…
Judge Maryn choosing the winner… ANGELA GALLAGHER! Angela, you are the winner of our St. Patrick’s Day drawing for this gorgeous print by I Love Mayo’s Jane Steger-Lewis. The print is signed and...
View ArticleDAY 14: Studio Donegal
Photo from http://www.StudioDonegal.com I had to drag my heavy black wool jacket out of the closet this week. Snow and cold reappeared in Minnesota. I thought I was done with winter coats, scarves, and...
View ArticleWinter Reminiscing
Seamus Hora is so kind as to share another lovely poem with The Irish in America. This time he remembers winter evenings of days gone by, the 1950s when all you needed was a radio for company and a...
View ArticleThe Thumbers: A poem from Seamus Hora
Seamus Hora shares another great poem with the readers of The Irish in America. We’ll let Seamus tell you what it’s about… “It is difficult to believe that the following poem describes an Ireland of 40...
View ArticleGet to Know Listowel
Beautiful Listowel, serenaded night and day By the gentle waters of the River Feale. Listowel where it is easier to write than not to write, Where first love never dies, and the tall streets hide the...
View ArticleAll The Single Ladies
As a single woman, I find myself drawn to the stories of the single women who populate my family tree. We see those conspicuous spots where the branch just stops. Sometimes these nubs result from the...
View ArticleMeant to Be
John Foley (ATMR Family Collection) John Foley and my grandpa John Regan were good friends. They spent their early childhood together in Clontarf, Minnesota. John Foley moved to Minneapolis with...
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