Irish America

Irish America Archives

THE BRIDGET H. MURRAY LIBRARY

The Irish America archive library is dedicated in loving memory to Bridget H. Murray, An Ordinary Woman who Lived an Extraordinary Life. In 1938 Bridie Collier made the unaccompanied trip from Corofin, County Galway to New York at the age of 13. In her lifetime Bridie accomplished many things but her greatest accomplishment was her family of nine children, 13 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. The life lessons Bridie taught her family were profound and came from her own life history and will be forever carried on for generations.

Bridget Murray through the years. In Galway in 1935, Bridie 11, with her much-loved, and much-traveled bicycle. In New York in 1942: Bridie at 18. On September 9, 2016: Still beautiful, a radiant Bridie on her 92nd birthday.