Photo Album Archive
Her first seal of office needed to have the word “his” crossed out and replaced …
At rest, this picture belongs to a wedding album from 1966. Plain, awkward even, it …
Submitted by Robert F. Lyons, Kennebunk, Maine
It was the accidental discovery of a vintage photograph, …
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Great-aunt Mary O’Toole’s Amazing, Trailblazing Life
Her first seal of office needed to have the word “his” crossed out and replaced by “hers” in pen as she was the first female to hold a municipal court […]
Photo Album: The Wealth of the World
At rest, this picture belongs to a wedding album from 1966. Plain, awkward even, it was composed by the photographer whose job it was to snap the parents of the […]
Photo Album My Great-Grandmother Discovered
Submitted by Robert F. Lyons, Kennebunk, Maine It was the accidental discovery of a vintage photograph, which enabled me to meet my first Irish-American relative, my great grandmother, Ellen Whelan Lyons of Co […]
Photo Album:4th of July Picnic
After the Civil War, Philip Cummins, a coal miner from Loon, Clogh, Co. Kilkenny, took his wife Mary Smith (Rakenny, Co. Cavan) and family from the troubling times of the […]
Photo Album: An Ocean Away
My paternal great-grandmother Violet May Carroll McHale was born in 1906 in Castlebar, Mayo, and raised as a farmer’s daughter. She and her sisters (Delia, Lucy, and Jane) did much […]
Photo Album: Playing Ball With the FBI
My father was wanted by the F.B.I. Specifically, by J. Edgar Hoover himself. ℘℘℘ The founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had heard of Tommy Connor’s prowess on […]