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Chicken Today, Feathers Tomorrow

Chicken today, feathers tomorrow. That’s how my mother described life with my father, James McQuilan…

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Dorothea Lange’s Ireland

When photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her haunting series of images from the Depression…

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Photo Album: “Give Me a Wee Step”

In this photograph taken in 1925, my mother Kathleen (far left), her mother and father…

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Photo Album: Tales of New York
ArchiveMay June 2019 IssuePhoto Album

Photo Album: Tales of New York

Submitted by Robin Dobson
May / June 2019
May 1, 20194 min read
I have no interest in Ancestry.com or tracing my roots. I know most of my DNA and it’s all Irish on my mom’s side. Her father, the son of a […]
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Patrick Killen with his daughter, Margaret, and son, Joseph Patrick, 1934.
ArchiveMarch April 2019 IssuePhoto Album

Photo Album: My Grandfather, the Diver

Submitted by George Kelnhofer, Doylestown, PA
March / April 2019
Mar 1, 20194 min read
My grandfather, Patrick Joseph Killen, (“Pop”), was born in Downpatrick, County Down, in 1897. He sailed with his sister Margaret for America in 1911, and arrived in New York on his […]
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Patricia Duffy and her children.
January February 2019 IssuePhoto Album

Photo Album: My Wonderful Irish Mother

Submitted by Beverly Barr Sardia
January / February 2019
Dec 22, 20183 min read
My mother, Patricia Duffy, was born December 7, 1927. She was one of two children raised by Rose and Frank Duffy in Oakland, California. Frank Duffy and his brother came […]
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Back row, left.   Evelyn (born 1914), Anne (1913), Bridie (1908), Michael (1911), Mary (1905) Marguerite (1909), John (1916). Front row, left: Frank (1918), Michael O’Donnell (father), Leila (1925), Patrick (1924), Genevieve (1923), Margaret (Doogan) O’Donnell (mother), Philip (1920).
November December 2018 IssuePhoto Album

Photo Album: Kilcar, My Donegal Playground

By Turlough McConnell, Contributor
November / December 2018
Nov 1, 20185 min read
When we were children, my brother and I spent our summers in southwest Donegal in the village of Kilcar, with my mother’s people. Our parents sent us there so they […]
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Photo Album: My First & Only Love
Photo AlbumSeptember October 2018 Issue

Photo Album: My First & Only Love

Submitted by Richard Sandford
September/October 2018
Sep 1, 20183 min read
My wife, Bridget Heaney, was born on June 7, 1944. She was one of 10 children raised by a single mother in Cavan, Ireland. Her mother eventually moved to England […]
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Photo Album: Nanna’s First Fourth
June July 2018 IssuePhoto Album

Photo Album: Nanna’s First Fourth

Submitted by Lori Cassels
June / July 2018
May 9, 20184 min read
“Kate, be careful when you get to America, the streets are full of gangsters!” That is what my grandmother, we called her Nanna, heard before she boarded the ship to America in the 1920s. […]
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