Photo Album Archive
Photo Album: Toomey’s Diner
Michael Twomey emigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s from County Cork. The Twomeys primarily settled…
View from the Eastern Front of the War on Ukraine
Kharkiv: Russia’s war on Ukraine looks different up close. It’s a mix of extreme danger…
Sea Voyages With Father
Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory…
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Photo Album: My Wonderful Irish Mother
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 […]
Photo Album: Kilcar, My Donegal Playground
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 […]
Photo Album: My First & Only Love
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 […]
Photo Album: Nanna’s First Fourth
“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. […]
Photo Album: Dad and J.F.K.
My father Cyril DeFever grew up on a dairy farm near Detroit, Michigan. His parents had immigrated to the U.S. from Belgium. My mother, Marie Clancy, the daughter of an insurance man, […]
Photo Album: A Visit to Santa
Christmas, 1959 One Christmas was so much like another in those years, to borrow a line from Dylan Thomas. Mother began the preparations in late autumn. The plum pudding was […]