Photo Album Archive
Sea Voyages With Father
Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory…
family album | The Road to Bright City
My grandfather John Bernard “Barney” Hynes and his brother, Thomas J. Hynes emigrated in their…
Photo Album: Chicken Today, Feathers Tomorrow
Chicken today, feathers tomorrow. That’s how my mother described life with my father, James McQuilan…
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Family Album: Denny-Fitz and Hanna
Our grandfather Dennis O’Connor was born in 1864 near the town of Abbeyfeale, in County Limerick. He and his 10 siblings were raised in a four-room cottage on a small […]
Family Album: Grandma Ellen Heaney
This is a photograph of my grandmother, Ellen Heaney, who immigrated to New York City in 1900 from Drumlish, County Longford. She was a maid and from her meager salary […]
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: Mother Moriarty
Photo Album: Family Pictures Mary O’Connell and her six siblings were born in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland. They were orphaned at an early age. Under the guardianship of their aunt […]
Photo Album: Mother Moriarty
Photo Album: Family Pictures Mary O’Connell and her six siblings were born in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland. They were orphaned at an early age. Under the guardianship of their aunt […]
Photo Album: She Liked Nice Things
Family photographs from Irish America readers. In the family room of my childhood home there was a large wall covered with photographs – vintage tintypes and black-and-whites were set among […]