Photo Album Archive
Jack Moran on Tar Beach
My father Jack Moran arrived in New York on April 5th, 1923. He was from…
Photo Album: The Noone Family 1972
Luke emigrated from Curramaeigh, Kilkerrin, Co. Galway in 1922 at 20 years of age. He…
Photo Album: Keeper of the Light
I was named after my paternal grandfather John P. Duffy. J.P., ‘Jack’ to his wife,…
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Photo Album: Going to the Chapel
This is a photo of my parents, Anne Connolly and David Carroll, right after they were married in Ireland. They met at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin where my father […]
Photo Album: Men in Shorts
My father played Gaelic football most of his life. He was the captain of the County Leitrim team that won the New York G.A.A. Football Championship in 1932. Sundays during […]
Photo Album: The Queen of the May
This photograph of my grandmother Ella Theresa Shea was taken in 1880 when she was 14 years old. She was crowned the Queen of the May at the traditional May […]
Photo Album: Reaching For The Sky
Who could guess the financial disaster brewing in New York City, 1929, when my father, Mick Connolly gathered a few friends on his tenement roof to capture the joy of […]
Photo Album: Home at Last
We lost my mother, Mary Ellen Smith, née O’Connor last April, 2002. She was 86 years old. She emigrated from Ireland in 1929 when she was almost 14 years old […]
Photo Album: All in the Family
1972: The Noone Family, Brooklyn. Little did Luke Noone and Mary Ellen Doherty dream when they left Ireland that they would leave a legacy of five children, 20 grandchildren and […]