Photo Album Archive
Photo Album: “Give Me a Wee Step”
In this photograph taken in 1925, my mother Kathleen (far left), her mother and father…
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…
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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 […]
Photo Album: From the USA to Ireland
This passport picture of Peter Dolan and his son Andrew was taken in 1924 and was used when Peter took his then eleven-year-old son from Chicago to Ireland to be […]
Photo Album: As American as Apple Pie
Proud of their country and their new house, Lawrence and Blanche Faron hosted the Faron family’s first July 4th clambake at their home in Millbury, Massachusetts in 1941. Lawrence’s grandfather […]
Photo Album: Happy Valentine’s
1916: Timothy & Mary Etta Caulfield, Ohio. On April 3, 1916, Timothy and Mary Etta Caulfield marked their 50th anniversary. The day began as befitting the occasion with High Mass […]
Christmas was Magic and Magic was Mother
One Christmas was so much like another in those years, to borrow a line from Dylan Thomas. Mother, who celebrated every feast day with aplomb – Shrove Tuesday with specially […]
Photo Album: On the Town
Cigarette in mouth and mates by his side, Corporal James L. O’Brien stands on a street in Paris in 1918. O’Brien and his friend, Pat Donovan (far left) joined “because […]