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: 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 JFK
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 […]
Photo Album: As My Mother Would Say
I can hear her now – “If I weren’t Irish, I’d be ashamed of myself!” Yes, my mother Annie Burke was Irish, and full of Irish sayings, and they came […]