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: 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 […]
Photo Album: Who Was My Grandmother Kate?
My maternal grandmother Kate and I were very close. As a child, I would go to Jersey City to stay with her for two or three weeks during the summer. […]
Photo Album: The Old Irish of Burlington, Vermont
My family never celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at our house. When I got older and realized how Irish I was, I asked my mother why. She said she did not […]
Photo Album: Rosamond Mary Moore Carew at 106
Happy Birthday, Mema. Rosamond Mary Moore Carew turns 106 March 15. ℘℘℘ Rosamond Mary Moore Carew, my mother, known to her family as “Mema,” may just be the oldest living […]
Photo Album: Rebel Irish Girl
Nora Brosnan’s role in the fight for Irish independence is remembered by her granddaughter. Hanora “Nora” Brosnan was born on September 17, 1905, the youngest of 10 children, to Mary […]
Photo Album: Cops & Nurses: A Love Story
So many cops are married to nurses,” the great novelist and screenwriter Richard Price once observed. “It’s just the way it is. You know, mom’s a nurse, dad’s a cop…. That’s […]