Deep research, stories, and photographs combine to reconstruct the particulars of historical lives. Many children and sibling names included, and many sources and references cited, with particular attention paid to women. Not a workbook, but an illustration of one illuminating path through the past, written by a direct descendant curious about lives that came before, and the times in which they lived. Context, the author believes, is critical to understanding the past. Includes an extended section tracing individuals through the Famine and the diaspora, and an extended section on the Great Chicago Fire.
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Clonmel, County Tipperary, County Limerick, Condon, Grady, County Cork, Hackett, St. Mary’s, Hogan, Prendergast, Donnelly, Sexton, St. Patrick’s Well, Suir, Tipperary Free Press, Shanahan, O’Brien, Laffan, Caherconlish, Kilteely, Dromkeen, The Great Hunger, The Famine, Clogheen, Skibbereen, Irish Prison Registers, Powerstown, O’Donnell, Belmont, Bulger, Swift and Co., Swift & Co., Cold Spring, West Point Foundry, Raleigh, Chicago, Canalport, Great Chicago Fire, Mother Mary Francis, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick’s Church, Holy Family Jesuit Church, O’Grady, Union Stockyards, Calvary Cemetery, Town of Lake, Root Street, St. Gabriel’s, Dorney, Texas, Fort Worth Stockyards, San Angelo, Armour, Mystic Knights of Bovinia, C.O. Young.
