Category: Ancestry
THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL. Number 21. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1840. Volume I. Here is a look back to a time when fairies and little people were part of the lives…
Read More The Ghost of Frank McKenna: William Carlton on Ghosts & Fairies in 19th Century Truagh
Felix Mulgrew of Ballygawley who came to R.I. About 1845 Felix left for…
In Errigal Truagh, James Duggan farmed six acres, but in Providence his family shared a small flat with fourteen other people. When famine and disease upended their lives, James…
Read More Famine Refugees: A Monaghan family makes a new home in America
Mary McKenna’s cry was barely audible over the moaning and weeping of the other inmates in the fetid hold of the ship Shananga. Five weeks out from Liverpool found Mary…
Read More The Feast of Beltane Brings New Hope to Ireland’s Cast-offs
Thanks to Mike Halloran, the great grandson of Michael Halloran (1867 to 1919), I can present these photos of the elder Michael’s blacksmith shop on Atwell’s Avenue (that was the spelling…
Read More Symbol of a Changing America: Halloran’s Blacksmith Shop on Atwell’s Avenue
“I was very agreeably entertained in an evening walk last week by the strains of music which proceeded from the romantic cottage of Mr. Davis on the West side. The…
Read More Before Italian Mandolins, Irish Bagpipes on Federal Hill
Yesterday, February 28, 2015, Rhode Island lost a great man and I lost a cousin who meant much more to me that I realized. Michael Lenihan, a hero in our…
Other than my Dad, as I was growing up no one was a bigger hero to me than my maternal grandfather. A man of many skills, he was a bicycle racer, semi-pro…