The Gallaghers of Ballinrobe

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Left, Aunt Catherine with Pat and Owen, along the Brandywine River in summer 1962. At right, Uncle Jim sitswith Margaret and Pat at a party for Pat's eighth-grade graduation from St. Thomas the Apostle School.Clockwise from above left: Uncle Jim rakes leavesin the driveway of the Sycamore Street home with1-year-old son Owen helping in 1961; a familyouting in the mid-1960s; Stockings bring surprisesfor Pat and Owen on Christmas morning 1962.182
Aunt Catherine with the children at the Charles Apartments in Wildwood.Clockwise from top left: Uncle Jim and the kids build a backyard snowman; the family visits Uncle Tom and AuntAnn at Christmas 1967; and Aunt Catherine holds Pat at his first Christmas, in 1959, at the Parklyn Apartments inElsmere, Del. Uncle Jim signed a one-year lease for Apt. 2 in the Kansas building on Aug. 1, 1958. The rent was $80per month; rents for Parklyn units today start at $800 per month.183
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TheGallaghersof BallinrobeThe Story
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1. Blue Hen Dairy - Where Uncle Pet
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“An sean Madra don bhóthar chrua
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IRELAND BEFORE THE 1800sThe Ballinr
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the story told by Uncle Owen - our
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Records from the Valuation Office o
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The cottage where Pat and Mary (She
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Also in 1879, less than 20 miles no
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A colorized photo shows Ballinrobe'
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Charles H. Knox agreed to lease to
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Six months later, on Dec. 19, our g
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never married. She died May 7, 1953
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Eugene Gallagher,holding a cigarett
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Below left are three Peter Gallaghe
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Above, Mary Mellet wears herCommuni
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“Down a boreen green came a sweet
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low of 109,525 in 1971. The county
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Ballinrobe was a garrison town unti
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with the slean and take up a brick
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Items that helped ease the workload
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The St. JosephConvent of Mercy inBa
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The foundation for St. Mary's Catho
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was soon dug up and tossed in a loc
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“He is dead,” Greta Conroy said
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TUBERCULOSIS IN IRELANDAn estimated
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A monument marks the area northwest
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A page from the 1901 Census of Irel
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“There are four corners on my bed
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THE AURANIAThe Cunard ocean liner t
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to look their finest for the excurs
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At left is an older Katie Mellet,wh
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Uncle Mike was born Dec. 15, 1897,
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By 1943, Aunt Delia, Uncle Mike and
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Aunt Delia is surrounded by cousins
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Patsy O'Brien attended St. Peter's
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Patsy worked for many years as anur
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Uncle Mike knew how toenjoy himself
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Near right areAunt Delia andUncle M
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Aunt Delia's father gaveher a gold
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MIKE O'BRIEN'S FAMILYFather Michael
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that Uncle Mike’s grandparents ra
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Father Michael is with Beno (Norris
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THE NEXT GENERATIONSJohn O'Brien's
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THE NEXT GENERATIONSColm DeAscanism
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“Grief fills the room up of my ab
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A newspaper article fromSept. 27, 1
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hundred yards or so farther along t
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The Connaught Tribune features pict
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“A happy family is but an earlier
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The Catholic Church chose Dublin to
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“Once I culled a bunch of shamroc
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Uncle Owen and his brother-in-law P
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Pat Murphy's family was from Killou
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Clockwise from top left, Uncle Owen
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“There are no strangers,only frie
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all this, the children could get th
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Uncle Pete is shown when he became
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Aunt May was 20 years old when she
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wedding, Aunt Delia had to be roust
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he married Loretta Slavin. (“Lovi
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Clockwise from above right are Uncl
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Gallagher family visits to Atlantic
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Pete and Mary in their senior pictu
Page 134 and 135: At left, Pete and Judy share a toas
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Page 140 and 141: Aunt May, at right, and her brother
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Page 144 and 145: THE NEXT GENERATIONSUncle Pete and
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Page 148 and 149: At left is Uncle Pat's passport pho
Page 150 and 151: Uncle Pat and Aunt Catherine werein
Page 152 and 153: 'SAINTS ON BULLDOZERS'The motto of
Page 154 and 155: A series of photosshow Uncle Pat wi
Page 156 and 157: Mary Kathryn, shown with her mother
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Page 162 and 163: Above are sisters-in-law Aunt May a
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Page 166 and 167: At left is Catherine Oliver on what
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Page 170 and 171: “The Irish are the greatest peopl
Page 172 and 173: Uncle Jim with his sister Nora and
Page 174 and 175: When they finally got to the conven
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Page 178 and 179: In 1934, Aunt Catherine, in hat at
Page 180 and 181: Aunt Catherine's wedding party begi
Page 182 and 183: Owen and Pat join Pop-Pop Bayard Ho
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Page 188 and 189: Above left, a photo from a sales br
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Page 192 and 193: The Hoopes family children in about
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Page 196 and 197: AUNT CATHERINE'S FATHER’S ANCESTO
Page 198 and 199: Grandparents Jefferson Hoopes & Jan
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Page 202 and 203: Sisters Ann and CatherineHoopes in
Page 204 and 205: THE NEXT GENERATIONSPat and Ronnie
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Page 208 and 209: WAKE UP THE ECHOESA ticket stub amo
Page 210 and 211: Uncle Tomwas the bestman at thewedd
Page 212 and 213: Three days after the Allied invasio
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Page 220 and 221: Uncle Tom is congratulated by Wilmi
Page 222 and 223: “Aren't we Irish good at criticiz
Page 224 and 225: Uncle Owen always loved his dogs. A
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“A little fire that warmsis bette
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Aunt Ann remembered trying to make
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A photo taken in the early 1930s sh
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Uncle Jim holds his daughter, Marga
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Aunt Ann and cousin Tommy Gallagher
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Aunt Ann is joined by Uncle Pete, A
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“When you are old and gray, and f
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As much as anyone in her family, Ma
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Aunt Mary with a friend at one of t
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Aunt Mary, left, and Aunt Ann pose
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the legacy of the Gallaghers of Bal
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PARTING SHOTSEugene Gallagher is su
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PARTING SHOTSAt left is a late 1990
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PARTING SHOTSGrandchildren of Aunt
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