The Gallaghers of Ballinrobe

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Aunt Mary with a friend at one of the stone walls around Cornaroya, probably sometime inthe 1940s.which not much is known. She was employed doing “officework,” but details are lost to time. There would be timeswhen a letter from Mary would arrive for her brothers andsisters in America. Usually it was Aunt Nora who wouldwrite, so a letter from Mary was always an event. Callswould be made to announce the letter’s arrival, and theexcitement could drive conversation for weeks.Communication across the ocean got a boostaround 1985, when Aunt Mary got a telephone in her home.Long-distance calls were not that common, but whencontact was made, Aunt Ann and Uncles Tom and Jimwould often be together, taking turns to chat with theirsister.Even with the phone, letters were not completelyabandoned. One arrived for Uncle Jim at Christmas time in1990. In it, Aunt Mary apologized for not communicatingrecently because of an accident that “put her out of action”for several months. “Believe it or not, I fell in my ownliving room,” she wrote. Mary said she broke a bone in herwrist, but there is no evidence of the injury in her stillbeautiful penmanship. The letter also shares her hope thatUncle Jim’s sons are not “called up” for service in the Gulf.“None of us want a war,” she related, as a coalition offorces was preparing for Operation Desert Storm inresponse to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.Another letter that Uncle Jim kept, from 10 years248
Mary, left, and Ann, the two youngest Gallaghers, stand along the bankof a river, likely the Bulkhaun, which runs along the southern boundaryof Cornaroya in Ballinrobe.previous, related a very somber event. It came fromCornaroya, dated March 26, 1980, and told the sad story ofAunt Nora’s passing. It reads:Dear Jim,“It’s with deep sadness and regret I write thesefew lines to you. Poor Nora passed away peacefully onSaturday 22nd. She suffered a stroke on Wednesdaymorning. So we sent her to Castlebar Hospital. There shegot another stroke on Wednesday night and she neverregained. They sent a telegram for me, and I came home onFriday night, and went to see her on Saturday, but shedidn’t know anyone, but I think she recognized my voice.She just opened her eyes and that’s all, then she died onSaturday night at 9 o’clock. God rest her. She was buriedyesterday, Tuesday, in the New Cemetery and she had awonderful funeral. Paddy and Owen are stunned. Theyknow they have lost a great friend and much more than afriend, but they will have to make the most of things now.Won’t we all miss her very much.“Well Jim, that’s the end of the letters fromCornaroya, because I do know Owen and Paddy are notgoing to sit down and write to anyone. So Jim I think whenyou do write, if you would write to me I will send them onto Owen, because I will keep in touch, even though I knowthey would write.249
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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
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At left, Pete and Judy share a toas
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Uncle Pete hikes along Brandywine C
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Aunt May, at right, and her brother
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Aunt May's brother Joe remainedin I
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THE NEXT GENERATIONSUncle Pete and
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“Mothers hold their children's ha
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At left is Uncle Pat's passport pho
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Uncle Pat and Aunt Catherine werein
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'SAINTS ON BULLDOZERS'The motto of
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A series of photosshow Uncle Pat wi
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Mary Kathryn, shown with her mother
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Photos from the Bustleton construct
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Mary Kathryn, third from left, is s
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Above are sisters-in-law Aunt May a
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At left is Catherine Oliver on what
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medical attendant available.Aunt Ca
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“The Irish are the greatest peopl
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Uncle Jim with his sister Nora and
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When they finally got to the conven
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help Aunt Nora and her new husband
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In 1934, Aunt Catherine, in hat at
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Aunt Catherine's wedding party begi
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Owen and Pat join Pop-Pop Bayard Ho
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Left, Aunt Catherine with Pat and O
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Aunt Catherine with Pat and Owen dr
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Above left, a photo from a sales br
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The Hoopes family children in about
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Aunt Catherine, seated, with her si
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AUNT CATHERINE'S FATHER’S ANCESTO
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Grandparents Jefferson Hoopes & Jan
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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
Page 214 and 215: Uncle Tom, top left, his brother-in
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Page 218 and 219: Uncle Tom and Aunt Ann moved into t
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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Page 228 and 229: Uncle Owen chats with his nephew Ow
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Page 238 and 239: A photo taken in the early 1930s sh
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Page 242 and 243: Aunt Ann and cousin Tommy Gallagher
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Page 248 and 249: As much as anyone in her family, Ma
Page 252 and 253: Aunt Mary, left, and Aunt Ann pose
Page 254 and 255: the legacy of the Gallaghers of Bal
Page 256 and 257: PARTING SHOTSEugene Gallagher is su
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Page 260: PARTING SHOTSGrandchildren of Aunt
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