
I'm Sending A Shamrock To Remind You Of Home: Roscommon Families And The Irish Diaspora 1875-1950
Three decades ago a chance meeting brought the author to the isolated Roscommon cottage where his grandmother, Kate McCormack and five of her siblings, over a century earlier, had bid tearful farewells to their family and sailed off into the west to new lives in America. This book follows their journey to a new land and the author's quest to come to know two generations of a family divided by an o...
Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: Glasnevin Publishing (July 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1908689234
ISBN-13: 978-1908689238
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1232273
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“if you are interested in history from a personal view point, this book delivers. The experience of the McCormack/Callahan clan is not unique. Millions of people left country homes all over Europe to make their way in the States. But, Dr Callahan m...”
ean and nearly forgotten by time. Along the way, the dramatic history of late-19th and early-20th century Ireland and America comes alive as the McCormack family and their neighbors struggle with the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by those turbulent times. The book demonstrates how the "big picture" of history can be viewed through the individual portraits of those who make it and also addresses the difficult problems facing those who undertake such a project - to rescue the history of average people from obscurity by using the scattered remnants of their past. The McCormacks who made the long journey to America and the loved ones they left at home are long dead, but family photos, letters, oral histories, public and parochial records reveal the lives they lived.
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