Michael Morris Healy was an Irish Catholic immigrant from Roscommon, Ireland. He came to America and became wealthy as a cotton planter in a location near Macon, Georgia. Mary Eliza Smith was Michael's common-la
be it a newspaper, school yearbook, or a local history book. Ten years ago, I found an except from the original edition ofConcerning Mary Ann,which describes the lives and times of the Irish Catholic immigrants who settled Monroe County, Iowa in the mid 1800s. I wrote about it in the ...
Thomas Dolan was born in County Roscommon on 8 December 1863, to John and Ann Dolan. He disembarked in the port of Boston, Massachusetts on 4 May 1874, when just 10 years old. [1] Because of the commonality of Irish immigrants named Dolan in Boston, details of his history remain unknow...
Biggins Immigrants, born 1798 to 1898 Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot, 1831-1920 Passengers Arriving on Immigrant Ships at Castle Garden, New York, 1847 to 1889 Passengers Arriving on Immigrant Ships at New York, 1827 to 1899, including Name variations Passengers Ar...
Brendan sailed to America almost a millennium before Christopher Columbus; but even if St. Brendan did not make it to the New World, Galway-born William Ayers was one of Columbus's crew in 1492. During the seventeenth century the majority of the Irish immigrants to America were Catholics. ...
their close association with Stoker’s Dracula, before moving beyond it to explore a range of issues that may resonate with late-twentieth-century readers, including the struggles of nascent feminism (fought in the workplace and the bedroom), social inequality, and the treatment of immigrants. Th...