Some information about Moses Malone, a 30 year old butler who died at sea in 1902.
Some years ago I researched a friend's Irish ancestry. She was from Galway and it turned out that she was distantly related to John Ford the American movie director. That got me thinking about the Irish experience in the United States and about American movies in general, which eventually brought me around to reading, not watching, The Last Hurrah.
The legend among the Irish for the longest time was that they "came from Spain." You could say it was the mother of all family stories.
A while ago my cousin sent me a number of photographs of our family ... This picture of Kilmore Quay Post Office is one of them.