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Whilst perusing historic American newspapers, now online on the wonderful Library of Congress website, I came across this amusing yet thought-provoking tale of the search for the heirs of a Mr. John McCrary, “a native of Ireland”, who had died tragically by falling out a high-rise window in New York in 1908. It […]

The Man from Five Mile Town – the search for ...

21 Mar, 2016 in Uncategorized by Irish Emigrant Trails

Irish Gaelic orthography – or the way words in the language are written and spelled – has not always had the current Latin (Roman) standard typeface that we are used to with English, French and so on. In earlier times, up to the mid 19th century, Irish Gaelic was written in a […]

Irish Gaelic orthography

8 Mar, 2016 in Uncategorized by Irish Emigrant Trails

A family’s last name (or surname) can tell us many things about the family and their origins and can be (but not always) a factor in roughly determining the area of Ireland where they came from. Irish family names are a mixture of many previous lines, nationalities and ethnicity, from Norman […]

The Last Names of County Waterford

7 Mar, 2016 in Uncategorized by Irish Emigrant Trails