Thank you so much for this vividly detailed account of your grandfather; his struggles, his reality, his triumphs, his passions. I too am doing my family's genealogy. So far the figure who stands out the most is my great-great grandfather Martin Quigney who fled Ireland from the famine 1852 and landed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In 2012 on a trip to Ireland for a guest lecture, I had the blessing to visit Tulla, County Clare and meet a distant cousin totally by chance in a small pub. To know more about where my own tenacity comes from & to know this one branch of the family tree heartened me to know more.
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Thank you so much for this vividly detailed account of your grandfather; his struggles, his reality, his triumphs, his passions.
I too am doing my family's genealogy. So far the figure who stands out the most is my great-great grandfather Martin Quigney who fled Ireland from the famine 1852 and landed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In 2012 on a trip to Ireland for a guest lecture, I had the blessing to visit Tulla, County Clare and meet a distant cousin totally by chance in a small pub. To know more about where my own tenacity comes from & to know this one branch of the family tree heartened me to know more.