Eighty-plus years ago, a grandmother I never knew sailed from County Mayo to New York for a better life. She raised five children mostly by herself after settling in Philadelphia and made it possible for my father to be the first in his family to attend college.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Bridget Lavin.
I wish you could have seen your great-granddaughter ask her mother, “Mommy, are you Irish or are you normal?”
The kid is definitely Irish.
So very awesome. My family story started a little earlier than that when a man and wife left Belfast during the Potato Famine and ended up in South Carolina…
