Absolutely amazing how this family reconnected. Welcome home and may you enjoy Sligo. It is a beautiful county with so much history - the great poet being one W. B. Yeats. Blessings galore and slainte. Mairead USA sligo.
My roots on my late father’s side of my family goes to County Sligo. My great grandfather the late Christopher A. O’Rourke & my 2 great grand uncles left there about 1869/1870 time frame and ended up in Pittston, Pennsylvania. My great grandfather O’Rourke stayed in Pittston, he had 13 children, 5 sons & 8 daughters. My grandfather the late Christopher I. O’Rourke was the youngest one. He served in the U.S.Navy, so did my late uncle the late William C. O’Rourke and my cousin William C. O’Rourke II who I met when I was in the Navy station on shore duty in Pearl Harbor, he lives back in the Philippines which is my second country and my ultimate goal is to return to the Philippines and live out my life ther. If I weren’t planning to return to the Philippines for good, Zig would move to Ireland to County Sligo & live out my life there.
My adoptive dad's family came to Scotland during the famine. My adoptive mum was Irish, which meant i became an Irish citizen when they adopted me. I have spent quite a lot of time in Ireland, but never been to Sligo. I am not sure how i feel about it, because the deprivation they suffered in Scotland wasnt much better for the first 20 or 30 years.
so beautiful they have the priest out. say what you want about the church and its clear and many failings, but it still adds something. i am far from catholic, but its an expression, at its best, of something reverent and dignified, solemn. ceremony. here in usa no one even understands the ceremonial value...
my grandfather's surname was Keaveny, or Caveney, so I must be related to these people too. His parents came from, Sligo. I would love to trace his family line back but after his grandfather I've got stuck.
very moving. very Irish to meet the two cousins in a typical comfortable pub...no better place in those small towns...there's that Woody Guthrine song, "i aint got no home in this world anymore...." no idea where my father's mother was from, exactly...lots of immigrants to USA just turned forward without any sentimentality...
Absolutely amazing how this family reconnected. Welcome home and may you enjoy Sligo. It is a beautiful county with so much history - the great poet being one W. B. Yeats. Blessings galore and slainte.
Mairead USA sligo.
Very touching. So much sorrow only now being blunted by the joy of reunion and remembrance.
My roots on my late father’s side of my family goes to County Sligo. My great grandfather the late Christopher A. O’Rourke & my 2 great grand uncles left there about 1869/1870 time frame and ended up in Pittston, Pennsylvania. My great grandfather O’Rourke stayed in Pittston, he had 13 children, 5 sons & 8 daughters. My grandfather the late Christopher I. O’Rourke was the youngest one. He served in the U.S.Navy, so did my late uncle the late William C. O’Rourke and my cousin William C. O’Rourke II who I met when I was in the Navy station on shore duty in Pearl Harbor, he lives back in the Philippines which is my second country and my ultimate goal is to return to the Philippines and live out my life ther. If I weren’t planning to return to the Philippines for good, Zig would move to Ireland to County Sligo & live out my life there.
Just amazing after all that time.very sad times in the famine.amazing journey back then on a ship crossing the Atlantic so scary.
My adoptive dad's family came to Scotland during the famine. My adoptive mum was Irish, which meant i became an Irish citizen when they adopted me. I have spent quite a lot of time in Ireland, but never been to Sligo. I am not sure how i feel about it, because the deprivation they suffered in Scotland wasnt much better for the first 20 or 30 years.
so beautiful they have the priest out. say what you want about the church and its clear and many failings, but it still adds something. i am far from catholic, but its an expression, at its best, of something reverent and dignified, solemn. ceremony. here in usa no one even understands the ceremonial value...
Wonderful story.
Brilliant !!!
And what a beautiful spot they are from!
my grandfather's surname was Keaveny, or Caveney, so I must be related to these people too. His parents came from, Sligo. I would love to trace his family line back but after his grandfather I've got stuck.
very moving. very Irish to meet the two cousins in a typical comfortable pub...no better place in those small towns...there's that Woody Guthrine song, "i aint got no home in this world anymore...." no idea where my father's mother was from, exactly...lots of immigrants to USA just turned forward without any sentimentality...
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