My father emigrated from Lurgan Parish, County Cavan in 1928, with the four oldest children in our family, two boys and two girls, all under age ten. My mother came a year later with the four youngest, three girls and a boy. The family settled on the west side of Manhattan, New York City, and I was born the next year, 1930.
When my mother was pregnant with me, the doctors told her he had but just six months to live, having contracted TB. As it turned out, he lived for another nine years, but spent most of it in TB hospitals, or rest homes. Our family was in for some hard times making a go of it in America. I will write about what they were like in my next post
Terry
