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Normally I'm fastidious about my work space. But not as of late, particularly at my office at uni. And under a wee pile of detritus I found a DNA sample collection kit. 3 of 'em actually--one for a University College Dublin (free) study, the other two for a private (US$99 per sample) study. Both of clan Egan, which is my surname.
Socialist sensibilities appropriately and effectively offended, the cash cow ones are in the waste bin. I've scraped inside me gob and the envelope is signed and sealed, and will be posted tomorrow to Dublin.
Go raibh milé maith agat
Also fired an email off to me cousine Gerry in Adelaide about our upcoming meeting. She's from the Gibbons side, so I didn't suggest she scrape anything and post it anywhere. For free or fee.
Nana--my grandmother, pronounced "na-nee", grew up in Clonkela Galway, aways inland from the coast and near Tuam. She was the studious daughter--though mischevious to a fault--and her Da ruled over the family with a velvet fist. But Nana--Kathleen--loved to dance and was allowed to attend dances on Friday or Saturday nights. And dance she did!
One particular weekend, she and her friends were off to Birr in County Offaly. Only a few hours drive, but still quite the sojourn for them--all for a great ceili (dance). En route, one of the girls wanted to call in on the friend of a friend--a girl named Mary Ann Rigney. So the girls visited this nice girl and her Ma; while the Rigney girl couldn't come to ceili she did offer tea to her guests. Mention was made of her older brother Padraic (pronounced paw-ric, Irish for Patrick), who was out playing hurling (kinda Irish field hockey. Well not really, but close enough.) Eventually Kathleen and the girls went to the ceili in Birr and returned home to Clonkela the next day.
Some 10 years later, Kathleen's been in New York for a few years, when she meets a tall handsome fella named Paddy at one of the dances at Gaelic Park up in the Bronx. Whom she eventually married and with whom she raised 8 kids: Ethna, Padraic, Una, Eileen, Bernadette, Kevin, Desi and Brenda.
Yup, Paddy was Padraic Egan, Mary Ann Rigney's older half-brother. Nana met her (future) sister- and mother-in-law nearly a decade before she met her husband!( a fascinating story of coincidence. Or fate, depending on your cosomological leaning. It's Ireland, circa 1925 or so.
Normally I'm fastidious about my work space. But not as of late, particularly at my office at uni. And under a wee pile of detritus I found a DNA sample collection kit. 3 of 'em actually--one for a University College Dublin (free) study, the other two for a private (US$99 per sample) study. Both of clan Egan, which is my surname.
Socialist sensibilities appropriately and effectively offended, the cash cow ones are in the waste bin. I've scraped inside me gob and the envelope is signed and sealed, and will be posted tomorrow to Dublin.
Go raibh milé maith agat
Also fired an email off to me cousine Gerry in Adelaide about our upcoming meeting. She's from the Gibbons side, so I didn't suggest she scrape anything and post it anywhere. For free or fee.
Nana--my grandmother, pronounced "na-nee", grew up in Clonkela Galway, aways inland from the coast and near Tuam. She was the studious daughter--though mischevious to a fault--and her Da ruled over the family with a velvet fist. But Nana--Kathleen--loved to dance and was allowed to attend dances on Friday or Saturday nights. And dance she did!
One particular weekend, she and her friends were off to Birr in County Offaly. Only a few hours drive, but still quite the sojourn for them--all for a great ceili (dance). En route, one of the girls wanted to call in on the friend of a friend--a girl named Mary Ann Rigney. So the girls visited this nice girl and her Ma; while the Rigney girl couldn't come to ceili she did offer tea to her guests. Mention was made of her older brother Padraic (pronounced paw-ric, Irish for Patrick), who was out playing hurling (kinda Irish field hockey. Well not really, but close enough.) Eventually Kathleen and the girls went to the ceili in Birr and returned home to Clonkela the next day.
Some 10 years later, Kathleen's been in New York for a few years, when she meets a tall handsome fella named Paddy at one of the dances at Gaelic Park up in the Bronx. Whom she eventually married and with whom she raised 8 kids: Ethna, Padraic, Una, Eileen, Bernadette, Kevin, Desi and Brenda.
Yup, Paddy was Padraic Egan, Mary Ann Rigney's older half-brother. Nana met her (future) sister- and mother-in-law nearly a decade before she met her husband!( a fascinating story of coincidence. Or fate, depending on your cosomological leaning. It's Ireland, circa 1925 or so.
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