Donegal is lousy with McElhinnys. Like with the great number of Hesters in Alabama, if you swing a cat over here, you’re going to hit one. I’ve seen at least a half dozen different spellings of the name – some add an “e”, some replace the “i” with an “e”, some replace the “e” with an “i” – but I think that they are all part of the same big messy extended family group. I love that there is as much a concentration of my mother's namesake family here as there is of my father's back home in the South.
Loved this, Richard! Very informative and moving. I'm wondering if you've ever visited the Irish Memorial, by Glenna Goodacre, in Philly. It's the most moving work of art I've ever seen. I wept at the meaning and sight of it. It's truly remarkable.
No, but now, of course, I'm going to have to go. I found the who experience in Derry to be incredibly emotional. The more I look into the underlying causes and what the Irish have been through, the more moving it is. xoxox
Loved this, Richard! Very informative and moving. I'm wondering if you've ever visited the Irish Memorial, by Glenna Goodacre, in Philly. It's the most moving work of art I've ever seen. I wept at the meaning and sight of it. It's truly remarkable.
No, but now, of course, I'm going to have to go. I found the who experience in Derry to be incredibly emotional. The more I look into the underlying causes and what the Irish have been through, the more moving it is. xoxox