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| Grafton St Flower stand |
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| Time for a cold one!! |
Well, we’re off. A little background for our trip to Ireland. Mary has been researching Cronin family genealogy for the past 4 years and thought she had enough info to go over and visit some of the hometowns of relatives. Through her research, she found out that the O’Leary’s of Ireland were having the 15th annual reunion in Inchigeelagh which is where our O’Leary connection lived. All 4 of our mother’s grandparents had immigrated to Massachusetts in the late 1800’s. Mary was also able to find the names of each of the grandparents’ parents. We set up an itinerary to visit each hometown of the 4 grandparents. Three are located in County Cork and one in County Kerry. Along the way we tried to incorporate touristy places also. Carolyn and Shannon never pass up a trip so agreed to accompany Mary. They flew up from Florida and all three flew out of Boston on a six hour direct flight. The flight which left at 6 p.m. and arrived at 5 a.m. turned out to be very comfortable. We got our rental car and headed to Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin. It was located in a great area in the middle of all the sites. We never had to get in the car while touring 2 days in Dublin. We checked in the hotel at 7 a.m. and slept till about 1 p.m. and all of us felt rested. We headed out and walked around Dublin for a couple hours. More detailed info tomorrow.
