{"id":851,"date":"2014-03-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindythomson.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/27\/a-voice-from-irelands-past"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:00:00","slug":"a-voice-from-irelands-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/27\/a-voice-from-irelands-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Voice From Ireland’s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ancestry.com offers immigrant interviews to listen to for free. I could spend all day listening! Here is one with a lady named Lillian Doran Cavanaugh\u00a0from Ballymore, County Westmeath.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ancstry.me\/1g4L7RG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I found this amusing in some spots, such as when she was asked if she knew how her parents met. She says she doesn’t know: “They don’t talk that way over there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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This may have been Lillian Doran Cavanaugh’s church in Ireland\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Lillian and her sister Peg departed Ireland at Queenstown for America where their uncles awaited them.<\/p>\n

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At about 27:09 on the recording Lillian talks about her arrival in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ancestry.com offers immigrant interviews to listen to for free. I could spend all day listening! Here is one with a lady named Lillian Doran Cavanaugh\u00a0from Ballymore, County Westmeath. http:\/\/ancstry.me\/1g4L7RG \u00a0I found this amusing in some spots, such as when she was asked if she knew how her parents met. She says she doesn’t know: “They…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellis-island","category-immigrants","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}