Long Lost Leitrim Family

The book comprises 116 colourful pages of history through words, restored photographs, historical documents and maps.
It tells the true story of a family from the turn of the 20th Century in County Leitrim in the north-west of Ireland. It is a story of hardship, emigration, resilience and the lives of ordinary people with the backdrop of world wars, British rule in Ireland, land ownership returning to the farming class and Ireland’s evolution from gaining its independence.
The story features the lives of some strong women who had to overcome adversity and minimal education standards to step-change the fate of their children while living during inequitable times.
The biography of eleven siblings born between 1897 and 1920 is detailed in the book with stories of infant mortality, trans-generational emigration to the US, a stay in a Mother & Baby home and subsequent adoption, life in rural Ireland in the 20th Century. It also includes the story of the son of an Irish emigrant to the US who went on to become one of the most powerful people in Hollywood in the twentieth century.