#glengarriff

[vintageeurope]

Glengarriff, Ireland 1860/70

[irish-belle]

Up the fairy path

[riversidearchives]

Irish-American Heritage Month

This March, in recognition of Irish-American Heritage Month (which has been celebrated since 1991), we are sharing with you the naturalization documents and brief biography of Jeremiah (Jerry) Connolly.  He is but one of the millions of Irish immigrants who came to the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.  

Jerry was born in Glengarriff in County Cork, Ireland, on July 22nd in either 1886 or 1896, depending on the source.  He sailed on the SS Cedric and arrived on the shores of the United States on May 12, 1907.  According to the 1910 census, Jerry was living with his brother in Jerome, Arizona, where he filed a declaration of intention to become a U.S. citizen.  

He then moved to Los Angeles where he married his wife, May O. Gorman, in 1925.  Jerry and May had three children, Marie, John, and Peggy Ann.  They settled in Tujunga, California, where they owned and operated a billiards hall next door to their home on Foothill Boulevard.  Jerry filed a second declaration of intention in 1942 and finally became a U.S. citizen on December 22, 1944.

Fun facts: About 10% of U.S. residents claim Irish ancestry and it is estimated that as many as 4.5 million Irish immigrants arrived in America between 1820 and 1930.   

In our holdings at the National Archives at Riverside, we have over a million petitions for naturalization from southern California, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada.

[Some of these documents were retrieved from Ancestry.com.]  

Series: Petitions for Naturalization, 1887 - 1991. Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009. (National Archives Identifier 594890). 

[thesevenseasandbeyond]

Glengarriff - Irlande (août 2013)

[profrico9663]

    9-19-66

Dear Hazel,

   We are making 

good use of your

advice.

   We take  the Ring 

of Kerry trip tomorrow

Enjoy the G.S. Hotel

in Killarney.  Visited

the Cathedral this 

afternoon.

   Our best to all

the family. Love

      Eric and Sita

[vintageeurope]

Glengarriff, Ireland 1890

[courageous]

The monsters turned out to be just trees

[palaceunderthealps]

Glengarriff, Co. Cork

This little resort, tucked away in a beautiful glen on Bantry Bay, is quite simply a jewel. The Gulf Stream, which keeps the weather in this part of Ireland surprisingly mild, has been especially kind to Glengarriff, allowing subtropical vegetation to flourish here as almost nowhere else in northern Europe. Here you can hole up for a couple of days in one of the several comfortable hotels and guesthouses scattered about the village, and indulge yourself with unhurried walks around the bay – to Lady Bantry’s Lookout and the Eagle's Nest beyond, for instance – or just laze in the mild, warm sunshine on the beach at Biddy's Cove. One must for every visitor is a trip to the remarkable gardens at Ilnacullin, or Garinish Island, which were constructed about 50 years ago by John Annan Bryce. When you see the exotic vegetation growing in fabulous luxuriance here – fuchsias up to 25 feet high, for example, and plants and shrubs from as far away as the Himalayas, Amazonia, and Asia – you'll never believe that every speck of dirt on this once-barren island had to be imported from the mainland. There are Japanese and alpine gardens, an Italian garden clustered around a rectangular lilly pool massed with flowers, and a Greek temple, all framing magnificent views of the bay; a lookout tower stands at the summit of the island. Among the island's eminent visitors was George Bernard Shaw, who wrote part of Saint Joan here.

Farther afield, but easily reached from Glengarriff, is the Beara Peninsula, as beautiful as the famous Ring of Kerry nearby, but much quieter. A circular signposted tour takes you around the mountainous, 30-mile-long peninsula and through the stunning Healy Pass. Near Castletownbere is the ruined Dunboy Castle – the last stronghold of the Irish rebellion of 1602 – and there are excellent beaches near here and farther down the peninsula at Ballydonegan. All in all, a perfect way to spend a couple of days.

Details: Glengarriff (pop. 250) is 68 miles west of Cork and can be reached by bus from there. Garinish Island, reached by ferry from the town, is open from March 1 to October 31 from 9:45 to 5:30 Monday through Saturday and from 12:45 to 6 on Sunday. 

William Bryson, The Palace Under the Alps, p147-148 

https://visitglengarriff.ie