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At 1:27pm on April 26, 2008, Phil Bowdren said…: John, I've added a bunch of photos to my page, and I have a few more to add. Phil

At 4:26pm on April 15, 2008, Phil Bowdren said…: John,

My biggest collection is anything Irish, especially if it's AOH related, but I also collect Law Enforcement items, and anything Civil War or Irish Brigade.

At one point I had over 750 Police patches from all over the world, unfortunately, the entire collection was stolen during a break in... that was 30 years of collecting gone in a flash.

Eventually I'll add some pictures to my site...

Best Regards,

Phil

At 9:24pm on March 10, 2008, Chris DiGangi said…: I did hear some stories regarding Dev and my grandfather, Daniel Coll. I was too young to trust my memory on the details. My personal experience is limited to a brief chance to speak with him over the phone as a youngster.

Here's a brief poem my grandfather wrote regarding a frustrating episode with Judge Cohalans during Dev's famous speaking/fund raising tour in the States:

SINN FEIN

Amidst assembly's roar and cry
And Judge Cohalans bellows
Sat Harry Bolond, Dev and I
And brave young Liam Mellows.

Then DeValera turned his head
A frown was on his face
We're getting nowhere here he said
We can't present our case.

Round up said he our secret men
And cable Austin Stack
And I will wire you where and when
We'll meet near Saranac.

I rose and left the turmoiled hall
Ne'er to return again
But there was action swift that fall
In the heart of Old Sinn Fein.

At 12:12pm on March 9, 2008, Meghann Coyne said…: I have tons of pictures from when I went over to ireland but unfortunatly there were all taken with a 35 mm camera and I don't have a scanner. I would love to see some of your work. I have a website if you would like to see mine.
www.absentmindedartist.com

At 6:11pm on March 8, 2008, Marianne MacDonald said…: That's correct, John. It is archived on my own site as well, though. It's at www.tradtours.com and you can click on the bar that says "Archived shows" to listen to any of the shows.

At 8:56am on March 8, 2008, Melissa said…: Denise is my aunt so if you are related to her - hello relative!!

At 7:45pm on March 5, 2008, Jamie said…: Hi, John.
I was adopted and my birthmom was Irish. Her last name is McCreery. Her family lived in either the Philly area or Jersey. Her Mom( my grandmother) worked at the Campbell Soup Factory in Camden, N.J. I've been searching for her for at least 20 years. I celebrate my Irish heritage and I honored her this past Mother's Day by getting a small shamrock tattoo.

At 4:35pm on March 5, 2008, Meghann Coyne said…: I mostly work in chalk pastels but I'm getting into photography recently. Currently I have no studio to work in so I have taken to bringing my camera everywhere.

At 8:02pm on March 4, 2008, Tricia said…: Yes, the home is still lived in by my Dad's cousins...but they're very private people. Without knowing who is reading this, they wouldn't be too happy were strangers to start coming and asking about ancestry -- not that You would...but just about anybody can read these things...I care enough not to mention the exact location and hope you will understand. I know it well, as I've stayed there on my trips over. If it helps any, the Loughrey's of Kerrykeel are also our cousins, but a bit more removed. Do you know Dohertys from the Kerrykeel area? Just to clarify, it was my Grandfather who was John Doherty from there...not my Dad. Dad was born here in the USA.

At 7:51pm on March 4, 2008, Tricia said…: Hello John...please accept my apology...I'm new at this site and accidentially removed whatever your message to me, was. At least, I "think" there was a message from a John Doherty. My grandfather was John Doherty born in the townlands of Kerrykeel and was raised a hill or two away with relatives on Auchtore. After coming to America, he met a Donegal-born&raised girl from Glenties, married her & my Dad was their 1st born. After reading the other messages here...it caught my eye that my grandmother (but on my mother's side) was a Foley before marrying. Its been so long since I signed-up on this site, I totally forget what I wrote about myself...and until I take a lesson in it, it'll be far off before I know how to put a photo of myself on here. I have lots of nieces & nephews and a couple of them are your age -- however I am not...born in 1957, and thankfully was able to have children later in life....so they're only 10 & 11 yrs. old. I've been in touch constantly with cousins living in the spot outside of Kerrykeel....as they were able to keep the land because my grandfather John Doherty worked so hard in America to send them money to live on. They say if it weren't for him, they'd all be dead. He was an amazing individual...wrote beautiful poetry about Donegal, though only had the equivalent of a 3rd grade education when he left there. He worked so hard, and never made it back...but some relatives came to live near him here. He became very rich, but gave it all away to the Catholic church to have a Catholic women's college built in memory of his first wife who died childless. His other wife was the girl from Glenties, who had my father and his brothers and sisters. One brother was a good priest for 53 years...visited Kerrykeel & Glenties family often. My Dad graduated from Catholic College in Philadelphia (LaSalle), joined the U.S. Navy in WWII & the Navy sent him to Harvard, Penn & Colgate for engineering post graduate work. He had a wonderful life...tell your parents he was the Commanding Officer of a Navy ship in Nassau in the Bahams & was invited to dine with England's King Edward (former) & danced with his wife, Wallace Simpson. The King (former) liked him so much, he offered him a position as one of his attache's to one of the British-ruled countries...and my father happily told him "My mother from Ireland would never forgive me, if I did!" The king laughed and they hit it off as friends during his time there. My Dad's gone, now sadly. He was larger than life...and always talked about his parents and what a fun life they had growing up with people from Ireland at their house in Philadelphia ALL the time...playing musical instruments, dancing...great fun. Oh, and his other brother was a scientist for NASA. Just a bit of history of one John Doherty and his wife & children. Now, You must make your mark on the world! His children were forced by the nuns in their school (St. Patrick's in Philadelphia) to change the spelling of their name "Doherty" (though it was on their birth & baptism certificates that way), to how the present Cardinal of Philadelphia spelled his: D-o-u-g-h-e-r-t-y. So, their mother said, if that's what the nun said, then that's what you'll do! So, the rest of our large family goes by "Dougherty" instead of "Doherty" except the ones still in Donegal. Whew! Say Hi whenever you get a chance...good luck with your schoolwork...Tricia

At 2:31pm on March 3, 2008, Erin said…: Cool glad to hear - I don't know what to ask. Why don't you tell me something about what you're studying

At 7:04pm on March 1, 2008, john doherty said…: hi pat its great to add another cousin to the tree

At 4:48pm on February 24, 2008, Pat Rogan said…: Hi John, I'm Denise's son, which makes us cousins as far as I can tell haha. Thought I'd drop you a line and say hi.

At 4:43pm on February 24, 2008, Denise said…: Hi John -- My son Patrick just joined Ballyphilly! His name is Patrick Rogan. Check out his page and say hello!

At 9:41pm on February 23, 2008, Denise said…: I haven't gotten them all together yet, but I'm working on it. I was thinking I'd post them on this site, but what I'll do is make some photos just for you and send them by mail too.

At 10:21pm on February 11, 2008, Denise said…: Well, I guess I'm just going to have to come there and see for myself how much we look alike! Your Granny reminded me of my Aunt Nancy too, and your sister looked something like my niece, Erin. I'll post some more pictures when I get a chance.

At 10:49am on February 10, 2008, Denise said…: Her name was Carberry and she's an American who was looking for her McDaid relatives in the Culdaff area. There are Carberrys in our family too--in America--but this woman is not related, as far as I could tell.

At 10:17am on February 9, 2008, Denise said…: Hi John --
i thought the name was on there. But I knew their first names and the names of all their children, so it wasn't hard to find. Interesting story: I knew there had to be relatives still living in the area because someone I met on the internet had been at the cemetery and taken pictures of all the McDaid's she could find. One photo was of your great-grandfather's grave and there were fresh flowers on it.

At 5:47pm on February 8, 2008, Denise said…: Hi John -- I'm going to have some of the pictures I took in Ballyharry scanned into my computer and post them so you can see them. Is your dad Eamon Doherty?