Owen O'Callaghan, Philadelphia, to his brother, Thomas O'Callaghan, Fallow, Kilmacthomas, Waterford, 27 May 1884
Description
His sister Maggie has now emigrated and joined Owen and Bridget in Philadelphia; she's working as a servant. Owen contrasts the paucity of "fun" in Philadelphia to the richer social life in Ireland, with its fairs, nightly visits to neighbours' houses, etc. But Owen's letter describes in detail the emigrants' efforts to maintain or reconstitute some of those dense networks of kin and former neighbours in America. His letters mention dozens of relatives and other Waterford people throughout the US, and he reports having advertised for other "missing friends" in the newspapers.
Date
27/05/1884
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/1/1/1
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
5pp
Topic
Callaghan/ O'Callaghan Letters
Geographic
Philadelphia (city),Philadelphia (county),Pennsylvania,United States,Fallagh (townland),Kilmacthomas,Waterford (county),Ireland
Temporal
Nineteenth century,Eighteen eighties
Genre
Transcript,Reproduction
Note
Transcript, title and description by Professor Kerby Miller. Colloquial place name 'Fallow' is captured as contemporary 'Fallagh (townland)' in location metadata fields. Surname 'Callaghan' sometimes appears as 'O'Callaghan' across letters in this series.