| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Sara McLaughlin Papers
| | | | Creator: | McLaughlin, Sara | | | | Dates: | 1928-2001 | | | | Abstract: | Sara McLaughlin was born in 1928 in River, Achill Island, Ireland. She immigrated to the United States in 1952, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. She met her husband, Michael McLaughlin (also an Irish immigrant), in Cleveland, where they were married in 1958. Both have been extremely active in Irish American cultural and social affairs and clubs in Cleveland. In addition to her many volunteer activities with the Irish American community of Cleveland, Sara was named the 2001 Mother of the Year by the St. Patrick's Day Committee, and the 2000 Woman of the Year by the West Side Irish American Club. The McLaughlins established the Maureen McLaughlin Scholarship for Music, awarded annually at the Cleveland Feis cultural competition, in memory of their daughter Maureen. The collection consists of car banners, brochures from the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Irish Music Academy of Cleveland, Ohio, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a naturalization certificate, various congressional recognitions and resolutions, correspondence, a liturgy from the 2001 St. Patrick's Day mass, newspaper clippings, and two photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4870 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | McLaughlin, Sara 1928- | McLaughlin, Michael 1927- | McLaughlin family. | Ancient Order of Hibernians. | Irish Music Academy (Cleveland, Ohio) | Irish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Saint Patrick's Day -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | John J. O'Boyle Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | O'Boyle, John J. Family | | | | Dates: | 1872-2000 | | | | Abstract: | John J. O'Boyle is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, of Irish descent. His mother, Mary Gaughan, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in the 1920s, eventually settling in Cleveland. John J. O'Boyle's father, John O'Boyle, worked as a mailman in Cleveland. The O'Boyle family participates in Irish American organizations and events in Cleveland. The collection consists of a series of five lectures by British historian James Anthony Froude, answers to these lectures by Reverend Thomas N. Burke, a rebuttal by James A. Froude, an essay, memoirs, newspaper clippings, a pamphlet, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4872 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | O'Boyle, John J. | O'Boyle family. | Irish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Ireland -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Kathleen Niehaus Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Niehaus, Kathleen Family | | | | Dates: | 1837-2002 | | | | Abstract: | Kathleen Niehaus (nee O'Gorman) is a resident of Westlake, Ohio, and is of Irish descent. Her mother, Ellen (Nellie) Reynolds immigrated to the United States in 1910, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her husband, Julius, later owned a trucking business. Kathleen Niehaus is an avid volunteer, and the Niehaus family participates in social and cultural clubs and events of the Irish American community in northeast Ohio. the collection consists of photocopies of death certificates, genealogies, marriage certificates, a photocopy of the newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, passenger information for Ellen Reynolds from Ireland to the United States, postcards, and topographical information regarding Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4868 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Niehaus, Kathleen. | Niehaus family. | O'Gorman family. | Koch family. | Reynolds family. | Irish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Kilrush (Ireland) -- Maps, Topographic.
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