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"Téann an saol thart mar a bheadh eiteoga air." - Irish Gaelic saying meaning Life goes by as if it had wings Ten years a...

Well, not exactly. But it got me off to a great start! If you are in the Philadelphia area on Thursday, June 18, please join me at the Thi...

This week I celebrate my eighth anniversary of blogging here at Small-leaved Shamrock , 100 Years in America and A Light that Shines Again ...

Bells will be ringing across the nation this afternoon at 3:15 Eastern time as we commemorate the re-union of the United States of America w...

As early as 1827, its parishioners were meeting in each other's homes. By 1838, they had moved into their first real church structure - ...

Margaret Foley was 21 when in 1878 she married William Cowhey , age 43, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Pottsville, Pennsylvania an...

"In early nineteenth-century Ireland, the Reverend Jeremiah O'Callaghan refused the sacraments to a dying man until he recanted his...

It's official! The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania has accepted my application for their First Families of Pennsylvania lineage ...

My application consisted of eighty-three final pages, including sixty-five pages of documentation and a sixteen-page summary of the g...

You may be thinking, “It’s a miracle! Finally a new blog article from Lisa!” Though this very well might be a small miracle, there is a re...

Christmas Eve is a magical time. The waiting of Advent is over and the celebration of the Savior's birth is about to begin. Photo by...

It was just five days before Christmas in the year 1893 that Ann Cowhey left this life. Her obituary says she died at home and was in her 90...

If you are reading this because the title intrigued you, you may be surprised to learn that this article is about Christmas ornaments. More ...

News traveled fast in 1892 of the train engine explosion that killed my great-grandfather. By the next day, details of the accident were pub...