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The Fallon Family Tree
The Fallon family originally of Ireland. After her husband, John Fallon, died in Ireland, Celia Conway Fallon (d. 1878) came to America with her seven children. Family members arrived at different times. They lived first in the State of New York and Wisconsin moving to Hutchinson, Minnesota in 1858. Celia Conway Fallon's seven children were: 1. Mary "Manie" Fallon who married Patrick O'Fallon in Ireland. Their children were born in Ireland, New York and Minnesota. 2. Patrick Fallon who married Catherine Connelly in New York. Their children were born at Milton Junction, Wisc. and Hutchinson, Minn. 3. William Fallon who married Brigid Murphy. Both were from Ireland. 4. Thomas Fallon who married Jane Coleman. 5. Michael Fallon. 6. John Fallon who married Jane O'Fallon and 7. James C. Fallon who married Anna Bracken Wright. Includes genealogical data on Tully family originally of Ireland. Descendants of John Tully (b. 1812) and Mary Honore O'Shaughnessy (1819-1896), who were both born in County Galway, Ireland. He died at Welch, Minn., she at Grantsburg, Wisconsin. They immigrated to America between 1847 and 1851.
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The Canal Bridge
In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I. As stretcher bearers, the two men witness all too closely the horrors of the battlefield and the trenches, the savagery, and the unconscionable waste of human life on fields made liquid by “the blood and guts of boy soldiers” at the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele. Meanwhile, back home in Ireland, Con’s sister an...
The Irish Reports
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WHO ANSWERED THE BUGLE CALL?
The revised manuscript for the WW1 book, sponsored originally by Westmeath Community Development in 2011, focuses upon Kilbeggan in the Irish Republic while making comparisons with the experiences of similar towns in Counties Westmeath and Offaly. The suffering, heroism, and poignant accounts of so many young men sacrificing their lives, become alive in what would otherwise remain as the forgotten history of long since abandoned Irish regiments. Many youngsters also returned as physically and mentally scarred wrecks, to a civilian existence ill-equipped to help them. One surprise from the study concerns the number of older recruits, a few even over fifty years, who served as infantrymen. The...
