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- 1936 (Creation)
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20pp
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Citation from a public source: Lawlor, D. (1936). The Life and Struggles of an Irish Boy in America, An Autobiography by David S. Lawlor. Newton, Massachusetts: Carroll Publishing Company.
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[This autobiography contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
Excerpted pages (in photocopy and transcript form) from The Life and Struggles of an Irish Boy in America: An Autobiography by David S. Lawlor. David Lawlor was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary in 1865 and lived primarily in Portlaw, County Waterford. He emigrated at age 7 with his family in 1872, settling in Fall River, Massachusetts, where the family worked in the textile mills. The full copy of the autobiography, along with Kerby A. Miller's research on Lawlor, are located at P155/11/4.