Series 21 - David Leahy memoir

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P/P155/74/21

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David Leahy memoir

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  • [1860]-2015 (Creation)

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21pp

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These materials were sent to Martin Millerick, who donated them to Kerby A. Miller in 2015.

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Typed transcript (incomplete) of David Leahy's memoir, 'A Brief Genealogical Narrative', which details Leahy's early childhood in Ballycommane, County Limerick, his family background, his attendance at a hedge school before starting in his local national school, getting an apprenticeship in a drapery before emigrating to America, and his own history of the Leahy family in Limerick. Attached are correspondence from donor Martin Millerick and a photocopied handwritten family tree.

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