Series 3 - Margaret Coll McDevitt memoir

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P/P155/15/3

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Margaret Coll McDevitt memoir

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  • 1922-2000 (Creation)

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Reproductions of the McDevitt memoir and letter were donated to Kerby A. Miller by a private donor.

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Materials pertaining to Margaret Coll McDevitt's memoir, 'I don't know why you're all crying. We're gonna go anyway.' Coll McDevitt's memoir is an account of her visit to Ireland as a young child. She travelled from Philadelphia, where she was born to Irish parents, to stay with her maternal Irish-speaking grandparents in Cresslough, County Donegal for several months in 1922 and 1923 when she was nine years old. The series consists of: photocopies of photos related to Coll McDevitt and family; a photocopy of the typed memoir, including a list of family members and recorded quotes; census research; and a photocopied letter from Coll McDevitt to her grandson.

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