Technically-speaking, this is a terrible picture. But I love it, because EVERYONE is smiling – even my great-grandmother and Uncle Frank. Margaret might be hiding his grin, but I can see the smile in his cheeks. I suppose this is 1942-1943? Mom will need to help out with this…when was Frank in the service?
I wonder what they are all so happy about???
John W. Regan, Agnes McMahon Regan, Ella McMahon (wife of John McMahon), Frank McMahon, Margaret McMahon Nelson, Mary Foley McMahon (Private Family Collection)
I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My heritage pretty much covers the map of Ireland: great-great-grandparents from Cork (Crowley, Foley, Regan), a great-great-grandmother from Clare (Quinn), a great-great-grandfather from Fermanagh (McMahon) and his wife's parents from Mayo (McAndrew), a great-grandmother from Connemara (Hannon) married to my great-grandfather from Laois (McCormack), great-grandparents from Sligo (Flannery), and a great-grandmother from Kildare (Hill). All of those people ended up in Minnesota, where my four grandparents were born.
Three and four generations after my people left Ireland for America, I retain all Irish heritage. So much for the melting pot...
2 thoughts on “Family Album: Irish in Minneapolis”
My guess is that Frank was in the army from 1942 until the end of WW2. He never left the US, and I seem to remember he was an airplane mechanic and stationed in Florida.
The Irish in America 
March 16, 2022 at 11:01 am
My guess is that Frank was in the army from 1942 until the end of WW2. He never left the US, and I seem to remember he was an airplane mechanic and stationed in Florida.
March 16, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Thanks for the info. Regan suspects Dodo took this photo and was goofing off!