Happy Birthday To My Father in the Cosmos
A look a legacy of one of the faceless immigrants.
On this day 124 years ago, my father was born in a in small townland called Bulcaun, Ireland, a clump of farms outside of Charlestown, County Mayo, in the century before Irish Independence.
He landed somewhere in the middle of a family of fourteen children to a father known as the soul of kindness and a mother who…