Friday, August 7

This is the first night of the reunion - not everyone is here yet.

Another photo from Bernadette Farrell in CA

Children of John James and Ann Farrell, Birmingham England:
L to R James. Marion, Michael, Bernadette, John and Helen. These are the grandchildren of James Farrell and Molly Doherty Farrell, and the great-grandchildren of John Farrell and Teresa Hogg Farrell.

About the PowerPoint

Some of you have older computers and the PowerPoint I posted above may take a long time to load. Is it interfering with your ability to see the rest of the blog? I can take it off, or try putting it in the blog messages section to see if that helps.

Patrick or Michael - take a vote

Kevin Mulvey from CA sent this lovely picture, and they’re not sure who it is but they think it’s their grandfather’s (Patrick) older brother, Michael.



Compare these pictures and tell us what you think. On the right are young Michael and older Michael, on the left is a picture of young Patrick. I think it really looks like Patrick - I think Michael got a little chubbier with age, judging by this and some other pictures we have.

Picture from Bob Mulvey Jr. in Pacifica, CA

John Farrell Sr.

New Picture from Bob Mulvey Jr in Pacifica CA

John Farrell Sr. with Family in front of Leitrim Home:
left to right:
Back row Willie Farrell, ?, Kate McNulty, John Jr.,
Mary (Gilbane), John Farrell , Bridie Farrell, Tessie (Nangle)

Wow! What a Great Mulvey/Farrell Family Reunion

The family reunion was a great success. We had 15 family members participate in the Friday golf scramble. The winners were Nelson Wixson (son-in-law of Joe Mulvey), Chip Mulvey (son of Frank - deceased), Shannon Mulvey (son of Thomas J.), and Thomas Mulvey (son of James Sr.). We had around 85 relatives at the Friday evening reception. Everyone seemed to have a good time and most didn't leave until the well went dry. Renewing old acquintances and meeting new family members was exciting. Although I hadn't seen many of my relatives in over 35 years, it only seemd like yesterday, once we got to talking about old times. Everyone was given a family reunion t-shirt. The full day session on Saturday was great. We enjoyed a power point presentation by Eileen Falcone on the family history, with a good amount of input from the audience. Ann, Bernadette, Liz and Mary were in fine form and sang (on many occasions over the weekend) our theme song "Lovely Leitrim". We couldn't get enough of their sweet voices and I can still hear the song in my head. In addition, they provided a wonderful and informative panel discussion on growing up in Ballinwing. Bill Doutney proved to be a wealth of information on the Farrell's and James "The Great" Mulvey's visits to America and his and Bridie's visits to some local breeding farms. Mary Ann (Mulvey) & Jim Merrill's son Jim Jr. used the occasion to get married in Raleigh on Friday. He and his new bride Loi were introduced and shared a cake with the family. My late brother Frank and Julia's son Rickey announced that his daughter Kristen and boyfriend Berto were just engaged. Everyone present on Saturday received a Mulvey/Farrell Family Reunion Certificate of Attendance. We had 95 people for lunch and 101 people for dinner. On Sunday we had 60 people stay around for the cook-out at Joe & Marianne's house. We are talking about doing a family reunion in Leitrim in 2011. We have passed the flag to organize this to our beautify Irish Cousins. More on this in future postings. Words can not capture the joy, love, and family spirit present at the reunion. I know that Marianne and I enjoyed meeting with our lovely family. Whatever work went into organizing the reunion was worth every minute. God Bless All! Joe

From Bernadette Mulvey

Does anyone know who this is?