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O'Regan
The
Invincible Irish
Ronald
Wilson Reagan
Irish
Ancestry
And
Immigration To
America
Patricia
Meade White
Introduction
by
P.O. FAOLAIN
Reagan
Immigration To Illinois
ALMA IMHOFF LAURITSEN
Cover
Design by
Kevin Joyce
Copyright
1981, Renewed 2001
By
Patricia Meade
White
Copyright
under International and
Pan-American Copyright
Convention. All rights reserved,
including the right to reproduce
this book, or portions thereof,
in any form, except for the
inclusion of brief quotations in
a review. All inquiries should be
addressed to Portola Press, 600
S. Commonwealth Ave., Suite 1301,
Los Angeles , California 90005.
Library of Congress Catalogue
Number: 81-80275 ISBN Number:
0-9605998 Printed in the United
States of America at Kimberly
Press, Inc., Goleta, California
First Edition, June, 1981
Acknowledgements
My
deepest thanks to a fellow
Nebraskan, Alma Imhoff Lauritsen,
and her entire family, for the
help and encouragement that has
been a constant source of
strength in the preparation of
this book. My sincere thanks also
to the encouragement and advice
of Kevin Joyce, who not only
designed the cover, but on a
business trip to Ireland,
succeeded in a difficult
assignment getting the
photographs I needed with
reference to the O'Regans. He was
nobly assisted by Liam O'Hanlon
of Shannonside Tourism and
Padraig 0 Reilly, photographer.
Special thanks to Mr. O'Hanlon
and the Board Failte
photographer, who, after an
hour's stiff climb, had
capricious winter sun to outline
the rocky environs of Glendine
Gap, thought to be the highest
point in Ireland. Last, but not
least, my deep gratitude to P. 0.
Faolain, whose enthusiasm and
cooperation never failed from the
inception to publication.
PORTOLA
PRESS
600 S Commonwealth Ave.
Suite 1301
Los Angles, California
90005
Contents
Introduction...................................................................1
Preface.........................................................................................3
Map
of Laigin (Leinster) 900
A.D..................................................
7
Map
of Queens Co., Ireland,
1828............................................
8-9
Chart,
Descendants of Lorcan 910
A.D...................................
10-11
Chart,
Descendants of Cathaor Mor, High
King of
Ireland.......12-13
1.
Roots are Deep in the Past
....................................................17
2.
Ireland's Golden Age
..............................................................21
3.
Wild Geese of
Limerick...........................................................31
4.
A Land Watered by
Tears........................................................47
5.
Blood of Erin in Our Soil
.........................................................65
6.
Michael Reagan Puts Down Roots in
Illinois............................75
Bibliography...............................................................................
90
Index..........................................................................................
91
Kilkenny
Castle Kilkenny
Courtesy Bord
Failte
Colony
Castle, Co. Offaly (Co.Kings)
Courtesy Bord
Failte
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