Janet Nolan, PhD, “When Harry Met Mary Ann: An Irish Family in an American City”
Janet Nolan, PhD, “When Harry Met Mary Ann: An Irish Family in an American City”
In April 1888, teen-ager Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown, outside the city of Cork, waiting to board a ship bound for Boston. Her parents had died a few months before, making Mary Ann and her older brother John the only members of the family remaining in Ireland. Older sister Nellie