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Harsh winter weather leads to severe famine.
On March 2 1875, the medical officer of the Athenry Dispensary District, Dr WJ Leonard, wrote an urgent letter to the Local Government Board (LGB ) in Dublin, regretting to report a ‘very bad case of smallpox’ which had come into his district the previous day. He briefly described how it was discovered:
Capt. Jim Murray, USN, graduated from Fordham University in 1984 with a B.A. in history and was commissioned through Officer Candidate School in 1985.
Bridget Murray through the years. In Galway in 1935, Bridie 11, with her much-loved, and much-traveled bicycle. In New York in 1942: Bridie at 18. On September 9, 2016: Still beautiful, a radiant Bridie on her 92nd birthday. A profile of Bridget H. Murray, my mother. By Eileen Murray Bridget Harriet Collier filled the world with many things since she came into it on Tuesday, September 9, 1924: humor, kindness, love. Perhaps the only thing she was short on was complaints about the hardships she faced while raising her family. It’s why her birthday remains a day of celebration and remembranc...