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Jan26

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Where in the World is Uncle Joe?

Posted in: Czech, Photo

While scanning our family photos, I always kind of wondered where this one was taken. On the right is my Great-Uncle Josef Simanek, and he is standing with a woman in front of a beautiful building.

The family came from a village in Czechoslovakia and I believe he later lived in Prague, so I always assumed it was something from that city.

Today I happened upon it and recalled that there was some writing on the back of the photo. Since it is in Czech I broke out The Google Translate and tried to read the writing. I tried many variations of the words, and didn’t really get anywhere beyond the first phrase:

“Kostel sv. Marka celý s mramoru”
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Jan24

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Behind the Stone

Posted in: Ireland, Photo

A favorite photo I originally found on a Ferbane, Offaly, Ireland website that is no more.

Ferbane was the town near my grandmother’s birth in Creggan, Kings County.
The more I look at this photo, the more it reminds me of The Graveyard Book by @neilhimself

Thanks to Tom’s comment below, this photo is likely from Clonmacnoise Monastic Site, which is northwest of Ferbane.
Dec30

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New Bike, 1941

Posted in: New York, Photo

I thought that I’d be able to get a few ideas written down during my Christmas vacation – wrong!

In lieu of that, a another favorite photo post. Below is my Dad, Mike Tierney on May 29, 1941 with what looks to be a new bike. He’s got a River Phoenix thing going on in this photo…
Dec16

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Sister Attracta Photo Collage

Posted in: Ireland, Photo

I have had absolutely no time to write the last week or so, so I will show my face with a quick photo collage I whipped together while waiting for servers to reboot…

My grandmother’s Egan family was all from near Ferbane in County Offaly (King’s) Ireland. Her sister Kathleen went to Dublin and became a nurse and joined the church, later going to China and Hong Kong working with Caritas helping children and others in hospitals.

She took the religious name of Sister Attracta, and the name Attracta has continued on in the family one of nieces being named after her and my sisters both taking it as their confirmation names.

The first photo is a crop from a beautiful one of her and several sisters, the second I believe is from her time in Dublin. The third, I’m told was on the cover of a Catholic magazine, and the last two are from later in life: visiting back home in Ireland and in China. (She wrote on the rear of that last photo that the small houses in back of her on the hillside are graves.)
Nov30

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Cabinet Card: Carl Th. Meyer, Wien

Posted in: Czech, Photo

One of my favorite photos in our family album – but sadly an unknown family. As our family is Czech from the towns of Zámlyní and Předmíř I am very interested to know who from the family might have had their photo taken at Burggasse 116, Wien, Austria.

You have to love the beautiful design of the rear of this cabinet card…

For future Google searchers, a transcription of the printed text on both side of the photo are as follows:

Front of card:
C. TH. MEYER
JNH d. KUNST u. Verlagsanstalt
u. Photogr.Atelier, Else”
WIEN
VII.Burggasse 116.

Rear of card:
Carl Th. Meyer
Atelier, Elsa
Wien
VII/3 Burgasse No 116

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