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Education Pathways (5) B

Our previous post described the education pathway of Adelaide O’Laughlin, Meadville, Pennsylvania as she transferred from a teaching to a nursing career in the 1890’s. During that decade, nursing was undergoing the gradual transformation from amateur-care to a professional-care approach. … Continue reading

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Education Pathways (5) A:

Since the beginning of the 2020’s nursing and medical-care have taken center-stage with regards to the public health features of medicine. The following two posts – Education Pathways; (5) A and (5) B focus on the nursing career of Adelaide O’Laughlin, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA. Adelaide … Continue reading

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Education Pathways (4)

This post continues the series on Education Pathways providing focus within two different centuries, showing how a number of Irish students with the support of their families, developed pathways towards acquiring the benefits of education, beyond the regular primary education. … Continue reading

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Education Pathways (3)

Continuing with a third entry on the Education Pathways series. Brian OLoughlin, now residing at Melbourne provides us with a glimpse of his journey to and from school, at a time when the term Amazon, defined a very long river located within South … Continue reading

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Education Pathways (2)

Continuing with the series on Education Pathways.  This article was compiled by Catherine Henningsen, Adelaide, South Australia. John Patrick was born to parents Michael and Mary Florence (McGee) O’Loughlin at Brompton an inner-city suburb of Adelaide, South Australia on the … Continue reading

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Education Pathways

By Ben Bares & Kathleen O’Laughlin This blog-post begins a number of posts connected to the central role of education which was adopted by various clan members, while also promoting a sense of cultural identity for those generations which developed … Continue reading

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Clan Travel Journals of 1849

As much of this website contains records of the written variety, these notes aptly commemorate three journals which were compiled in 1849. Bryan Fergus, Donogh and Terence OLoghlin maintained their individual journals through their departure from the port of Limerick to … Continue reading

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‘Big John’ – Wisconsin

John O’Laughlin was born in 1856 in the Village of St. Peter, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA John’s parents, Andrew O’Laughlin and Ellen O’Gorman, departed County Clare in 1846 and settled in St. Peter near Andrew’s four brothers in … Continue reading

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A Sports Bag for Cricket and Golf!

This image transports us to Lahinch, County Clare. The owner of this Donogh O’Loghlin bag, participated at the recent Cricket competition held at Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia during February 2017. Donogh OLoghlin’s shop known as Sue’s Place is situated on main street, … Continue reading

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