![]() ![]() And I called the book Galway Bay because she was born in Bearna. ![]() Your great-great-grandmother was Honora in the novel? So we’re on the Irish bus, here comes the conductor with his machine, and we’re looking through our purses, I said, “Excuse me,” or something and he said, “Would you ever relax, girls, you’re home.” You were supposed to know where you were going and what the fare was. I had had trouble in London with the bus conductors because they had this little machine that went “clank” and they would come to you. and we got on a city bus that took you into Dublin proper. I was traveling with another Irish-American woman. That was kind of a beginning, but in 1969 I made my first trip to Ireland. I didn’t have a real sense of what Ireland was or the fact that it was a real place. But I realized that being Irish to me was about John Kennedy and Notre Dame. ![]() Growing up in Chicago, I was extremely proud of being Irish. I sat down with Mary Pat conveniently at Irish America’s offices recently to talk. ![]()
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