Nolans Abroad: London

Mary Ellen, Caitlin, Ken, Claire and Nancy in London


London street directional signs


Ken and Mary Ellen


Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park


Art Exhibit at the Royal Acadany of Art


London Eye at night

Dublin Day 2

Here are Wednesday's pictures from Dublin.


Two Irish with attitude. Mary Kate and James Joyce.


Mary Kate and Molly Malone


Rich and Mary Kate


Rich is always helping...


Dublin castle--home of the English rule in Ireland


Dublin Spire, on O"Connell Street, which replaced the Nelson Statue, blown up by the IRA 50 years after the Easter Rising of 1916.


The Irish flag flies over the General Post Office.


Detail of a figure in the Famine Memorial.


Irish woman on Grafton Street, 160 years later.


Irish pub reloading in the morning.


Irish tourist pub in Temple Bar


Best pub in Dublin, with rugby shirts in the window


Modern Pub grub


Georgian Doors in Merrion Square

Nolans Abroad--Dublin

With Jack taking his BC semester abroad in Dublin and Liz taking hers in Cork, the Nolans have left Brooklyn for the week and gone for a visit. I am going to try to blog the trip every night. If the internet connections stay reliable, you might see more pictures of Dublin and London and the Nolans this week. Come visit along with us.

Rich and Mary Kate are in Dublin. Here are some pictures.



Jack, Mary Kate and Himself



Street signs in Dublin



Trinity College in Dublin. The students are trying to get the College to fly the Irish flag. The Brits are still reluctant to admit that they are not in charge. Imagine if the University of North Carolina refused to fly the American flag.



Irish student at Trinity



It's still a predominantly Catholic culture. Here's a sign outside a fish and chips shop on Shrove Tuesday



Rich, Mary Kate and I had good soup and saw a lunchtime play here and then Jack, two of his friends and we all had pizza here for dinner.



An Irish fiddler at a pub

More of Aunt Anne's Archive: Women in Easter Bonnets and Two Old Pictures of Grandma May and Grandfather John Nolan

The Nolan girls on Easter Sunday during the War years with their Easter bonnets on. This picture was sent to Jack so he could see their Easter bonnets.

Note the post WWII picture of Jack in his suit was taken at the same angle against the same wall across from 1636 10th Ave.


This picture had a date on the back of 1929. This is what Aunt Anne wrote: "It was taken at Orange Lake-I don't remember where that was, maybe one of the Nolans do. In the back row - Nellie Dunne, my Mother holding me, Uncle Bibbie, Mamie Dunne, my Father. Front row - Eileen, Jack holding Tony-the dog, and Dinny and Marge, close friends of my Mother and Father-do not remember their last name. Mammie & Nellie were my Mother's close friends growing up in the Fourth Ward and had dinner with us every Sunday afternoon at 2. Took a bus from Bay Ridge and never missed a Sunday. Neither one was married and Nellie was the one who came to walk Jack to the Draft Board the morning he reported to leave for the Army and WWll. None of us could go because we were all home crying. (A classic Nolan story) He came home 3 years later, (safe and sound as they used to say) and the party lasted 2 days on 10th Ave."
(Orange Lake is part of the town of Newburgh, NY and just northwest of West Point. Wasn't one of Grandma May's friends the pastor at Highland Falls or West Point?--J.)

Anne thinks this is from a picnic. " That is Mary and John Nolan, in the middle. Grandma May is in black because her brother Willie had died and of course John is holding her hand."( Anne told me the practice then was to wear black for a year.--J)

These three pictures are courtesy of Aunt Anne and the skills of Tommy Kane.

The Quinns: 1970 and 2003

Kathleen Anne at 6 years old
Thomas James, III, at 5 years old
Courtney Anne at 4 years old
Eileen Anne at 9 months

A few years later, Eileen, Tommy, Kathleen and Courtney

The Four Nolans in 60s and early 70s: Anne, Jack, Eileen and Rita

Milestones: LTC Bob Quinn, Elizabeth Nolan

Bob Quinn and family at his retirement from the Army

Liz Nolan, Ireland, semester abroad