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Notes and Musings

• Day 3, Part 2: Three Hours on My Knees with the Coughlans

  October 4, 2026

• Day 3, Part 1: All the Lies About the Area: The Bus to Clonmacnoise

  October 4, 2026

• Day 2, Part 2: “People Usually Only Spend Fifteen Minutes There”

  October 3, 2026

• Day 2, Part 1: The Farm Drive-By

  October 3, 2026

• Day One: Heathrow to Athlone, and the Brennan Side of the River

  October 2, 2026

• Bridget Hannigan Downer’s In Laws Wrote A Book

  October 1, 2026

• “He Did Not Mind the Storm’s Whistle”

  September 19, 2026

• The Farm at Clonfinlough

  September 13, 2026

• Who Married John Francis Hannigan?

  September 7, 2026

• The 354 Sheridans, and the segment that finally pointed home

  August 25, 2026

• Seven small matches, BanyanDNA and Patrick’s sister Catherine

  August 19, 2026

• Four surnames and not one was hers

  August 19, 2026

• Before the DNA: how I chased Bridget Sheridan

  August 19, 2026

• The Two Marys of Marlborough, and a shot at the wall

  August 6, 2026

• Losing Clonfinlough, and Getting It Back

  July 24, 2026

• The witness at the wedding: hunting Anne Sheridan

  July 6, 2026

• Seven thousand people, and I could not tell you why half of them were there

  July 1, 2026