Grammy's Pictures: (24) Bronco Bucker

The Bronco Bucker was shown in Tubac and had a price of $100.  It is owned by Tom Cajacob.

Grammy's Pictures: (23)Sunflowers

This small 9 x 12 painting is   owned by Kristen Cajacob.

Grammy included the following note on the back:

SUNFLOWERS

Original painted by Claude Oscar Monet in 1881.  He was the chief painter of the impressionist movement.  His impressionist technique gives the sunflowers a living, naturalistic effect. Monet loved and painted flowers thru his life.

Grammy's Pictures: (22) The Columbia River

This painting was a wedding present to Greg and me.  It is hanging in my basement.  Some years ago we swapped out the frame for a natural wood one.  The result is striking against the dark paneled walls.

Grammy's Pictures (21) Gig Harbor

Mother painted several pictures of Gig Harbor, though she was never able to visit our home there.  Her inspiration came from our letters and from the photographs we sent. This one of fishing boats was done, I believe, for Colleen.  it hangs now in the office room Tim has dedicated to his father's memorabilia.

Grammy's Pictures (20) Desert Flora

This Painting was signed by Grammy on 7 Nov 1958.  It is in the home of Tim Madden framed it is 30 by 24, the painting itself is 27 by 21.  There are notes on the back detailing the plants.

Derrycoosh Revisited

In 1937 Patrick Walsh of Derrycoosh wrote about the district he lived in, part of the national schools project that is found on Duchas.ie.  He noted that there were thirty-five houses with a population of one hundred and sixty eight.

I've read many of the student essays on the website, this is perhaps the best description of an area that I've encountered.


Pictures of the Walsh family farm in Derrycoosh 2017.

Derrycoosh is in Islandeady Parish.  In 1841 there were 8463 (4323m, 4140f) residents in the parish.  In 1851 the number had shrunk to 4698 (2281m, 2417f).  The number of families shrank from 1532 to 901.



In 1841 68.6% lived in 4th class housing, In 1851 only 16.5% were still in 4th class housing.  Heads of households in agriculture went from 77.9% to 72.3%.  Literacy made little change 16.1% of males in 1841 only increased to 19.6%.  For females the numbers were 2.2% and 4.9%.

Islandeady was the parish of not only our Walsh family in Derrycoosh, but also the Geraghty family in Carrownaclea.  Both immediate families seem to have survived the great famine.  They emigrated with the famine of the 1880s.

Derrycoosh - Patrick Walsh 1937

Statistics from the Irish Famine Project led by Alan Fernihough of Queen's University Belfast

Grammy's Pictures (19) The Blue Vase

This small picture belongs to Jessica