Part of the story: These are my great-grandparents, John and Mary Healy, in Ennistymon, Co. Clare, ca. 1911.  John Healy was a teacher of Latin and Agriculture. My grandfather Thomas is not here. He had already emigrated to New York, as had most of his 14 siblings; that is, those who didn't ship out for Australia. It would be a brief, hard 15 years before he died. If you have read Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes or seen the movie A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you get the idea.