ALBANY
ST PATRICK'S
PARADE

Went to the parade today. Wore
my grandfather Michael J Sullivan's
Bonanza Local 235 WFM ribbon.

He wore that ribbon 113 years ago
in the Nevada mining camp of
Rhyolite, now a ghost town in the
desert on the edge of Death Valley.

A long way from his native
Inchinteskin Townland in Eyeries
Parish of the Beara Peninsula of
County Cork.

Mike lies in St Patrick's Cemetery
Butte, Montana, along with Great
Grandfather Sean Harrington A Buaile
and so many other relations from
Beara who went West to the miner's
frontier. RIP.

                                  Joe Sullivan