My Grandmother Ellen Mullady Research Paper

My grandmother, Ellen “Eileen” Mary Mulleady was born December 8th 1934 in Cloonkeen, Co Roscommon, Ireland as the 3rd oldest of a family of 8 children. She lived with her 7 siblings, mother, father, and grandmother. Her father was a farmer and raised cattle, and her mother worked outside a lot, so her grandmother took care of her and her siblings most of the time. Her grandmother would hum tunes for them to dance to and make 7 loaves of bread a day. Eileen had to do daily chores, such as bringing in turf from the bog, picking vegetables, and milking the cows. Her family had a fire going at all the time and used it to cook on. Every Sunday they would cook a big fry before going to church on her family’s pony and trap.
She started going to primary school when she was 4 years old and walked 2 miles everyday to get to school. At school she wrote lots of essays and practice handwriting on stone slates. For secondary school she went to a boarding school in Loughrea that was run by the nuns and while there she said she was very lonely but got through it and move to Dublin for 2 years to work as a telephone operator for the civil service. After that she traveled around

The trip took 6 days and she had lots of fun on the boat dancing and singing. She arrived to New York on Veterans Day and went to live with her Aunt and 7 cousins that she had never met before in Hartford, Connecticut. The day after she arrived in Connecticut her Aunt brought her into town and got a job at a traveler’s insurance company. Among one of the reasons she came to America was to follow her boyfriend who had settled in Boston. She visited him a few times but eventually broke up with him and started going to the dances at the Irish Club where she met Richard Maloney, my grandfather. In September 1957 she married Richard.In 1960 Eileen left work and had her first child, Maggie, a year after Rick was