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The memorial at the grave of Bridget and James McDermott, Eskra, Northern Ireland. The provider of the statuary and faux flowers remains a mystery still to be unraveled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In genealogical lingo, the family tree is depicted as spreading\nupward, the branches holding the knowledge of past and present generations. As\na metaphor, though, I prefer to look not to the branches but to the unseen\nroots for the strength of the tree above. Roots provide the nurturing\nfoundation and even \u2013 if I may borrow the concept of Peter Wohlleben in his\nbook \u201cThe Hidden Life of Trees\u201d \u2013 communicate with one another for protection\nand safety. It\u2019s intriguing to think of all those tangled family roots that\nmake up each of us today supporting one another generation to generation and\ncountry to country. There is allure, too, in the very hiddenness of roots. I\nthink it is this quality of rootedness, more than any other, that draws me in\nto a deeper reflection and understanding of what it means to have a \u201cfamily tree,\u201d\nto be connected over time and space to the ancestors. Even in this modern day\nwhen a cheek swab can often unlock untold DNA stories, not everything can be\nknown. So many of us are made of composite parts, a bit of this, a bit of that,\nwith ancestors who are today only names on a computer screen or on some yellowed\nfamily document, and not much more. Who were they really, these rooted people who\nhad families or not, fulfilling lives or not, foibles certainly, and who possessed\na piece of DNA that connects them over the decades to us today? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just recently, I traveled from my home in County Clare to the\nsmall \u201cparish\u201d of Eskra, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, where lived at least four\ngenerations of McDermotts but likely more. I could not tell you if my great-great-great\ngrandmother Bridget McLaughlin McDermott loved to dance, or had a sweet tooth,\nor had a way with animals. This kind of intimacy is lost to the mists of time \u2013\nbut is nonetheless in the fiber of her unseen root that nurtures my Irish\nfamily tree. I can give her a name and probable occupation \u2013 farmer\u2019s wife \u2013 which\nis more than many people with more dispersed or more tenuous roots can do. I can\nvisit the gravesite where she and her husband James McDermott are laid. By the\ntime their grandson Patrick was heading into middle age, he and some or perhaps\nall of his brood of 11 children left Ireland for good to settle in Chicago. One\nof those kids was my grandfather, Thomas John. I can not know if my love of\nchocolate or, more likely, my sense of humor came from these Irish forebears.\nBut I do today have a greater insight into the probable lives of my Eskra\nancestors than I had before my recent visit there. And if you\u2019ll bear with me,\nI\u2019d like to share some thoughts with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned that\nmine is a legacy tied to the land, that all-important Irish land that has been\nthe lifeblood of this country for thousands of years. Land does not only mean land\nfor farming, although it means just that. I have been reading a book called\n\u201cThirty-two Words for Field,\u201d written by an Irish author who takes justifiable\npride in knowing the intricacies and lost legacies of the Irish language. He\ntells us that there is the word geamhar, a field of corn-grass; tuar, a field\nfor cattle at night; reidhlean, a field for games or dancing; cathairin, a\nfield with fairy dwellings in it; colpa, the size of a piece of land measured\nby its grazing potential. And on, word after specific word tied to the land.\nThat\u2019s how important it is to the Irish. Just as important as the land on which\nyou labor is the \u201ctownland\u201d in which you live. A townland is a small region\nwithin a larger region, and is a peculiar Gaelic concept, found only in Ireland\nand parts of Scotland. Townlands were formalized in church records as early as\nthe 12th<\/sup> century and for this reason, are listed as being in \u201cparishes.\u201d\nToday, there are more than 61,000 townlands islandwide. This townland\ndelineation is very important. I have a friend who lives in the townland of\nKilleen in the parish as well as the town of Corofin, and it matters to her. In\nthe Eskra parish from where my family hails, it would appear that McDermotts\nsettled in at least three townlands \u2013 Mount Stewart, Beltany and Tulnafoile, this\nlast where my grandfather was born. But I dare not say that aloud until I know more\nthan I do now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mine is a\nlegacy tied, too, to religion and religious intolerance, and how small\nindignities can just punish a person. I spent the better part of a day in Eskra\nwith a very kind man my age who was born and raised there. While he helped me trace\na root in my family tree, Seamus also graciously shared his own story with me. In\na matter-of-fact voice that held neither anger nor regret, he told of a life\ndivided into Catholic and Protestant worlds. Catholic farmers were allotted\nonly upland acreage, more rocky, less grassy, less hospitable than the rolling lowland\nfields and richer soils of the Protestants. He talked about a grinding poverty\nthat really only abated in 1970s when greater economic prosperity burgeoned\nacross Ireland. This was the way, he said: \u201cWell, you didn\u2019t get a job.\nAnd you didn\u2019t get a house, there were so many things you didn\u2019t get because\nyou were Catholic.\u201d Discrimination \u201cwas something that was never talked about\nbut it was always known.\u201d My ancestors lived generations before than Seamus,\nbut if you know the history of Ireland at all, you know it has been one of disenfranchisement.\nAnd Northern Ireland retained its own peculiar brand of this. It is no\nsurprise, then, that discrimination and poverty fueled by the aftermath of The\nGreat Hunger were the likely causes that my great-grandfather left his native\nsoil for Chicago. It is instructive for me, a white American with all the\nunearned privileges accorded me, to remember that my Catholic forebears were\nnot treated with the dignity and worth they deserved. I descend from a minority\nclan, and it is particularly important now to consider that. I think it would\nnot take much for any of us to find burrowed roots of intolerance toward our\nancestors not that many generations back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mine is\nalso a legacy of emigration, as those from my branch of the McDermotts made\ntheir way \u201cacross the pond\u201d to a better life more than 150 years ago. In this,\nthey were hardly alone. Between 1851, just after the end of The Great Hunger,\nand 1921, 4.5 million Irish residents left home, mostly headed to the US. This\nwould have included my grandfather, who arrived in Chicago as an 11-year-old around\n1890. And it is a legacy that very much continues until the present day. Over\nand over again, I meet mothers and fathers whose grown children have moved\noverseas — predominantly to the United States or Australia, the former British\npenal colony which continues to have strong ties to Ireland. Yet kismet! Thanks\nto Seamus, and since confirmed by my sister Diane, I learned that at least one\nmember of the McDermott clan stayed behind in Eskra. Jim McDermott likely was\nborn around 1888 and died in the 1970s \u2013 childless, more\u2019s the pity. My working\ntheory is that he was my grandfather\u2019s cousin, the child of his father\u2019s brother.\nSeamus remembers him well, as did others who we visited that day in Eskra. He\nwas by all accounts a quiet, gentle, very \u201ccivil\u201d man, handy mechanically, well\nread and always seen carrying a book in his back pocket. Jim, by the way, was \u201ca\nBeltany man,\u201d said one local resident, referring to his townland. But Beltany\nis just across the road from the townland of Tulnafoile, where my grandfather\nwas born, so Seamus figured that wasn\u2019t a deal-breaker. If one had been located\nacross the parish from the other, well, that would be a different matter\u2026 These\nthings are important! Diane, who visited Eskra with my parents and sister\nDoreen in the 1960s, told me later that she has a clear memory of Jim, of he\nand my dad talking family roots. This makes me happy, not least because my\nfather died just a few years later of cancer when I was just 20. Not least\nbecause there is a story of staying put as well as a story of getting out. And\ndid Jim have siblings? Seamus, who was just a kid, doesn\u2019t remember any. But\nwhat if there was a sister who took a man\u2019s name and lived close by? This tale\nwill continue to take root, I will make sure of that. Eskra is only a few hours\naway from Corofin and I will be back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, Bridget McLaughlin McDermott\u2019s memory lives on\ntoday. Her four-times great granddaughter, my own child, is named for her. And yes, my Bridget loves animals and has a\nwicked sense of humor. I like to think she received them from her namesake,\nthat Bridget McDermott\u2019s long sinewy root which took hold in our family in the\n19th<\/sup> century finds nourishment and release in her modern, very 21st<\/sup>\ncentury offspring. It\u2019s a comforting thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I hope I haven\u2019t bored you too terribly. Perhaps you\u2019ll write\na comment to this blog, and share a bit about your own roots. I declare myself\nfascinated with these stories of our past. Now, if I could just get to the\nmatter of that Austrian rug merchant on mother\u2019s side of the family\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim McDermott in front of his house in Beltany, Eskra. On his right is his wife, Minnie, on his left is a niece from the USA, Vera Flanagan. I have no Flanagan relatives that I’m aware of, but my grandfather was one of 11, after all, including females. Who knows?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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