IRISHMAN GOES HOME
FOUR CHILDREN AND SUITCASE. James McEvaddy, aged 36, a Brooklyn tramcar conductor, took his four children out for a walk in New York recently. When he arrived in Ireland about a week later he said: "It was only a matter of about 3000 miles. I don’t think there is anything to make a fuss about.” His luggage comprised a perambulator for the baby and one suitcase of the size used for weekend trips. Mr McEvaddy wanted to go home to Swinford, County Mayo, where he has a farm, but his wife did not, and so, failing to persuade her, he thought he would just take the children over to Ireland—“to have a look at it.” “I have done nothing wrong,” he said. “I bought my wife a ticket to come, but she refused point-blank. We were brought up in the same district in County Mayo, and as we were only making ends meet with my salary as a tramcar conductor in Brooklyn I decided it would be just as well making ends meet here in Ireland on our own farm. We could be so happy in Ireland together. The only way I could solve the difficulty was to come myself with the children and hope that my wife would come after us.”'
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Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 3
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