My paternal grandparents divorced before I was born. Like many with Irish heritage I thought my family had immigrated during the infamous Potato Famine. Unbeknownst to me; before my father's generation, each side had descended strictly from Irish families and we'd been in America before the U.S. Civil War.

My paternal grandparents divorced before I was born. Like many with Irish heritage I thought my family had immigrated during the infamous Potato Famine. Unbeknownst to me; before my father's generation, each side had descended strictly from Irish families and we'd been in America before the U.S. Civil War.