Eight Generations Revisited

Eight Generations Revisited continues the

story of our family published in 2011 in

Eight Generations and adds more than

two centuries of details in the lives of our

ancestors in Erin, Lietuva and America.

Eight Generations Revisited leads from

nineteenth-century huts built of wood

and thatch to the teeming tenements

of twentieth-century New Jersey and

from turf fires and lime kilns to home

computers and the Internet. The story

leads from naive superstitions taught in

hedge schools to graduate degrees from

renowned universities.

There are no kings or queens in the story,

only a chronology of princely people,

none of whom escaped the events of

their time. The townlands and villages

and cities where our ancestors lived are

places enmeshed in the history of their

time. Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the

trenches of World War One, the Great

Depression, the destroyers of World War

Two, the social anarchy of the 1960s, the

nuclear-powered carriers that carry war

to our enemies-the story of our family

occurs in this tumultuous context.

Eight Generations Revisited leads from

people born before the American

Revolution and it concludes-but it doesn't

conclude. The story that commences in

these pages progresses from the finite

past to the illimitable future that awaits

youngsters who, with God's grace, will greet

the dawn of the twenty-second century.