Ancestry.com offers immigrant interviews to listen to for free. I could spend all day listening! Here is one with a lady named Lillian Doran Cavanaugh from Ballymore, County Westmeath.
http://ancstry.me/1g4L7RG
I found this amusing in some spots, such as when she was asked if she knew how her parents met. She says she doesn't know: "They don't talk that way over there."
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| This may have been Lillian Doran Cavanaugh's church in Ireland |
Lillian and her sister Peg departed Ireland at Queenstown for America where their uncles awaited them.
At about 27:09 on the recording Lillian talks about her arrival in America.
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