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I am speaking with my poppa about his immigration to the US from Ireland in the 1960s

Aunty Elsa’s immigration story.

On January 4th 2023, Luci Greisman (15) interviewed her grandmother, Alaina Braxton (68). Alaina Braxton was born in 1956 and during this interview, Alaina Braxton shared her love of travel, talked about immigrating to the United States from Ireland, and...

When my mother, Alice, immigrated here as a child she didn't know how to speak English which was hard to make friends because she didn't speak their language. As my mom grew up her job has caused many bad events...

Letting Me Irish Show by Andrea Neely Swan

this was my grandpa telling us about his life

I talked with my grandfather who I call pop pop about his life. He told me about our family heritage and his life growing up. He also talked about my dad, who is his son. It was a very good...

I interviewed my mother about her parents, her childhood, and one of her most favorite people—her grandmother.

This interview is about my Grandfather’s experience in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. He goes in depth on what some of his experiences were and how it affected him.

Former spouses and longtime friends Claire Byrne (65) and Wes Andrews (66) reminisce on their personal history, their migration to the United States and its impact on their family, and the role that Innisfree Village has played in their lives.

Carmel Keane (22) shares a story she's written with new friend and StoryCorps facilitator Shira Smillie (26), reflecting on her grandparents, her connection to Ireland, and the way photographs can carry memories.

In this interview, conducted May 2022 virtually in Corpus Christi Texas and Lowell Ohio, Caroline Wetz (15) interviews her grandmother Gitti Wetz (77) about her experiences immigrating to the US from Germany and living in different places with her husband...

Theresa Taken (72) talks with her daughter Emily Taken-Vertz (28) about growing up in rural Iowa, being adventurous, going to college, traveling the world, and becoming a lawyer after being a social worker in the South Bronx.

My interview

We discussed childhood, parenthood and ancestry.

School interview

Stories of what it was like when my grandmother was a kid and how it’s like for her now.

We talked about my poppop's life in Ireland and about his life in America.

My great grandma talks about how she used grit and perseverance through her life as a refugee from the Chinese civil war and her life when she was a child

What NOLS means to me

I interview my Irish uncle

my uncle Howard just came back from China, and is willing to share his story.

I interviewed my dad about his childhood

John Harkin describes some of the things that he learned growing up as a child. What his role in the house was and how he learned to be a mechanic. His experiences of going back and fourth between America and...

Gary Terry was in the Army for 2 years in Vietnam. This is his story of the experience he had before, during, and after the war.