Bridget Doyle (1928–2014), Nana, left a farm in County Mayo for Boston in 1949 with one suitcase, worked as a nurse's aide for thirty years, and raised six children on the second floor of the triple-decker on Adams Street.
Early life
The eldest girl of eight on a small farm. She cut turf, milked, and walked four miles to school.
Family
She met Michael Doyle at a dance in Dudley Street in 1951. Six children, and a kitchen that was never empty.
Stories about them
“She baked soda bread every single day and never once wrote it down.” — her granddaughter Aoife