The Doyle family, written down
A triple-decker in Dorchester, soda bread every morning, and a fiddle that crossed in a pillowcase.
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Bridget Doyle
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…
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The Triple-Decker on Adams Street
Three flats stacked one on another in Dorchester, each with its porch — the Doyles on the second floor from 1955 to 2001, cousins above, a family from Cape Verde below who became family too.
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Nana's Brown Soda Bread
Brown soda bread, baked every morning by Nana in a kitchen in Dorchester exactly the way her mother baked it in Mayo — a cross cut deep in the top, to let the fairies out.
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Bonfire Night, 1962
The midsummer bonfire the Mayo families of Dorchester lit every June on the vacant lot behind Adams Street, as they had at home — and 1962, the year it got out of hand.
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Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle (1925–1990), Grandad, drove a streetcar in Boston for twenty-eight years, and played the fiddle he brought from Mayo at every wake, wedding and Saturday night.
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Grandad's Fiddle
How Michael Doyle's fiddle crossed the Atlantic in a pillowcase in 1948 — and why he would never have it mended.
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