Tara Cronin
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Newtons Lost Notebook
A few year ago my father died from self inflicted emotional wounds after years of suffering. I was too grief stricken at the time to look through his possessions. Until recently I had believed the Cronin’s were just ordinary people from Ireland, but perhaps there are no ordinary people. Sure he had told me stories of his father who had been a boxer in the Bronx who raised money for the Irish Republican Army during the 30s. But this was as much as I knew about the Cronin family other than my sweet and goofy aunts and uncles. But reading through his possessions I noticed a black notebook which I assumed was a forgery — it was signed Is. Newton. I found a original hand written signature of Newton’s signature, and to my astonishment, it was an exact match of the signature found in the black notebook my father hand handed down to me without any description. It was placed in the same box with his fathers and my grandfathers other possessions — a loafers hat and an Irish bobby stick for bashing in heads as my dad used to say. After digging through some genealogical records, I found that the Newtons married into the Cronin’s just before the potato famine started. Both Cronin’s and Newtons continue to have a strong presence in Ireland. These notebooks may hint at how the Newtons gained such a presence in Ireland.
By Tara Cronin3 years ago in Futurism
Newtons Lost Notebook
A few year ago my father died from self inflicted emotional wounds after years of suffering. I was too grief stricken at the time to look through his possessions. Until recently I had believed the Cronin’s were just ordinary people from Ireland, but perhaps there are no ordinary people. Sure he had told me stories of his father who had been a boxer in the Bronx who raised money for the Irish Republican Army during the 30s. But this was as much as I knew about the Cronin family other than my sweet and goofy aunts and uncles. But reading through his possessions I noticed a black notebook which I assumed was a forgery — it was signed Is. Newton. I found a original hand written signature of Newton’s signature, and to my astonishment, it was an exact match of the signature found in the black notebook my father hand handed down to me without any description. It was placed in the same box with his fathers and my grandfathers other possessions — a loafers hat and an Irish bobby stick for bashing in heads as my dad used to say. After digging through some genealogical records, I found that the Newtons married into the Cronin’s just before the potato famine started. Both Cronin’s and Newtons continue to have a strong presence in Ireland. These notebooks may hint at how the Newtons gained such a presence in Ireland.
By Tara Cronin3 years ago in Futurism