Ireland — Friends & Family

  • John Lynch, publican in Doonaha
  • Liscrona – Maria Bellairs
  • Liscrona – dinner party. Maria at the foot. Back of John Lynch’s head.
  • Liscrona – downstairs dining room. Maria lighting candles.
  • Liscrona dinner party
  • Liscrona – After dinner, Mal and friends
  • Liscrona – Mal and Maria, dinner with friends
  • Pat Bellairs and her father Mal Bellairs.
  • Maria in the garden with a view of the countryside.
  • Liscrona. Buffet style at kitchen pass-through.
  • Liscrona. Nora Galvin and John Lynch.
  • Mal raising a toast. Slainte!
  • Liscrona. Jo’s Garden. John Miller, Gwen Miller, and Maria Bellairs at the garden wall.
  • Liscrona Garden. John Miller tidying.
  • Maria with a young friend.
  • Mal and Maria Bellairs. Farm fields in the background.
  • Gwen Miller, John Miller, her husband, Maria Bellairs. During an Ireland visit.
  • Liscrona – Interior decorating. Mal offering advice.
  • Mal at Glasheen Beach
  • Mal Bellairs in the archway of a ruin.
  • Liscrona hay stack. On a break.
  • Liscrona House hay field. Maria and friend.
  • Liscrona Rose Garden – Mal tending the rose.
  • Liscrona Visitors – Gwen and John Miller
  • Liscrona – Maria raising a toast
  • Liscrona – Maria gathering for one of her beautiful flower arrangements
  • Not sure where this is….but don’t look down!
  • Maria wearing Wellingtons and holding flowers
  • Kilkee beach activities
  • Nora Galvin and unidentified man
  • Maria in the back garden at Liscrona
  • Pat Bellairs and Maria Bellairs, Carrigaholt, 1995 – the year Liscrona was sold.
  • John Lynch
  • Kim and Neal’s wedding. Father Duffy (center) officiated. Nuns on each side sang for the ceremony.
  • Kim’s wedding in Ireland. Chip Esterly on the left, Pat Bellairs on the right. Kim and Neal kissing.
  • From the left, clockwise — Dave Meskill, Maria, John Lynch, Dad, Adelaide Meskill. Mal’s family friends from Wilmette visit Liscrona.
  • John Lynch with a little one.
  • Maria in Ireland.