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Author Anne McLoughlin tells Owen Ryan how family tree research brought her to Darragh and to America RESEARCHING her ancestry brought Anne McLoughlin to Darragh and to America, and the stories she heard has also informed her trilogy of novels, the second of which, Lives Without End has been published recently. Much of the novel is set in Clare, where Anne’s great grandmother came from. “I’ve been writing for a good few years and I was doing research into my family tree. I knew a branch of it was down in Co. Clare, my great grandmother was from outside Lissycasey, in Darragh.” The third instalment will be out in 2022. “The third one, I have it written and delivered to Poolbeg Press and it’s coming out next spring.” Anne’s great grandmother was an O’Keeffe, and she says there are relatives of hers still living in the Darragh area now, while she learned that she had links to America also. “My …
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