DECLARATION OF INTENTION - MCMAHON

Courtesy of
Christina Hunt... who reveals another great source of information.

Wish this was one of my McMahons.

Thank you, Christina.

http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/

Subject: [IRL-CLARE] Declaration of Intention - McMAHON

I had a chance to looks at some Declarations of Intention a couple of days ago.
These records were the first step to US Citizenship after 1906 when
naturalization became standardized. These are all for 1915 and are all I have.
They are for Kings County NY which is Brooklyn.
This is the only one out of over 100 that was for Clare.

No. 48914
Name: Daniel McMAHON
Age: 39
Occupation: Paper Handler
Description:
Color:White
Complexion: Fair
Height: 6'
Weight:224
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Marks: none
Where Born: County Clare, Ireland
Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1875
Resides: 325 - 59 St., Brooklyn, NY
Emigrated from: Queenstown, Ireland
Vessel: unknown
Foreign Residence was: County Clare Ireland
Arrived at Port of: New York
Date of Arrival:16 Apr 1896
Date Sworn: 12 Mar 1915

A SNAP IN TIME

Who would have thought that one photo of a young boy would lead to a world of fame? Michael Kenneally has been seen the world over, though he's never left home...

Famous photographer captured Co Clare's rural life in iconic images

New award-winning documentary about Dorothea Lange to be screened in Ireland

By

DARA KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, April 1, 2012, 7:42 AM

Michael Kenneally in his home today near Inagh.

At 81, Michael Kenneally, has rarely left his native Co Clare and has never been out of the country, but a famous picture of him as a young man has traveled all over the world.

Snapped by American photographer Dorothea Lange in 1954 for 'Life' magazine, Mr Kenneally, from Inagh, Co Clare, clearly remembers the day the photograph was taken.

"She was passing on the road and she came up and just asked me if she could take my picture," he told the Irish Independent.

Mr Kenneally, who was 24 at the time, was living in the family home with his mother and "doing a bit of farming."

After he married his wife Bridie, the couple moved into the house and raised their three sons -- Gerald, Pat and Michael.

Mr Kenneally was just one of a number of subjects photographed by Dorothea Lange for 'Life' magazine. The photographer, most famous for her work during The Great Depression, took more than 2,500 pictures of rural life in Co Clare, over 100 of which were published in the magazine. More images were featured in Gerry Mullins' 1996 book 'Dorothea Lange's Ireland.' The book reached number three on the bestsellers list at the time it was published.

Lange is now the subject of an award-winning documentary entitled 'Child of Giants.' The film is directed by Tom Ropelewski and is about his father-in-law Daniel Dixon and Daniel's famous parents, Lange and the painter Maynard Dixon.

Mary Leyden Kinnavane, 68, also recalls being photographed by Lange.

"I remember her well," Mrs Kinnavane, the daughter of a publican in Ennis, recalls. "She asked my two sisters to step aside because I was the plainest of the three and she wanted my picture."

To read the full story, please go to

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Famous-photographer-captured-Co-Clares-rural-life-in-iconic-images-145393155.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1105/1224307097268.html

Ticker tape of world's first wireless broadcast for auction

The Irish Times - Saturday, November 5, 2011

MICHAEL PARSONS

Marconi's telegraphed reports from the Kingstown Regatta of 1898 were the first in history. Now they are going under the hammer

ONE OF the biggest scoops in Irish newspaper history involved the Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) Regatta in the summer of 1898. The results of the yacht races were not especially interesting, but the technology used to transmit them was revolutionary.

Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor of wireless telegraphy, was commissioned by TP Gill, editor of the Dublin Daily Express newspaper, to report the results of the races "direct from the high seas". The newspaper chartered a yacht, The Huntstress , for Marconi, who set up his equipment and a mast on board. He followed the regatta 10 miles out into Dublin Bay, to Kish Lighthouse, and, on July 20th, 1898, sent back the first-ever press report by wireless telegraphy to a land station in the harbourmaster's office. This report was printed on a Morse tape machine, decoded and telegraphed to the newspaper's newsdesk.

Two lengths of this original Morse-code ticker tape, measuring 24in and 19in, framed along with Marconi's visiting card and a photograph, will go under the hammer at Mealy's two-day rare-books auction in Dublin next month.

Auctioneer George F Mealy says that the Kingstown Regatta report "was the first use of wireless telegraph for a commercial, journalistic or sporting purpose; an international first of enormous significance".

Mealy has assigned the item a pre-sale estimate of €15,000 to €20,000. It was in the personal collection of TP Gill, who died in 1931, and is being sold by a descendant who inherited it.

Writers and sub-editors everywhere will be amused to know that the breakthrough technology's inaugural message contained a typo. The strip of Morse records the first words transmitted as: "HERE A WIRE FORM [sic] MR MARCONI."

Marconi, who was born in Bologna in 1825, had strong Irish connections. His mother was Annie Jameson, a member of the whiskey-distilling family of Daphne Castle, Co Wexford, and his first wife was Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of Edward Donough O'Brien, the 14th Baron Inchiquin of Co Clare.

Marconi established transatlantic wireless stations at Crookhaven, Co Cork, and near Clifden in Connemara. His inventions were credited with saving many lives following the sinking of Titanic in 1912. Two radio operators on the doomed ship were employees of his company and a report into the disaster claimed that "those who have been saved, have been saved through one man, Mr Marconi . . . and his marvellous invention".

Marconi, who was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909, died in 1937.

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The two-day auction of Marconi memorabilia will take place at the D4 Berkeley Hotel in Dublin on December 13th and 14th