Annie Crowley was one of eleven children born in the farmhouse at
Kilnahone, outside the village of Ballygarvan in the County Cork.
There were nearly twenty-four years between the oldest and youngest
of the Crowley boys and girls, Their father died a few weeks after
young Billy was born, and Jack the eldest emigrated to Australia
not long after. Annie was six years old at the time, and a pupil at
Ballygarvan National School, where the English language and English
history were drilled into Irish children.
Then came the First World War, and Mary Crowley went off to become
a nurse in England. Annie was needed at home then, to take care of
the house and the younger children. She loved the farm work, but
soon enough she became a rebel against the English crown, in the
fight for independence that began at Easter Week in 1916. The
struggle ended in a bitter civil war, as diehard Republicans fought
the compromising leaders willing to accept an Irish Free State with
token allegiance to London. Thousands of veterans of the Irish
Republican Army emigrated to America, including her sweetheart Pat
Forde from Ballinhassig. Thus Annie came to America, never again to
see her mother or siblings, or the farm at Kilnahone.
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