OPINION: 'Holding the Certificate of Naturalization in my hand for the first time, I cried. Laying it down next to my grandfather’s certificate of citizenship here in the United States felt like the circle was complete,' writes Tucsonan Kathleen Bethel.
Like so many of us here in America, I celebrate my Irish roots on St. Patrick’s Day each year.
But here in the Southwest, we didn’t care. We enjoyed our pizza and root beer while our parents sang “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” to the tune of a player-piano at Shakey’s Pizza. I traced his progress through newspaper archives. I felt like I was there with him, watching as he first advertised his services as a moving man and then shopkeeper. I watched worriedly as he made his biggest profits as a tavern owner during Prohibition and bought “the big house” in Connecticut.
It wasn’t an easy process. I almost gave up several times along the way. Finding birth certificates in a country where they were destroyed by British forces during “the Troubles” was challenging enough.
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