Eileen Monaghan and Paddy McEvoy were strangers who met on a cruise ship and discovered they were distant cousins. Here's what happened next.
When Eileen Monaghan’s cousin Nora died in 2014, Eileen grieved not only the loss of a beloved older relative but also her last link to Ireland. Eileen’s grandmother emigrated from the tiny village of Shalvey, in Donegal, Ireland in the late 1800s. Growing up in the US, young Eileen loved hearing her grandmother’s stories of Ireland and became fascinated by her Irish roots.
“But we did squeeze in a few words about travels here and there.” “We’ve both done a lot of traveling in our time,” adds his wife Hazel. “We compared stories of travels around the world.” Transatlantic friendship For the remaining two weeks of the cruise, the two long lost cousins and their spouses were inseparable. “We met every day on the cruise after that, and got to know each other,” recalls Hazel. “We had drinks before and after dinner every night.
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