Cead Mile Failte means ‘One Hundred Thousand Welcomes’ in Irish. This is the Eamonn McGirr website. Here you will learn about Eamonn’s life, his music, his restaurant – “Eamonn’s” and his radio program, Proud to be Irish as well as a calendar of events and a forum.
After his death, Eamonn’s wife, Mary and daughter Mareena now host the radio program in his honor. With their unique brand of humour and trivia as well as Mareena’s Pick of the Week, the ‘M and M’ Girls are countinuing Eamonn’s legacy. Also here are links to Mary’s artwork, Irish song lyrics, Irish Top Tens, and links to lots of Irish websites. Please browse around and see everything there is to offer. Feel free to leave a comment here or on our Guestbook. Don’t forget to tell all your friends also!
For more information on Eamonn’s last CD, ‘The Bravest’, commemorating the bravery of the New York firefighters on 9/11 click on the Eamonn’s Music page.
hey mary and mareena,
hope this finds you both well! it has been ages since i’ve seen you guys. in case you need your memory refreshed, i am mary ann miller (jim miller’s wife or should i say ex now?). i’m still living in latham, and the kids are grown: blaine is 22 and shannon is 19.
i haven’t been able to work since 2001; i have fibromyalgia and ms. (jim left me b/c of this) i do ok, have 4 dogs and 2 cats, and get around just fine most of the time. i would love to reconnect with you girls! my home phone is 785-0614, cell is 423-2831, and you have my email. looking forward to hearing from you!
i am gonna send this to your radio show addy too!
By: mary ann miller on September 29, 2009
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hi mary…i know you dont know or remember me but eamonn sang at my step fathers funeral back around 1990 in middleborough mass…his name was george yarusites…my mothers name is patricia(obrien)yarusites…when she and i would go to eamonns shows…when she entered…he would always say…there she is me twin sister patsy…in all her glory in her tupperware bra….it used to always send me into hysterical convulsutions when i would here him say this…my mother and i always encouraged him to use us as his comic foils lol lol lol …ma is living up here in somersworth nh now…i was here a few yrs before her in rochester nh…i used to work on tommy makems car while he was still alive as well as his son shanes car as well…if eamonn ever mentioned it we are cousins of the clancys…and old katy from carriagh on suir…if you do read this please email me if you wish at …knightstmplr1@msn.com…god bless…robb
By: Robb Douglas Chapin on March 5, 2010
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