The Irish Ancestry of Claire Cronin, the New US Ambassador to Ireland

Claire Cronin was born to the son of an Irish immigrant from the Inishowen Peninsula in Northern County Donegal and all four of her mother’s grandparents were Irish.

Claire Cronin was born Clare McLaughlin in Brockton, Massachusetts to parents, James Daniel McLaughlin and Phyllis Virginia Lucey who married in the early 1950s. James Daniel McLaughlin was the son of an Irish immigrant from the Inishowen Peninsula in Northern Co. Donegal and all four of Phyllis Lucey’s grandparents were Irish.

On both sides of her family, they experienced the terrifying ordeal of eviction as they were thrown out of their homes and off the land, leaving young and old without a place to go. Profiteering landlords saw a way of increasing their income by ridding themselves of these small holder tenants. It is not surprising that so many found other opportunities elsewhere.

You can learn the details at: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/irish-ancestry-claire-cronin