Greetings from Ireland

Greetings from Ireland Real letters, posted from Ireland to your door every month. For the 32 million Americans with Irish roots. 🍀

I drove past this lane in County Waterford while visiting family last week and had to stop the car.There's something abo...
18/06/2026

I drove past this lane in County Waterford while visiting family last week and had to stop the car.

There's something about a road like this — the red gate, the old whitewashed wall, the trees arching over, the estuary at the end — that feels like the Ireland people mean when they say they miss it. Even if they've never been.

That's the thing about Irish-Americans I've come to understand since starting Greetings from Ireland. The longing isn't always for a place you've visited. Sometimes it's for a place you've inherited. A county. A name. A feeling that something over here belongs to you.

That's what I write about in every letter I send.

If that feeling sounds familiar, come find me at the link below. I'd love to write to you from this Ireland. 💚

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Hi, I'm Katie — and that's me outside Sean McGrath's pub in Ballycotton, a little village on the coast of County Cork.Th...
17/06/2026

Hi, I'm Katie — and that's me outside Sean McGrath's pub in Ballycotton, a little village on the coast of County Cork.

This is where I live. This is the Ireland I write to you from.

I started Greetings from Ireland because I kept meeting Irish-Americans who felt a pull toward Ireland they couldn't quite explain. A surname. A county. A great-grandmother's name on a piece of paper. Something that felt like it belonged to them but was just out of reach.

So I started writing letters. Real, handwritten letters from the counties Irish families left behind — posted from Ireland, with an Irish stamp, straight to your door in America.

Every letter I write, I write from this Ireland. The village one. The real one.
If you've ever wondered about the Irish side of your family, I'd love to write to you. 💚
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There's an Ireland that never left.While millions crossed the Atlantic — through Cobh, through Liverpool, through whatev...
16/06/2026

There's an Ireland that never left.
While millions crossed the Atlantic — through Cobh, through Liverpool, through whatever port would take them — this Ireland stayed exactly as it was. Sheep on the clifftops. The Atlantic below. The same headlands their ancestors looked out from for centuries.
For Irish-Americans, that Ireland can feel just out of reach. You carry the name, maybe a county, maybe just a feeling that there's something over there that belongs to you.
That's exactly what we write about.
Real letters, handwritten in Ireland, posted to your door in America — telling the story of the county your family left behind.
What part of Ireland does your family come from? 👇
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This is what Ireland looks like today.Yellow gorse everywhere. The fields impossibly green. Cattle grazing with the Atla...
14/06/2026

This is what Ireland looks like today.

Yellow gorse everywhere. The fields impossibly green. Cattle grazing with the Atlantic in the distance. One small cloud doing its best in a perfect blue sky.

June is honestly Ireland's finest hour.

For anyone whose family came from a place that looked like this — a farm, a village, a county they left and never quite forgot — we write letters from that Ireland. Real letters, handwritten, posted from Ireland with an Irish stamp, straight to your door in America.

What county does your Irish family come from? 👇

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14/06/2026

The Cliffs of Moher. County Clare. Ireland. If your family name is O'Brien, McNamara, Hogan, or McMahon — there's a very good chance this is where your story in Ireland begins.

700 feet above the Atlantic — and one of the most emotionally charged places in the world for the Irish diaspora.

County Clare was one of the hardest hit counties during the Famine. Entire families left from ports along this coastline, crossed the Atlantic, and built new lives in Boston, New York and Chicago. Most never saw these cliffs again.

We write letters from County Clare and every county across Ireland — bringing that story back to you, wherever you are in America.

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This sign is on a quiet road in Kilmoe, West Cork.Reilig Chill Mhumha — Kilmoe Burial Ground. A place where Irish famili...
14/06/2026

This sign is on a quiet road in Kilmoe, West Cork.

Reilig Chill Mhumha — Kilmoe Burial Ground. A place where Irish families have been laid to rest for generations. And tucked at the bottom of the signpost, a little green post box that's probably been there just as long.

For many Irish-Americans, County Cork is where the family story begins — and where it gets hard to trace. The Famine years emptied whole parishes along this coastline. Families left in a hurry, records were lost, and the connections to places like Kilmoe faded across generations.

That's exactly why we do what we do. We write letters from the counties your family came from — bringing the sights, the sounds and the stories of that Ireland directly to your door in America.

Does your family have Cork roots? We'd love to hear where they came from. 👇

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This is Cobh, County Cork.Somewhere in your father's story — or his father's, or his father's before that — there's an I...
13/06/2026

This is Cobh, County Cork.

Somewhere in your father's story — or his father's, or his father's before that — there's an Irishman who left a town like this one. Who packed what he had, walked to the harbour, and crossed the Atlantic to give his family a life he couldn't have here.

He probably never talked about it much.

This Father's Day, if the Irish side of your family is the side that doesn't get said out loud — we write letters from the Ireland they came from.

Because some fathers deserve to be remembered in the place they left behind. 💚

Cobh, County Cork. The last sight of Ireland for millions who emigrated and never came back.Between the 1840s and the ea...
03/06/2026

Cobh, County Cork. The last sight of Ireland for millions who emigrated and never came back.
Between the 1840s and the early twentieth century, over three million Irish people left through this port. They stood on this waterfront, looked back at these colourful buildings and the cathedral on the hill, and got on a ship to America. Most never came back.
Your family might have stood right here.
Every month, Greetings from Ireland writes to their descendants — wherever in America they ended up. A real handwritten letter, a real Irish stamp, posted from Cork.
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This is a 1987 An Post van — Ireland's postal service — still going strong on an Irish terrace street.Some things are wo...
02/06/2026

This is a 1987 An Post van — Ireland's postal service — still going strong on an Irish terrace street.
Some things are worth keeping exactly as they are. A handwritten letter, posted from Ireland, arriving at your door in America with an Irish stamp. No emails. No shortcuts. Just the real thing.
That's what Greetings from Ireland does every month. ☘️
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Murphy. Kelly. Sullivan. Walsh. O'Brien. Ryan.If your surname is on that list — or someone you love — it traces back to ...
02/06/2026

Murphy. Kelly. Sullivan. Walsh. O'Brien. Ryan.
If your surname is on that list — or someone you love — it traces back to a very specific part of Ireland. Murphy is from Cork and Wexford. Kelly is from Galway and Roscommon. Sullivan is from the wild southwest coast of Cork. O'Brien descends directly from Brian Boru, the High King who defeated the Vikings.
These names survived the Famine, the coffin ships, and the tenements of Boston and New York. They're still here.
We wrote the full story of all ten names — what each one means in Irish and the county it comes from.
👉 greetingsfromireland.com/blog/most-common-irish-american-surnames
://www.greetingsfromireland.com/blog/most-common-irish-american-surnames

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