Published: Wednesday, 14th July, 2010 5:15pm

Roscommon's McDermotts gather in America

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Nearly 100 McDermotts with strong family ties to County Roscommon gathered for a third year at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA, home of Michael and Hilda Egan McDermott and their son Kevin and his wife Erin. recently. Michael is originally from Roscommon's Corbo and Hilda came to America from Clonark.

They also live in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are retired from the construction business.

The annual Fourth of July party, nicknamed McDermotts Gone Wild, drew several generations from several North New Jersey McDermott families for fireworks, plenty of food and drink, camping, a water-balloon toss won by Gerry McDermott (originally from Ballygalda, Co. Roscommon) and his daughter Nuala, a late-night singsong by the bonfire, plenty of blabbing, and a Sunday morning dog race won by a pug, aptly named Roscoe.

Joining in the fun with their children and grandchildren were Patrick McDermott, of Corbo and Kearny, New Jersey, and his wife, Norah Beirne McDermott, of Elphin, Roscommon; Charlie McDermott, of North Arlington, NJ, and Ballygalda, and his wife, Mary McMahon McDermott of Pukane, Co. Limerick; Jim McDermott and his son James, of Jersey City; Gerry McDermott of Ballygalda and Kearny, and his wife, Kate Gleeson McDermott, of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and their son-in-law Eugene Fitzpatrick, originally of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; Helen McDermott, originally of Curraghboy and now of Dublin, and her husband Declan Murphy, of Newry, Co. Down, and their three girls; Orlaith Reidy Bogg, of Fort Lee, NJ, and Mallow, Co. Cork, and her husband Alistair and their two boys.

They celebrated with friends Eamonn and Donough Ryan, of Co. Tipperary; Mikey and Sile McDonnell and daughter Treasa of Gralla, Nenagh; Aoife Gleeson, formerly of Nenagh, who traveled with her fiancé Nick Salvati from Michigan; Eimear Gleeson of Nenagh; Liz Skelly Hogan of Scariff, Co. Clare; Eoin Kelly of Pukane; one Bernese, two Boston terriers, the prize-winning pug, a Shetland sheepdog and a golden retriever.

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