I am interested in the Mary Clare Malloy one. I had never heard of "Irish picture brides" before but there is talk in my family that I just heard that my great great grandmother might have been one. She is from Tralee.her father's name was Cornelius Lyons (her name was Maggie)..I do wonder if she was related to the famous harper. Anyway, can anyone say more...this would have been during or right after the famine..she ended up in Iowa but I think they married around 1855 in another state..Illinois? Wisconsin? How could they have afforded pictures?   mg