People
The heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan's father Mike Sullivan emigrated from Abbeydorney after the Famine. Mike's wife, (John's mother) the former Catherine Kelly from Athlone, County Roscommon (now Westmeath), met and married him in Boston on 6 November 1856.
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