“Galway Bay” By Mary Pat Kelly Grand Central Publishing, 551 pages, $26.99 Every immigrant to America has a story, and over time those stories, and the people whose lives the stories do… ...

The Chicago native joined Eight Forty-Eight to discuss her own personal Irish lore. The novel is based on her family’s journey to Chicago from Ireland.

In Bearna, Ireland, in 1839, Honora Keeley falls in love with Michael Kelly after finding him swimming in Galway Bay, and they soon marry despite her father's objections.

RESCUE CREWS SEARCHING for a swimmer missing in Galway for over a week have discovered a body on the shoreline a couple of hundred metres away from where she went missing.