Tony O'Reilly Clip 2: First Time in New York and Love at First Sight

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Tony O'Reilly

Date: Time Period: 1972 - 2017; 2017-04-10; Interview recorded: April 10, 2017 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 00:02:13

Creator: Tony O'Reilly interviewed by Pat McCluskey Identifier: aql:27408 oreilly_tony_clip2

Description: Tony O'Reilly met his wife on his second day in New York City. They met at a bar located on Roosevelt Avenue which was filled with Irish people. He saw her standing near the jukebox and it was 'love at first sight'. She was twenty he was twenty-one years old.

Title : Tony O'Reilly Clip 2: First Time in New York and Love at First Sight

Collection : aql:20455; aql:27420

Creator : Tony O'Reilly interviewed by Pat McCluskey

Date : Time Period: 1972 - 2017; 2017-04-10; Interview recorded: April 10, 2017

Summary/Description : Tony O'Reilly met his wife on his second day in New York City. They met at a bar located on Roosevelt Avenue which was filled with Irish people. He saw her standing near the jukebox and it was 'love at first sight'. She was twenty he was twenty-one years old.

Subject : Love; Irish Americans

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Tony O'Reilly

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Jackson Heights, Queens Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 00:02:13

Identifier : aql:27408 oreilly_tony_clip2