An amazing video of Kathleen Hayes Rollins Snavely on the day she became the oldest Irish person in the world, ever!
When the clock struck 12am GMT on Thursday, March 27, 2015, Snavely, born in Feakle, Co. Clare (and now living in New York) overtook the previous record of 113 years, 37 days, held by Annie Isabella Scott of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.
Flowers were presented to Kathleen as she told stories of leaving Ireland in 1921 – before Ireland was a free state – at 19 years of age, and of her early years in Syracuse. Speaking of her humble beginnings and of the years of hard work she and her first husband, Roxie Rollins, put in as they built their business, Seneca Dairy, up from the ground, she expressed admiration for people who work hard over those born with a silver spoon. “The dress doesn’t make the woman,” she said “It’s what’s inside the dress that matters.”
But it wouldn’t have been a proper Irish celebration without a song and Kathleen joined in with the Irish-American classic “When Irish Eyes are Smiling.”
Watch the amazing video below:
https://youtu.be/vwkHPhyLCh0
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