Flynn Foundation

Built on Rockport Granite

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 13, 2015

Flynn Foundation

Sinn Féin
Founded in 1905
By Arthur Griffith
Political arm of
Irish Republican Army
Soldiers Edward and Patrick Flynn
Brits hot on their heels
Fled to Montreal
In the 1920s
From there
Helped lay track
To Concord, New Hampshire
Where Edward married
Ann Cogsley
They begat five
Edward, P. the eldest
Named for himself
Then Ann, Elizabeth, Helen
The youngest
James my grandfather
Londonberry, N.H., 1873-1943
Married Josephine Nugent, 1887-1949
Heard news
Former Union Generals
Butler and French
Founded Cape Ann Quarries
Later worked
Blood Ledge
Better known as
Flynn’s Quarry
Cutting the granite
That built Cape Ann
Family foundation
Erected on stone
Not sand
Generations later
Progeny of rebels
Proudly stand