A look back at Menlo Park’s Irish roots on St. Patrick’s Day
As we do each year, we look back on Menlo Park’s Irish roots on St. Patrick’s Day.
Menlo Park resident Patrick Killelea did some on-the-spot reporting about the Irish Menlough — from which Menlo Park got its name — during a trip to Ireland. Here’s his account from a post first published in 2011.
And here’s a 2010 post based on research done some 45 years ago by Stanley Pearce who was compiling a history of Menlo Park’s Trinity Church and, in doing so, recorded the town’s earliest beginnings in a book Lift Up Your Hearts. He writes about the original Menlo Park Gate and the Irishmen D.J. Oliver and D.C. McGlynn.
InMenlo file photo by Frances Freyberg (c) 2014
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Lydia Cooper March 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Thanks for again printing the history of the Irish in Menlo Park. As a member of the Menlo Park Historical Association, we are proud of the replica of the Gates located at the entrance to the Civic Center. Many people from MPHA were involved with this project from Ernst Meissner who first brought it the our attention to Jym Clendenin and his committee who brought it to fruition. Yes, Menlo has a rich history.