I have been thinking about my Irish-born parents a lot this summer and our own immigrant story. In August, we will be in the United States 61 years. My parents, from Galway and Monaghan, Ireland, met and married in London. My sister and I were born in London. Like so many before them, my parents packed up a trunk, some suitcases, and left everything behind to get on a plane that brought us first to Pittsburgh, and then to the Bronx.