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An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye
An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How Covid-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye Coronavirus didn't exist when Eileen Callaghan of Bergenfield was diagnosed  with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma last fall. It was here in full force, though, when her daughters recently had to leave the 88-year-old Irish family matriarch at the ER door. One of them, Bridget Callaghan-Kane, wrote about her family's experience with their mom's subsequent death "and the world we find ourselves living in at this time in history." An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague Anyone with a drop of Irish blood knows what an Irish wake is, the going-away party that was thrown for an Irish man or woman…

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by Bridget Callaghan-Kane