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“Clonycavan Man”, the well-preserved 2,300-year-old Iron Age bog body from Co. Meath, wore hair gel imported from Southern France or Spain. It consists of a blend of vegetable plant oil and a resin.
Dublin-man William “The Hero Bill” Deans, a docker from Foley Street, was the only Irish citizen to receive two bravery awards from the Irish State.
Clogagh cemetery holds a number of casualties of the War of Independence including Vol. Lt Patrick Crowley, Comdt Charlie Hurley and Capt Con Murphy.
Michael Collins’ mother was Mary Anne O’Brien, born in August 1852 at Sam’s Cross, near Clonakilty in West Cork. The O’Briens were Catholic tenant farmers who lived in a small cottage, still standing today.
Boasting eight Irish great-grandparents, it’s no wonder that President John F. Kennedy’s iconic visit to Ireland in 1963 forged deep emotional connections that resonate throughout the island to this day.
Three of Taylor Swift’s ancestors immigrated to the United States from Ireland, including two great-great-great-grandparents who boarded a ship in Derry and a great-grandfather from Dublin city.
In 1865, 15-year-old William Hynes from Cork stowed away on the SS Propontis to find a new life in America. There he became a soldier in the Indian Wars, a Populist politician and a popular writer.
A little-known archive on the southside of Dublin holds unexpected treasures for family historians, including previously unknown 18th- and 19th-century baptism and marriage records from Wexford parishes.
As the National Archives of Ireland prepares to publish the 1926 census online this spring, a public programme to accompany its release will explore the historical, social and genealogical significance of the first census of the Irish Free State.
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