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A mass grave recently discovered in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, may hold up to 120 Irish immigrants, many showing signs of having suffered violent deaths amid the 1832 cholera epidemic.
Clogagh cemetery holds a number of casualties of the War of Independence including Vol. Lt Patrick Crowley, Comdt Charlie Hurley and Capt Con Murphy.
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.
An ambitious plan to establish a refuge for Genevan artisans in Co. Waterford in the late 18th century ultimately ended in failure, with New Geneva later serving as a prison for Irish rebels.
St Brigid, one of Ireland’s most revered saints known for her charity and peacekeeping, has become the subject of debate in recent years, with some questioning her very existence.
Between 1746 and 1752, the Anglican Bishop of Elphin sent 221 letters to his only surviving child. Filled with banter, they offer a peek into the daily lives of the upper echelons of 18th-century Anglo-Irish society.
With the release of the 1926 census scheduled for 18 April, Accredited Genealogists Ireland has published further instalments in its ongoing series of census guides.
In the medieval period, an ecclesiastical site was founded on Church Island, the largest island on Lough Gill, Co. Sligo. The island preserves the ruins of a late medieval church, a cemetery and a reliquary structure.
Lieutenant Pat Deasy of Kilmacsimon is immortalized as a six-year-old boy in a school photograph taken in 1910 in Ballinadee. Just ten years later, he was the youngest casualty of the Kilmichael ambush.
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