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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.
Clonony Castle, built by the MacCoghlans in about the 15th century, was home to Anne Boleyn’s kin, a German merchant who compiled an Irish dictionary and a barrister who survived several assassination attempts.
Could Church Island on Lough Gill have inspired W.B. Yeats’ most famous poem? We explore the region’s geography and look at other romantic literary references to this place.
Waterford jockey Joe Widger made history when he won the Grand National at Aintree in 1895, riding Wild Man from Borneo.
Our genealogy guide offers advice on accessing historical school records, including registers and roll books, deriving from schools across Co. Wicklow.
The tau cross from Roughaun Hill, near Killinaboy church site in north Clare, is an impressive early medieval boundary marker. Its unusual form and carvings have long mystified scholars and locals alike, leading to its removal from its original context on more than one occasion.
Billie Eilish’s Irish heritage can be traced to West Cork, with two paternal great-grandparents hailing from the Lisbealad area near Dunmanway.
The recent recovery of over 1,000 artefacts during an excavation at Sligo’s Green Fort sheds light on the lives of soldiers stationed there during the 17th and 18th centuries.
This week’s word is whisht – a Hiberno-English term used throughout Ireland as an interjection or imperative verb to request silence or command someone to stop making noise and keep quiet.
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