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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.
Our genealogy guide offers advice on accessing historical school records, including registers and roll books, deriving from schools across Co. Wicklow.
Dr Michael Flavin reflects on the experiences of the Irish in Britain following the IRA bombings on British soil, detailing the discrimination, abuse and social ostracism they faced.
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.
On 14 January 1882, three Roche siblings wedded three Greene siblings, all from Loop Head, at Cross Roman Catholic church, near Carrigaholt, in west Clare. This is their remarkable story.
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.
New genealogical research carried out by David Lohan indicates that Lindsay Lohan’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Francis Lohan, was from Moher, near Strokestown in Co. Roscommon.
A blow-by-blow account of the 1318 Battle of Faughart in Louth – a clash between the Anglo-Irish and an alliance of Scottish and Irish forces, which culminated in the demise of Edward Bruce, king of Ireland.
As an adjective, the Irish word bacach means “lame”, “halting” or “limping”, while as a noun, it refers to “a lame person” or “a beggar”.
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