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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.
James B. Connolly, an American born to Irish parents, was the first Olympic champion of the modern era in 1896 and achieved notable success across multiple field events.
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 group of 48 men and women who were alive when the 1926 census was taken have been appointed centenarian ambassadors by the National Archives to mark the release of the census.
A newly launched online database provides access to thousands of biographical entries drawn from 18th- and 19th-century Irish and Canadian newspaper notices.
Billie Eilish’s Irish heritage can be traced to West Cork, with two paternal great-grandparents hailing from the Lisbealad area near Dunmanway.
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.
During Easter week 1916, fierce clashes erupted in southeast Galway as local Volunteers mounted attacks on RIC barracks in Clarinbridge and Oranmore.
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.
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