HistoryeyeAug 16, 20212 minAncestry of a Tinseltown Trail blazerMaureen O’Hara, one of the most successful Irish women in Hollywood, was born Maureen Fitzsimons, at Ranelagh, on the 17th August 1920
HistoryeyeJul 24, 20211 minFamily Tree of Composer Frederick MayThis year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Frederick May in Dublin. Historyeye looks into his family tree
HistoryeyeJul 24, 20211 minThe Irish Family Tree of P.L. TraversP.L. Travers was a direct descendant of an earlier writer, Samuel “Premium” Madden, (1686-1765) a pioneer of the science fiction genre
HistoryeyeJul 24, 20211 minTour of Dublin locations from Joyce's Dubliners Historyeye tours key locations from five of James Joyce's stories: An Encounter, A Painful Case, Araby, A Boarding House, & The Sisters.
HistoryeyeMay 2, 20212 minWexford Religious Censuses of the 19th CenturyHistoryeye looks at two surviving religious censuses taken in Wexford in the mid 19th century.
HistoryeyeApr 12, 20211 minWexford Catholic Parish Death Records Most of these surviving death/burial records predate Irish Civil Records by many decades.They also cover the key years of the Great Famine.
HistoryeyeApr 1, 20213 minApril Fool's Day through the centuriesNapoleon married on the day, Dean Swift loved to commemorate it, money-grabbing scammers exploited it, and royal prisoners used it to launch
HistoryeyeMar 24, 20211 minLong liver in Wexford's The Hook According to the burial records of the catholic parish of St. James & Hook, Mary Kenny, of Haggard in Hook, died 15/10/1850 aged 109 years.
HistoryeyeMar 5, 20211 minCharles Laughton's grandfather came from Ardee The Hunchback of Notre Dame actor had Irish grandparents on his mother’s side. They were Luke Conlon (Louth) and Mary McAllister (Antrim).
HistoryeyeFeb 9, 20214 minBrendan Behan's Paternal AncestorsWriter Brendan Behan (born on this day 98 years ago) was nothing if not a proud Dubliner. He was particularly proud that the Behans had...
HistoryeyeJan 6, 20211 minThe death of Harry ClarkeToday is the 90th anniversary of the death of stained-glass artist Harry Clarke at Chur, near Davos in Switzerland.
HistoryeyeDec 18, 20202 minMarion Davies and her old Irish RootsA quick glance at the surnames in Marion Davies’s family tree shows that the major ancestral influence was Ireland.
HistoryeyeDec 7, 20202 minEchoes of Shakespeare: the surprising ancestry of Richard Harris When it came to his ancestry, there was so much more to Richard Harris than just Limerick or even Ireland.
HistoryeyeOct 26, 20201 minIrish Ancestors of Key Largo's Claire Trevor Claire Trevor's Irish grandparents were Robert Morrison and Mary Chambers. Appropriately both came from Holywood (the one in Co. Down).
HistoryeyeOct 15, 20202 minHistoryeye | Harry Clarke's Yorkshire ancestorsIrish stained glass artist Harry Clarke had Yorkshire ancestry. His father Joshua was born in Leeds in 1859 to Godfrey Clark & Fanny Naylor
HistoryeyeOct 5, 20202 minChina and the Irish Censuses of 1901/1911128 people recorded China as their place of birth in the 1901 Census. By 1911 that figure was little changed. Only 2 had Chinese names.
HistoryeyeSep 23, 20202 minE.M. Forster's Dublin AncestorsThe writer of A Room with a View and Howard’s End had Irish ancestry through his father, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster.
HistoryeyeSep 11, 20201 minDiana Rigg's Lancashire rootsDiana Rigg maintained that Yorkshire shaped her character greatly. But records show that Rigg's ancestors had ancient Lancashishire roots.
HistoryeyeJun 4, 20203 minDr. Henry Kennedy of Aungier StreetOne of the handful of individuals who concealed Lord Edward Fitzgerald when he went into hiding from March to May of 1798 was Henry Kennedy
HistoryeyeApr 3, 20201 minA 140 year-old recipe: Shrimp Gombo by Lafcadio HearnDuring his time in New Orleans in the 1880s, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) wrote extensively about all aspects of Créole culture, including...