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Jan 31, 2018
1 min

The Irish family tree of P.L.Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers (Helen Lyndon Goff,1899-1996) found success as an author with the publication of her Mary Poppins books in the...

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5 hours ago
1 min

Wexford 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.

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Apr 1
3 min

April Fool's Day through the centuries

Napoleon married on the day, Dean Swift loved to commemorate it, money-grabbing scammers exploited it, and royal prisoners used it to launch

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Mar 24
1 min

Long 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.

Charles Laughton's grandfather came from Ardee

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Mar 5
1 min

Charles 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).

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Feb 9
4 min

Brendan Behan's Paternal Ancestors

Writer Brendan Behan (born on this day 98 years ago) was nothing if not a proud Dubliner. He was particularly proud that the Behans had...

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Jan 6
1 min

The death of Harry Clarke

Today is the 90th anniversary of the death of stained-glass artist Harry Clarke at Chur, near Davos in Switzerland.

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Dec 18, 2020
2 min

Marion Davies and her old Irish Roots

A quick glance at the surnames in Marion Davies’s family tree shows that the major ancestral influence was Ireland.

Echoes of Shakespeare: the surprising ancestry of Richard Harris

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

Echoes 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.

Irish Ancestors of Key Largo's Claire Trevor

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Oct 26, 2020
1 min

Irish 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).

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Oct 15, 2020
2 min

Historyeye | Harry Clarke's Yorkshire ancestors

Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke had Yorkshire ancestry. His father Joshua was born in Leeds in 1859 to Godfrey Clark & Fanny Naylor

China and the Irish Censuses of 1901/1911

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Oct 5, 2020
2 min

China and the Irish Censuses of 1901/1911

128 people recorded China as their place of birth in the 1901 Census. By 1911 that figure was little changed. Only 2 had Chinese names.

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Sep 23, 2020
2 min

E.M. Forster's Dublin Ancestors

The writer of A Room with a View and Howard’s End had Irish ancestry through his father, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster.

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Sep 11, 2020
1 min

Diana Rigg's Lancashire roots

Diana Rigg maintained that Yorkshire shaped her character greatly. But records show that Rigg's ancestors had ancient Lancashishire roots.

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Jun 4, 2020
3 min

Dr. Henry Kennedy of Aungier Street

One of the handful of individuals who concealed Lord Edward Fitzgerald when he went into hiding from March to May of 1798 was Henry Kennedy

A 140 year-old recipe: Shrimp Gombo by Lafcadio Hearn

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Apr 3, 2020
1 min

A 140 year-old recipe: Shrimp Gombo by Lafcadio Hearn

During his time in New Orleans in the 1880s, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) wrote extensively about all aspects of Créole culture, including...

Patrick J.Fox : an Irish doctor at Bergen-Belsen

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Mar 25, 2020
3 min

Patrick J.Fox : an Irish doctor at Bergen-Belsen

For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen- Belsen Camp, Historyeye charts the life of an Irish doctor who was there, P.J. Fox.

Traces of Heraldry at Oakland (St. Luke's) Rathgar

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Mar 9, 2020
1 min

Traces of Heraldry at Oakland (St. Luke's) Rathgar

The printer and businessman Charles Wisdom Hely (1857-1929) lived at Oakland, now St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, along with his wife Edith...

The Kennys of Herbert Hill Lodge Dundrum

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Mar 7, 2020
1 min

The Kennys of Herbert Hill Lodge Dundrum

Patrick Kenny was the gardener at Herbert Hill and he and his Wexford-born wife,Margaret Rossiter, occupied the Gate Lodge there in 1911

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Feb 18, 2020
2 min

Herbert Hill Dundrum

James Robinson was the owner of Dublin’s Herbert Hill, one of the last large-scale demesne sites in Dundrum to be developed recently

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