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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 1930...

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

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Feb 9, 2020
1 min

Harry Clarke Dublin Tour

Dublin is lucky to be the hometown of Irish stained glass artist, Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Here is a suggested tour of Harry Clarke sites.

Family tree of Irish philanthropist Elizabeth O'Kelly

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Jan 2, 2019
1 min

Family tree of Irish philanthropist Elizabeth O'Kelly

Elizabeth O'Kelly (née Sykes) left 30 million euros to several Irish charities in her will. Historyeye charts her family background.

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Nov 8, 2018
0 min

Family Tree of Sister Concepta Lynch

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Oct 28, 2018
1 min

Bram Stoker in 2018

Here is a reminder of the turbulent Dublin neighbourhood that may have shaped Bram Stoker's imagination as a child.

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Oct 27, 2018
1 min

Family Tree of Composer Frederick May

The four provinces of Ireland are well represented in the family tree of Irish composer, Frederick May (1911- 1985) whose works include S...

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