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Ancestry of a Tinseltown Trail blazer
Maureen O’Hara, one of the most successful Irish women in Hollywood, was born Maureen Fitzsimons, at Ranelagh, on the 17th August 1920
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- Jul 24, 2021
- 1 min
Family Tree of Composer Frederick May
This year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Frederick May in Dublin. Historyeye looks into his family tree
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- Jul 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Irish Family Tree of P.L. Travers
P.L. Travers was a direct descendant of an earlier writer, Samuel “Premium” Madden, (1686-1765) a pioneer of the science fiction genre
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- Jul 24, 2021
- 1 min
Tour 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.
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- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
Wexford Religious Censuses of the 19th Century
Historyeye looks at two surviving religious censuses taken in Wexford in the mid 19th century.
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- Apr 12, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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.
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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...