This year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Frederick May in Dublin. Historyeye looks into his family tree

P.L. Travers was a direct descendant of an earlier writer, Samuel “Premium” Madden, (1686-1765) a pioneer of the science fiction genre

Historyeye tours key locations from five of James Joyce's stories: An Encounter, A Painful Case, Araby, A Boarding House, & The Sisters.

Historyeye looks at two surviving religious censuses taken in Wexford in the mid 19th century.

Most of these surviving death/burial records predate Irish Civil Records by many decades.They also cover the key years of the Great Famine.

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

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.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame actor had Irish grandparents on his mother’s side. They were Luke Conlon (Louth) and Mary McAllister (Antrim).

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...

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

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

When it came to his ancestry, there was so much more to Richard Harris than just Limerick or even Ireland.

Claire Trevor's Irish grandparents were Robert Morrison and Mary Chambers. Appropriately both came from Holywood (the one in Co. Down).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.