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.
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...
HistoryeyeFeb 18, 20202 minHerbert Hill DundrumJames Robinson was the owner of Dublin’s Herbert Hill, one of the last large-scale demesne sites in Dundrum to be developed recently