Local History

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Number 2 Fitzwilliam Square

It was home to several high-profile entrepreneurs who scaled financial heights only to suffer loss of fortune in the autumn of their lives

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Preston Street, Dublin: in the Shadow of the Railway

Preston Street lies in the civil parish of St. Thomas and was built between 1810 and 1817 in the northeast outskirts of Dublin City

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Brendan Behan's Centenary

February 9th, 2023, marks one hundred years since writer Brendan Behan was born at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin.

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Sheridan Le Fanu's significant anniversary

A useful source on Le Fanu is the memoir published by his younger brother, William, a civil engineer. Entitled Seventy Years of Irish Life

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Bill Stephens: the Fairview Lion-Tamer and the American woman who witnessed his death

Today, Jan 27th 2023, marks the 70th anniversary of the death at Dunsoghly Farm, St. Margaret’s, of the Fairview lion-tamer, Bill Stephens

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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