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.

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...

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