Most of de Valera’s biographers have dealt with the mystery of the Irish statesman’s paternal ancestry with varying degrees of scepticism

Newspaper reports of the tragedy recorded that the accident occurred close to the landmark mills that everyone knew as ’Mallet’s Folly’

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

Here is a reminder of the turbulent Dublin neighbourhood that may have shaped Bram Stoker's imagination as a child.

Georgina Manning was the youngest daughter of Susan Gibson and Robert Manning, chief engineer to the Board of Works. The Mannings, a prosperous Church of Ireland family, had strong links to Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow and to Waterford City. Robert had been born in Normandy in 1816 where his father, William, had been an adjutant at the Battle of Waterloo.