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

He was the father of the sky scraper but Chicago architect Louis H. Sullivan also had his paternal ancestry firmly rooted in Clonakilty Cork

Mae Coghlin’s parents were Michael Coughlin and Bridget Gorman. Mae or Mamie was born to the couple in Brooklyn in 1897

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