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Freely accessible military records highlight women’s contribution to Ireland’s fight for independence, with Mary and Margaret O’Neill showing how Cumann na mBan sustained operations in West Cork.
Some 76 medical graduates from University College Cork answered the call of duty during World War 2. Their remarkable stories of sacrifice, bravery and resilience on the frontlines have never before been told.
An intact Roman pot – believed to be the “first ever” found in Ireland – has been recovered during excavations on Drumanagh headland, near Loughshinny in north Co. Dublin.
Our useful step-by-step genealogy guide outlines which church records have survived for Northern Ireland, what information they contain and where/how to access the resources.
An ambitious plan to establish a refuge for Genevan artisans in Co. Waterford in the late 18th century ultimately ended in failure, with New Geneva later serving as a prison for Irish rebels.
Lieutenant Pat Deasy of Kilmacsimon is immortalized as a six-year-old boy in a school photograph taken in 1910 in Ballinadee. Just ten years later, he was the youngest casualty of the Kilmichael ambush.
Fr John Spratt so impressed the pope that it led to the transfer of St Valentine’s relics to Dublin’s Whitefriar Street Church in 1836, inspiring devotion but also provoking a sectarian backlash.
Clonony Castle, built by the MacCoghlans in about the 15th century, was home to Anne Boleyn’s kin, a German merchant who compiled an Irish dictionary and a barrister who survived several assassination attempts.
In the medieval period, a church site was founded on Cottage Island, Lough Gill. A dependency of the Premonstratensian order based on Trinity Island, Lough Cé, the remains include a small simple church.
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