In a family tradition that has come to span centuries, the wife of Daniel O’Connell’s great-great-grandson was laid to rest last Tuesday in the O’Connell family tomb on Derrynane Abbey Island in Co Kerry.

On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the Republic of Ireland. While in Dublin, he addressed the people in College Green. In his opening comments, Obama joked about having returned to his ancestral home “to find the [O’] apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way.”