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• 1 Paul McCartney's Irish roots trace back to a small County Monaghan townland
• 2 Bruce Springsteen and his proud County Kildare heritage
• 3 Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles both descend from High King Brian Boru
• 4 The day 38 IRA prisoners escaped the Maze in the biggest jailbreak in British history
• 5 Why Eavan Boland's emigration poem still speaks to the Irish abroad
• 6 Paul McCartney's Irish roots lead back to a quiet corner of County Monaghan
• 7 Discover your Walsh family roots in Ireland's fourth most common name
• 8 Meet the Byrne clan, Ireland's seventh most common name with a king in its past
• 9 Behind the name: Claire, the once popular name on the verge of extinction