Niall O'Dowd
On This Day: IRA declared a ceasefire in 1994 – a day that changed Ireland forever
On This Day: Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney dies in 2013
Charles Manson sang me a song about the environment in a prison courtyard
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
On This Day: "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt died in 2009
Albert Cashier: the Irish transgender hero of the American Civil War
Discovering America on my first Fourth of July as an Irish immigrant
July 4th: A time to remember forgotten Irish heroes in the US
On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
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- 2 Meet the Brennan clan, the Kilkenny name with a Viking king in its bloodline
- 3 Murphy leads Ireland's ten most common surnames and the meanings behind them
- 4 Meet the O'Haras, the Sligo clan that gave us cardinals, novelists and screen legends
- 5 Dingle still tops Ireland's must-visit list even without Fungie the dolphin
- 6 The 1922 fire destroyed millions of Irish records but these five sets survived
- 7 Orange Order march up in the air following protests
- 8 Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
- 9 Mackenzie Michalski: Loved ones remember American nurse murdered by Irish man