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- 2 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 3 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 5 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
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- 7 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 8 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 9 All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
History
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Genealogy