Roots
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Memorial to US Navy unveiled in Derry
Roger Casement, 1916 rebel executed on this day, denied hero status because he was gay
Harry Potter aka Daniel Radcliffe’s Northern Ireland roots revealed
149 years later, Civil War letters in attic reveal a famine Irish immigrant’s life
Irish-born US labor activist Mother Jones was a big influence on James Connolly
Victoria Cross won by Irishman in Australian WWI forces comes to Ireland after 80 years
I always knew I was an O'Sullivan at heart - Discovering my ancestry
Mystery of Irish World War II hero finally solved after six decades
A Mayo hero - NYPD cop and nine-time Olympic medalist
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 3 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 4 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 5 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 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
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s poet president who helped save the Irish language
Vital 25th Amendment, the work of an Irish emigrant’s son
On This Day: An Irishman was the first paid television preformer
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Genealogy
