Aug 11, 2021
Considered one of the finest governors of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the island’s history, Sir William’s legacy is complicated by the appalling treatment of Tamil labourers, as well as the Gregory Clause in Ireland during the Great Hunger. His wife was the...
Aug 11, 2021
A veritable Irish desperado if ever there was one, Billy the Kid was born ‘Henry McCarty’, the son of an Irish emigrant, and raised amid the ramshackle tenements of New York’s Lower East Side before he headed off to the Wild West. Become a member of...
Aug 11, 2021
Bishopscourt, County Kildare, 1815. Daniel O’Connell was only a split-second slower than John D’Esterre. Ordinarily that should have cost the 40-year-old Kerry barrister his life. But D’Esterre pulled his trigger too soon and, to the astonishment of the witnesses, the...
Aug 11, 2021
The rise, fall and rise of the Ponsonby family during the 18th century when one became Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, their rivalry with the Boyle family, and the intermediary role played by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire. Become a member of...
Aug 11, 2021
FAMILY ROOTS: OF KIRKS & MASONS Daniel Robertson, the eccentric and prolific architect who built Lisnavagh House (1846-49) near Rathvilly in County Carlow, Ireland, was an American of Scots origin. Lisnavagh was his last commission before his death...
