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(...) third of the top 100 are now owned by the three biggest commercial players, Ancestry, MyHeritage and(...)

Tributes have been paid to George Moore (62), one of the most successful Irish-American businessmen of his generation, who died on Wednesday night. Photograph: UCD.
Irish-American businessman George Moore dies

(...) line of business, he bought into crystal and china through Erne Heritage Holdings, which owns Belleek(...)

Unesco calls halt to golf development near Giant’s Causeway

Northern Ireland Assembly which she believes should give full protection to World Heritage Sites. She(...)

A 1972 photograph of Sean ‘Faeilí’ Ó Catháin (front) and Maidhc ‘Léan’ Ó Guithín (back): two of the three cousins who rowed across Blasket Sound in a storm in 1947 to get a coffin for the deceased Seán Ó Ceárna. The man in the middle is Seán Ó Guithín. Photograph: From the Great Blasket to America – The Last Memoir by an Islander, published by the Collins Press
Last word from a lost island?

Mike Carney is not quite the last of the Mohicans. He is, however, one of the few surviving members of a famous tribe: the native-born Blasket (...)

Women cry after placing flowers near the scene of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby’s murder in Woolwich yesterday. Photograph: Reuters
Muslim Britain: a community viewed through prisms of security and paranoia

(...) that Pakistani-British and those with a Middle Eastern heritage, contrary to every public image of them(...)

Contributors to Stories from the Revolution

Nell Regan is a freelance writer, poet and educator. Her biography of Helena Molo(...)

James Goulden’s mother with his father, Sgt Henry Goulden of the RIC.
Excluded by history

The son of an RIC sergeant stationed in Co Mayo during the War of Independence, James Richard Weekes Goulden was intensely interested in the Wa(...)

Philip Walshe joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was killed in the Easter Rising.
‘Should the worst befall me . . .’

AS A TEENAGER in the 1980s, I knew my great-uncle Philip Walshe had been killed in the 1916 Rising. A book mentioning his name had its place on(...)

A prisoner under escort in Munster during the Civil War. Photograph: National Library of Ireland
Pivotal role in Kerry ‘Troubles’

On November 7th, 1915, Wexford defeated Kerry in the All-Ireland final. The previous evening Tim “Tadhg” Kennedy, a lieutenant in the Tralee co(...)

Sean Kavanagh (1897-1984), was a confidant of Michael Collins, commandant in the Free State army, and a governor of Mountjoy prison.
From spy to governor of Mountjoy

It was the possession of three letters in January 1921 that got Sean Kavanagh arrested by the Auxiliaries in Dublin’s Royal Exchange Hotel on P(...)

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