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- August 4, 2020
The writer worked with Beckett and Joyce, and fought against racism

- July 28, 2020

- July 22, 2020
EJ Dillon counted Tolstoy and Dostoevsky among his personal aquaintances

- July 14, 2020
Mary Mooney became an icon in a campaign for US political prisoners in the early 1930s

- June 22, 2020
James Talbot, from Malahide, coordinated a spy network that stretched from St Petersburg to Lisbon

- June 16, 2020
Irish soldier John O’Reilly married African American nurse Salaria Kea in 1937

- June 12, 2020
The story of an Irish migrant who was part of both Native American and European society

- June 1, 2020
George Barrington, from Co Kildare, gained a reputation for his colourful escapades as a thief

- May 26, 2020
The performer sang alongside some of the great American jazz musicians

- May 15, 2020
At the height of the gold rush, Samuel Brannan was earning $150,000 a month

- April 20, 2020
William Macnaghten could have been a renowned in the legal profession in his native Ulster

- April 7, 2020
Extraordinary Emigrants: The Galway man was known as ‘quick tempered and tender-hearted’

- February 18, 2020

- February 11, 2020
Politician Thomas Wyse was one of only five Catholics to win a seat in the House of Commons in 1829

- September 3, 2019
John Purroy Mitchel was elected age 34 with the highest share of the vote ever recorded

- June 21, 2019
First St Patrick’s day celebrated on 1891 in a roofless mud-hut building with whiskey, gin and ham

- June 5, 2019
Cathleen Monahan became a medic and trained generations of Hong Kong doctors

- May 27, 2019
William Holmes McGuffey's books sold more than 120 million copies

- May 22, 2019
Sr Gabriel Hogan provided education for children whose needs would otherwise have been neglected

- May 17, 2019
Extraordinary Emigrants: Writer was a chronicler of her class in its dying days

- April 2, 2019
Clever songsmith’s irreverent wit was informed by his fluent Irish

- March 26, 2019
William Hobson was implicated in the transfer of land from Maori to profit settlers

- March 19, 2019
Irish military migrants sought opportunities in the expanding Russian Empire

- March 12, 2019
Letters offer valuable account of loneliness of settler life in the 19th-century

- March 5, 2019
She was also a sports journalist, travel writer, novelist, and plantation owner

- February 26, 2019
Before tractors, Ferguson was first in Ireland or Britain to build and fly his own plane

- February 20, 2019
Lizzie Halliday, serial killer from Co Antrim, was dubbed ‘the worst woman on earth’

- February 12, 2019
Pierce Butler was one of three Irish immigrants to sign the US Constitution in 1787

- February 5, 2019
General Laval Nugent led 8,000 soldiers into Italy to depose ‘First Horseman of Europe’

- January 29, 2019
Surgeon to the British army became a celebrity after bloody expedition to rescue governor

- January 22, 2019
Character was a comic staple on stage: sentimental, buffoonish, cowardly but popular

- January 16, 2019
Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

- January 9, 2019
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death

- January 2, 2019
Monaghan-born Lee became prominent suffragist and advocate for asylum residents

- December 26, 2018
Architect designed two houses for Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, linked by a bridge

- December 19, 2018
Forgotten Kilkenny player was the first non-American to win the title

- December 11, 2018
Irish nurse still has cardboard Christmas crib she brought to England in 1954

- December 5, 2018
Son of Irish immigrants with ‘more brawn than brains’ won 51 victories in 82 fights

- November 27, 2018
London-Irishwoman was a trade unionist, socialist, and later an Indian nationalist

- November 20, 2018
Hart harnessed early tragedy to become a publisher, writer, poetry promoter and television producer

- November 13, 2018
Durack caused scandal by rejecting the modest woollen swimsuit for a close-fitting one

- November 7, 2018
Daughter of Irish couple became Belgrade’s first taxi driver after Armistice