Ireland History & Biography Records

By: Jean Rice

• Bronze age Rock Art  

• Peerage of Ireland Elected to Parliament  
  Surname: Nichols, Urban

• Poem about Ireland - "The Gentleman's Magazine," London, England - 1800 : 
  Surname: Sinnot, Urban, Greenwood

• The "Young Irelanders"
  Surname: O'Brien, Smith, Meagher, MacManus, Bellew, Martin, Mitchel, O'Donoghue, Duffy, Blake, Dillon, Davis, O'Gorman, Doheny, McGee, Izod, O'Doherty, D'Arcy, Gavan

• Some Irish History (1690s-1780s)  

• Resource for the Surname Barter - Ireland and Australia  
  Surname: Barter

• "The Emigrant Irish" -- Eavan Boland  
  Surname: Boland

• Irish Soldiers, San Patricio Battalion - Mexican-American War of 1845-47  

• "Missing" 1890 Massachusetts Information  

• Orphan Train Riders (USA)
  Surname: Callaghan, Keefe, Flanagan, Douthit, Beavers, Applequist, Colowsky, Comstock

• WWII U.S.S. "Mason" Veterans Return to Ireland
  Surname: Roberts, Graham, Banks, Peters, DuFauon, Kelly, Kennedy, Smith, Graham, Morrison

• "The Stare's Nest by My Window" - William Butler Yeats
  Surname: Yeats

• Little Known Resource - USA County Marriage Applications - Info. on Parents of Bride & Groom

• Surnames Derived from Nicknames
  Surname: Pollard, Luttrell, Mortell, Purcell, Ferriter, Bossher, Busher, Savage, Grace, Dollard, Codd, Cott, Magner, Magnier, Russell, Keating, Shortall, Sherlocke, Blake, le Blond, White, Keating, Woulfe, Browne

• Resource: Commonwealth War Graves Commission - WWI and WWII UK-Connected Deaths

• Griffith's Valuation, Ireland - Other Resources  
  Surname: Griffith

• Famine Female Orphans to Yass, New South Wales, Australia (1850)  
  Surname: Strutt, O'Brien

• Tracing Medical Ancestors - Ireland

• Famine-Related Resources - Irish Folklore Dept., University College, Dublin : 
  Surname: Bairead, Burke, Corduff, Delaney, Gaynor, MacEnri, Morna, Mulcahy, Murphy, O'Brian, O'Byrne, O'Connor, O'Donnell, O'Dubhda, O'Heochaidh, O'Keefe, O'Neill, O'Reilly, O'Sullivan, Wade, Walsh, Dorian, Schrier

• Newspapers, Journals, Periodicals - 1845-1848  
  Surname: Saunder, Gardiner, Thom

• Irish Immigration, Grosse Ile, Canada >> Maine, and Boston, Mass (1829-30s)  

• Life in the Poorer Irish Neighborhoods circa 1930s-40s

• MacBride's Brigade - Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War (South Africa)  
  Surname: MacBride

• Irish Men and Women in the Second World War
  Surname: Magennis

• Biographical Books (1999)
  Surname: Plunkett, Gifford, MacDonagh, Butler, Desmond, Mahon, Frantz, L'Estrange, Browne, Wogan, Clarke

• Contributions of the Irish in America  
  Surname: Drew, Shannon, O'Neill, Barrymore, Hayes, Hampden, Sullavan, Tracy, Fitzgerald, McLaglen, Dowling, Power, Crosby, Kelly, Carney, Gleason, Barry, Connelly, O'Keefe, Saint-Gaudens, Colum, Kilmer, Farrell, O'Hara, Murphy, O'Dwyer, Dwyer, Halloran, Sullivan, Stack, Smith, Kennedy

• The Surname MacLysaght
  Surname: MacLysaght, Lycette

• The Book of Kells  
  Surname: Jones

• Born to Paint: The Clarke Family of Artists
  Surname: Clarke, Crilly, McGonigal, McQuaid, O'Brien, Jellett, Orpen

• Jewish Personal Names

• Were your Irish Ancestors Quakers?  
  Surname: Abbot, Abell, Adair, Alexander, Allen, Baker, Banfield, Banks, Barclay, Barcroft, Barnes, Barrington, Beale, Bell, Bennis, Bewley, Birkett, Boake, Boardman, Boles, Bowles, Brocklesby, Browett, Butler, Calvert, Carleton, Carroll, Chandlee, Chapman, Chaytor, Cherry, Christy, Church, Clark, Clibborn, Cole, Cooper, Cotter, Courtenay, Creeth, Davis, Dawson, Deaves, Devonshire, Dickinson, Dillon, Dobbs, Douglas, Doyle, Druitt, Duckett, Dudley, Edmondson, Edmundson, Elley, Eustace, Evans, Eves, Fairbrother, Fayle, Fennell, Fisher, Fitzpatrick, Fitt, Forbes, Fox, Fuller, Gamble, Garratt, Garnett, Gatchell, Glynn, Goff, Goffe, Going, Goodbody, Gough, Green, Greer, Gribble, Grubb, Hall, Halliday, Handy, Hancock, Hanks, Harris, Harvey, Hatton, Haughton, Haydock, Heritage, Hewson, Hill, Hillary, Hogg, Hoope, Hoowe, Hudson, Hughes, Humphries, Hutchinson, Inman, Jackson, Jaffray, Jellicoe, Jenkinson, Jessop, King, Knott, Lamb, Leadbeater, Lecky, Lucas, Lynas, Maquillan, Malcolmson, Malone, Manders, Manliffe, Manly, Mark, Martin, Mason, Medcalf, Meyers, Miller, Milner, Moore, Morris, Morrison, Moss, Mullin, Murphy, Murray, Neale, Nevins, Newbold, Newenham, Newsom, Nicholson, Noble, O'Brien, O'Callaghan, Pattison, Pearce, Pearson, Peet, Penn, Penrose, Perry, Petticrew, Phelps, Philips, Pike, Pillar, Pim, Poole, Rhodes, Richardson, Ridgway, Roberts, Robinson, Rooke, Russell, Sandwith, Scott, Shackleton, Sikes, Simmons, Sinton, Smith, Smithson, Sparrow, Stephens, Stott, Strangeman, Strettell, Taylor, Thacker, Thomas, Thompson, Todhunter, Tolerton, Trapnell, Turner, Turtle, Unthank, Uprichard, Wakefield, Walker, Walpole, Walsh, Wardell, Waring, Watson, Webb, Wheddon, White, Whitfield, Whitten, Wigham, Wight, Wilcocks, Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, Wright, Woodcock, Woods, Wyle

• The IreAtlas Townland Database, etc.

• Medieval Monasteries

• Resource: Photographs, Data on Particular Irish Towns and Parishes - 1901, 1911, 1940s
  Surname: Farrell

• Irish Adoptees in Britain
  Surname: Fahey

• The Surname Nugent
  Surname: Nugent, Nogent, Wynchedon, Winsedon, de Nugent, de Wynchedon

• Ireland's South American Links
  Surname: Field, Fehilly, O'Higgins, Higgins, O'Donoju, Magellan

• Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania
  Surname: Gowen, Pinkerton, Love, Gwyther, Hurley, Jamas, Doyle, Sanger, Uren, McAllister, Flynn, Devine, Kane, Keenan, Gavin, Reagan, Burns, O'Neill, Gallagher, Smith

• John Roache, NYC Singer and Catalyst for Change (1870s)  
  Surname: Roache

• Irish Victorian Jewelry
  Surname: Hopkins

• "Tha shein ukrosh" - Indeed the hunger
  Surname: Bennett, Trevelyan, Monteagle, Hughes, Ingles

• Ireland -- Ninth through Twelfth Century Crosses

• Journal - William Elyard, Surgeon Supt., "John Bull," Cork to Sydney, 1821 - (Irish Convict Record)
  Surname: Elyard, Corlett, Lewis, Trevor, Cooper, Dipworth, Rechey, Wise, Moore, Weiss, Ryan, Montgomery, Piper, Erskine, Goulburn, Wemyss, Brisbane, Wade, O'Neill, Nolan, Bateson, von Mangerhausen, Burne, Hamilton

• New York's Mrs. Asenath Nicholson's Travels in Ireland (1840s)
  Surname: Nicholson, Musgrave, O'Connell

• The Irish In Victorian Britain  

• Irish Red Cross in France - WWII  
  Surname: Beckett

• "Oh, Those Scots-Irish!!!!"  
  Surname: Logan, Agnew, Hamilton, Taggart, Crockett

• New York's Branson de Cou's "Dream Pictures" of The Emerald Isle - 1930's : 
  Surname: de Cou, Heyder, Ray, MacDonagh, O Mahony, Mahony

• Extensive Landlord - William S. Clements (1805-1878)
  Surname: Clements, Burbage, McRann, O'Donnell, Gladstone, McElwee, Sheils, Leitrim

• The Irish In America - Volunteer Fire Companies and Militia (1800s)  

• Poet - John O'Donohue
  Surname: O'Donohue

• Cloone Soup-Shop Poster, Co. Leitrim, IR - Famine, 1846
  Surname: Hogg, Brennan, Crawford, Clements

• "Polly Woodside," Irish Immigration Commemorative Stamp  
  Surname: Woodside

• Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart  
  Surname: Cullen

• Abbreviations - 1900 US Federal Census  

• Civil War Era Letter - Emigrant from Dundalk, Co. Louth to the USA  
  Surname: Kelly, O'Kelly, Spalding, Sherwood, Young

• "MacDonald's Irish Directory"  

• William Butler Yeats - "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"  
  Surname: Yeats

• "The Emergency" - WWII (1939-1945)
  Surname: de Valera, McEntee, MacThomais

• Surname Prefixes

• Ellis Island - "Isle of Tears"  
  Surname: La Guardia

• Famine Memorial Site at Grosse Ile :
  Surname: Douglas, Mills, Power, Robinson, Copps

• British "Gentleman's Magazine": (1731-1907) - Important Events and Surname Indexes  

• Fr. Francis Mary Hegarty Browne - His Amazing Story  
  Surname: Browne, O'Donnell, Hegarty, Andrews, Harland, Wolff

• Irish Tinkers - Ireland's "Gypsies"

• Beautiful Celtic Revival Art  
  Surname: Lynch, Purser, Yeats, Hone

• Vikings Invade Ireland - 797 A.D.

• "Blackberry-Picking" - Seamus Heaney  
  Surname: Heaney

• Famous O'Sullivans  
  Surname: O'Sullivan, Sullivan, O'Neill, Cronin, Gilbert, Corbett, Farrow, Coppola, Kilrain, Adler

• Castle Garden - Immigration to NY between 1855 and 1890  
  Surname: Clinton, da Verrazano, Lind

• Ellis Island Immigration Museum - Passenger Records, 1892-1924  

• "Suitcase"  
  Surname: O'Farrell

• Saint Patrick's Church, Chicago - Beautiful Stained Glass Windows of Celtic Design  
  Surname: O'Shaughnessy, MacSwiney, Boru

• "Theresa's Friends"  
  Surname: Creeley

• "Londonderry Journal" ( 1770s-1780s)  
  Surname: Douglas, Rispan, French, Archdale, Duffe, Darcy, Donnelan, O'Brien, Irwin, Benson, Cox, Baillie, Saunders, Perier, Powerscourt, Wiley, Desart, Brown, Lecky, Mannin, Connor, Hamilton, Cary, Fitzgerald, Keenan, M'Keferty, O'Flinn, Cunningham, Shearer, Lawler, Griffin, Ohagan, Ferris, Piers, Gordon, Kennedy, Shiel, Cockran, Crilly, Cunningham, Wandesford, Creighton, Erne, Ash, Lockart, Wilson, Cook, Delap, Watt, Tiernan, Craddock, Power, Mulhollen, M'Carthy, Hickey, Grierson, Law, Coll, M'Award, Sherlock, Armstrong, Read, Carr, Denning, Savage, Brabazon, Sproul, Cook, King, Ledlie, Dunn, Quin, Roe, Moran, Casey, Penninton, Dudgeon, Harrold, Kelly, Whelan, Stapleton, Carney, Murray, Field, Devatt, Keating, Robinson, Maxwell, Ringland, Keenan, M'Kinley, Cassidy, Monaghan, Faulkner, Burden, M'Hendry, Washington, Riverston, Cooke, Mulhollen, Savage, M'Carthy

• Ireland - Provinces and Counties and Some Irish History Highlights  

• A Country Child's Christmas  
  Surname: Taylor

• Lament from Donegal - (1739)  
  Surname: O'Donnell

• "A Piper" - Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958)  
  Surname: O'Sullivan, Fowler

• Playwright Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)  
  Surname: O'Casey

• Given Names May Offer Clues  

• The "Macedonian and "Jamestown" - Carrying Relief Rations to the Famine Poor  
  Surname: Forbes

• Surname - Gough/Goff  
  Surname: Gough, Goff

• Surname - Williamson  
  Surname: Williamson, Williams, Willihelm

• Early Account Records - Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, New York/ Irish Emigrant Society
  Surname: Egan, Quinn

• Records - New York City's Nursery and Child's Hospital (1854-1934)

• Surviving the Iceberg, a Heroic Rescue - Famine Immigrants  
  Surname: Shaw, Fitzroy, Morse, Marshall

• Story of Medicine and Disease in Ireland
  Surname: Aikenhead, Swift, Wilde

• "The Women of 1798"  
  Surname: Tone, McCracken, Conolly, Dolan, Fitzgerald, Redmond

• Surname - Ahearn, Aherne, Ahern
  Surname: Ahearn, Aherne, Ahern, FitzGerald

• Records for the Coastguard

• Denis Mulcahy, NYPD - "Project Children"  
  Surname: Mulcahy

• Jewish Community in 20th Century Ireland  

• "A Dictionary of Irish Biography," by Henry Boylan  

• Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Irish Women's Franchise League (1908) - Biography : 
  Surname: Skeffington, Sheehy, Kettle, Cruise, O'Brien

• Irish Narratives
  Surname: Reynolds, Waters, Casey

• Immigrant Irish Labourers in Britain - "I Could Read the Sky"  
  Surname: O'Grady, Pyke

• Victory for Justice - Sprightly Centenarian, William Geary  
  Surname: Geary, O'Donoghue

• Irish School of Medicine  
  Surname: Corrigan, Cheyne, Stokes, Adams, Colles, Smith, Bennet, Houston, Wilde, Rynd, Crampton, McDonnell, Coakley, Jacob

• The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)  
  Surname: Herlihy, Larkin

• Irish in Queensland, Australia - "Pushing Up Shamrocks"  
  Surname: O'Lorcain, Farrelly, Fay, Fearon, Feehan, Feehely, Feely, Feeney, Ferricks, Fegan, Fell, Fennelly, Fenton, Ferguson, Fermoyle, Ferricks, Ferris, Fetherston, Fielding, Fihelly, Finglas, Finlay, Finn, Finnerty, Finney, Finnigan, Fisher, Fitzalan, Molloy, Hind, O'Connor, Galletly, Matheson, Crane, Kerwick, McClelland, Bull, Hansen, McPherc

• Pentony (de Repenteny) Surname  
  Surname: Pentony, deRepenteny, Ridley, Campbell, Graham

• Unusual Surname - Bowler  
  Surname: Bowler

• Women Scientists and Pioneers  
  Surname: Delap, Clerke, Longfield, Ball

• Fossett's Circus  
  Surname: Fossett, Powell

• Lawless Surname  
  Surname: Lawless, Lillis

• Plunkett Surname  
  Surname: Plunkett, Plucknett, Plumkett

• The O'Brien Sept
  Surname: O'Brien, Brien, O'Byrne, Brian, Bryan, MacBryan, MacBrine

• Quakers - At the forefront of famine relief

• Hewitt Surname -- Poet John Hewitt (1907-87), Co. Antrim/Co. Armagh
  Surname: Hewitt, Hew, Hiewett

• Tracing Your Ancestors in Northern Ireland

• Charles Gavan Duffy - "The Nation," Newspaper of the Young Irelanders
  Surname: Duffy, Davis, Dillon, Mitchel, Meagher

• Seamus Heaney, Mossbawn, Co. Derry - Nobel Prize, Literature (1995)
  Surname: Heaney, Devlin

• James Magennis, Belfast IRE/Bradford ENG - Royal Navy WWII, Winner of Victoria Cross
  Surname: Magennis, Whetstone, Gould, Maginnis, Fleming

   

   

   

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