A quick glance at the surnames in Marion Davies’s family tree shows that the major ancestral influence was Ireland.

When it came to his ancestry, there was so much more to Richard Harris than just Limerick or even Ireland.

Claire Trevor's Irish grandparents were Robert Morrison and Mary Chambers. Appropriately both came from Holywood (the one in Co. Down).

Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke had Yorkshire ancestry. His father Joshua was born in Leeds in 1859 to Godfrey Clark & Fanny Naylor

128 people recorded China as their place of birth in the 1901 Census. By 1911 that figure was little changed. Only 2 had Chinese names.

The writer of A Room with a View and Howard’s End had Irish ancestry through his father, Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster.

Diana Rigg maintained that Yorkshire shaped her character greatly. But records show that Rigg's ancestors had ancient Lancashishire roots.

One of the handful of individuals who concealed Lord Edward Fitzgerald when he went into hiding from March to May of 1798 was Henry Kennedy

During his time in New Orleans in the 1880s, Lafcadio Hearn wrote extensively about all aspects of Créole culture, including its cuisine

For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen- Belsen Camp, Historyeye charts the life of an Irish doctor who was there, P.J. Fox.

The printer and businessman Charles Wisdom Hely (1857-1929) lived at Oakland, now St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, along with his wife Edith...

Patrick Kenny was the gardener at Herbert Hill and he and his Wexford-born wife,Margaret Rossiter, occupied the Gate Lodge there in 1911

James Robinson was the owner of Dublin’s Herbert Hill, one of the last large-scale demesne sites in Dundrum to be developed recently

Dublin is lucky to be the hometown of Irish stained glass artist, Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Here is a suggested tour of Harry Clarke sites.

Elizabeth O'Kelly (née Sykes) left 30 million euros to several Irish charities in her will. Historyeye charts her family background.

Here is a reminder of the turbulent Dublin neighbourhood that may have shaped Bram Stoker's imagination as a child.

Recent weather conditions bring to mind the old townland of Ballymadrought in the parish of Swords, containing two small parks known as...

There was nothing remarkable about the 84th annual Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition which opened on the 3rd of March, 1913, at 34 Lower...

Historyeye looks at the history of Exchequer Street to find that much of what this commercial street in Dublin 2 was traditionally known...