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One Readers Search for her Irish Ancestry.

With tens of millions of people around the globe claiming Irish heritage, there is a ever growing number of descendants wanting to trace their ancestors back to Ireland. In this letter we will follow one reader’s path to discovery.

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Blog 20 - Irish Homelands - County Laois/Queen's County

Irish Homelands – County Laois/Queen’s County

Welcome to the Irish Homelands feature for County Laois (formerly known as "Queen's County" up to 1922).


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An Irish Mentor

Céad Míle Fáilte – and you are very welcome to this week’s Letter from Ireland. It’s a bring day here in County Cork – and shaping up to be a very nice day for the sea and maybe a few photographs. I hope you are doing well wherever you are in the world today –…

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Is this the First Irish Canadian?

In last week’s letter from Ireland, we talked about the “Irish Diaspora” and I asked what part of the diaspora you came from. Well – the response was second to none (that’s very good in Irish parlance!). I spent until last Thursday reading replies that traced the tracks of many of your Irish ancestors. So…

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Born on the 4th of July

We’re coming into mid-summer in this part of the world – and there’s a grand stretch in the evenings, the light is staying until almost eleven o’clock at night. I hope things are well in your part of the world today? Last week, I mentioned that we have sent out over one million letters since…

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