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I received the following last week from one of our readers, Nancy Ireland: The surname is Ireland.  It is so hard to research the name Ireland !  My husband has always wanted to know who was the first in his family to come to the United States from Ireland. I have located his…
Read More2.1 Million Australian citizens who identified themselves as being of Irish ancestry in the 2011 census. When I hear from our Australian readers, there is often at least one story of “transportation to a penal colony” in their ancestry.
Read MoreLast week I was invited to a dinner at Dublin’s Trinity College on a beautiful summer’s evening. Have you been there? As dusk fell we went for a walk among the grounds before the formality of the speeches and dinner. A sign caught my eye: “This way for the Book of Kells”. There we were, just…
Read MoreThe following is an Irish Story submitted by Chuck Real as part of a Reader Story competition.Â
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