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The O’Neills of Ireland – Fact and Fiction
The following is an Irish Story submitted by Mary O’Neill Leidner as part of our 2015 Reader Story competition. The winner of the competition will be announced on February 14, 2015. Please do feel free to leave your comments, questions – and encouragement! in the comment section at the end of the story. ~Mike Collins. The […]
Continue readingThe Top 100 Irish Surnames
Do you know the Top 100 Irish Surnames? How about the Top 10? Where do you go to find out? You could check in the census returns – but what we do here at Your Irish Heritage is a little different. Whenever someone signs up for our newsletter, we ask them to provide us with […]
Continue readingThe Surnames of County Cork
Our readers surnames from County Cork! Deep breath – there are a lot of them here – is your County Cork surname among them? Like to add your County Cork surname to our list? Just – and we’ll let you know how to join in the fun.
Continue readingThe Surnames of County Armagh
Our readers surnames from the County Armagh. Is your County Armagh surname here? Let me know in the comment section below if you would like yours added. Like to add your County Armagh surname to our list? Just
Continue readingThe Tribes of Ireland – Ireland at the Birth of Your Irish Surname.
In last week’s newsletter we introduced Turlough O’Connor – High King of Ireland up to 1156. If Turlough was in the habit of reading maps back at that time, he might look at his kingdoms through the lens of this map – showing the major Tribes of Ireland at his time. Now, let’s take a […]
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