Barry of Forfar (Scotland), Glenageary (Dublin) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Barry of Forfar (Scotland), Glenageary (Dublin) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Beatrice Crawford, aka Bee Barry, was an aunt of Ethel Synge Ievers, my great-grandmother, who married Tim McClintock Bunbury, later 3rd Baron Rathdonnell. This is a brief study of the Barry family with whom she married. Complete access to all articles on this website...
Al Capone’s Irish Wife

Al Capone’s Irish Wife

The beautiful Mary Josephine Coughlin, known as ‘Mae’, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1897, the daughter of Michael Coughlin and Bridget Gorman of Ireland. Al Capone's father was Gabriele FitzGerald Capone ... so there seems to be Irish a-plenty on both sides....
Violet Gibson – The Irish Aristocrat Who Shot Mussolini

Violet Gibson – The Irish Aristocrat Who Shot Mussolini

The astonishing story of a Dublin-born gentlewoman, who attempted to assassinate Mussolini when she was fifty years old, and her connection to – and eventual rejection by - one of Ireland’s most distinguished legal families. Complete access to all articles on this...
The Irish in Chicago

The Irish in Chicago

By 1890, Chicago had the third highest population of Irish emigrants in the USA. The city's Irish-American heroes include Butch O'Hare, Captain Francis O'Neill, Richard Daley, Mother Jones and the men who built the I&M Canal. Complete access to all articles on this...
Harrison Ford – The Hollywood Carpenter

Harrison Ford – The Hollywood Carpenter

‘As a man, I've always felt Irish. As an actor, I've always felt Jewish.’ So declared Harrison Ford who, born in Chicago in 1942, was the grandson of John Fitzgerald Ford, an Irish Catholic émigré. Complete access to all articles on this website for €12 / year...