From the files of the DIB…Paraguay’s Irish ‘national heroine’

LYNCH, Eliza Alicia (1834–86), mistress of Francisco Solano López (dictator of Paraguay, 1862–70), was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, the eldest of at least three children of John Lynch, a […]

Latin America: the region that Ireland forgot

This special issue of History Ireland on Ireland and Latin America serves to highlight the interesting and diverse range of links between these two parts of the world. At the […]

Revd William Martin and the Reformed Presbyterian Church

Born in Ballykelly, Co. Derry, in 1729, William Martin was remarkable for being the first Irish-born minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, which had been introduced by Scottish settlers in […]

Irish Tenement life in New York city

Joseph and Bridget Moore may not be household names but they were real people, Irish immigrants who lived in 1869 at 97 Orchard Street, in New York’s Lower East Side. […]

Che in Kilkee

‘As a 16-year-old in the summer of 1962 I was working in the bar of the Marine Hotel, Kilkee, Co. Clare, when who walked through the door but Che Guevara […]