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Irish v English prizefighters: eye-gouging, kicking and sword fighting
Fighting bouts in London during the 18th century were extremely different to contemporary boxing matches
The life of the Irishwoman who was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame
Black rights pioneer, Margaret Murray Washington, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant sharecropper
The Irish LGBTQ diaspora: Dusty Springfield, Eileen Gray, Fr Bernárd Lynch
To mark Pride week, Jessica Traynor celebrates some LGBTQ+ members of the diaspora
‘When I moved here four years ago, I quickly felt Dublin was my spiritual home’
Four poets on how they take ‘home’ with them wherever they go
Elizabeth Bowen, the Big House heiress with the ‘constricted mind’
Extraordinary Emigrants: Writer was a chronicler of her class in its dying days
‘Why did I leave Ireland? I left Ireland because it was bloody lonely!’
Extraordinary Emigrants: Dave Allen became a role model for a generation of comedians
Maggie Cline, Vaudeville Queen who based career on Ireland despite never having been
Her performances included jokes about her weight, and playing the sad Irish colleen
The Irish naval officers in imperial Russia
Irish military migrants sought opportunities in the expanding Russian Empire
‘Bad Bridgets’: The criminal and deviant Irish women convicted in America
Lizzie Halliday, serial killer from Co Antrim, was dubbed ‘the worst woman on earth’
The Carlow man who became a US founding father (and one of the biggest slave owners)
Pierce Butler was one of three Irish immigrants to sign the US Constitution in 1787
Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman to cross Africa
Surgeon to the British army became a celebrity after bloody expedition to rescue governor
Tyrone Power, the actor who humanised the ‘stage Irishman’ stereotype
Character was a comic staple on stage: sentimental, buffoonish, cowardly but popular
The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London
Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death
How treasured objects help us create a home away from home
Irish nurse still has cardboard Christmas crib she brought to England in 1954
‘Cinderella Man’ James Braddock, the Irish-American boxer who became world champion
Son of Irish immigrants with ‘more brawn than brains’ won 51 victories in 82 fights
Annie Besant, the first woman to endorse birth control
London-Irishwoman was a trade unionist, socialist, and later an Indian nationalist
Josephine Hart, writer and ‘heroine’ who inspired Herstory
Hart harnessed early tragedy to become a publisher, writer, poetry promoter and television producer
The Irish-American who invented the modern tattoo machine
Samuel O’Reilly’s invention made him famous and revolutionised the tattoo industry
Peg Woffington, the best Irish actress of the 18th century
Charismatic star was as well known for dating men as playing them on stage
The Irish woman who became ‘prisoner’ of a Russian princess
Martha Wilmot published the memoirs of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova
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