Summer 2025 Irish Lives Remembered

Summer 2025 Irish Lives Remembered

The latest issue of Irish Lives Remembered is now available!


As always, it contains a wealth of articles on Irish lives—recent and distant—and a trove of genealogy tips to help you with your research.

  Articles: 
  • Eamonn P. Kelly – St Brendan: The Seafaring Saint Who Found Paradise
  • Brigit McCone – Irish on Ice: Arctic Explorers of Erin
  • Fiona Fitzsimons – Shania Twain: the Celtic Pedigree of Canada's Queen of Pop
  • Brian Mitchell – Alexander Ector Orr: “Father of the New York Subway”
  • Fiona Fitzsimons – ILR Interview: Sandra Delamere and Maeve Foreman on Dublin's AIDS Crisis
  • Helen Moss – The Diceman Cometh Home: Tracing Thom McGinty's Wicklow Ancestry
  • Katharine Simms – Saints and Scholars: the O'Hickeys and Other Hereditary Medical Clans
  • Deirdre Powell – Kathleen Mary O'Rourke – Health and Fitness Pioneer
  • Donna Rutherford – Cousins bythe Dozens: Managing DNA Matches Without Losing Your Mind!
  • Rob Flanagan Stieglitz – Chronology of a Chromosome 2: My Matrilineal Journey from Africa to Ireland!
Regular columns: 
  • Heritage Highlight – Craggaunowen Castle & Crannóg
  • Dear Genie – Can Grandfather Brownless' Birth Family Be Found? [Fiona Fitzsimons answers a reader’s genealogy query]
  • Dear Genie – Finding a Family Member's Final Resting Place [Fiona Fitzsimons answers a reader’s genealogy query]
  • Emerald Roots Interview – Helen Moss, Senior Researcher, Irish Family History Centre
Books and Films:
  • Brigit McCone reviews Frontier (created by Rob and Peter Blackie, 2016-18)
  • Four Courts Press Book Excerpt – Irish Nurses in the NHS: An oral history, by Louise Ryan, Grainne McPolin and Neha Doshi (2025)

Read Issue 63 Here