Irish Lives Remembered Issue 63

What is inside?

Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue...

• 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!

• 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

• 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)