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Showing posts with label Co Kilkenny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Co Kilkenny. Show all posts
19 May 2026

Comerford Library opens
at University of Virginia and
honours the memory of leading
lawyer James D Comerford

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The Comerford Library opened last week at the Center for Politics in the University of Virginia, Charlottesville Patrick Comerford The C...
14 October 2025

Sir William Robinson from
Westmeath is remembered
150 years later in streets and
developments in Singapore

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Modern Singapore has been strongly influenced by Irish-born governors, developers and architects (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick C...
27 May 2025

Kilbline Castle, near
Bennetsbridge, built
in the 16th century by
the Comerford family

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Kilbline Castle, near Bennettsbridge, Co Kilkenny … built by the Comerford family ca 1539, but confiscated in the 1560s (Photograph © The Ir...
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24 May 2025

Nicholas Comberford’s
maps of the ‘Bay of Mexico’
defy Trump’s delusions
about the ‘Gulf of America’

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Manuscript map of North America, ca late 1630s, pen and ink and watercolour on parchment (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund) … N...
30 June 2024

Ignacio Comonfort,
President of Mexico,
descended from the
Comerfords of Callan

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President Ignacio Comonfort (1812-1863), President of Mexico in 1855-1858 … he was a grandson of Joseph Comerford, born in Callan, Co Kilken...
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18 December 2023

Gerry Commerford,
aerospace engineer
who worked with NASA
on the Space Shuttle

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Gerard (Gerry) Lawrence Commerford (1934-2012) was an aerospace engineer who worked on the Space Shuttle Gerard (Gerry) Lawrence Commerfor...
04 February 2023

Pierce Comerford: the Irish
missionary who sent bones
of a Dodo back to Dublin

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Monsignor Pierce Michael Comerford (1818-1905) … while he was living in Mauritius, he donated parts of a Dodo to the RDS Museum in Dublin ...