Roots: The Lynches of Galway
The Lynch family crest, flanked by Che Guevara (left), whose father was a Lynch, at Shannon Airport, and director David Lynch (right). The Lynch family crest, flanked by Che Guevara (left), whose father was a Lynch, at Shannon Airport, and director David Lynch (right). By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
The name Lynch, which is ranked among the 100 most common names in Ireland, originates with several different clans, and is most frequently traced back to the anglicization of the old Irish name Ó Loinsigh, and the less-numerous Norman de Lench family. The de Lench arrived in Ireland from France during the 12th century and became the most prominent of the 14 Norman families that made up the “Tribes of Galway,” who controlled the city’s trade and maintained its status as a rare loyal outpost in the west of Ireland to the British crown. The landmark Lynch Castle, constructed in 1320, remains under the family’s o
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For two years British sculptor Piers Secunda has painstakingly worked hard to restore and replicate many of the priceless treasures destroyed by ISIS.
Now an exhibition of his work,
Owning the Past: from Mesopotamia to Iraq, has opened at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
ISIS looted and destroyed thousands of ancient artefacts
in museums and at the Nirgal Gate, one of several entrances to Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire.
One of worst hit areas, was Iraq’s second largest museum the Mosul Museum, which contained ancient Assyrian relics. The exterior of the damaged Mosul Museum in northern Iraq. Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP