The Connolly surname runs from the kings of Tara to a Glasgow comedy stage
Born in County Monaghan before the Normans landed, the name Ó Conghaile belonged to one of the Four Tribes of Tara and went on to be carried by a Georgian millionaire, a 1916 martyr, and a comic knight.
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