Dublin-born Veronica Guerin took on Dublin’s crime gangs as an investigative journalist for the “Sunday Independent” in the 1990's. Her accounting expertise helped her trace financial transactions, revealing the involvement of influential drug lords.

By 1070, William began a significant Norman reform of the Church. He replaced Anglo-Saxon bishops and abbots with Normans. They became feudal lords over church property.

William the Conqueror could also be called William the Disruptor, as he reordered women’s rights, the Church, social structure, the treasury, and forestry.

Anna Maria Weems, alias "Joe Wright," escaped enslavement in 1855 with the help of William Still and other abolitionists.