Catherine Mulawka’s amazing family history “hunt” as she calls it could come straight off TV’s popular genealogy show ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ where celebrity guests trace their roots with often very surprising and, in her case, “surreal” results.

A regular visitor to Athlone, Catherine is keen to point out how instrumental the Feery family have been in her ancestral search which goes back a decade now, and recently resulted in a jaw-dropping discovery that she is a direct descendant of the so-called ‘Father of Republicanism’ Wolfe Tone, a patriot who is remembered every year at an annual graveside commemoration in…