Guglielmo Marconi was IRISH.

Irish!? Wait.

Guglielmo Marconi. One of the most famous Italians of modern times. How could he be Irish?

OK. Guglielmo Marconi was HALF Irish.

Marconi’s mother was Anne Jameson. Annie Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland. She was a granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers Jameson & Sons.

Marconi was born into the Italian nobility.

Annie Jameson was an aspiring opera singer. She travelled to Italy to study.
She met and married widower Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian aristocrat, while in Italy.

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marcon was born 25 April 1874 in Bologna, Italy. Living at Villa Griffone, near Bologna,.

Guglielmo Marconi was educated at home by a series of tutors. He spent time Ireland as youth and as child lived in England for about four years with his mother.
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While teenager, Marconi began working on ‘wireless telegraphy’.

Summer of 1895, Guglielmo, 21, made his first wireless over land transmission of 3 kilometers at Villa Griffone.

And radio was born.

Italy uninterested in Marconi’s work.

But England was.

In 1896 he traveled to London.

Sir William Preece, the chief electrical engineer of the British Post Office, supported Marconi’s work.Soon it was being tested by engineers

In 1987, Marconi made his first wireless transmission over the sea.

A test between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island off the County Antrim coast for insurance company Lloyds of London took place In 1898. This was the first commercial wireless telegraph transmission.

At the turn of the 20th century, Marconi began investigating sending transatlantic wireless messages to compete with the undersea telegraph cables.

Marconi set up wireless transmitting stations in Ireland and Canada to compete with transatlantic telegraph cables.

Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, County Wexford, in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall, England, and Clifden in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

Regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service begun on 17 October 1907 between Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland, and Glace Bay.

Marconi won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909.

The first trans-Atlantic wireless telephone conversation between Ballybunion, Co. Kerry and Louisburg, Nova Scotia took place in 1919.

On 17 December 1902, a transmission from Marconi’s station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, became the first radio message to cross the Atlantic from North America to Europe.

Marconi and his wireless are credited with the rescue of the 706 survivors of the Titanic’s sinking. The Titanic’s radio operators – Harold Bride and Jack Philips – were Marconi Company employees. Radio contact with the Cunard liner the Carpathia led to the rescue of the Titanic survivors.

Bride survived the Titanic disaster but was badly injured. Philips, the wireless operator on duty the night of the sinking, did not.

Marconi had been offered free passage on Titanic’s maiden voyage. But he had taken the Lusitania, which would be sunk by German U-boats in 1915, to New York.

Marconi also had another personal connection to Ireland.

While in England, he met Beatrice O’Brien (1882–1976), a daughter of Edward Donough O’Brien, the 14th Baron Inchiquin.

Beatrice O’Brien and Marconi were married 16 March 1905. They had three daughters and a son.

The Marconi family returned to Italy In 1913, joining Rome’s high society. Beatrice became a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elena.

Marconi and Beatrice divorced in 1924. Marconi had the marriage annulled in 1927 so he could remarry in the Catholic Church.

Marconi joined the joined the Italian Fascist party in 1923, just as the party rose to power.

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who used radio to spread the Fascist message, was Marconi’s best man when he married Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali in 1927.

In 1930, Mussolini made Marconi president of the Royal Academy of Italy, and a member of the Fascist Grand Council. Marconi was an advocate of fascist ideology.

He personally ensured that Jews were not appointed to the scientific society during his time as president. https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…

In 1937, while developing microwave technology, Marconi had a series of nine heart attacks.

He died in Rome on 20 July 1937, age 63.

Marconi’s remains are interred in an elaborate mausoleum adjacent to the 17th-century Villa Griffone/Villa Marconi, located in Pontecchio Marconi, outside Bologna in Emilia Romagna, Italy.

He didn’t not look like it or act like it. But Marconi was half Irish.