News Digest: Mar 2017.

Fiona Fitzsimons explains 10 Things you Need to Know When Starting Irish Genealogy Research by

https://blog.findmypast.ie/10-irish-genealogy-tips-2308941972.html

 

From the New York Times:

A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/georgetown-university-slaves-life-campbell.html?_r=0

 

Ceremony honours women and girls sent to Australia

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ceremony-honours-women-and-girls-sent-to-australia-35500894.html

 

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL | March 16th

Smock Alley Theatre 1662

Is your head full of fun facts? Would you be the phone-a-friend in your group? Then come on down to support Smock Alley’s Fundraiser – Let’s Get Quizzical.

https://smockalley.com/lets-get-quizzical/?mc_cid=b0e5cc319c&mc_eid=82fed09ff9

 

WIT’S END | 14-18 March

Wit’s End’ is the latest installation by artist Christina Reihill, which explores the nature, questions, and desires of soul, through the life, work and death of the celebrated American writer Dorothy Parke.

https://smockalley.com/wits-end/?mc_cid=b0e5cc319c&mc_eid=82fed09ff9

 

VAMPIRELLA | 21,23-25 March

Set in 1914, Angela Carter’s story tells of Hero, an English soldier on a cycling holiday in the Carpathian Mountains, who seeks shelter in a lonely castle where he meets and disarms the beautiful vampire Countess.

https://smockalley.com/vampirella/?mc_cid=b0e5cc319c&mc_eid=82fed09ff9

 

Replant your Irish roots this St. Patrick’s Day

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/replant-your-irish-roots-this-st-patrick-s-day

 

Ulster Historical Foundation US lecture tour

The Ulster Historical Foundation (www.ancestry.com) is shortly about to commence its annual talks tour in the United States, which takes place March 3rd-22nd 2017.

http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2017/02/ulster-historical-foundation-us-lecture.html

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