Eve Parnell’s new exhibition
22 December 2016In January 2017 Irish artist Eve Parnell’s new exhibition will be Opened in the Humboldt University in Berlin, by H.E. The Irish Ambassador to Germany, Michael Collins ‘History is written by the Victors’ but in between the pages we can find facts and stories that should be re-discovered; research is like...
VIDEO: How our website can help you with your research
21 December 2016Irish genealogy is well known as the ultimate brick wall. Here at the Irish Family History Centre we have created this new innovative website to make things easier for our customers on their path to finding their Irish roots. This video gives you a clear Idea of how it...
The Schools’ Collection
19 December 2016The schools collection held in the Folklore Collection in UCD and digitised on https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes, is a collection of folklore written up by Irish pupils from 5,000 primary schools between 1937 and 1939. I have referred to it before but having just looked at it recently I feel it’s worth recommending...
News Digest: Dec 2016
16 December 2016Irish Family History Centre raise €565 for the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation at Expert Workshop A letter from the foundation mentions; ” On behalf of the trustees and all the families under the wing of Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all...
Christmas customs/First forays in genealogy.
15 December 2016The sending of greeting cards at Christmas was, in my family, the preserve of my mother. Everyone was shoo -ed out of the way, television and radio switched off, dining table cleared of all clutter and then a frantic search for The Address Book. My siblings would then smartly do...
Family Stories from the Visitor Centre
15 December 2016Not the Heritage Expected. Arthur Meredyth from Kildare and Venetia Baxter from Dublin. Or Were They? Family stories, when peered into with some rigour, can unearth some major surprises. This is one of those. On Saturday, September 23rd 2016, a fascinating English couple arrived in to the Irish Family History...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland 2016, Brian Hollinshead, Mapping townlands and other boundaries old and new.
13 December 2016Synopsis Brian will describe the OpenStreetMap Resource with particular reference to the related task, now complete, of tracing by hand the 60,000+ Townlands, by dedicated volunteers and the useful townland database with individual maps. He will give an overview of the OpenStreetMap Project including: What is OpenStreetMap, who makes it...
Behind the scenes in the National Library’s Genealogy Room: Carmel Gilbride
09 December 2016There is nothing like a session in the Library to bring home just how individual families can be. Whilst we study families and try to deduce patterns at play, each individual story shows the wonderful diversity of our families. Listening, as I do each week, to visitors to the library,...
The Settlement Patterns of Families
08 December 2016With a great deal (but not all!) civil certificates online, now, at our fingertips we have a wealth of easily accessible records. There is so much we can do with these easily accessed records that it is difficult to know which direction to run in first. One recurring and thorny...
Summer talks in the National Library of Ireland: Dr. Nora White, Ogham Stones – our earliest genealogical sources
07 December 2016Our very earliest recording of personal and kindred names occurs, not as you might expect in vellum manuscripts, but on stone: Ogham stones. Over four hundred inscriptions in the ogham alphabet record the names of our ancestors hundreds of years before genealogies were written in manuscripts. Some of these names...
News Digest: December 2016
07 December 2016Luck of the Irish” how 250 convicts survived shipwreck en route to Australia https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/luck-of-the-irish-how-250-convicts-survived-shipwreck-en-route-to-australia David Monahan’s ‘Beyond Leaving’ at the National Photographic Archive https://www.irishartsreview.com/leinster/
Stories within Artefacts
30 November 2016Fr. Willie and the 8th Army Chaplains – Copyright, Fiona Fitzsimons By Fiona Fitzsimons Photographs can prompt conversations, but artefacts contain stories within them, and give us an immediate connection to the past Photographs can spark off conversations, but what about artefacts -personal and family mementoes that...
