Summer talks NLI, 2015: Paul Rouse – Sport
19 April 2016Outline: Sport and the Everyday in Ireland. There are aspects of Ireland’s sporting history that are uniquely Irish and defined by the peculiarities of life on a small island on the edge of Europe. The Irish sporting world is unique only in part, however; much of the history of Irish...
Summer Talks NLI 2015: Brian Donovan – tracing WW1 and Irish revolutionary ancestors
19 April 2016Outline: Irish Soldiers & Rebels: tracing WW1 and Irish revolutionary ancestors The years 1912-23 saw the deaths of over 75,000 from Ireland in armed conflict, from the fields of France to the streets of Dublin. Irish men and women took arms to fight for Irish freedom, to defend the...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2015: Seamus O Maitiu – Getting Started in Local History
19 April 2016Seamus O’Matiu Outline: Getting Started in Local History Seamus O’Matiu introduces a range of documents that can be used for the study of local history. He explains why local history can enrich our understanding of personal and family history. Listen here now Listen to all the podcasts from our...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2015. Dr. David Edwards: the Tudor Conquest
19 April 2016Outline: The Tudor Conquest of Ireland: Untold Stories The Tudor conquest shouldn’t be understood solely in terms of set piece battles, massacres and scorched earth policies.Between 1546 and 1603 English forces in Ireland engaged in low-level campaigns, garrisons and local patrols.From the 1560s garrison governments across the country used martial...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Prof Kevin Whelan, Maps
19 April 2016Kevin Whelan, Outline: Kevin Whelan considers a brief history of Irish maps, and how they can be used to document history from below. Maps are factual, but they also record peoples’ thoughts and impressions. Early maps are almost pictorial: from the first printed stand-alone map of Ireland in 1488;...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Andy Bielenberg – Was there a Protestant exodus from southern Ireland?
19 April 2016Andy Bielenberg Biography: Andy Bielenberg has undertaken the most in-depth demographic analysis of the decline in the Southern Protestant population, in early 20th Century Ireland. He concludes there was a much smaller rate of population decline as a result of targeting during and after the Revolutionary era, than the late Peter...
Expert Workshops NLI, December 2015. Abigail Rieley, criminal ancestors in historical records
19 April 2016Move over Sherlock: How to unmask a murderer (or any other criminal). Beyond family documents, criminal records can provide some of the richest genealogical records available. Legal History expert Abigail Rieley brings over 20 years professional experience as an author and court reporter, to her subject. Abigail discusses some famous...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Dr. Paul McCotter: Irish surnames
19 April 2016Outline: ‘Our surname is our oldest family heirloom, as the late Dr. Edward McLysaght once famously wrote. And this is nowhere more true than in Ireland, as the Irish invented surnames. To this day these remain a rich source of family history and pride, and the story of the evolution...
Summer Talks in NLI, 2015. Dr. Bruce Durie, Heraldry
19 April 2016Outline: Records of registrations of coats of arms – and the associated pedigrees – may be the only evidence there is of a lineage. This can help break down genealogical brick walls. But heraldry is often dismissed as difficult, recondite and of no contemporary relevance. Nonsense! Heraldry is a living science and art, and...
Summer Talks in the NLI, 2015. Eve Parnell, records of artists and craftsmen in Ireland
19 April 2016Eve Parnell Outline: In this podcast Eve Parnell describes the NIVAL* collections. The records are a treasury of evidence on the design studios, workshops and ateliers of small family businesses, working in the decorative arts in 19th and 20th Century Ireland; with some original material relating to artists in Ireland,...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland, September 2015. Hilary Tulloch: Records of the East India Company
19 April 2016As part of the Expert workshops series, Hilary Tulloch IGRS, gave a talk on Irish family history and the records of the India office in the National Library of Ireland. Have a listen to the podcast here. suitable for intermediate to advanced level Speaker: Hilary Tulloch The Lure...
Summer Talks in NLI, 2015. Dr. Charles Benson – the decline of the Irish language
19 April 2016In the early 1800s Galway was still a predominantly Irish speaking city, with low literacy rates. Dr. Benson considers the spread of children’s literature in English in the west of Ireland, and what it tells us about the slow decline of the Irish language in the 19th Century. Biography...
