Talks in the Genealogy Room, NLI, Kildare St., at 1pm every Tuesday and Thursday,Commencing Tuesday 26th July, concluding Thursday 8th September.
Curated by Fiona Fitzsimons of the Irish Family History Centre, the Summer Talks @NLIreland features a glorious gallimaufry of guest speakers exploring aspects of Irish Family History.
Sinead McCoole
Mná – 25 years of searching – lessons & leads
Date: July 26th
Time: 1.00pm
Dermot Bolger
A reading from his new novel – The Lonely Sea and Sky, followed by a talk.
Date: July 28th
Time 1.00pm
Paul McCotter
Territory, maps and genealogy
Date: August 2nd
Time: 1.00pm
Fiona Fitzsimons
Explorations in Irish genealogy.
Date: August 4th
Time: 1.00pm
Liam Breen ( signed talk)
Cormac Leonard (interpreter)
A history of Deaf culture in Ireland
Date: August 9th
Time: 1.00pm
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
“The selkie’s skin” : How Irish oral traditions preserve family and local history
Date: August 11th
Time: 1:00PM
Eleanor Fitzsimons
Wilde’s women: How Oscar Widle was shaped by the women in his life.
Date: August 16th
Time: 1.00PM
Damien Shiels
The Forgotten Irish: Revealing the voices of Irish 19th Century Emigrants
Date: August 18th
Time: 1.00PM
U.S. Ambassador O’Malley
Irish American identity: How do we sustain the people to people links between Ireland and the United States?
Date: August 23rd
Time: 1.00PM
Aoife O’ Connor
Seen ? Heard ? Records of children in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Date: August 25th
Time: 1.00PM
Clodagh Tait
“The Simple annals of my parish poor”: stories from parish registers
Date: August 30th
Time: 1.00PM
Nora White
Ogham Stones: Our earliest genealogical sources
Date: September 1st
Time: 1.00PM
Joe Buggy
Ten free websites for U.S. genealogy research.
Date: Sept 6th
Time: 1.00PM
prof. Dan Bradley
Adventures in ancient DNA: Who were the first Irish?
Date: September 8th
Time: 1:00pm