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DRAW MY PAST Competition

GENEius at the IFHC helps both primary and secondary students to take the first steps into their own family story through creativity, historical detective work/research and interactive workshops. Classroom materials can be provided where a group wants to carry out an extended class project. The sessions explore many themes, from cultural...

Are you looking in the right place? By Fiona Fitzsimons

Since 2013 I’ve written a column, ‘Kindred Lines’ for History Ireland magazine. It’s more “historian and the city,” than sex and the city”, but it nourishes my inner history nerd. In each issue, I take a different set of historical records and examine the evidence and its relevance to Irish family and...

Get Yourself Ready! You’re Going to be Filmed with Tattoo Legend Mark Mahoney … in 10 Minutes!

Irish American tattoo legend Mark Mahoney with Dr. Patrick Roycroft at the end of documentary filming in the Irish Family History Centre (Dublin) on 4 October 2018. Note microphone still in shot. Photo: Nicole Mahoney. My work day normally starts relatively relaxed. I cycle in to the Irish Family History...

IFHC involved in new History Channel series

Famous for his comedy alter-ego, ‘The Pub Landlord’, Al Murray, the award-winning comedian and history fanatic, will find out what lies behind England’s greatest feuds with its closest neighbours: Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and France. Each episode will see Al partner with a local comedian and proud patriot (Antoine de...

EXPERT WORKSHOP: Ned Kelly on Folk traditions and practice

On Friday 7th September, Ned Kelly gave an enlightening talk on folk traditions and practice in the historical and everyday present. The pre-Christian religious beliefs of the Irish were centered on sun worship and the main religious festivals were celebrated at important times in the solar year such as at...

Using School Registers in your research

It’s back to school in our house – my children have ipads, there is a school app which we can use to make payments and read school news. I imagine that the paper trail that children leave in schools, as everywhere else in life, is rapidly dwindling. I doubt that their...

Trinity course in Genealogy starting this month with Fiona Fitzsimons

Genealogy is based on the simple yet powerful premise that every person has a story worth knowing and recording for future generations. In 2017-18 Fiona Fitzsimons taught an Introduction to Genealogy at Trinity College Dublin. The course proved very popular, with plenty of positive feedback and students eager for more....

LAST CHANCE FOR FIND MY PAST OFFERS

Offers end 23rd September!   FindMyPast are running offers for both new and returning customers – see below for details.   New Customers:  30% off any Findmypast subscription Code: BTS30   UK   US   IE AU   Returning Customers:  10% off 12-month Findmypast subscription Code: FMPRET10   UK Not a...

Introduction to Irish Family and Social History

Irish Family and Social History – Intermediate

Dates can affect which record sets you should be looking in…

In order to search successfully for your family, you need to know what record sets are available from the timeframe your ancestor lived. A key date, for Irish families, is when civil registration of births began. Here I will just deal with births, as the situation with the recording of marriages requires...

A New TY Term for GENEius Pathways

While it is hard to believe we have another academic year kicking here in Ireland, the cogs are already turning over here at the Irish Family History Centre for another round of GENEius Pathways. Pathways is our extended Transition Year programme, and it introduces students of both Irish and international...