Behind the scenes in the National Library’s genealogy room: Various
20 May 2016The fun of the genealogy service in the National Library is that we never know in advance who we’ll meet, or what stories we’ll hear. Our job is to listen, to identify verifiable facts and events, and to guide enquirers in their research. The search never ends. As we start...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland, April 2016. Joe Buggy, Introduction to U.S. sources online
19 May 2016Outline: Introductory Genealogy Resources in the United States of America Almost 3.8 million people immigrated to the United States of America from Ireland between 1851 and 1921. Millions more arrived on the shores of North America in the decades and centuries before those years. Therefore, practically every Irish-born...
Civil Registration
17 May 2016Civil registration is a double edged sword. We are always delighted when our searches fall in to the time when we might find a birth, marriage or death for our ancestors. These records can often lead us to new learnings about our ancestors. Finding the correct civil record for ‘our’...
Tracing my Irish Ancestry: My Journey Home to Ireland
09 May 2016Tourism Ireland has made a short video about Irish-American blogger Gerry Britt’s ancestral search in Ireland. It’s an emotional watch as Gerry recalls how his mission to uncover his Irish roots began and watching his excitement as he tracks down the exact house and town where his ancestors lived. Uncovering...
Counting all the people: 200 years of Irish census
27 April 2016Sitting in traffic on the way home, an ad in the Irish language came on the car radio. Despite 14 years schooling in it, I’m not fluent, and had to concentrate to understand what was said: “take part in the census” and contribute to your future. At the time of...
Irish Family History Centre Opening May 7th as part of EPIC Ireland’s visitor experience.
21 April 2016On May 7th 2016 EPIC Ireland will open its doors to an exciting new visitor experience in the CHQ building on Dublin’s docklands. EPIC Ireland will be the home for the stories of 10 million men and women who are the roots of 70 million people from all walks of life. As part...
Expert Workshop in NLI, June 2015. Dr. Liz Rushen 19C Irish Women to Australia
19 April 2016Outline: Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the 1830s, a decade before the Great Famine. What was it like to migrate to the far ends of the known world at this time? How did they survive the rigours of the voyage? Did they ‘swing swang’ in hammocks...
PODCAST: The migration of Irish women to colonial Australia by Dr Liz Rushen
19 April 2016This podcast is a recording of The Expert Workshop talks organised by Ancestor Network and Eneclann that take place in the National Library of Ireland every month ( except for August and December), The following talk took place June 17th 2015. Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the...
Summer Talks, NLI 2015: Raymond Gillespie – Irish Census records
19 April 2016Outline: The house on Bunion Hill – an Irish census project How do you write local history? In the past people worked within a world of family and community. For that reason, genealogy is a very important resource for the local historian but is often forgotten about, as local historians...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Rob Goodbody, Ireland’s industrial heritage
19 April 2016Rob Goodbody What Industrial Heritage Outline: Renowned historical geographer, Rob Goodbody, discusses Ireland’s industrial heritage in the 19th and 20th Centuries. It’s a truism that Ireland never had much industry to speak of, so does Ireland have an industrial heritage? Rob Goodbody takes us beyond manufacturing industry, and looks at...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Ned Kelly – Bog bodies
19 April 2016The Secrets of The Bog Bodies Bog bodies are rare survivals of human remains from earlier times. The properties of bogs are such that, occasionally, bodies are preserved to an exceptional degree with hair, skin, hands, internal organs and other soft tissue intact. Prehistoric bog bodies found recently...
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...
