Eve Parnell on RTE’s A Living Word.
01 February 2016A Living Word is RTE Radio 1′s long-standing two-minute daily meditation, broadcast Monday to Friday each week. Listen to hear Eve’s thoughts on the folklore and mythology surrounding St. Bridget – one of Ireland’s patron saints. Although Bridget is an ancient figure, she is recognised by several traditions; she spans many cultures and many...
Saint’s Days and Baby’s Names.
01 January 2016Genealogists place a great importance on the naming patterns within a family, they can give us clues as to the names of the paternal and maternal grandparents. It’s also worth bearing in mind, however, that children were often named after a saint if they were born on or close to...
How to Avoid an Illicit Marriage: Marriage Banns
01 January 2016The tradition of marriage in Ireland has evolved significantly over the years. By the 17th century, there was more than one process for entering into marriage, including the reading of marriage banns. Reading wedding banns is an ancient legal step involving the public announcement of an upcoming marriage. This is...
Marriage Records.
01 January 2016Recent searches have put the spotlight on recorded addresses on marriage records. Over a number of separate cases, the question arose as to how much weight we might attach to the address given for the bride or groom as to its being their likely place of origin. One of the...
Three Summer Schools on offer from ACE at University College Cork
01 January 2016Ancestral Connections: Irish Genealogy Summer School -26 June – 2 July 2016 Have you developed an interest in tracing your Irish roots? If so then the Irish Genealogy Summer School at UCC:,Ancestral Connections 2016 is right for you. Running from the 26th of June to the 2nd of July by the...
The 2016 Forensic Institute has moved
01 January 2016The 2016 Forensic Institute has moved! It will be held from Thursday – Saturday, 10-12 March 2016 at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The hotel is adjacent to the Alamo, the River Walk, excellent restaurants, and many other exciting and unique San Antonio attractions. The Institute starts with a two special...
Searching for a clue in a phone directory
01 December 2015For the most part genealogists are immersed in 19th century newspapers, parish registers, estate papers, etc., in the hunt for an elusive ancestor. Sometimes however a search can be in the not too distant past, and often that search can be just as difficult! So where do we turn to if...
Ireland XO Volunteer of the Year 2015
01 December 2015Ireland Reaching Out, NLI, Minister Deenihan Dec 2015Caption Ireland Reaching Out is delighted to announce Tim Lee as Ireland XO Volunteer of the Year for 2015. Tim is the local diaspora contact for Bournea in County Tipperary and one of more than 500 active volunteers all over Ireland who are...
Eneclann Helps Ireland’s Mineral Heritage Project
01 December 2015Genealogy and geology make curious bedfellows, but the two subjects lay happily side-by-side for the summer of 2015. And it was Eneclann who acted as matchmaker. In the May 2015 Eneclann Newsletter, the call went out asking for genealogists and historians to help on a project that was to use the...
History Ireland
01 December 2015Kindred Lines at History Ireland In August 2013 the magazine asked our own Fiona Fitzsimons to author a regular column on family history, which she has been doing ever since. Fiona has taken a different tack to the topic from what you are likely to read elsewhere. Her starting premise...
648 Billion Sunrises: A Geological Miscellany of Ireland
01 November 2015Patrick Roycroft at the display stand – happy Patrick is a geologist and an editor with the international geology magazine Elements, but also an amateur genealogist. In his new book, this latter interest shines through. For example, Patrick reveals the full name and background of ‘Miss Cotter’, the hitherto mysterious...
Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania by Joan Kavanagh and Doianne Snowden
01 November 2015Wicklow historian Joan Kavanagh has teamed up with Australian author and academic Dr Dianne Snowden for a new book titled Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania. Australian Ambassador to Ireland Dr Ruth Adler was guest of honour at Wicklow’s Historic Gaol recently for the launch of the book...
