The Compiled Military Service Records
01 September 2014As co-ordinator of the Twentyx20 genealogy talks in the NLI this summer, I had the enjoyable task of attending all the lunch-time talks, and meeting each of the speakers. One of the talks that really stood out for me, was by Damian Shiels who spoke on the Irish in the...
Meeting Princess Charlene in the Palace in Monaco
01 September 2014Last Winter Tourism Ireland commissioned Eneclann research expert Fiona Fitzsimons to research the Irish family history of Princess Charlene of Monaco. “At the outset, I had no preconceived ideas of what I might find during research” The Fagan family history. The Princess’s Irish ancestors were the Fagan family, probably...
George Clooney’s Kilkenny Connections
01 July 2014Using newly available records on www.findmypast.ie renowned genealogist Fiona Fitzsimons discovered Clooney’s Irish ancestors didn’t jump, but were pushed. Clooney’s Irish ancestors were small farmers from Windgap, co. Kilkenny. In the 1850s local farmers competed for land. This sometimes tipped-over into violence. New evidence proves that in 1852 Nicholas Clooney (George’s great...
‘Virtually every town and village had someone who died in the war’
01 May 2014As John Meagher from TheIndependent.ie discovers, researchers here at Eneclann are hard at work digitising the records of Ireland’s war dead so that they shall never be forgotten, Brian Donovan Eneclann Researcher and Director gives us his take on World War 1 and how “We owe it to these men who...
Eneclann guides Obamas through their Irish Family History Press Release
17 June 2013For immediate release Eneclann guides Obamas through their Irish Family History At lunchtime Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia Ann and Sasha, took part in a private genealogy event about the President’s Irish ancestors at a special exhibit at the Long Room in the Old Library in Trinity...
