Feisty Nichola Ann Cooke: emigration to Melbourne in the 1830s, not for the faint-hearted
06 March 2020Elizabeth Rushen will be giving a talk at the Irish Family History Centre when she visits Dublin this June. Dr Liz Rushen is a Melbourne-based historian who has written extensively on nineteenth-century migration to Australia. *** Feisty Nichola Ann Cooke: emigration to Melbourne in the 1830s, not for the faint-hearted* When...
News cuttings: Plaque Reveal at Fagan’s Castle (Fingal Independent)
06 March 2020Eamon Madden of Feltrim Hill, sent us in this news-clipping from the Fingal Independent. The occasion was excavations on Fagan’s Castle and Feltrim House in north co. Dublin. Feltrim House was the ancestral seat of the Fagan family, merchant-princes of Dublin in the 1600s. In 2015 Genealogist Fiona Fitzsimons made headlines when...
Youth Connect in Kerry
21 February 2020In January we were delighted to run more Irish Family History Centre workshops, and had the pleasure of being hosted by the fantastic team at Kerry County Museum in Tralee. Earlier in the academic year we teamed up with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, SIPTU...
Genealogy and Geology Combine again in Patrick Roycrofts paper on Donegalite
07 February 2020Figure 1 The “donegalite” specimen from the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History showing the original label from ‘C.R.C. Tichborne’ and a modern museum label for this mineral specimen. Photo: Patrick Roycroft. Dr Patrick Roycroft is both a genealogist at the Irish Family History Centre (CHQ Building, Dublin) and...
Herstory: Ireland’s EPIC Women
07 February 2020It has been an exciting week for our friends and partners EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum as in cooperation with RTÉ, Herstory Ireland, Underground Films and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, ‘Herstory: Ireland’s EPIC Women’ TV series was launched. The aim of the series is to bring the stories of...
The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell: A Hidden Legacy
22 January 2020The O’Donnells of Tyrconnel – A Hidden Legacy, by Francis O’Donnell, was published in 2019 and is now available to Irish Audiences. The book brings out new information on the lineages descending from the last Gaelic rulers of Tír Chonaill. The O’Donnell dynasty were an ancient and powerful Irish family in early Ireland. Many will...
Intergenerational fun at the IFHC
22 January 2020We love to keep busy down at the Irish Family History Centre and as Family is our business, we thought it would be a good idea to run a few kid-friendly activities alongside our ‘grown up’ talks! Grandparents Day: Intergenerational Storytelling Tour with IFHC Wednesday 29 January 2020 3:30pm –...
Christmas Opening Hours 2019
19 December 2019The Irish Family History Centre will be operating under the following opening hours for the Christmas period: 24th December 2019: CLOSED 25th December 2019: CLOSED 26th December 2019: CLOSED 27th – 31st December 2019: 12:00 – 4:00pm 1st January 2020: 12:00 – 4:00pm During this period private consultations...
Ulster Historical Foundation: Learn about your Irish Ancestors and “come home” in 2020
13 December 2019Want to visit the award winning EPIC Ireland: Irish Migration Museum and learn more about your Irish Ancestors in 2020? Running from 10 – 17 June 2020 Ulster Historical Foundation’s Tracing Your Irish Ancestors conference allows you to learn about the lives and experiences of your ancestors first-hand, research...
Pitter Patter & Painting Christmas Memories
13 December 2019This Christmas season I have had the joy of running festive art workshops in CHQ Dublin with lots of families with young children. Mums and dads, grannies and grandads, and aunts and uncles have come along with little ones as young as a few weeks old, right up to creative...
First Quarter of Talks for 2020
13 December 2019If tracing your family tree or getting stuck into history is your New Year’s Resolution, you’ve come to the right place! We already have some great talks lined up for the first quarter of 2020. Sunday, 26th January 2020 – 2:30pm ‘Genealogy Workshop: Connecting to Explore Your Irish Roots’ For...
Happy Christmas from the Irish Family History Centre
13 December 2019And so this is Christmas and we hope you have fun! As 2019 draws to a close we have time to reflect on another year in which we had the pleasure of meeting people from all areas of the globe. On a daily basis we never know who...
