South Dublin Libraries 1966 Capuchin Annual Reprint
12 April 2016South Dublin Libraries, by kind permission of the Capuchin Franciscan Order and with the generous assistance of Eneclann, are proud to present a reprint of the 1916 commemorative pages of the 1966 Capuchin Annual as part of South Dublin County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme 1913-1923. The Capuchin Annual...
Gaelic Capital and Norman Stronghold – Ferns and the transformation of Ireland
12 April 2016Archaeologists and historians from Ireland and Scotland, all experts in their individual fields, will deliver papers on topics ranging from Gaelic royal landscapes to Anglo Norman settlement and William Marshal, the greatest knight in Christendom. Speakers will include Dr. Edel Bhreathnach, CEO, The Discovery Programme; Gerard Dowling, also of The...
An Interview with Lorna Moloney for Ancestral Connections Summer School 2016
11 April 2016Eneclann’s own Fiona Fitzsimons met up recently with Lorna Moloney to discuss the annual Ancestral Connections Summer School in Genealogy. The Summer School is now in it’s 4th year, and has rapidly become a fixture in the genealogy calendar. In 2016 Ancestral Connections will be held 19th to 24th June....
Limerick Christ Church Records Go Online
08 April 2016For the first time the historic parish registers held by Christ Church Limerick are being made available online. They contain the names of thousands of people who were members of the Presbyterian and Methodist congregations of Limerick city as well as Kilrush in County Clare and Killarney in County Kerry....
Work House Registers
07 April 2016“Work House Registers” On Sunday the 10th at 6 p.m. Brian Donovan of, Eneclann, and Abigail Rieley of, Findmypast, talked live,on air about the “Workhouse registers.” Eneclann’s own Fiona Fitzsimons also pre-recorded a short interview for the History Show, on the relevance of work-house records in Irish family history research....
British Institute, Salt Lake City, UTAH, 21-25 Sept. An interview with Alec Tritton
07 April 2016This week Fiona interviewed Alec Tritton, who will support Elsa Churchill in presenting the English Track in the British Institute in September 2015. Fiona said: “Alec is a humourist, and in the thirty years he’s been a genealogist has collected some great stories. In discussion it was clear that Alec...
The Truth behind George Clooney’s Irish Roots
07 April 2016In 2005 an American genealogist discovered George Clooney’s Irish roots in Windgap, county Kilkenny. Since then, extravagant claims have been made about George’s ancestry, not least that they made carpets for the Titanic. Between 2012 and 2014 Eneclann’s own Fiona Fitzsimons & Helen Moss delved into Mr. Clooney’s Irish family...
Archives and Record Management at Eneclann.
07 April 2016Eneclann is renowned for it’s work in research and genealogy, but we also provide archives and records management services to the public, private and semi-state sectors in Ireland and abroad. The department is staffed by professional archivists, all of whom hold post-graduate qualifications in archives and records management. So, what...
Historic Parish Registers at Christ Church, Limerick, published online.
01 April 2016For the first time the historic parish registers held by Christ Church Limerick are being made available online. They contain the names of thousands of people who were members of the Presbyterian and Methodist congregations of Limerick city as well as Kilrush in County Clare and Killarney in County Kerry....
Easter edition of Irish Lives Remembered
01 March 2016The Easter 2016 edition of Irish Lives Remembered is a bumper issue to commemorate the 1916 centenary. In this issue, Fiona Fitzsimons talks to broadcaster and historian Joe Duffy, whose recent book explores the short lives and violent deaths of the children of 1916. And in his own column, Joe himself...
Irish Catholic Parish Records
01 March 2016Records span 200 years of Irish history (1670-1900), contain 40 million names, cover 1000 parishes across all 32 counties of Ireland Collection forms the most important resource for Irish ancestors prior to the 1901 census, allowing researchers to trace their roots back to Pre-Famine Ireland Reveal how Great Famine halved...
New source uncovered for Easter week 2016
01 March 2016Mollie Black’s letter I was given this letter by a neighbor, Lucinda Isabella Bright, many years ago. Lucy was sorting out some old correspondence and because of failing eyesight she asked me to check that she was not throwing out anything important. Included in this was the following letter. Lucy...