Mark Hamill’s Irish Ancestry
17 March 2018Star Wars star Mark Hamill, better known to a generation as Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, will be the first ever “International Guest of Honour” at this year’s Dublin St. Patrick’s Day, watching the parade from the presidential stand alongside Michael D. Higgins. It is well-known that the spectacular scenery of...
News Digest: March 2018
16 March 2018Irish Traveller Ethnicity Celebration in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham http://ethnicitycelebration.ie/?page_id=18 On 15th March 2018, the Royal Hospital Kilmainham played host to the first ever Traveller Ethnicity Celebration, showcasing the culture, heritage, language and identity of Ireland’s only indigenous minority. This free event included exhibitions, workshops, film, live music, children’s entertainment...
POORHOUSE Screening at IFI
16 March 2018POORHOUSE, a half hour film by Frank Stapleton and Catherine Tiernan (1995) is screening this month in the Irish Film Institute as part of the lunchtime Archive screenings on the Famine. Poorhouse is a film set during Ireland’s famine era, about about an ailing woman who works in the Cavan...
Family History Treasure Hunt
16 March 2018Our St. Patrick’s Festival Treasure Hunt has returned again this year and is proving popular again. Starting Thursday 15th March and running until Monday 19th March visitors are completing our fun quiz to help explore Irish roots and search for Irish Ancestors. Knowledge is gained such as: What does your...
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and Irish Family History Centre combination ticket offer
16 March 2018To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day we are offering a discounted combination ticket to visit both EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and the Irish Family History Centre. This offer will last from Saturday 17th March to Saturday 31st March. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is an interactive experience located in Dublin’s...
Thank You for Signing Up!
16 March 2018Thank you to everyone who signed up to our newsletter this year. We had a great time speaking with everyone and were simply run off our feet for the whole show! We’ve never been happier to be so tired! We’ve selected our competition winners and will be in touch...
Roostech 2018, Salt Lake City
16 March 2018Rootstech is unlike any other family history show anywhere in the world. For starters it’s a lot bigger. The official figures released after the event show a whopping 17,210 people registered, and a further 26,000 people came for the Family Discovery Day on Saturday. That’s more than 43,000 people attending...
New Issue of Irish Lives Remembered Released!
16 March 2018The latest issue of the Irish Lives Remembered magazine is now available! Accounding to the editor: The thematic section for this issue is “music”. There are five substantial articles here, all written by experts in their fields: we: have Sinéad McCoole, Jarlath MacNamara, Fiona Fitzsimons, Stephen Callaghan, and Maureen Wlodarczyk....
Online Consultations Launching on the IFHC Website This Month
16 March 2018We’re delighted to announce that we will be rolling out Online Consultations through our website this month. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve had for our private consultations, given at the Irish Family History Centre, we thought it would be only be fair to provide a similar offering online...
Behind the scenes: Charlemont Terrace
15 March 2018When the descendants of Henry Robinson, of Clontarf visited the Irish Family History Centre, they had already identified him, in the 1911 Irish census, with his wife Elizabeth, their three children no longer living with them. However they were unable to find the address, which no longer exists, when...
Behind the Scenes: The Genealogist, the Husband, his Wife, and her Passion
22 February 2018We all know, and many of us try and apply, that old aphorism ‘Patience is a Virtue’. At the Irish Family History Centre (IFHC) in Dublin we genealogists get to see that played out in many ways with certain clients and their families. A not uncommon scenario is that one...
DNA Got Me Talking to a Descendent of my Carrawaystick Great-Great Granduncle
22 February 2018A few years back I took an autosomal DNA test both with Ancestry and with Family Tree DNA. An autosomal DNA test will test both your maternal and paternal ancestral lines back to 5, maybe 6, generations. You inherit about 50% of this type of DNA from your mom and...
