Fiona Fitzsimons on BBC Woman’s Hour
06 March 2024Fiona Fitzsimons was invited onto BBC Woman’s Hour to discuss women in the records with presenter Emma Barnett. Listen to her here or find the full episode through the link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wh9q Irish Family History Centre · Fiona Fitzsimons on BBC Womans Hour
Women in Rural Dublin, by Carmel Gilbride for Culture Night at the Irish Family History Centre
18 September 2020Irish Family History Centre · Women in Rural Dublin, by Carmel Gilbride for Irish Family History Centre Carmel Gilbride gives her talk on Women in Rural Dublin, for the Irish Family History Centre on Culture Night. We hear a lot about Dublin ‘in the rare oul’ times’. Until the...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: Genealogy’s Community of Practice & Developing Genealogical Education
11 July 2019On Friday 14th, Tahitia McCabe (of Strathclyde University) gave an enlightening talk on Genealogy’s Community of Practise. The talk was given as part of the Expert Workshop series, curated by Fiona Fitzsimons, and hosted by the Militry Archives. Tahitia discussed ways in which genealogy educators can best teach and support students through their journey to...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: Environmental History – A West Cork Case Study
24 May 2019On Friday 10th May, Dr. Rachel Murphy gave an enlightening talk on environmental history, where she examined human responses to marine resources, and linked present-day attitudes and values with those of the past through historical, literary and visual sources. Taking the West Cork coast as a case study, Rachel showed how humanities scholars have...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: Economics of Empire: Markets & Fairs in 19th-century Ireland
12 April 2019On Friday 5th April, Dr. Aine Sheehan gave an informative talk on the economics of empire and how markets and fairs in 19th century Ireland were about so much more than just selling produce. They have always been social hubs of rural Ireland, but Dr. Sheehan shows how they were...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: Child Incarceration in 19th Century Dublin by Aoife O’Connor
01 March 2019On 9th November 2018, Aoife O’Connor gave an enlightening talk on the ‘human eco-system’ of 19th Century Dublin. She discusses whether the Police Act, by criminalising behaviours which could be thought of as mere high jinks, created the criminal class so feared by mid-century commentators? Between 1860 and 1891, over twelve...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: A History of Germs and Public Health in Dublin with Dr Juliana Adelman
26 October 2018On Friday 19th October, Dr Juliana Adelman gave a fascinating talk on the history of disease and public health in Dublin and its impact on the 19th century population. Dr Adelman looked at how “dear, dirty Dublin” coped with the diseases that stalked its streets, and how sanitation and public health played a critical role...
EXPERT WORKSHOP: Ned Kelly on Folk traditions and practice
09 October 2018On Friday 7th September, Ned Kelly gave an enlightening talk on folk traditions and practice in the historical and everyday present. The pre-Christian religious beliefs of the Irish were centered on sun worship and the main religious festivals were celebrated at important times in the solar year such as at...
Expert Workshop: Heritage Collections of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
06 July 2018On Friday, 8th June, Susan Leyden took over the Royal Irish Academy for an expert workshop, introducing the archives of the Royal Irish College of Surgeons to a full house of medical professionals and interested laypeople. After a gruesome glimpse into the medieval history of surgery, when no distinction was drawn...
Expert Workshop: Finding Trails and Tales in Parish Records with Revd Canon Professor Patrick Comerford
01 June 2018On Friday 4th May, Revd Canon Professor Patrick Comerford visited the Royal Irish Academy to deliver the May Expert Workshop on Church records. In a lively, erudite talk, Revd Patrick discussed how we can use Catholic and Anglican parish records as a source for family and social history. Using personal anecdotes and case studies,...
Expert Workshop: Another Link in the Family Chain with Grainne Doran
18 May 2018On Friday 27th April, Grainne Doran, Wexford County Council’s archivist, visited the Royal Irish Academy to deliver an engaging workshop on Wexford’s archives as a source for local and family historians. Though these archives are often overlooked, we learned that they offer genealogists and historians a wealth of information, not...
Expert Workshop: Katie Donovan and how Family inspires Creativity
16 March 2018Poet Katie Donovan led our most recent Expert Workshop on how family influences creativity. No stranger to public speaking, Katie eloquently spoke about how the theme of the family has been central to the work of writers since the days of Ancient Greece. Taking us through the works of leading...
