PODCAST: Tracing Ancestry Through Census Substitutes
21 December 2017Prof. Adam Winstanley gave an enlightening talk on Census Substitutes at the Royal Irish Academy for the last Expert Workshop of the year. Prof. Winstanley’s background in Computer Science was apparent in his approaches, having developed some interesting tools, to assist in trying to quantify the coverage of Census Substitutes...
Expert Workshop: Conserving Your Personal Archive with Zoë Reid
24 November 2017Listening to a senior paper conservator from the National Archives of Ireland, one might worry that this specialist’s advice would go over their heads. Zoe Reid set those fears to rest at the very beginning of her lively and entertaining talk: this would be a practical introduction and not a...
Expert Workshop: Shedding Light on ESB Archives
20 October 2017Friday the 13th was a lucky day for the audience attending the October expert workshop in the RIA, Dawson St. Deirdre McParland, senior archivist of the ESB, gave a spirited introduction to the resources in the ESB archives, newly accessible to researchers. It contains manuscript and printed documents, photos, and...
Smoking Guns and the Myths of Military History
04 October 2017Lar Joye’s well-attended talk on Weapons in Irish History at the Members Room in the Royal Irish Academy kicked off with a bang, and a screening of the famous Omaha Beach Scene from Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. Bullets whizzed, their impact almost tangible. But Mr. Joye, curator of the...
Kasandra O’Connell. Moving History- An introduction to the IFI Irish Film Archive
27 July 2017Kasandra O’Connell introduces the Irish Film Institute Archive and collections, with guidance on how to access this rich treasure trove of Irish social history. The collection dates from 1897 to the present, and provides a unique visual record of the development of modern Ireland in the last 120 years....
Expert Workshop at the Royal Irish Academy, June 2017. Dr. Annaleigh Margey on Digitising seventeenth-century Ireland: the 1641 depositions, the Down Survey and contemporary maps as a source for family and social history
29 June 2017In June 2017 we welcomed Dr. Annaleigh Margey to the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. Dr. Margey discussed using digitised sources such as the 1641 Depositions, the Down Survey and contemporary maps as sources for family and social history. Listen to the podcast above.
Expert Workshops at the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland 2017: Monsignor Ciaran O’ Carroll, Rector of the Irish College in Rome
21 April 2017In March 2017 we welcomed Monsignor Ciaran O’ Carroll, Rector of the Irish College in Rome to the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. The Rector discusses the rare book and manuscript collections in the Irish College. Listen to the podcast above.
Expert Workshops at the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland 2017, Finding the women ignored by wider historiography.
19 April 2017More than just a name: Searching Beyond the Family Tree’ Finding the women ignored by wider historiography. You’ve unearthed your family tree. You know who married whom, where they lived, perhaps how they died. But what do you know about the ‘texture’ of their lives? One place to start is...
Expert Workshops at the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland 2017, Irish Traveller Culture
03 March 2017Who are Irish Travellers, and where do they fit in today’s society? learn about the origins of Irish Travellers, their unique culture, language and heritage. Biography Michael McDonagh, B.A. N.U.I. A member of the Traveller community, Michael is an expert on Traveller history and culture. He has a passion for...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland 2016, Brian Donovan, Police & Army records for Irish Genealogy 1836 to 1922.
26 January 2017Synopsis One of the great untapped resources for Irish genealogy are the records of the police, courts, prisons and army. There was a much bigger security apparatus in Ireland and it left copious records which are becoming increasingly easy to use. They document petty criminals and drunks through to...
Regina Sexton – Elite Women and Their Recipe Books
11 January 2017From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, elite women in Irish county estates began to compile and maintain collections of recipes. Their collections contain culinary and medicinal recipes altogether with household and craft tips, gardening advice and occasional instructions for feeding and fattening small farm animals and domestic fowl. Culinary and...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland 2016, Brian Hollinshead, Mapping townlands and other boundaries old and new.
13 December 2016Synopsis Brian will describe the OpenStreetMap Resource with particular reference to the related task, now complete, of tracing by hand the 60,000+ Townlands, by dedicated volunteers and the useful townland database with individual maps. He will give an overview of the OpenStreetMap Project including: What is OpenStreetMap, who makes it...
