Summer talks in the National Library of Ireland: Dr. Nora White, Ogham Stones – our earliest genealogical sources
07 December 2016Our very earliest recording of personal and kindred names occurs, not as you might expect in vellum manuscripts, but on stone: Ogham stones. Over four hundred inscriptions in the ogham alphabet record the names of our ancestors hundreds of years before genealogies were written in manuscripts. Some of these names...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Fiona Fitzsimons, Explorations in Irish Genealogy
25 November 2016Title: Explorations in Irish Genealogy The idea for this talk came from a conversation with a first time visitor to the genealogy service in the National Library. He took up history late in life because he thought “it wasn’t for the likes of us.” Genealogy is not a luxury reserved...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Ambassador O’Malley, How do we sustain the people to people links between Ireland and the United States?
09 November 2016Kevin F. O’Malley was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland on September 30, 2014 and presented his credentials to President Michael D. Higgins on October 8, 2014. Kevin F. O’Malley, an attorney, was a partner at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., in St. Louis, Missouri, whose trial skills...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Joe Buggy: Ten free websites for U.S. genealogy research.
25 October 2016Title: Ten free websites for U.S. genealogy research. Every genealogist loves free access to records and genealogy information. Most people begin with Familysearch and Cyndi’s List when doing research in the Unites States. But where can you turn to after using those sites? This talk outlines ten free websites that professional...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Dan Bradley: Ancient DNA and Irish Origins
25 October 2016Title: Ancient DNA and Irish Origins Instead of extrapolating the past from modern genetic variation, it is now possible to directly analyse whole genomes from the past using ancient DNA analysis of archaeological bones. Work on ancient Irish genomes in Trinity College is giving new information on from where...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016:Clodagh Tait: ‘The simple annals of my Parish poor’: stories from the parish registers
06 October 2016The Reverend George Crabbe, a Church of England clergyman, published his poem The Parish Register in 1807. For him, his registers were ‘The simple annals of my Parish poor’, and he reflected on the human stories behind his entries within them, concluding rather gloomily that for his parishioners ‘Their joys...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Aoife O’Connor: Seen? Heard? Records of Children in Nineteenth Century Ireland
06 October 2016In this talk Aoife encourages you to search for your ancestor as a child, to help break down a brick wall, and to add valuable contextual information to your ancestor’s life. Children are found in not only in census and BMD records, they are also found scattered throughout military records,...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Eleanor Fitzsimons – Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women in His Life
22 September 2016Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women in His Life Outline Oscar Wilde's life is characterised almost exclusively in terms of his relationships with men. The intention of my talk is to reframe his life in the context of the women who influenced, inspired and collaborated...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Damien Shiels: The Forgotten Irish:
22 September 2016Revealing the Personal Stories of 19th Century Irish Emigrants through American Civil War Pension Files Outline During the American Civil War of 1861-65 some 180,000 Irish emigrants served in the Union military. Many never returned to their families. In the years that followed, their dependents—wives, children and ageing parents—claimed state...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2016. Dr. Paul MacCotter – Territory, maps & genealogy
07 September 2016Outline: One of the most difficult things in Irish genealogical research is to identify a place of origin or residence. In Irish history our boundaries, territories, and loyalties have changed over time. The records that were made at any moment in time will be archived according to old territorial names...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Liam Breen – A history of Deaf Culture in Ireland
07 September 2016Outline: The education of the Deaf has been important to the development of the Deaf community, which traces back to several centuries. In 1816, Dr Charles Orpen opened a school the Claremont Institute for Deaf and Dumb in Glasnevin, Dublin. The educaiton of Protestant and Catholic children together, prompted...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2016. Sinead McCoole – Researching Revolutionary Ancestors
25 August 2016Outline: As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme Sinead McCoole has Curated a travelling exhibition on the role of women Mna 1916:2016. This exhibition covers the island of Ireland and looks at the role of women in the Rising and other political movements in 1916. In an illustrated lecture Curator Sinead McCoole discusses the...
