Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2016. Dermot Bolger – Finding inspiration in Family History
25 August 2016Outline: Dermot Bolger describes how he found inspiration as a creative artist in his own family history. Bolger’s most recent book, The Lonely Sea and Sky is based on incidents from his father’s life as a merchant sailor out of Wexford. In December 1943 the most extraordinary rescue in Irish...
Sinead McCool: Mna- 25 years of searching- lesson and leads
25 August 2016As 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 search...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland, April 2016. Joe Buggy, Introduction to U.S. sources online
19 May 2016Outline: Introductory Genealogy Resources in the United States of America Almost 3.8 million people immigrated to the United States of America from Ireland between 1851 and 1921. Millions more arrived on the shores of North America in the decades and centuries before those years. Therefore, practically every Irish-born...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Prof Kevin Whelan, Maps
19 April 2016Kevin Whelan, Outline: Kevin Whelan considers a brief history of Irish maps, and how they can be used to document history from below. Maps are factual, but they also record peoples’ thoughts and impressions. Early maps are almost pictorial: from the first printed stand-alone map of Ireland in 1488;...
Summer Talks in NLI, 2015. Dr. Bruce Durie, Heraldry
19 April 2016Outline: Records of registrations of coats of arms – and the associated pedigrees – may be the only evidence there is of a lineage. This can help break down genealogical brick walls. But heraldry is often dismissed as difficult, recondite and of no contemporary relevance. Nonsense! Heraldry is a living science and art, and...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2015. Dr. David Edwards: the Tudor Conquest
19 April 2016Outline: The Tudor Conquest of Ireland: Untold Stories The Tudor conquest shouldn’t be understood solely in terms of set piece battles, massacres and scorched earth policies.Between 1546 and 1603 English forces in Ireland engaged in low-level campaigns, garrisons and local patrols.From the 1560s garrison governments across the country used martial...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2015: Seamus O Maitiu – Getting Started in Local History
19 April 2016Seamus O’Matiu Outline: Getting Started in Local History Seamus O’Matiu introduces a range of documents that can be used for the study of local history. He explains why local history can enrich our understanding of personal and family history. Listen here now Listen to all the podcasts from our...
Summer Talks NLI 2015: Brian Donovan – tracing WW1 and Irish revolutionary ancestors
19 April 2016Outline: Irish Soldiers & Rebels: tracing WW1 and Irish revolutionary ancestors The years 1912-23 saw the deaths of over 75,000 from Ireland in armed conflict, from the fields of France to the streets of Dublin. Irish men and women took arms to fight for Irish freedom, to defend the...
Summer talks NLI, 2015: Paul Rouse – Sport
19 April 2016Outline: Sport and the Everyday in Ireland. There are aspects of Ireland’s sporting history that are uniquely Irish and defined by the peculiarities of life on a small island on the edge of Europe. The Irish sporting world is unique only in part, however; much of the history of Irish...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Ned Kelly – Bog bodies
19 April 2016The Secrets of The Bog Bodies Bog bodies are rare survivals of human remains from earlier times. The properties of bogs are such that, occasionally, bodies are preserved to an exceptional degree with hair, skin, hands, internal organs and other soft tissue intact. Prehistoric bog bodies found recently...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Rob Goodbody, Ireland’s industrial heritage
19 April 2016Rob Goodbody What Industrial Heritage Outline: Renowned historical geographer, Rob Goodbody, discusses Ireland’s industrial heritage in the 19th and 20th Centuries. It’s a truism that Ireland never had much industry to speak of, so does Ireland have an industrial heritage? Rob Goodbody takes us beyond manufacturing industry, and looks at...
Summer Talks, NLI 2015: Raymond Gillespie – Irish Census records
19 April 2016Outline: The house on Bunion Hill – an Irish census project How do you write local history? In the past people worked within a world of family and community. For that reason, genealogy is a very important resource for the local historian but is often forgotten about, as local historians...
