Irish Lives Remembered Issue 57 (Summer 2022)

What is inside?

Welcome to the Summer 2022 issue

• Fiona Fitzsimons – Untangling the Mythical Origins of Michael Collins
• Eamonn P. Kelly – Áine, Radiant Goddess of Summer
• Maurice Gleeson – Hints and Tips for Keeping Secure When Testing Your DNA
• Robert  Flanagan Stieglitz – Reader’s Story: Tracing Great-Great-Grandfather’s Y Chromosome to Ancient Ireland
• Hannah Mac Auliffe – The Significance of Linea Antiqua as an 18th-century Genealogical Manuscript
• The Association of Professional Genealogists – Is Genealogy Elitist? An Open Letter
• Nathan Mannion – Remembering David Herbison, Ballymena’s Poet Laureate
• Deirdre Powell – Groundbreaking Kay McNulty, Computer Programming Pioneer
• Brigit McCone – The Notorious Elicia Butler, Debauched Abbess of Medieval Waterford
• Trina Y. Vargo – The Mitchell Scholarship: Canary in the Coalmine?
• The Four Courts Press Book  Excerpt – Her Keys To The City: Honouring the Women Who Made Dublin, by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland and Clodagh Finn (published 2022)
• The Genealogical Publishing Company Book  Excerpt – SCOTS-IRISH LINKS, 1525-1825: CONSOLIDATED EDITION. In Two Volumes, by David Dobson (2022)

• Dear Genie (Our Genealogists help you with your research block)
• Photodetective (Jayne Shrimpton analyses one of your family photos)
• FMP Roundup (Jessie O’Hara lets us know of the new Irish genealogy records that have been added to Findmypast)