Ireland Reaching Out, NLI, Minister Deenihan Dec 2015Caption Ireland Reaching Out is delighted to announce Tim Lee as Ireland XO Volunteer of the Year for 2015. Tim is the local diaspora contact for Bournea in County Tipperary and one of more than 500 active volunteers all over Ireland who are...
Genealogy and geology make curious bedfellows, but the two subjects lay happily side-by-side for the summer of 2015. And it was Eneclann who acted as matchmaker. In the May 2015 Eneclann Newsletter, the call went out asking for genealogists and historians to help on a project that was to use the...
Kindred Lines at History Ireland In August 2013 the magazine asked our own Fiona Fitzsimons to author a regular column on family history, which she has been doing ever since. Fiona has taken a different tack to the topic from what you are likely to read elsewhere. Her starting premise...
Patrick Roycroft at the display stand – happy Patrick is a geologist and an editor with the international geology magazine Elements, but also an amateur genealogist. In his new book, this latter interest shines through. For example, Patrick reveals the full name and background of ‘Miss Cotter’, the hitherto mysterious...
Wicklow historian Joan Kavanagh has teamed up with Australian author and academic Dr Dianne Snowden for a new book titled Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania. Australian Ambassador to Ireland Dr Ruth Adler was guest of honour at Wicklow’s Historic Gaol recently for the launch of the book...
A recent search had as its starting point a prerogative marriage license bond from 1780. A prerogative marriage license bond indicated that one or both of the parties had substanial resources. The next step for us automatically led to the Registry of Deeds, a potential goldmine for the determined researcher. We...
The fun of the genealogy service in the National Library is that we never know in advance who we’ll meet, or what stories we’ll hear. Our job is to listen, to identify verifiable facts and events, and to guide enquirers in their research. Research constantly throws forward something new or...
Good news from the National Library of Ireland, who have very helpfully, extended their document delivery times in the Main and Manuscript Reading Rooms: Monday – Wednesday: 9.30am,10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm. Thursday – Friday: 9.30am, 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Saturday: 9.30am, 10.30am, 11.30am
We hope you enjoyed Eneclann on Ireland AM discussing rugby legend Shane Byrnes family tree. click on image below to link into the show if you missed it.
We recently had an 18th century search at the Registry of Deeds which involved land that a family held for a lease of lives. Any genealogist will rub their hands with glee when they see the words ‘lease of lives’. Put simply what it meant is that the person taking the...
A lifetime spent in journalism has seen Ray Martin witness some of the defining moments of his time. Looking into his own history he finds his forbears too were on the frontline of nation shaping events. Discovering an ancestor at the scene of Australia’s greatest armed rebellion. On his maternal...
Regular readers of this newsletter know that the Eneclann genealogists provide the Genealogical Advice Service in the National Library of Ireland every summer. One of the most common questions from visitors availing of the service, is how to trace a family farm or homestead. If you can identify your ancestor...