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...
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. Andy Bielenberg – Was there a Protestant exodus from southern Ireland?
19 April 2016Andy Bielenberg Biography: Andy Bielenberg has undertaken the most in-depth demographic analysis of the decline in the Southern Protestant population, in early 20th Century Ireland. He concludes there was a much smaller rate of population decline as a result of targeting during and after the Revolutionary era, than the late Peter...
Expert Workshops NLI, December 2015. Abigail Rieley, criminal ancestors in historical records
19 April 2016Move over Sherlock: How to unmask a murderer (or any other criminal). Beyond family documents, criminal records can provide some of the richest genealogical records available. Legal History expert Abigail Rieley brings over 20 years professional experience as an author and court reporter, to her subject. Abigail discusses some famous...
Summer Talks NLI, 2015. Dr. Paul McCotter: Irish surnames
19 April 2016Outline: ‘Our surname is our oldest family heirloom, as the late Dr. Edward McLysaght once famously wrote. And this is nowhere more true than in Ireland, as the Irish invented surnames. To this day these remain a rich source of family history and pride, and the story of the evolution...
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...
Expert Workshop in NLI, June 2015. Dr. Liz Rushen 19C Irish Women to Australia
19 April 2016Outline: Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the 1830s, a decade before the Great Famine. What was it like to migrate to the far ends of the known world at this time? How did they survive the rigours of the voyage? Did they ‘swing swang’ in hammocks...
Summer Talks in the NLI, 2015. Eve Parnell, records of artists and craftsmen in Ireland
19 April 2016Eve Parnell Outline: In this podcast Eve Parnell describes the NIVAL* collections. The records are a treasury of evidence on the design studios, workshops and ateliers of small family businesses, working in the decorative arts in 19th and 20th Century Ireland; with some original material relating to artists in Ireland,...
PODCAST: The migration of Irish women to colonial Australia by Dr Liz Rushen
19 April 2016This podcast is a recording of The Expert Workshop talks organised by Ancestor Network and Eneclann that take place in the National Library of Ireland every month ( except for August and December), The following talk took place June 17th 2015. Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland, September 2015. Hilary Tulloch: Records of the East India Company
19 April 2016As part of the Expert workshops series, Hilary Tulloch IGRS, gave a talk on Irish family history and the records of the India office in the National Library of Ireland. Have a listen to the podcast here. suitable for intermediate to advanced level Speaker: Hilary Tulloch The Lure...
Podcasts: The Irish DNA Atlas
19 April 2016Gianpiero Cavalleri The Irish DNA Atlas: <iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228513792&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe> We all carry a record of our origins in our genes. Genetic genealogy uses DNA testing with documentary evidence, to prove family connections. Our first speaker, Dr. Gianpiero Cavalleri outlined how genetic genealogy works, and described one...
Summer Talks in NLI, 2015. Dr. Charles Benson – the decline of the Irish language
19 April 2016In the early 1800s Galway was still a predominantly Irish speaking city, with low literacy rates. Dr. Benson considers the spread of children’s literature in English in the west of Ireland, and what it tells us about the slow decline of the Irish language in the 19th Century. Biography...
