The National Library of Ireland has announced its line-up of Genealogy at Lunchtime lectures for this summer. The lectures start next week and will be held at 1–2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout August and September.
Tuesday 4 August
The Irish DNA Atlas, with Dr Gianpiero Cavalleri
Thursday 6 August
Secrets of the Bog Bodies, with Dr Eamonn P Kelly
Tuesday 11 August
Irish Surnames, a family heirloom, with Paul MacCotter MAGI
Thursday 13 August
Heraldry: obscure mediaeval mumbo-jumbo, or valid genealogical technique? with Bruce Durie
Tuesday 18 August
Using maps for thinking about history, with Kevin Whelan
Thursday 20 August
Social geography – Was there a Protestant exodus from the south of Ireland? with Andy Bielenberg
Tuesday 25 August
It's off to work we go: mapping Ireland's industrial past, with Rob Goodbody
Thursday 27 August
Archives to be explored in the National Irish Visual Arts Library, with Eve Parnell
Tuesday 1 September
The Tudor Conquest of Ireland: Untold stories, with David Edwards
Thursday 3 September
The Irish in European warfare in the 17th Century – military origins of diaspora, with Padraig Lenihan
Tuesday 8 September
The House on Bunion Hill: an Irish census project, with Ray Gillespie
Thursday 10 September
Getting started in local history, with Séamus Ó Maitiú
Tuesday 15 September
Dating and understanding family photos, with Jayne Shrimpton
Thursday 17 September
Children's literature and the spread of the English language in 19th-centure Ireland, with Charles Benson
Tuesday 22 September
Sport and the everyday in Ireland, with Paul Rouse
Thursday 24 September
Family history and its role in Irish culture. Speaker to be confirmed.
All the lectures will be presented at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. They are free to attend, open to all, and booking is not necessary.