As always, the annual Dublin Open Day is open to everyone, members and non-members alike, and the Society looks forward to welcoming family historians of all levels. Whether professional or amateur, beginner or highly experienced, you're sure to learn something new and get into friendly chat with other researchers. You might even win yourself some genealogical goodies in the Society's popular Silent Raffle.
As usual, this popular annual event will be held in the conference room at Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. It is free to attend and you don't need to book.
The Open Day starts with registration at 10am. After a brief Welcome from the Chairperson, the following lectures will be presented:
- A pile of stones, a living memory, a family member: Bowen’s Court, Elizabeth Bowen, and imagining the Irish gentry, with Ian d'Alton
- Some families of interest in the Raheny area, with Joan Sharkey
- Banished beyond the seas: NAI records of convict transportation to Australia, 1788-1868, with Joan Kavanagh
- Publishing research in The Irish Genealogist, with Dr David Butler