Monday 19 August 2019

Irish genealogy, history and heritage, 19 Aug - 1 Sept

Monday 19 August: Delayed opening at National Library of Ireland. All services/exhibitons/cafe, including Genealogy Advisory Service, will be closed until 11am to facilitate a staff meeting. Main Reading Room and Manuscript Room remain closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
National Heritage Week runs 17–25 August inclusive.
About 2,000 events are scheduled. In this list is a
random sample that may be of interest to family historians.
There are plenty more, so click the image above to search
using keywords such as genealogy, history, archives etc.

Monday 19 August: Launch of The Workhouses of County Tipperary booklet and lecture. Hosts: Irish Workhouse Centre and Nenagh Library. Venue: Nenagh Library, O'Rahilly St, Nenagh North, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. 3pm. Free. All welcome.

Tuesday 20 August: Past & Present – Digital Collections at the NLI, with Maria Ryan. Host and venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Free. All welcome. 1pm. Booking not required.

Tuesday 20 August: Eighteenth Century Ballinasloe, lecture, with Steve Dolan, and launch of limited edition booklet on C18th newspaper reports of the town (€5, all proceeds to charity). Host: Irish Workhouse Centre, Portumna. Venue: Ballinasloe Library, Society St, Townparks, Ballinasloe, Co Galway. 6:30pm - 7:30pm. Free admission. More information 0909759200.

Tuesday 20 August: Placenames of County Leitrim, Mary Bohan and Seán O Suilleabháin. Host and venue: Ballinamore Library, Main Street, Cannaboe, Ballinamore. 7:30pm - 8:30pm. Free admission. No booking required. All welcome.

Wednesday 21 August: Murder and mayhem in medieval Cork, with Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel. Leo Swan Memorial Lecture. Host: Rathmichael Historical Society. Venue: Rathmichael School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill, Co Dublin. Admission €5. 8pm. All welcome.

Wednesday 21 August: Starvation and Survival – Inishowen Workhouse during the Great Famine, with Niamh Brennan. Host: West Inishowen History and Heritage Society and County Donegal Archives. Venue: Tullyarvan Mill, Buncrana, Co Donegal. 7:30pm. Admission free. All welcome.

Wednesday 21 August: Genealogy & Archives Day, with free talks by experienced genealogists and archivists. Host and venue: Cork City and County Archives, 32 Great William O'Brien Street, Blackpool, Cork City. 11am–2pm. All welcome. (Fully booked.)

Thursday 22 August: Food in Ancient Ireland - Insights from Archaeology, with Dr Meriel McClatchie. Host: National Museum f Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 6–7pm. Free, but booking essential. All welcome. Details.

Thursday 22 August: Strawboys, mummers and mischief — Irish folk customs and their revival, with Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. Host and venue: The White Country Inn, Banteer, Co Cork. Free. 7:30pm–9pm. All welcome.

Thursday 22 August: Eureka! Exploring discoveries at the Registry of Deeds, a seminar. Host: PRA_Ireland. Venue: Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1. 6pm–7:30pm. Free but booking essential. Details.

Thursday 22 August: Tour of Ireland's largest military cemetery, including WWI, ANZAC and 1916 and RMS Leinster graves/memorials. Host: OPW Phoenix Park. Venue: Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7. 11am–12:15pm. Free. All welcome. No booking required.

Thursday 22 August: Limerick: city of sieges and a broken treaty, with Liam Irwin. Host: Rathmichael Historical Society. Venue: Rathmichael School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill, Co Dublin. No booking required. €5 admission. 8pm.

Saturday 24 August: Local and Family History Conference. Venue: Hannon's Hotel, Athlone Rd, Acres, Roscommon. 9:30am-4:30pm. Admission €5. Need to book. Details and booking.

Saturday 24 August, Sunday 25 August (and Saturday 31 August): Summer School, with lectures on the history, folklore and culture of the region. Host and venue: Irish Famine Workhouse Centre, Portumna, Co Galway. 10am–1pm each day. Details.

Saturday 24 August: Landed Estates Seminar, with the James Hardiman Library team, NUIG. Host: National University of Ireland, Galway. Venue: O'Donoghue Building, NUI Galway, University Road, Galway. 10am to 1:30pm. All welcome. Free, but need to register.

Monday 26 August: Bank holiday in Northern Ireland. All branch libraries, and most repositories and businesses closed for the day. This public holiday does not apply in the Republic of Ireland, where it's business as usual.

Monday 26 August: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services/exhibitons/cafe, including Genealogy Advisory Service, operate as normal.

Monday 26 August: MT-DNA, a two-hour workshop with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 2pm. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Tuesday 27 August: Ethnicity estimages, a two-hour workshop with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 2pm. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Wednesday 28 August: Using My Heritage DNA, a tw-hour workshop with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 11am. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Wednesday 28 August: AutoClusters, a two-hour workshop with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 2pm. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Wednesday 28 August: Irish Family History Assistance. Host: Genealogical Society of Victoria. Venue: GSV Library, Level 6, 85 Queen St., Melbourne 3000, Australia. Experienced helpers in the library to offer advice on your Irish research. 10am to 4pm. Free for members. $20 non-members. Bookable one-hour appointments with a research consultant. Details.

Thursday 29 August: Transatlantic Connections, with Turtle Bunbury. Host: South Dublin Libraries. Venue: Ballyroan Library, Orchardstown Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. Free, but need to book via Eventbrite. 6:30pm – 8pm. All welcome.

Thursday 29 August: ThruLines – a new tool on Ancestry, a two-hour workshop with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 2pm. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Friday 30 August:
Theory of Family Relativity, a two-hour workshop with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. Venue: NIFHS Reseach Centre, Newtownabbey (15 minutes from Belfast), Co Antrim. 2pm. Cost £5 for members and non-members. Need to book by email. See details.

Saturday 31 August:
Irish Workhouse Centre Summer School. Host and venue: Irish Workhouse Centre, St Bridget's Road, Portumna, Co Galway. 10am to 1pm. Day's topic: Medieval County Galway. Lectures: The de Burgos, with Aron Donnolly; Medieval Legacy, with Martin Curley; and Post-Medieval Ballinasloe, with Declan Kelly. Email for details: info@irishworkhousecentre.ie