Thursday 23 January 2020

Recent Irish genealogy and history lectures on video

I meant to give you this menu of genealogy and history lecture videos to peruse over the Christmas break, but somehow I didn't quite get round to laying the page out in an organised way.

So, better late than never, and still useful during the northern hemisphere's dark winter months (those in the southern half probably have other things to do), here's a selection of the lectures I spotted over the autumn that Netflix don't seem to have picked up. There's also one bonus lecture at the bottom of the list, recorded just last week.

'You may want a priest yet' - the portrayal of the Catholic Priest in Irish Folklore, with Professor Salvador Ryan. From the Tipperary Studies 'People and Places Lecture Series'. Recorded 19 November 2019 at The Source, Thurles. Also on podcast, here.

Irish Emigration: New Sources, New Approaches, New Results, with Professor (Emeritus) Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD. The inaugural Brian Trainor memorial lecture. Hosted by PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation on 26 September 2019.

Connections & Coincidences in Emigration, with Dr Linda Lunney. PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation hosted this presentation on connections with North America on 15 November 2019.

A History of Belfast City Cemetery, with Tom Hartley. The cemetery opened in 1869 as a cross denominational burial ground for the people of Belfast. The lecture was presented at PRONI on 17 October 2019.

WikiTree – an introduction, with Anne Johnston. The free genealogy website maintains more than 17 million ancestral profiles. Hosted by PRONI, this lecture was held on 27 November 2019.

Declaring Independence: America 1776, Ireland 1919, with HE Dan Mulhall, the Irish Ambassador to the US, who is introduced by James Kingston, Legal Advisor at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

At the Crossroads: Ireland, Britain and the International Context, 1919-1923, with Professor John Horne. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

Southern Protestant Voices during the War of Independence and Civil War, with Professor Brian Walker. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

A Strategic Approach to Irish Genealogy, with Dr Maurice Gleeson at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Getting started with DNA, with Debbie Kennett at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage, with Sunny Morton at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Townlands, Maps and Directories, with Shane Wilson showing how to dig deep into his website, swilson.info, one of the most useful sites for Irish genealogists. The lecture was hosted by the Genealogical Society of Ireland on 14 January 2020.