Another batch of downloadable titles from Eneclann

The latest batch of downloadable books from Eneclann includes some very useful titles at rather attractive prices.

Among them is the four-volume 2,242-page History of the People called Quakers, from their first rise to the present time, which was published 1789-90. This extraordinary source was put together by John Gough, himself a Quaker, who died shortly after completing the final volume. His work is an important and seminal work on the Society of Friends, their early beginnings, their spread throughout much of the known world and the persecutions they suffered. Long available on cd, this work can now be downloaded as an ebook (103Mb) for €15.90 (plus VAT to European Union residents).

Some more to whet your appetite:

Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory for the half-year commencing 1st July 1889.
Containing 242 printed pages this is the complete list of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Coast Guard Service and Dublin Metropolitan Police for the first half of the year 1889, containing a plethora of information on the RIC and associated services. Price €2.15 (€2.64 inc VAT at 23% to residents of the European Union)

Tipperary's Annual, 1910
Contains 185-printed pages packed with stories, photographs, anecdotes, local history and local advertisements. Price €2.15 (€2.64 inc VAT at 23% to residents of the European Union).

The Neighbourhood of Dublin, Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations, 1939 Written by the ex-civil servant, journalist, historian and antiquary Weston St. John Joyce, The Neighbourhood of Dublin contains over 500 printed pages and is accompanied by more 120 photographs and sketches taken by the author between 1909 and 1912. Price: €9.90 (€12.18 inc VAT at 23% for residents of the European Union).

Estate Commissioners Offices, Applications from Evicted Tenants, 1907 This publication records lists of persons who lodged applications with the Estates Commissioners as Evicted Tenants, or as the representatives of Evicted Tenants, and who had been noted as suitable for holdings. From a purely historical standpoint this publication reports the last occasions of evicted tenants from landed estates in Ireland prior to Ireland's independence, compulsory purchase of landed estates and the exodus from Ireland of former landlords. From a genealogical standpoint this collection offers a list of thousands of tenants and their dependants in some of the most deprived parts of Ireland. Price: €6.26 (€7.70 inc VAT at 23% to residents of the European Union.)

You can see the full range of titles in this latest batch of downloadable titles here.

RootsIreland adds more Monaghan records

Following on from last month's upload to its Monaghan Genealogy database (see blogpost), RootsIreland has added transcriptions of the following records of baptism, marriage and burials in that county :

Baptisms
Clones Wesleyan Methodist Church 1839-1910
Clontibret COI Baptisms 1850, 1854-1865 & 1876-1915
Cootehill Circuit (Co. Monaghan) Methodist baptisms 1847-1919
Drumkeen Presbyterian Church (Aghabog civil parish) 1856-1913
Tehallan RC baptisms 1835-1881

Marriages
Ballyalbany (2nd Monaghan) Presbyterian marriages 1807-1830
Ballyalbany (2nd Monaghan) Presbyterian marriages 1845-1911
Broomfield Presbyterian Church Donaghmoyne marriages 1845-1919
Clones (Wesleyan) Methodist marriages 1872-1920
Clones RC marriages 1821-1866
Clones RC marriages 1866-1881
Clontibret St Colman's COI marriages 1845-1913
District Registrar's Office Monaghan marriages 1845-1919
Drumkeen Presbyterian marriages 1845-1913
Drum First Presbyterian Church PR marriages 1845-1876
Glennan Presbyterian marriages 1805-1814
Glennan Presbyterian marriages 1845-1905
Killanny RC marriages 1862-1882
Kilmore CI marriages 1845-1913
Magheross RC marriages 1858-1881
Monaghan Wesleyan Methodist Marriages 1868-1921
Newbliss Presbyterian Marriages 1845-1913
Raferagh (Donaghmoyne, Aughnamullen, Magheross) RC marriages 1864-1891
Rockcorry [Presbyterian] Meeting House marriages 1861-1918
Scotstown (Tedavnet) Presbyterian Church marriages 1845-1926
Stonebridge Presbyterian marriages 1845-1914
Tehallan or Tyholland RC marriages 1827-1872, 1877-1882
Tullycorbet COI marriages 1846-1910

Deaths
Tydavnet RC deaths 1825-1826

Don't forget to take advantage of the current 40% discount on offer at RootsIreland. It expires on 14 October. More about this here.

New resource: Irish Motor Directory: unexpected & fun

Do you know how many cars there were in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, in 1911? Even better, do you know the names and addresses of the owners? Or the owners of bicycles in Wicklow Town, Roscrea, Newry or Cork City, or of tricycles and dog carts in Bandon, Galway or anywhere else you care to mention?

Well, if you didn't know, you can now easily find out, thanks to a new resource that's been published by Andrew McElroy on the excellent Lurgan Ancestry site. It's the Irish Motor Directory 1911-1912, and it lists the names and addresses of the registered owners of all vehicles from lorries to motor-ploughs and to cars and charabancs), county by county, plus the six county boroughs of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Londonderry and Waterford, in that year.

Quite apart from the obvious fun of learning more about the environmental and social conditions our ancestors lived through, there is also the possibility that this decidedly off-beat resource could reveal 'missing' addresses or relatives.

Bear in mind that the county of registration is not always the county of residence. For example, Henry Bruen registered a car in County Carlow but his place of residence was Coolbawn in Co Wexford, while Robert J Young may have riden a long way from his home in Main Street, Pettigo, Co Donegal to register his bicycle in County Wicklow.

This directory, edited by Henry G. Tempest, is a really great find!

(Many thanks to John Mulvenna.)

Plantation Towns: urban history of Ulster in the 1600s

A six-week course – Plantation Towns: the urban history of Ulster in the 1600s – is to be held at Stranmillis University College, Belfast, from 18 October.

The Plantation of Ulster in the early 1600s was the first colonising scheme in Ireland with formal urban proposals. In the minds of those who devised the Plantation scheme, towns would be both centres of trade and commerce and beacons of civilisation.

Drawing on historical, cartographic and archaeological evidence, this illustrated course looks at the development of Ulster’s towns in the 1600s, exploring their origins and pre-Plantation history, and their functions, whether social, economic or political.

The lives of the inhabitants of these towns will be investigated and the lasting legacy of these settlements will be considered.

The course is run by the Lifelong Learning Department and the tutor will be Dr William Roulston. It will be held on Fridays 11am – 1pm, ending on 29 November (no class 1 November). The cost is £45 (£35 concessions).

For more details, tel: +44 (0)28 9038 4345.

National Archives of Ireland: latest catalogue entries

Recent uploads to the online catalogue of the National Archives of Ireland include the following:

• Department of Education: applications for aid to the Commissioners of National Education, Counties Carlow, Cavan, Dublin (part of), Galway, 1831-1890: (ED/1/1-3, ED/1/30-34)
  
• Chief Secretary's Office: Irish Crime Records 1848-1893 (CSO/ICR)
  
• Inland Revenue Board: death duty registers and indexes, 1828-1879 (IRB/T/1855)
  
• Prerogative Court of Armagh: records, 1536-1858 (PRCT)
  
• Captain George Duggan, Royal Irish Fusiliers and Lieutenant John Duggan, Royal Irish Regiment: portrait photographs 1914 (PRIV996)
  
• Fishing vessel 'Emperor', Dublin: crew agreement and log book 1913 (PRIV1224)
  
• General Prison Board Suffragette Papers (GPB/SFRG/1), detailing the treatment of suffragettes who were imprisoned by the authorities, mainly during the period 1911-1914. Full listing.
  
• Probate Office, 1987 testamentary transfer (2008/1)
  
• Probate Office, 1988 testamentary transfer (2009/1)
  
• Limerick District Probate Office, 1989 testamentary transfer (2010/10)
  
• Wexford Circuit Court, 1989 transfer (2011/34)
  
• Embassy of Ireland to Argentina, 2012 transfer: files relating mainly to 1982 (2012/40)
  
• Department of Transport, Civil Aviation Division, 2004 transfer: Aer Lingus files 1969-1975 (2004/108)
  
• Department of Transport, Civil Aviation Division, 2008 transfer: aviation regulation and air navigation files, 1956-1991 (2008/66)
  
• Department of Industry and Commerce: Irish tobacco industry, 1922-1956 (INDC/IND/25)
  
• Department of Industry and Commerce: tariffs and protection of manufacturing, 1925-1973 (INDC/IND/26)
  

The above are additions to the catalogue. The records/photos/documents themselves are not online, but descriptions in the catalogue may help you to decide whether a personal visit to view the collection could be worthwhile.

6,000 Ulster Doctors distilled into two volumes

If you've got doctors in your family from the north of Ireland, a new two-volume book, A Directory of Ulster Doctors (who qualified before 1901), from Richard Clarke could be of interest.

The north of Ireland has always produced a large number of doctors, not only for Ireland generally, but for the armed forces and for the wider world, and this directory lists nearly six thousand names. Each name comes with biographical notes, including details of parentage and dates of birth, marriage and death, and medical education and career.

The information is derived from a wide variety of sources, both published and unpublished, and is set in the context of the development of the medical profession over several centuries.

Published by the Ulster Historical Foundation, the hardback costs £50 and is available from BooksIreland.

New edition of Irish Archives focusses on childhood

The latest issue of the Journal of Irish Archives concentrates on sources for the study of childhood in Ireland.

Irish Archives is the annually-published journal of the Irish Society for Archives, an organisation which seeks to promote the place of archives in Irish society. It is co-edited by Dr Susan Hood of the Representative Church Body Library, Dublin, and Elizabeth McEvoy of the National Archives of Ireland.

In this edition, nine contrasting articles (along with five reviews) about Irish childhood experience from the perspective of the sources are drawn together in one volume.

Among them are a feature that focusses on the National Archives of Ireland's collection of records of pupils in national schools, an illustrated essay on the National Library of Ireland's photographic collections and their images of children from 1880 to 1960, and an examination of the evidence of Irish childhoods from 19th-century court records.

The Journal was launched last night by Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs at The Ark, a Cultural Centre for Children in Temple Bar, Dublin, and is now available in Easons nationwide for €8.99 or directly from the ISA by posting cheques payable to the Irish Society for Archives to Elizabeth McEvoy, The National Archives, Bishop’s Street, Dublin 8. Cost including postage for ROI is €11.50; while UK and rest of the world is €13.50.

You might like to listen to a 7-minute interview with Dr Susan Hood on RTE Radio' History Show last week.

Celebrating the Butlers: a conference, 11-13 October

A conference on the theme The Butlers of Ormond – at home and abroad is to be held on the weekend of Friday 11 October to Sunday 13 October in Cahir, Co Tipperary.

Part of the Gathering 2013, the event is billed as a celebration of a dynasty in history, architecture and literature and includes social events, a walking tour, lectures and an excursion. The conference fee (includes walking tour of Cahir) is €25.00 (€20.00 student/unwaged/retired).

Additional optional costs for accommodation, dinner and lunch have been arranged at very good rates.

Full programme and bookings. Email for enquiries.

PRONI documents tell remarkable tale of Castlereagh

PRONI has advised that some of its documents were used in the development of a documentary to be screened in Northern Ireland this weekend: The Extraordinary Life of Castlereagh.

The one-hour-long film is part of the Groundbreakers season, a series of documentaries about visionaries. In it, historian John Bew uncovers the remarkable story of Lord Castlreagh, the Irish born British Foreign Secretary who was instrumental in the defeat of Napoleon but became one of the country's most reviled politicians before ending his own life in 1822.

It will be screened on BBC2 in Northern Ireland only, at 9pm on Sunday 6 October.

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: latest update

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives has been concentrating on headstones and Irish Constabulary records from 1858 (service numbers 22751 – 24000) in the second half of September. The following are now free to access on the website.

Antrim Genealogy Archives
Headstones – Cushendal, Layd Church, & St Cuthbert’s, Dunluce
Military & Constabulary – Irish Constabulary with native county of Antrim 1858 (partial)

Armagh Genealogy Archives – Military & Constabulary
Irish Constabulary with native county of Armagh 1858 (partial)

Carlow Genealogy Archives – Military & Constabulary
Irish Constabulary with native county of Carlow 1858 (partial)

Cavan Genealogy Archives – Military & Constabulary
Irish Constabulary with native county of Cavan 1858 (partial)

Clare Genealogy Archives - Photos
Heffernan, Michael & O'Dea, Mary ca 1875

Cork Genealogy Archives - Headstone Photos
Dunmanway; St. Finbarr's Burial Ground (New)

Dublin Genealogy Archives - Deansgrange Cemetery
Deansgrange Cemetery, St. Nessan's Part 9

Fermanagh Genealogy Archives - Military Records
Irish Constabulary with native county of Fermanagh 1858 (partial)

Kilkenny Genealogy Archives – Headstones
Listerlin; St. Davids Church Graveyard, Pts 1 & 2

Tipperary Genealogy Archives– Photos
Heffernan nee O'Dea, Mary ca 1865



Layd cemetery, Antrim. (Courtesy of Yvonne Russell)