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  • Kilfinane Brooch

    Kilfinane Brooch

    12/05/2022
    Soon after its foundation, the Kilfinane/Coshlea Historical Society adopted the Kilfinane Abbey Brooch as its logo. The history and importance ...
  • Church at Kilmolash and Easter

    Church at Kilmolash and Easter

    12/05/2022
    Copyright: Arway Publications, 2022 In the west of County Waterford, Ireland, in a rural area known as Kilmolash, where it borders ...
  • Home to Mayo: Genealogy Week 9-14 May 2022

    Home to Mayo: Genealogy Week 9-14 May 2022

    03/05/2022
    For more information on the Mayo Genealogy Group see here
  • Community engagement central to boat gallery development

    Community engagement central to boat gallery development

    27/04/2022
    The development of the new traditional boat gallery at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life is progressing to ...
  • Historian Skills: Lecture 6

    Historian Skills: Lecture 6

    06/04/2022
  • John McCarthy and Sons, Funeral Directors

    John McCarthy and Sons, Funeral Directors

    27/03/2022
    At the Registry of Deeds in Dublin, the following entry is recorded: ‘A memorial of an Agreement bearing date 7th July ...
  • Online Network Meeting 15 March 2022

    Online Network Meeting 15 March 2022

    25/03/2022
    This Meeting took place on-line Via Zoom on Tuesday 15th March. Meeting Agenda 11.00am Welcome & a minutes silence in remembrance of Mr ...
  • Historian Skills: Lecture 5

    Historian Skills: Lecture 5

    25/03/2022
  • Eva O'Flaherty (1874 - 1963)

    Eva O'Flaherty (1874 - 1963)

    24/03/2022
    Eva O’Flaherty was an Irish nationalist, Parisienne model, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and London milliner who founded a successful ...
  • The Last St Patrick's Day

    The Last St Patrick's Day

    23/03/2022
    My Irish grandmother, Nora Oates Sheils, died tragically in 1922 when my mother was 18 months old. When I learned ...
  • Mayo Genealogy Group recognised with award

    Mayo Genealogy Group recognised with award

    23/03/2022
    On behalf of the National Museum of Ireland and the Irish Community Archive Network, huge congratulations to the award-winning Mayo ...
  • Michael Viney: Mayo's wild terrain was once the largest farm in Ireland

    Michael Viney: Mayo's wild terrain was once the largest farm in Ireland

    22/03/2022
    This article was originally published in the Irish Times on 12 March, 20221 Another Life: In 1850, as famine raged, Captain ...
  • Historian Skills: Lecture 4

    Historian Skills: Lecture 4

    21/03/2022
  • Historian Skills: Lecture 3

    Historian Skills: Lecture 3

    21/03/2022
  • Editing Images

    Editing Images

    14/03/2022
    Editing images can mean any number of things depending on who you talk to but this training we focused on ...
  • A new addition to the Irish Folklife boat collection

    A new addition to the Irish Folklife boat collection

    11/03/2022
    A year ago I wrote a post about the model boats in the Irish Folklife collection. We were very fortunate ...
  • Adopt a Monument - With Neil Jackman from Abarta Heritage

    Adopt a Monument - With Neil Jackman from Abarta Heritage

    04/03/2022
    How the scheme works to help communities to play an active role in managing, protecting and promoting their local heritage ...
  • Historian Skills: Lectures 1 & 2

    Historian Skills: Lectures 1 & 2

    28/02/2022
  • What can you find in your County Archives? A guide to Local Authority collections

    What can you find in your County Archives? A guide to Local Authority collections

    11/02/2022
    Talk details Catherine Wright,  County Wicklow Archivist, gives an overview of the collections held in the Wicklow County Archives Service, focusing ...
  • Mrs. Burke's, Laurencetown

    Mrs. Burke's, Laurencetown

    06/02/2022
    A phrase which repeatedly occurs in the Witness Statements of East Limerick Brigade members, as they recount memories of the ...
  • The Care & Conservation of Historic Graveyards

    The Care & Conservation of Historic Graveyards

    03/02/2022
    Talk details Ian Doyle, Head of Conservation at the Heritage Council talks about the significance of historic graveyard sites from a ...
  • Gold in Them There Tills

    Gold in Them There Tills

    01/02/2022
    Extracts from Mark McGaugh’s memoir Gold In Them There Tills (2018). For more information on this publication contact: markmcgaugh@btinternet.com Introduction This is a ...
  • Researching the Belderrig currach

    Researching the Belderrig currach

    28/01/2022
    The Belderrig¹ currach was a sturdy, twenty-three feet long, five-man currach used along the north Mayo coast. By 1927, thirteen ...
  • Requiem for Ashling (Forever Love)

    Requiem for Ashling (Forever Love)

    27/01/2022
    Hurt wails Through the muffling screens Of news media and headlines.   But I feel the imprint of the Innocent, Victim and daughter, The wondrous face ...
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  • Chris O'Brien on The Last St Patrick’s Day

    13/05/2022
    Tom just read your story and it's very very interesting, we met you tonight in Paddy Morans for the traditional...
  • Pamela Mansell on Traditional May Day Customs in Ireland

    12/05/2022
    Great reading this, was there ever a May folk tradition of not painting during the month. I recall something about...
  • Andrea Lysons on Home to Mayo: Genealogy Week 9-14 May 2022

    08/05/2022
    Would have loved to attend one of these sessions but I live in England and couldn't make this particular week....
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