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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
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
03/05/2022
For more information on the Mayo Genealogy Group see here
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
06/04/2022
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
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
25/03/2022
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
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
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
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
21/03/2022
Historian Skills: Lecture 3
21/03/2022
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
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
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
28/02/2022
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
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
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
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
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)
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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