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  • Historian Skills: Lecture 3

    Historian Skills: Lecture 3

    21/03/2022
  • Editing Images

    Editing Images

    14/03/2022
    In this training we focused on two aspects of editing : Editing images for your website Editing images for a publication eg. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Digital Storytelling with StoryMaps

    Digital Storytelling with StoryMaps

    21/01/2022
    Talk details Marie Mannion, County Galway Heritage Officer and Barry Doyle, GIS Officer, Galway County Council talk about creating StoryMaps on ...
  • Where in the World: Global distribution of Daoine agus Áit postcards

    Where in the World: Global distribution of Daoine agus Áit postcards

    11/01/2022
    Scroll over the map to see where in the world the postcards have been received. Click on a pin to see ...
  • SCA Understanding Copyright with Dr Ellie Pridgeon: Licensing

    SCA Understanding Copyright with Dr Ellie Pridgeon: Licensing

    15/12/2021
    This session focuses on UK copyright legislation relating to the licensing of archive material. Dr Pridgeon examines licensing content in ...
  • Christmas at the Country House: class, community, culture

    Christmas at the Country House: class, community, culture

    15/12/2021
    Talk details Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam talks to iCAN members about her research into how the landed elite in Ireland celebrated Christmas. Dr ...
  • Storm season in Sligo eighty years ago

    Storm season in Sligo eighty years ago

    08/12/2021
    Storm Barra has left us in no doubt that the 2021-22 storm season is upon us. Barra, the second named ...
  • How to: access, use and understand your Google Analytics

    How to: access, use and understand your Google Analytics

    08/12/2021
    Google Analytics tracks visits to your website so you can discover how many users have visited and when, how many ...
  • Staker Wallis Book - His Life and Times and Death, by Mainchín Seoighe

    Staker Wallis Book - His Life and Times and Death, by Mainchín Seoighe

    05/12/2021
    Patrick (‘Staker’) Wallis, whose tragic story is told in this book, was hanged in Kilfinane, Co Limerick, in 1798. A ...
  • The heritage of Lonehort Harbour, Bere Island.

    The heritage of Lonehort Harbour, Bere Island.

    01/12/2021
    Lonehort Harbour is on the eastern end of Bere Island. The place name Lonehort / Longphort is of Norse origin ...
  • The Great Hunger

    The Great Hunger

    15/11/2021
    In 1845 The blight came tearing at potato fields Black as night potatoes withered Dying never more to yield Confiscated wheat and barley Left the ...
  • Turk Island, Bere Island

    Turk Island, Bere Island

    15/11/2021
    Turk Island, located in Lawrence Cove, Bere Island, Co Cork. Local folklore recounts how in pre-famine times a Turkish ship ...
  • Atmospheric Phenomena

    Atmospheric Phenomena

    10/11/2021
    Anticipation with exhilaration On an August evening at hallowed site Amid assemblage, at one with Spirits Ancient tribes, Previous witnesses Musing as fiery Sphere ...
  • St. Cumin’s Church  / Cill Chuimín

    St. Cumin’s Church  / Cill Chuimín

    10/11/2021
    A legend narrated by Michael Mac Ruaidhri of Ballycastle, Co. Mayo was a confused reminiscence of Crom Cruac.  Prior to ...
  • Caher Island

    Caher Island

    10/11/2021
    The uninhabited island of Caher is situated between Clare Island & Inishturk.  It was believed that a hermitage existed on ...
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  • Tony S on The Mc Greal Family

    25/01/2023
    My grandmother was Nora McGreal came to America with her brother Austin in I believe 1910. She was from Westport....
  • Fionnuala on Ballygill Bridge, scene of the last known fatal duel in Ireland

    24/01/2023
    Hi Annette, Malachy is my 3x GGF and Owen seemingly was a cousin. The story has had a few variations...
  • Eileen Dunne on The Sídhe – belief & customs in Co. Laois

    24/01/2023
    Only heard of this tonight from my friend.. Paddy who knows ye well... Im so intrigued.. Am reading everything now.....
  • Lorna Elms on Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) Railway Station

    23/01/2023
    Hi Denis, thank you for your eagle eye and for drawing our attention to that typo - it has now...
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