Due to
the fact that the first talk in the series, Sean Murphy of UCD speaking on
‘Getting Started in Irish Genealogy’, opened to a capacity crowd today (1st
August), the lunchtime series has been moved to the larger Seminar Room with
effect from tomorrow (Thursday 2nd August) **
This
August, the National Library of Ireland presents its Summer Lunchtime Series
2012 offering audiences a unique programme of short talks on Irish family
history. Twenty of the foremost experts – genealogists, broadcasters, writers
and academics – will deliver a series of free talks on aspects of Irish family
history.
The
series brings together the talent and skill of some of Ireland’s best
genealogists, who feature strongly in this uniquely devised series which starts
on the 1st August 2012. The workshops are taking place in the Seminar
Room at 1pm. No booking is required, but seats are on a first come, first
served basis.
The daily
lunchtime genealogy workshops will be held every week day from August 1st to
the 29th of August at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin.
These
workshops have been organised by Ancestor Network and Eneclann (the consortium
companies providing the Genealogy Advisory Service at both the National
Archives of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland.
The
workshops will be held at the Seminar Room at 1:00pm. Each workshop is
scheduled for 20 minutes giving people working in or visiting Dublin a chance
to pop in and learn from the leading genealogy experts in the country.
The impressive programme of workshops and the profiles of the genealogy experts
follow:
Wednesday
1 August, Getting started in Irish genealogy, Sean
Murphy, UCD
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Sean Murphy (MA) is a graduate in history of University
College Dublin and is a genealogy teacher with the college’s Adult Education
Centre, giving courses which run from introductory to certificate level.
In addition to teaching work, he is also a professional genealogist
and consultant, has published widely, given talks to societies and
groups and participated in radio and television programmes. Among his
publications are Twilight of
the Chiefs (2004) and A
Primer in Irish Genealogy (2011 edition, freely available online
as a PDF file).
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Thursday 2 August, Irish church
records, Mary Sullivan, Irish Family History Foundation
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Mary Sullivan is a librarian who worked for a number of
years in various public and special libraries. She has been manager of Cavan
Genealogy since its foundation in 1987 and serves as a director on the board
of the Irish Family History Foundation, the umbrella body for the county
genealogy centres. She has contributed articles to a number of publications
and in 1998 compiledThe Graveyards
of County Cavan A Survey. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Science
from Queen’s University, Belfast and has delivered a Diploma in Family and
Community History for NUI Maynooth. Her main interests are in aspects of
Irish migration.
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Friday 3 August, Irish genealogy online, Brian
Donovan, Eneclann
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Brian Donovan is the CEO of Eneclann Ltd., the leading
genealogical and historical company in Ireland. He trained as an Irish
historian at Trinity College Dublin and has a number of academic
publications. In 1998 he jointly established Eneclann, with responsibility
for the company’s digitisation and electronic publishing programme. Since
then he has played a key role in establishingwww.findmypast.ie a
main online resource for Irish genealogical records, and also many Eneclann
and Archive CD Books Ireland titles on CD, DVD and online. To date he has
overseen the publication of over 1,000 individual titles, and over 12 million
records online. Brian was also the technical advisor for the landmark Trinity
College project to digitise the 1641 Depositions, as well as many other
cultural and educational initiatives.
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Tuesday 7 August, Why are Irish surnames so
weird?, John Grenham, author of "Tracing Your Irish
Ancestors"
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John Grenham came to professional genealogy in 1981, as one
of the panel of Genealogical Office researchers and later worked for
Hibernian Research. As in-house researcher for the Genealogical Office in
1990-91, he was instrumental in setting up the GO Consultation Service, the
forerunner of the current Advisory Services in the National Library and
National Archives. He was Project Manager with the Irish Genealogical Project
from 1991 to 1995 and later went on to develop and market his own
genealogical software, Grenham’s
Irish Recordfinder. Since 1998, he has run the Irish Times Irish
Ancestors website. In 2005, he was the first Genealogist-in-Residence at
Dublin City Library. In 2007, he was awarded a fellowship of The Irish
Genealogical Research Society. Among his publications are the standard guide
to Irish genealogy, Tracing
your Irish Ancestors (4th ed. 2012),Clans and Families of Ireland (1995), Generations (1996), “The
Genealogical Office and its Records” in The Genealogical Office, (1999), Grenham’s Irish Surnames (CD-ROM, 2003) and numerous
articles and columns in the UK magazine Your Family Tree. He has written the “Irish Roots” column
in The Irish Times since
February 2009. In 2011 he was co-presenter of the RTE television programme
“The Genealogy Roadshow”. His website is www.johngrenham.com.
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Wednesday 8 August, Connecting
with the Diaspora, Anne Rodda, Genealogist
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Anne Rodda, Certified Genealogist, has a Doctor of Letters
degree in Irish Studies from Drew University in New Jersey. For more
than twenty years, Anne has been tracing back to the European birthplaces of
American immigrant families, starting with her own Danish, German and Irish
ancestors, leading to specializing in tracing Irish ancestry. Her first
book has just been published:Trespassers
in Time: Genealogists and Microhistorians.
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Thursday 9 August, Irish genes
and ancestry, Gianpiero Cavallieri, Royal
College of Surgeons
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Dr. Gianpiero Cavalleri is a Biomedical Research Lecturer
at the Royal College of Surgeons and founder of IrelandsDNA. His research is
in population genetics, understanding how the nature of genetic variation in
the Irish population and how this variation has been shaped by historical
events.
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Friday 10 August, Sources for genealogy at
the Military Archives, Capt. Stephen MacEoin, Military
Archives
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Captain Stephen MacEoin is currently staff officer in
charge of the Military Archives. He served with the United Nations Forces in
Kosovo in 2006-2007 as a platoon commander and on his return was selected for
an appointment to the Military Archives in Dublin and promoted to captain. He
proceeded to undertake the MA in Archives & Records Management at UCD,
and took an internship at the City of Vancouver Archives in 2008. He is
currently overseeing the publication online of the Bureau of Military History
records, including the important Witness statements detailing the
recollections of over 1,700 participants in 1916 and the War of Independence.
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Monday 13 August, Records for genealogical
research at the Representative Church Body Library, Susan
Hood, RCBL
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Susan Hood is Assistant Librarian, Archivist and
Publications Officer for the Church of Ireland at the Representative Church
Body, the principal repository for Church of Ireland records.
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Tuesday 14 August,
Genealogical resources of ‘Big House’ families, Turtle
Bunbury, author of “Vanishing Ireland”
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Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author and historian based
in Co. Carlow. His published books include the best-selling Vanishing
Ireland series, Sporting Legends of Ireland and The Irish Pub, while
his historical work has been published in magazines as diverse as Playboy and The World of Interiors, as
well as newspapers such as the Financial
Times, The Guardian, The
New York Post, The Australian, The Mail & Guardian (South
Africa) and The Irish Daily
Mail. Turtle is a co-presenter of ‘The Genealogy Roadshow’ series,
which recently aired on RTE One. He was also curator of the inaugural History
Festival of Ireland in June 2012. www.turtlebunbury.com
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Wednesday 15 August, Using
newspapers to trace your family history, Jennifer
Doyle, Eneclann
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Jennifer Doyle is a Dublin native who initially began
studying science before transferring to history in Trinity College, Dublin,
and has never looked back. Her historical interests are varied, to say
the least. Her undergraduate thesis studied the three criminal jurisdictions
of medieval Dublin while her Masters thesis, obtained from King’s College,
London in 2011, focused on the concept of respectability, constructing her
thesis on the themes of eggs, butter and patriotism, which she hopes will be
published in the near future. It was through her masters that she
developed a fascination for newspapers as historical documents and believes
that they are an overlooked source. Since working for Eneclann, she has
been using newspapers as a source of genealogical information and as a tool
for researching family stories.
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Thursday 16 August,
Irish placenames – tracing where your ancestors came from, Brian
Mitchell, author of “A guide to Irish Parish Registers”
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Brian Mitchell has been involved in local, family and
emigration research in the wider Derry area since 1982. The database whose
construction he supervised from 1982 to 2007, containing one million records
(dating from 1642 to 1922) extracted from the major civil and church
registers of County Derry, can now be accessed at www.derry.rootsireland.ie.
Brian is an accredited member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
in Ireland (M.A.P.G.I.) and the author of a number of Irish genealogy
reference books such as A New
Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, A Guide to Irish Parish Registers, Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871,
and Genealogy at a glance:
Irish Genealogy Research. He is currently contracted to Derry
City Council as their Genealogist where visitors and locals alike are
encouraged, at no charge, to forward any queries they may have concerning
their family history; by contacting him in person at the Foyle Valley Railway
Museum, by telephone (028 7136 5151 ext. 8254) or by email (genealogy@derrycity.gov.uk).
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Friday 17 August, Irish births, marriages
and deaths for beginners, Eileen O’Duill, Genealogist
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Eileen O ÓDúill, CG, a professional Irish genealogist since
1990, specialises in probate genealogical research in Ireland. She is a
member of the Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland and
serves as Trustee for Britain and Ireland of the Association of Professional
Genealogists, U.S.A., (2007-2012). Eileen has lectured at conferences
in Ireland, Great Britain and the USA (999 to 2012). She lectures on the
Diploma in Family History (Genealogy), at Independent College Dublin and
served as a director of Irish Genealogy Ltd. for 9 years. In 2011, Eileen
teamed with Lou Szucs to provide a webinar on Irish genealogy for
Ancestry.com. Eileen currently is the only Certified Genealogist in Ireland.
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Monday 20 August, Using Valuation Office records to trace your family, Carmel
Gilbride, Eneclann
Carmel Gilbride graduated from the Masters in Family
History at the University of Limerick, then working as an intern in the
Genealogical Office in the National Library of Ireland. Following this internship, Carmel took up an appointment
with Eneclann. As Research Manager, her role is to ensure that
available historical sources are used to deliver maximum results for clients
wishing to accurately trace their Irish ancestry. Combining twin
passions for family and history, Carmel has traced her father’s side of the
family back to the 1700s in Dublin using a strong family oral history
tradition. On her maternal side, she is one quarter American, which
gives her a particular perspective on the Irish diaspora.
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Tuesday 21 August,
Records of the RIC and DMP, Jim
Herlihy, author of “The Royal Irish Constabulary”
Jim Herlihy, a member of the Garda SÃochána, writes for
historical society journals and is the author of The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Short History and Genealogical Guide
with a Select List of Medal Awards and Casualties (Four Courts
Press, 1997) and The Dublin
Metropolitan Police: A Short History and Genealogical Guide.
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Wednesday 22 August, Using
Findmypast to trace your family history, Cliona
Weldon, Findmypast
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Cliona Weldon graduated from UCD in 1995 with a degree in
Psychological Studies. She spent years in the ICT industry working as a
Senior Bid Manager before moving into the not-for-profit sector in 2006. With
years of experience leading international & multi-functional teams, she’s
successfully co-ordinated a variety of initiatives through development to
execution. In her spare time she works with the SCOOP foundation (Save
Children out of Poverty). She joined findmypast.ie as the General
Manager in March 2011.
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Thursday 23 August, Scots-Irish
emigration, 17th – 19th centuries, William
Roulston, Ulster Historical Foundation
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Dr William Roulston is Research Director of the Ulster
Historical Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: the
essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800. He has
spoken widely on a range of historical and genealogical subjects in Ireland,
the UK and North America.
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Friday 24 August, National Archives of Ireland, sources online, Catriona
Crowe, National Archives
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Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National
Archives of Ireland. She is Manager of the Irish Census Online Project, which
has placed the 1901 and 1911 censuses online free of charge over the last 4
years. She is an Editor of Documents
on Irish Foreign Policy, which published its seventh volume, covering
the period 1941-45, in November 2010. She is editor of Dublin 1911, published by the Royal
Irish Academy in late 2011. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Monday 27 August, A thousand years of Irish genealogy: how to use Gaelic pedigrees and family
trees in your research, Prof. Nollaig Ó MuraÃle,
NUIG
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Professor Nollaig Ó Muraile, a native of Mayo, obtained his
Ph.D. from NUI Maynooth for a dissertation on the Co. Sligo genealogist
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh; this resulted in his book The Celebrated Antiquary: Dubhaltach Mac
Fhirbhisigh, c 1600-1671 – His Lineage, Life and Learning(1996; revised
ed., 2002). In 2004 he published his edition, in five
large volumes, of Leabhar
Mór na nGenealach: The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, compiled
(1645-66) by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh. Among numerous other
publications – several on aspects of Irish place-names – are two substantial
books: Irish Leaders and
Learning through the Ages. Essays by Paul Walsh (Dublin, 2003:
636 pp), and Turas na
dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn: From Ráth Maoláin to Rome. The Exile of
Ulster’s Gaelic Lords, 1607-8 (‘The Flight of the Earls’) – Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s
Contemporary Narrative (Rome, 2007: 700 pp). A member
of the Royal Irish Academy, he currently lectures in Modern Irish at NUI
Galway.
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Tuesday 28 August,
The Registry of Deeds – records to trace your family
history, Mary Beglan, Genealogist
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Mary Beglan M.A.P.G.I. has been a professional genealogist
since late 1990s and is based in Dublin. She has delivered many talks at
conferences and to family history societies and is particularly interested in
the use of Internet sources both Irish and overseas, in connection with Irish
research. Mary is currently on the panel which provides the Genealogy
Advisory Service in the National Library and National Archives. She is the
current Editor of the Irish Family History Society.
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Wednesday 29
August, Records for children in Care (pre-1952
adoptions), Fiona Fitzsimons, Eneclann
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Fiona Fitzsimons provided research for many television
programmes, including Who Do
You Think You Are?, Faces
of America and Finding
Your Roots, as well as historical advice for film (most recently the
Oscar nominated Albert Nobbs).
She is probably best known for her work tracing President Obama’s Irish
family history, which in 2008 was picked up during the U.S. Presidential
campaign and re-broadcast around the world. She lives in Dublin with
her husband and three sons.
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