Thursday 10 March 2016

YOU'RE INVITED TO DIASPORA OF THE WILD ATLANTIC WAY











YOU ARE INVITED TO THE FOLLOWING EVENT:

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Event to be held at the following time, date and location:

Treacys West County Conference & Leisure Hotel
Limerick Road
Ennis
Ireland

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Third International Family History Conference in Clare in September 2016
Dates: 23rd to 24th September 2016.
The third International family history conference "Diaspora of the Wild Atlantic Way" will take place in Ennis on the 23rd to 24th September 2016. Hosted by the Clare Roots Society, who are celebrating their 10th year in 2016, the keynote speaker will be renowned author and genealogy blogger Dick Eastman from the USA, who is making his first trip to Ireland. Dick is the author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter which is published daily. He has been involved in genealogy for over 30 years. Other eminent speakers include Dr Bruce Durie, Dr Gavin Wilk, John Grenham and Pauleen Cass from Australia. The conference will explore emigration from Ireland in the nineteneth and twentieth centuries.

Day tickets €30 and individual lecture tickets €10 available at the event.



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Clara Hoyne

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Tuesday 8 March 2016

CLARE CHATTER... CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY











CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE

Thursday 24th March 8pm 
Old Ground Hotel

THE FARM BY KNOCKNAMUCKLY

 Dr. Raymond Gillespie 
NUIM


How do you write local history? 

This talk suggests that people in the past worked within a world of family and community and for that reason, genealogy is a very important resource for the local historian, but is often forgotten about, as local historians tend to concentrate on place, rather than people. 

Dr. Gillespie looks at one household in the 1901 census to see what the history of one family might tell us about the world in which they lived. It suggests that genealogists need to become more historically minded and historians need to pay more attention to genealogy.

He focuses on the history of one farm in north Armagh and the family who held it from the Famine until the First World War. The farm that is the subject of this talk was only 5 acres split into six fields. 

By looking at the experience of these people, and particularly one family, we can measure how, and why, their experience of the world differed from the national trends in matters such as population and familial changes. 

The talk will examine three aspects of the subject: 

the family and the way in which the people of the townland arranged their world 

the land and how it was worked by the family to earn a living

and the communities (especially the religious ones)  in which they moved. 

The sources, on which this lecture is based, are common ones for the late nineteenth century – there are, for example, no family papers for the farm – so this sort of study is reproducible for most parts of the country and can be used as a guide, or even a model, for people wanting to examine families, farms, or townlands elsewhere. 


       


Raymond Gillespie teaches in the Department of History, NUI, Maynooth.

Most of his work focuses on the local experience in early modern 
Ireland.

He developed the Maynooth MA in local history. He is also
 
the series editor of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.





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Clare Roots Society    Hosting our Third International Family History Conference in Ennis, 
23rd-24th September 2016.


Thursday 3 March 2016

NEW SLIGO CIVIL MARRIAGES ONLINE








NEW CIVIL MARRIAGE RECORDS FOR COUNTY SLIGO


County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Society has added over 14,000 new civil marriage records to its collection of data online. Click the link below for more details...

New County Sligo Civil Marriage Records


For a full list of sources for County Sligo  please click here

Information courtesy of Rootsireland.ie



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Sligo