Researching your Irish Ancestry
When: Friday, 25 December, 2020IRISH GENEALOGY – FIRST STEPS Where do I begin researching my Irish ancestry?
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When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020MyHeritage is an industry-leading platform that makes family history research easy and offers you some of the most advanced tools on the market to make fascinating discoveries about your ancestors.
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IrelandXO Insight - Newspaper Sources
When: Thursday, 26 November, 2020Outside of reports about the famous or infamous, newspapers might be disregarded at first as a source of genealogical information.
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Chronicles Insight - Irish Stars of the Silver Screen
When: Friday, 20 November, 2020This week we enjoyed welcoming people from all over the world to our Hollywood-themed webinar. If you missed Thursday's meet up, here is another chance to catch up with the historical characters that were discussed.
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IrelandXO Insight - Irish Famine Resources Revealed
When: Thursday, 12 November, 2020The initial cause of the Irish Famine was the failure of the potato crop, due to a disease called Blight. However, it was a combination of disastrous political actions and poor social structures that turned the crisis into a tragedy of un-precedented proportions.
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XO Chronicles - Remembering WW1
When: Wednesday, 11 November, 2020Many more Irish men and women joined the allied forces in the countries they had emigrated to, and thousands, such as Patrick Conheady and Charles Sharpe, gave up their lives in the ensuing battles.
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Search our entire Message Board - 160,000 posts and replies!
When: Tuesday, 10 November, 2020General Post Office, Dublin. During the past 10 years, we have welcomed over 160,000 posts and replies on our message board and helped thousands of people reconnect with their ancestors' place of origin in Ireland.
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Chronicles Insight - Inventors and Innovators
When: Friday, 6 November, 2020Here we have put together three individuals from Ireland’s history and diaspora who were noted for their engineering ingenuity.
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DESCUBRE TUS RAÍCES IRLANDESAS
When: Monday, 28 September, 2020¿Sabías que a lo largo de los siglos más de 10 millones de personas han emigrado de la isla de Irlanda? Hoy se estima que hasta 70 millones de personas en todo el mundo son de origen irlandés.
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Bringing the Mountbellew 'Orphan' Girls Home
When: Friday, 25 September, 2020November 1852 was a dark month in east Galway and made even more so by the lingering effects of An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, which had blighted the land for the previous 7 years causing the deaths and emigration of millions. In that month a group of 30 young girls set off from Mountbellew Work
Mountbellew (Galway)