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Chronicles Insight - The Irish Superintendents of Liverpool
When: Wednesday, 19 October, 2022Agnes Jones 1832 Agnes Jones was born in 1832 in Cambridge to Irish immigrant parents.
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The Irish in India
When: Wednesday, 30 September, 2020Sister Nivedita - The Enlightened Educator
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Global Festival Series 2019
When: Thursday, 1 August, 2019In Limerick, the Global Irish Festival Series features two great festivals, namely I.NY (12-20 October) and Richard Harris International Film Festival (22-28 October). I.NY Location: Limerick City
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IrelandXO Connections - searching for Margaret Murphy
When: Wednesday, 17 July, 2019Here Lyn talks about her family history search for her great great grandmother, Margaret Murphy, connecting with local the local IrelandXO volunteer network and visiting ancestral homesteads in County Tipperary.
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Chronicles Insight - Queen Victoria in Ireland
When: Wednesday, 10 July, 2019The first visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland took place from the 2nd to the 12th of August 1849. The country was still in the grip of the catastrophic Great Famine. Though Westminster had declared the famine officially over that year, the reality of the matter was quite the opposite.
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Chronicles Insight - A True Son of Dublin
When: Friday, 5 July, 2019Shaw’s parents, George Carr Shaw (1814-1885) and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly (1830-1913), were of English Protestant descent. Shaw’s father was a notorious drunkard, a fact which prompted his son to adopt a teetotal lifestyle.
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IrelandXO Connections - Victoria and County Offaly
When: Friday, 5 July, 2019In Ireland, they visited: Tulla, Co Clare; Cree, Co. Offaly; and Dublin. They also met with Margaret, a volunteer with IrelandXO in Birr, who helped them investigate their Colbourn ancestors who had lived in the area in the early 1800s.
Kilcolman (Offaly) Offaly![Chronicles Insight - American Revolutionary War Chronicles Insight - American Revolutionary War](https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/irelandxo.com/s3fs-public/d7_files/Chronicles%20Insight%20July%204th.jpg)
Irish in The American War of Independence
When: Saturday, 4 June, 2022The day itself marks the date, in 1776, on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. There are certain figures of the American Revolutionary War whom history and popular culture have kept in the forefront of our minds.
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Personal objects - historical artefacts
When: Wednesday, 31 May, 2017Evidence can come in many formats – documents, receipts from a wedding breakfast or funeral wake, letters post-cards and telegrams, old photos and cine-camera footage, newspaper cuttings, and artefacts – the simple mementoes we keep to remind us of key life events.
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Ireland XO Genealogy Round Up
When: Sunday, 22 October, 2017An interactive guide to burials in Fingal (http://buried.fingal.ie/)
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