What is a Parish?
When: Saturday, 27 July, 2019Is a civil parish the same as a church parish in Ireland?
Ireland XO
IrelandXO Insight - how to locate parish of origin
When: Monday, 22 July, 2019Interwoven in the Irish subconscious is this strong attachment to one's ancestral land. So it's no surprise that the quest to find one's way home is at the heart of what makes genealogy so addictive.
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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.
Caher (Tipperary)
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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IrelandXO Insight - Irish Surnames 101
When: Monday, 8 July, 2019Whether your search for that elusive last name is north, south, east or west, you may need to get intimate with Irish naming traditions in all their linguistic glory. The above image of a 1901 Census Return from Co.
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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)
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.
Dublin
On the fourth of July 1806
When: Thursday, 4 July, 2019This celebratory rendition by the Dubliners and the Pogues topped the Irish singles charts in 1987. Lyrics THE IRISH ROVER
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Summer Visitors to Annaghdown
When: Friday, 28 June, 2019The Annaghdown IrelandXO team were pleased to meet and greet three sets of visitors in recent weeks.
Annaghdown (Galway)
Chronicles Insight - American Revolutionary War
When: Wednesday, 26 June, 2019The 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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