News from Ireland

Scott/Quilty Clan Reunited after 100 years

The Scott/Quilty Clan Reunite after 152 years

When: Thursday, 28 April, 2022

Local family historian Bob Quilty has managed to reunite an entire clan 152 years after the emigration of his two granduncles to upstate New York in the later part of the 19th century. 

Ballybricken (Limerick) Limerick
IrelandXO FAQs: Finding Ancestors in Ireland

IrelandXO FAQs: Finding Ancestors in Ireland

When: Wednesday, 2 November, 2022

FAQ#1 I have Irish DNA (that's all I know)

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Chronicles Insight - Trials and Transportation

Chronicles Insight - Trials and Transportation

When: Tuesday, 7 December, 2021

The sentence of Penal Transportation was carried out in Ireland from 1791 to 1853. This form of punishment involved the removal of convicted criminals from the land of their birth and relocating them elsewhere, most commonly to Australia.

Portumna (Galway) Galway
Bernadette Walso of Tower Museum and Elwyn Soutter of Ireland Reaching Out

IrelandXO welcomes Tower Museum to Partner Network

When: Monday, 19 July, 2021

Tower Museum

Derry
Irish family histories and where to find them

How to research your Irish family history

When: Friday, 8 October, 2021

Finding your Irish family history

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Regans Town - County Roscommon

Regans in Tumna - North Roscommon

When: Wednesday, 2 February, 2022

The presence of Regan families in the townlands between Cootehall in Roscommon, Leitrim Village, and Carrick on Shannon is recorded in the Census of Elfin in 1749.

Roscommon (Roscommon) Roscommon
East Galway Black 47 DNA Project

East Galway Black 47 DNA Project

When: Wednesday, 19 January, 2022

The local group are looking for people in the area who can show local ancestry going back three generations. They are also looking for people who have already done a DNA test in the area.

Galway
An Irish Thanksgiving Blessing

Thanksgiving Celebrations

When: Wednesday, 23 November, 2022

Ireland Reaching Out Connections We've connected thousands of people on the IrelandXO platform via our;

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Soccar Game - Ireland

Chronicles Insight - Irish Soccer Legends

When: Friday, 25 November, 2022

There is a strong tradition of Irish players travelling to Great Britain to have highly successful careers in the world of professional soccer, but this is nothing new.

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World War One veterans

When: Monday, 14 November, 2016

Fatalities http://baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/research/WW1&localparams=1&db=WW1&cmd=search&range=0,50

St Catherines (Dublin) Dublin