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The New England Historic Genealogical Society is allowing free access to all of its AmericanAncestors.org databases until the end of Tuesday 17th July.…Continue
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More than 1,500 lantern slides held by the University of Warwick library's Modern Records…Continue
Tags: Independence, Easter Rising
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Just for St. Patrick's Day, origins.net is allowing free access to their Irish Wills Index 1484-1858…Continue
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The Irish Army Census was a snapshot of the National (Free State) Army taken at midnight on 12/13 November, 1922, during the guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War. The census records details of more…Continue
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I have recently been reading transcripts of British House of Commons parliamentary debates for the period 1919-1921 in search of information relating to the Irish War for Independence and came across the following:
On 12 May, 1921, the Member of Parliament A.E.Newbould asked how many Irish…
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Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, 5th Edition
By John Grenham
Published in Ireland by Gill Books and in the USA and Canada by Genealogical Publishing Co.…
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To commemorate 100 years since the ending of the First World War, Find My Past is offering free access to its family history database collections this weekend from 12:00 noon (GMT)…
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"In eighteen hundred and forty-four
I landed on the Liverpool shore
Me belly was empty me hands were raw
With working on the railway, the railway
I'm weary of the railway
Poor paddy works on the railway"
(from Poor Paddy on the Railway by The Dubliners…
Kieron
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