This blogpost is to let you know that there is a new introductory video about my research business, Gorry Research.  Maybe you’d like to take a look.  The one-minute ‘teaser’ is here and the full video (17 min.) will be found on the homepage of our website (just scroll down the page). It’s a chance […] The post Gorry Research introductory video now online appeared first on Gorry Research ..read more

Just look at what arrived today, in the middle of Storm Agnes! Back in December 2022, I posted about the demise of my book Baltinglass Chronicles, 1851-2001.  The last copies had been sold and it was now only available in the form of second-hand copies that might surface here and there.  I wasn’t pretending.  I […] The post Resurrection! Baltinglass Chronicles – Back to Life appeared first on Gorry Research ..read more

In genealogy, you never know when an old client will reappear.  Often you have someone come back several times in a short space of time, leading to a succession of searches over a period of a few years.  Occasionally a client who had a single search done may return after a few years to pick […] The post IT’S BEEN A WHILE – Like 32 years! appeared first on Gorry Research ..read more

Today (11 March 2022) my friend Cora Crampton showed me a photograph of a sheet of paper – the one in the image here.  It was in the back of a copy of Claude Chavasse’s The Story of Baltinglass (1970) which I gave her (or so she says) several years ago.  She recognised the dreadful […] The post Time Travel – it’s 1975 again! appeared first on Gorry Research ..read more

A few months ago I spent a weekend with friends on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork.  On our way from Glengarriff to Castletownbere we drove along the base of the bleak looking Hungry Hill.  It’s the highest mountain on the peninsula.  During our few days we visited Allihies, Eyeries and Bere Island, as well […] The post Hungry Hill: Daphne du Maurier’s Fantasy Ireland appeared first on Gorry Research ..read more