FindMyPast.ie's latest addition is a collection of voters' registers relating to three elections held in the second half of the 18th century. The record-set has been launched as the Limerick City & County Electoral Registers 1760-1776 collection and holds 2,548 transcriptions. As far as I'm aware, these records, sourced from the National Library of Ireland, have not previously been ..read more

The General Register Office of Ireland's Public Search facility in Dublin has changed its opening hours again. The office, which is located in Werburgh Street, to the west of Dublin Castle, is now open on Tuesdays only, from 9:30am to 4:30pm and will remain open over the lunch period.It's true this is an improvement on the original post-pandemic timetable, which changed from week to week with ..read more

The hugely successful free-to-view RIP.ie database has been acquired by the Irish Times Group. Founded in 2005 by brother and sister team Jay and Dympna Coleman of County Louth, the site has been publishing death announcements and funeral notices (and much more) since July 2006.Although so recently established, it has become a trusted resource in Ireland and can be useful to genealogists ..read more

Last month brought another bumper delivery of files to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives from the volunteer team. The additions include headstone photos and transcribed inscriptions from seven burial grounds plus church records from two Ulster congregations, one Presbyterian, the other Methodist. As always, these files have been contributed by researchers for the benefit of other researchers ..read more

Please find below a two-week summary of newly-released and updated family history collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (For previous list, see 11/4 blogpost.) These regular listings are designed to help researchers whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales. By default, they will also be useful to anyone ..read more

Published April 2024 The most recent county to be studied in the Four Courts Press The Irish Revolution, 1912–23 series is Armagh. The 240-page paperback, written by Donal Hall and Eoin Magennis, explains how Armagh's long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism intensified during the 'third home rule crisis' of 1912–14 and saw the unionists mobilize both politically and militarily ..read more

Tipperary Studies had added an interesting collection to its digital archives: the Kent Collection. It's a treasure trove of historical documents and photographs that were kindly loaned for digitisation by Roland Dyer, the great grandson of Walter Francis Kent, a prominent merchant and grocer from Borrisocane in the north of County Tipperary in the late C19th and early C20th. Click for enlarged ..read more

The Irish collection within the BritishNewspaperArchive and its shared database at sister company FindMyPast has seen some action for the first time since early January. Making its debut was the Banbridge Chronicle while the Belfast News Letter received a full-year update, as follows:Some 652 editions of the Banbridge Chronicle are now available to search and view on either site. The 23,996 ..read more

To mark #DouglassWeek in Belfast, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has updated and republished its Ulster & Slavery: The Story from the Archives, an essential resource for learning more about the region's historical connections to slavery and reflecting on its influence in the present day. It was first published in 2007 by PRONI to mark the bicentenary of the slave trade's ..read more

In partnership with the Royal College of Nursing NI, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has today launched a ground-breaking Biographical Dictionary of Nurses from Ireland, which describes the lives of those nurses who served on the home front and in various theatres of war around the globe during WW2.        Click to view online or download The 325-page ..read more