FindMyPast is offering a 15% discount on selected 12-month subscriptions. Savings on genealogy subscriptions from all databases suppliers have become as rare as hen's teeth in the last couple of years, so if you were thinking of taking out a sub or renewing an old one, make sure to grab this opportunity before it expires at 11:59 British/Irish Summer Time (GMT + 1) on Monday 12 June. Please ..read more

RootsIreland.ie has uploaded a further 11,606 Roman Catholic records from the Diocese of Kerry. These include 10,345 baptism register records from a County Cork parish and 1,261 marriage register records from a County Kerry parish, as follows:  Baptisms from Dromtariffe parish, Co. Cork, 1801–1902  Marriages from Moyvane parish, Co. Kerry, 1831–1905.  For an up to date list of sources for these ..read more

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released Census 2022 Summary Results for the Republic of Ireland. These provide information on a variety of topics including population by age and sex, marital status, citizenship, Irish language, health, carers, foreign languages, religion, and employment.  For a speedy overview, see the infographic below. Here are some of the results: Ireland’s ..read more

The National Archives (TNA), the UK's main repository, has launched a new web portal that will bring together government files relating to the situation in Northern Ireland from 1994 up to and including the signing of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in 1998. The new website – Northern Ireland: Pathways to Peace and Reconciliation – is the first phase of a digitisation project to make ..read more

Monday 29 May Late May Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland. Repositories and libraries closed. Tuesday 30 May: The Workhouse System in Ireland, with Dr Robyn Atcheson. A hybrid event hosted by North of Ireland Family History Society, Causeway C&G Branch. 8pm to 10pm. Details. Tuesday 30 May: A History of Housing in Dublin –Bally-far-out: Housing Since the 1950s. An in-person event. The last in a ..read more

Below is a summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (Previous summary, 5 May.) My regular summary of releases and updates relating to British collections is designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales. By default, it ..read more

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) have made available the series of Annual Reports on Marriages, Births and Deaths in Ireland from 1864 to 2000 inclusive. They are full of detail about our ancestors social, educational, wealth, health and religious lives across the period, and I find them a not always comfortable mix of fascinating ..read more

Tipperary Studies, the local history department of Tipperary Libraries, has new additions to its digital archives: Admission registers for Borrisokane Workhouse. They date from 1894 to 1923. One of the striking differences in admissions from this period compared with those from earlier decades is the number of tradesmen using the workhouse for overnight stays while travelling for work. The ..read more

RootsIreland.ie has uploaded 579 Lease Abstracts for the Manor and Lordship of Monaghan. They span 1679–1810. These leases not only name the people who have agreed the lease, they often include mention of other people and their properties. As such they are a useful census sustitute for the county. For an example of the records provided in this small collection, I ran a search this morning for ..read more

Monday 22 May: Famine in Borrisoleigh and the Cullohill evictions of 1850, with John Connors. An in-person event hosted by Borrisoleigh Historical Society. 8pm. Venue: Borrisoleigh Community Centre, Pallas Street, Borrisoleigh, Thurles, Tipperary. Tuesday 23 May: Documenting Dublin’s history: John T. Gilbert as a book collector, with Dr Maire Kennedy. The 26th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert ..read more