Claire Bradley

As part of the Irish government’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the USA, they commissioned a short book on the Irish ancestry of various Irish presidents. I picked up a free copy in my local library. The government also

One of the jewels in the crown of Fingal Local Studies and Archives is their Buried in Fingal database. It was launched by none other than John Grenham in May 2017: I was at the launch too. The site was carefully corrected over the years and has been relaunched in the past week. As civil serva...

It sometimes surprises those whose Irish ancestors left the Emerald Isle a long time ago that more records are not in the Irish language.

The main reason for this is that most of the extant records date from a time when Ireland was ruled by Britain. Administrative records are all in English. We do have some Roman Catholic records in Latin too.

After Indepe...