Claire Bradley

Now in its 10th year, Fingal Festival of History is part of the wider Dublin Festival of History and takes place over 26th September to 11th October next. There’s a fascinating array of talks, many of which are themed around the European Union to tie in with Ireland’s current preside...

Enrollment has opened for the next term of my beginner’s Irish genealogy class which starts on Monday 14th September for 6 weeks. Topics covered include the census, civil records, church records, an intro to land records and DNA.

It’s an occupational hazard for me that when a famous person has an Irish name but is not Irish, I wonder how far back their Irish ancestry is. You’d have to be under a rock to have missed the headline film of the summer: The Odyssey, directed by one

This post covers September & October.

Contextualising Irish Genealogy. Tuesday 15th September online for the Irish Family History Society at 19:30. Free for members & non-members can attend by purcha...