Guest Bloggers

My name is Jean, and I am a Family History Workshopaholic

by Bean an Phoist on November 9, 2012 · 1 comment

in Events,Family History,Guest Bloggers,Services

20 x 20 minute Family History Workshops in association with Eneclann at the National Library of Ireland, August 2012 by Jean Norton, Family Historian One of the surprise highlights of my summer came back in August. I looked through the National Library of Ireland newsletter and discovered they were hosting a series of 20 lunchtime [...]

Tagged as: Church of Ireland, Eneclann, Family History, Family History Workshops, FindMyPast.ie, Genealogy, Genealogy Advisory Service, Gianpiero Cavallieri, Irish Newspapers Archive, Jean Norton, National Archives, Parish Records, Parish Watch Books, Representative Church Body Library, Turtle Bunbury

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The Ireland’s Eye Murder

by Bean an Phoist on September 6, 2012 · 4 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings

by Abigail Rieley, writer and journalist Hidden in the National Library’s collection of prints and drawings is the face of a murder victim. Maria Louisa Kirwan died exactly 160 years ago. She was killed by her husband on Ireland’s Eye, the barren little island that lies just off Howth in North County Dublin on September [...]

Tagged as: Abigail Rieley, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Freeman's Journal, Henry Brocas, Ireland's Eye, Ireland's Eye Murder, Isaac Butt, Jaspar Joly, Joly Collection, Kirwan Collection, Maria Kirwan, Maria Louisa Kirwan, Murder, Newspapers, Prints & Drawings, Theresa Kenny, William Bourke Kirwan, William Kirwan

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The Freeman’s Journal

by Bean an Phoist on August 21, 2012 · 5 comments

in Guest Bloggers,Newspapers,Prints & Drawings,Projects

Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed [...]

Tagged as: Charles Stewart Parnell, Ernest Forbes, Felix M. Larkin, Freeman, Freeman's Journal, Irish Daily Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Parliamentary Party, Justin Furlong, National Press, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspaper Descriptors Project, Newspapers, NPHFI, Phil Blake, Public Register, Shemus, Sir John Gray, The Lepracaun, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Weekly Freeman, Weekly Freeman & National Press