Record of all legal weddings in Ireland

Pegmatite

This is a odd one
But is there a organisation that records all legal weddings in Ireland
And if so, is it possible to view this list on line?

traprunner

What you are looking for is Civil Marriages. Depending on the time frame certain records are index and searchable here: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

If it's more recent then the GRO on Werburgh Street in Dublin have most records indexed in book format.
https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/GRO_Research.aspx

MrWalsh

But you wont find all marriage records for Irish people as people who married abroad are not required to register the marriage in Ireland separately (I married abroad).

Peregrinus

The General Register Officer registers all marriages celebrated in Ireland. (Or, at least, it tries to, and largely succceeds, but it is possible that a small number of people get married, but then fail to register the fact by completing and returning the paperwork. They are still legally married, but they might have difficulty proving it.)

They also register births, adoptions, civil partnerships and deaths occurring in Ireland.

As MrWalsh says, if people marry abroad, that's generally not registered in the GRO in Ireland (but it will nearly always be registered with a similar agency in the country where they married.)

It's not possible to view the register of marriages (or births, adoptions, etc) online. Nowadays entries in the register are in digital form, but of course the great bulk of existing entries (which go back to 1864) are on paper.

If you know the details of the particular marriage you are looking for - who the spouses were, when it was celebrated - you can fill out a form and pay a fee and they will send you a certificate showing the information about that marriage in the register. If you don't know the details, or you are unsure whether a marriage was celebrated at all and are trying to find out, you can go to their office in Werburgh St in Dublin and search through there indexes to see if you can find what you are looking for. The indexes are not available online; they exist only in paper form so you have to go to the office. There is a search fee payable plus, if you find that there is an entry that might be the one you are looking for, a further fee to get a copy of that entry.

traprunner

Peregrinus wrote: »

If you know the details of the particular marriage you are looking for - who the spouses were, when it was celebrated - you can fill out a form and pay a fee and they will send you a certificate showing the information about that marriage in the register. If you don't know the details, or you are unsure whether a marriage was celebrated at all and are trying to find out, you can go to their office in Werburgh St in Dublin and search through there indexes to see if you can find what you are looking for. The indexes are not available online; they exist only in paper form so you have to go to the office. There is a search fee payable plus, if you find that there is an entry that might be the one you are looking for, a further fee to get a copy of that entry.

Not entirely correct. Ancestry.co.uk and findmypast.com have a lot of them indexed online from 1864 to more recent years. I'm not sure what date they stop...possibly 1950's or 1960's. Once the index record is found it is then possible to request the entry Werburgh St. have. It costs €4 per record.

Pegmatite

Thanks for the help everyone.