[pinkypinky]

3 diary dates for IGRS events in Dublin.

22/04: Spring lecture (following AGM for members only) Loreto Ireland - archivist Áine McHugh will speak on the history and archives of the sisters.

20/05: Open Day - 3 long lectures and 3 short ones. Full details coming soon but will feature a lecture on finding Irish people in Scotland and a history of German Immigrants who became pork butchers in Dublin.

Both of the above in the Pearse St library & full details are in the link above.

07/06: Summer lecture by Bob Frewen (of this parish, under an alias!) On: James Franklin Fuller, noted architect and amateur genealogist. This is an evening lecture in the RSAI.

[pinkypinky]

Full details of the IGRS Open Day now online.

20/05 in Pearse St library.

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Irish Family History Society's Talks in Dublin City Library and Archive this Sat:

2.15 Thomas MacDonagh's Family History: Muriel McAuley
3.15 Westland Row School and the Six Past Pupils Who Died in 1916: Margaret Loftus

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http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/20...lunchtime.html

Thursday 14 September: Drawn from our land: revealing maps from the collections, with Dr Glynn Kelso
Thursday 21 September: Prison records at PRONI, with Graham Jackson
Thursday 28 September: Sport in the Archives, with Andrew Toland
Thursday 5 October: Capturing the past ? photographic collections and digitisation at PRONI, with Joy Carey & Lorraine Bourke

Admission free but booking essential.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/proni...ts-34720473872

[pinkypinky]

Social event:

UCD's long term course in genealogy run by Sean Murphy finished up this year. He's obviously still working as a genealogist, just no longer teaching there.

A few alumni decided to have a few drinks for him on Friday 16th June in McDaids on Harry St from 7pm onwards.
Hoping to make contact with his former students - there must be a lot over 25 years.

[pinkypinky]

Northern Ireland Family History Society is having its first genealogy fair next Saturday in Ballymena.

Anyone thinking of going?

[KildareFan]

Originally Posted by pinkypinky

Social event:

UCD's long term course in genealogy run by Sean Murphy finished up this year. He's obviously still working as a genealogist, just no longer teaching there.

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I see Sean's still spreading the word - he's teaching an eight week course in the NLI http://www.nli.ie/en/genealogy_events.aspx

[pinkypinky]

Yes - it was very successful last time around and they had to turned people away, so I'm not surprised the NLI is giving him another go.

[pinkypinky]

Small plug: I'm also teaching a class in the evenings in Malahide starting at the end of September.

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Originally Posted by pinkypinky

Small plug: I'm also teaching a class in the evenings in Malahide starting at the end of September.

I did this course last year - highly recommend it to anyone thinking of tracing their roots. My family and my wife's have loved the info I've recovered over the past year. I'm having to provide them with regular updates or I start getting emails or calls!

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Introduction to Family History – Evening course at Ashton School, Blackrock Road, Cork

Beginners course with both theory and lots of practical.

http://ashton.ie/wp-content/uploads/...n-2017-web.pdf

Enrolment Night Wednesday 13th September 7pm-8pm

Classes will commence on Monday 25th September 2017

Monday 7.00-9.00pm | Duration: 8 Weeks | Fee: €95 | Tutor: Karen O’Riordan

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The ‘Back to our Past’ expo starts this year on Friday 20th Oct.and runs until Sunday 22nd in the RDS.
The programme for the lectures on DNA/Genealogy is HERE

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For free admission to Back to our Past (€10 on door) go here and click on Book Event. Ticket(s) will be emailed to you.
http://seniortimes.ie/2017-50-plus-e...st-exhibitors/

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With regards to BTOP DNA lectures, several of them can be watched on the 'Genetic Genealogy Ireland' Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gene...ealogyireland/

Presentations which will contain data from unpublished academic studies (eg. Irish DNA atlas presentation on Sunday) won't be streamed. One interesting caveat from a historic point from Bradley (TCD) presentation yesterday is that we now have our first Mesolithic (Hunter/gather) ancient DNA genome from Ireland, it's unpublished so I imagine there will be a paper in the next year or so.

[pinkypinky]

The IGRS has a lecture tonight in the RSAI on Merrion Square.

Paddy Waldron of the Clare Roots Society will talk about getting the most from your autosomal DNA results, something we discuss a lot on the forum!

Starts: 18:45