News from Ireland
Chronicles Insight - Extraordinary Irish Women
When: Wednesday, 8 March, 2023#1 Kitty Wilkinson
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Registry of Deeds - A Repository of Wills & Land Transactions
When: Thursday, 18 January, 2024The importance of the Registry of Deeds is built on the fact that it is a repository holding memorials of deeds and wills that mention the names, ages, life events, places and family relationships of people involved in land and financial transactions from the mid-1600s to the present day.
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Ten Facts about Irish Workhouses
When: Monday, 15 January, 20241. Why was it called a Workhouse?
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From Edenbane, Ireland to Edenbann, Australia
When: Wednesday, 10 January, 2024The following family story which I first researched in 1988 and then told in the introduction to my Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy (first published 1991, Clearfield Company, Baltimore, Maryland) “sums up for me what makes genealogy and the study of one’s family tree such an absorbing and fascina
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Women's Little Christmas
When: Friday, 5 January, 2024‘Women’s Christmas’ or Nollaig na mBan is also known as Little Christmas and is widely regarded to mark the end of the Christmas season here in Ireland. It falls on January 6th where in many parts of the world, it is known as the Feast of the Epiphany, or Three King's Day in Spain or Twelfth Nig
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IrelandXO Insight - A Traditional Irish Christmas
When: Friday, 15 December, 2023To see if your favourite Irish Christmas tradition is something old, new, or borrowed, read on ...
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IrelandXO Film Club: Award-Winning Irish Movies
When: Wednesday, 6 December, 2023Award-Winning Irish Movies Here's our selection of Irish movies that brought Ireland to international attention, with an honourable mention to the Irish county in which they were set or filmed...
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Famous Irish Piseógs -
When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023People lived in fear of the unknown, the unexplained and the future, would the harvest be good, will the weather hold out, will it rain when it’s needed, will the sunshine to ripen the crops, will the cows yield a good supply of milk, will the cream be churned to butter.
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William Butler Yeats: Poet and Public Man
When: Monday, 27 November, 2023Ireland was a happening place in the early 1920s. Its' two-year war of independence came to a close with a truce declared in the summer of 1921.
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Chronicles Webinar Playback: Irish Poets & Poetry
When: Friday, 5 February, 2021After a break over the Holidays we returned to the Chronicles Webinar series with a discussion of Irish poets and poetry.
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