News from Ireland
Chronicles Insight - A True Son of Dublin
When: Friday, 5 July, 2019Shaw’s parents, George Carr Shaw (1814-1885) and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly (1830-1913), were of English Protestant descent. Shaw’s father was a notorious drunkard, a fact which prompted his son to adopt a teetotal lifestyle.
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IrelandXO Connections - Victoria and County Offaly
When: Friday, 5 July, 2019In Ireland, they visited: Tulla, Co Clare; Cree, Co. Offaly; and Dublin. They also met with Margaret, a volunteer with IrelandXO in Birr, who helped them investigate their Colbourn ancestors who had lived in the area in the early 1800s.
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Irish in The American War of Independence
When: Saturday, 4 June, 2022The day itself marks the date, in 1776, on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. There are certain figures of the American Revolutionary War whom history and popular culture have kept in the forefront of our minds.
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Siblings at home and away
When: Monday, 26 April, 2021Picture: from the National Library of Ireland collections
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2 for 1 entry to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - limited time only
When: Friday, 14 June, 2019Since opening its doors in 2016, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum has become a must-see for every visitor to Dublin.
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IrelandXO Connections - Ontario and Ardcarne, County Roscommon
When: Thursday, 30 May, 2019Wayne and his wife Ange, and Patti and her husband Dave, hail from a rural farming community in Huron County, Ontario. Wayne and Patti descend from a long line of farmers. In fact on their father’s side, they are sixth generation Canadians – all farmers.
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Ireland XO Genealogy Round Up
When: Sunday, 22 October, 2017An interactive guide to burials in Fingal (http://buried.fingal.ie/)
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An Irish Wake for the Living: American Wake
When: Wednesday, 11 May, 2022Picture above: An 1868 engraving by Henry Doyle, entitled 'Emigrants Leaving Ireland'.
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A 'Leap' of faith and long lost cousins united
When: Wednesday, 24 February, 2016Above picture: The cousins pose for a photo on the steps of Leap Castle in County Offaly
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Personal objects - historical artefacts
When: Wednesday, 31 May, 2017Evidence can come in many formats – documents, receipts from a wedding breakfast or funeral wake, letters post-cards and telegrams, old photos and cine-camera footage, newspaper cuttings, and artefacts – the simple mementoes we keep to remind us of key life events.
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