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Chronicles Insight - Irish Educators
When: Wednesday, 2 September, 2020Image: c1902 Miss Crowe and Mr Gildea with their pupils at Kilglass National School, Ahascragh, Co.Galway. Original owned by NLI.
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IrelandXO Chronicles - A Diverse Diaspora
When: Thursday, 24 September, 2020Our Irish diaspora is as diverse as the many countries that our ancestors emigrated to. Our emigrants opened our eyes and minds to different cultures and today, both at home and abroad, Irish people can lay claim to ancestry that comes from many different continents.
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Bringing the Mountbellew 'Orphan' Girls Home
When: Friday, 25 September, 2020November 1852 was a dark month in east Galway and made even more so by the lingering effects of An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, which had blighted the land for the previous 7 years causing the deaths and emigration of millions. In that month a group of 30 young girls set off from Mountbellew Work
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DESCUBRE TUS RAÍCES IRLANDESAS
When: Monday, 28 September, 2020¿Sabías que a lo largo de los siglos más de 10 millones de personas han emigrado de la isla de Irlanda? Hoy se estima que hasta 70 millones de personas en todo el mundo son de origen irlandés.
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Search our entire Message Board - 160,000 posts and replies!
When: Tuesday, 10 November, 2020General Post Office, Dublin. During the past 10 years, we have welcomed over 160,000 posts and replies on our message board and helped thousands of people reconnect with their ancestors' place of origin in Ireland.
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XO Chronicles - Remembering WW1
When: Wednesday, 11 November, 2020Many more Irish men and women joined the allied forces in the countries they had emigrated to, and thousands, such as Patrick Conheady and Charles Sharpe, gave up their lives in the ensuing battles.
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Irish Diaspora: People from Ireland all over the world
When: Monday, 10 October, 2022THE IRISH TOOK THE BOAT
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When: Friday, 30 April, 2021MyHeritage is an industry-leading platform that makes family history research easy and offers you some of the most advanced tools on the market to make fascinating discoveries about your ancestors.
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Additional historic records added to Irish Civil Registers!
When: Monday, 1 February, 2021Picture: Wedding of Edward Grace and Angela Power @ NLI: marriage record on Irish Genealogy
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Chronicles Insight - Military Ancestors
When: Thursday, 1 April, 2021The focus of this particular Special Group is Military Ancestors. Read on to learn about some of the brave Irish people who are already in this group, and be sure to add your Military Ancestors so that their service can be recognised once more.
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