1900s Irish History
We've categorised links by their time period so you may search Ireland's history through the ages. This is the 1900s, almost synonymous with the 20th century. Currently available: war records and articles, emigration, censuses, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
A list of men from Carlow and Laois involved in the Irish National Volunteers in 1914, discovered by a local historian.
Irish men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
A 1915 directory of leather trades in Dublin and other Irish counties.
Emmigrants From Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo, 1909, to USA on "SS Ivenia".
Passenger List, Queenston To New York On "Teutonic", 1891
These are passenger lists for emigrants from Ireland to the United States and Canada, arranged in date order. Please note that this is not the complete set of sailings, and that some of the lists shown may be incomplete. Thousands of records.
Searchable database by Fáilte Romhat. Selected Irish marriages shows bride and grooms name, date of birth and marriage date.
Ancestry.co.uk search. The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was created in 1816, and initially staffed mainly by Irish-born men. However, toward the 1900s, and especially afterwards, the RIC recruited men from countries such as England, Scotland, Wales, and the United States.
Ancestry.co.uk search. This Irish genealogy database includes histories, pedigrees, parish registers, probates, and orphan's court records.
Includes marriage and death indexes which in turn include Irish citizens.
Irish genealogy and history through original issues of 19th to early 20th century newspapers. Features old newspaper articles from or about Ireland and Irish families.
At seven minutes past four on the morning of 28 June 1922 Free State forces under pressure from Britain over the assassination on 22 June of Sir Henry Wilson, military advisor to the Unionist regime in the Six Counties, shelled the Four Courts which had been occupied by Republican troops since 13 April.
The outgoing British garrisons, embarrassed by this civil strife, unintentionally bred trouble for the Free State. Their officers had been harried and kidnapped and many of them slain, so no friendly feelings towards the incoming authority could be cherished. Munitions and barracks were handed over (unwittingly) to foes ...
Speech written by Countess Markievicz in 1909. "The first step on the road to freedom is to realise ourselves as Irishwomen - not as Irish or merely as women, but as Irishwomen doubly enslaved and with a double battle to fight."
Undertook the research for, and the publication of, a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and historic houses in Connacht and Munster, c. 1700-1914. The aim of the guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of these provinces from c.1700 to 1914.
This database contains summary accounts of all the archaeological excavations carried out in Ireland - North and South - from 1985 to 1999.
In 1937 the Irish Folklore Commission, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, initiated a revolutionary scheme in which schoolchildren were encouraged to collect and document folklore and local history. Over a period of eighteen months some 100,000 children in 5,000 primary schools in the twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State were encouraged to collect folklore material in their home districts.
Online resources include death registers (1864-1901), war and gravestone memorial databases, plus details from Griffith's Valuation (1848-1864) for County Waterford, searchable by townland or surname, Waterford trade directories (1824-1910) and more.
Ironically, the worst single atrocity of thirty years of conflict in Ireland occurred at the point of highest hope during those years. The Good Friday Agreement had been signed just 13 weeks before. The massacre, caused by a 'Real' IRA car bomb, claimed the lives of 29 innocent civilians. Although the effects of the bomb on the victims and their families were catastrophic, the atrocity made politicans more determined than ever to make the process work: the opposite from what was intended by the murderers.
All listed. All were for murder. There were 12 executions at Crumlin Road prison, Belfast, three at Londonderry and one at Armagh. (A total of 17 men were hanged at Crumlin Road prison between 1854 and 1961). Albert Browne, a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), was found guilty of killing a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in October 1972 for which he was sentenced to death but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.
Agreement reached in the multi-party negotiations on 10 April, 1998.
On Thursday, November 26, 1998, Tony Blair made history by becoming the first British Prime Minister ever to address the Irish Parliament. That Parliament had been created 80 years earlier in open defiance of the British government which Blair now headed. Ireland had won its independence from Great Britain after a bloody insurrection in the early 1920s, marking the beginning of decades of intense animosity and outright violence. In this speech, Blair recalls his own Irish roots and declares an end to more than 800 years of enmity between England and Ireland.
1999 transcript of the Pattern Report on the Independent Commission of Policing for Northern Ireland.
The City of New York has undertaken the responsibility of laying to rest the bodies of those in the City who died indigent or unbefriended, since the early part of the 19th century, when they were interred at Washington Square in Greenwich Village. In 1823, these remains were removed to Fifth Avenue and 40 - 42 Streets, Manhattan. When this site was selected for a reservoir, the remains were again removed to Fourth Avenue and 50th Street, this ground being later granted to the Women's Hospital. In 1857, the remains of 100,000 paupers and strangers were transferred to Ward's Island, 75 acres of which were allocated for this purpose.
Nicholas Delaney: Irish rebel in 1798, transported convict, Australian roadbuilder, innkeeper, farmer and ancestor. Our descent from Nicholas. By his great-great-great-granddaughter. As a young man living on the borders of Wicklow and Wexford in the east of Ireland, Nicholas Delaney was caught up in the violent events of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. After the rebels were defeated, he was tried and convicted of murder on the word of a notorious informer, Biddy Dolan. Sentenced to death, he was reprieved and sent as a convict to New South Wales.
Articles, opinion pieces and book reviews to explain the diplomatic history of Ireland. Also contains aspects of current affairs and current foreign policy.
In Britain, death by hanging was the principal form of execution from Anglo-Saxon times until capital punishment was abolished in 1964. Up to May 1868 all hangings were carried out in public and attracted large crowds who were at least supposed to be deterred by the spectacle, but who more probably went for the morbid excitement and the carnival atmosphere that usually surrounded such events.
Irish civilians and Irish-born U.S. soldiers who died during the Korean War, 1950 - 1953.
The Magdalene Story is the story of thousands of Ireland's women... judged "sinners" by the cruel Church-driven society of the 1800's through present day. Their crime? Bearing children out of wedlock... leaving abusive husbands or home situations. The punishment? A lifetime of "penitence" spent in the service of the Sisters of Charity, Mercy, Good Shepherd or other orders, performing domestic chores... harsh, thankless chores such as laundering prison uniforms, cooking, cleaning and caring for elderly nuns or their aging peers, still trapped behind the walls of Ireland's numerous convent laundries, industrial schools and the like.
Contemporary documents on the events of Easter Week 1916, the seven signatories of the proclamation, the others executed in the aftermath of the Rising, the casualties and the survivors.
At four minutes past noon on 24 April 1916 - Easter Monday - the proclamation reproduced below was read from the steps of the General Post Office (G.P.O.) on Dublin's O'Connell Street by Patrick Pearse. It signified the start of the Easter Rising of 1916. Click here for more background to the events of April and May 1916 in Dublin; click here to read General Maxwell's report on the rising.
Enter the first letters of the name, then choose from the list. You can search for the surname alone, or for a first name and surname.
The history and genealogy of the village of Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, and the surrounding area.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 people left Ireland as indentured servants, prisoners, rebels and felons in the 1600s.
Sir John Maxwell, the British Commander-in-Chief caused sixteen of the Irish to be court-martialed and shot. The execution of these men was an attempt to murder of the Provisional Government of Ireland. Patrick Pearse was the first to be singled out for execution, he was not allowed to see his mother or brother before he was executed on May 3, 1916.
In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
The RPSI was formed in 1964 to preserve in working order steam locomotives and other rolling stock built for the Irish railway system, from 1850 to the present day.
The oldest known reference to the use of the three colours (green, white and orange) as a nationalist emblem dates from September 1830 when tricolour cockades were worn at a meeting held to celebrate the French revolution of that year - a revolution which restored the use of the French tricolour.
A list of pupils who entered Trinity College, Dublin, from 1706 to 1909.
Our reason for existence is to promote a wider awareness of the forgotten Irish men and women who served, fought and died in the Great War 1914-1918.
Eoin O'Duffy emerged from the War of Independence with a well-deserved reputation that his Civil War opponent Ernie O'Malley described as "energetic and commanding".
The following list includes 7,159 passengers. It is a published version of the Irish Passengers to Argentina Database, which was compiled from diverse sources.
Lensmen Press and Public Relations Photographic Agency was set up in 1952 by Andy Farren and Padraig MacBrien, over the years they built an archive of over 2.6 million negatives. In 1995, Susan Kennedy took over the business and the archive. The sixty years of Irish history captured there includes many fascinating images of key events.
The Clare Champion is a weekly newspaper published in County Clare. It was first published in March 1903, after its predecessor the Clare Man, was forced to close due to a libel case.
The Townland of Glen, Killymard, is complete and all data that was listed for Glen is included (including errors).
A newspaper exists to reflect the society which it serves. The Irish Times is no different. It has changed and reinvented itself over and over again down through the years, evolving, writing the first draft of history about the political, social, economic and cultural landmarks on the island of Ireland.
Bohola is a small village of less than a thousand people positioned in the center of Co. Mayo and is not on most maps of Ireland. It is located five miles south of Swinford and ten miles east of Castlebar.
Census data that was submitted based on civil parish is organized here by civil parish. Otherwise, it is organized by District Electoral Division, which were defined areas of townlands. Be sure to check both indexes to look for your townland. A few townlands are duplicated on both the civil parish and DED organization.
The Society of Australian Genealogists has pointed out to us that a number of 1901 Census Forms (‘Form A’s) are missing from the LDS films purchased by Clare County Library from the National Archives.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions.
Most business men/people had more than one occupation. The Publican as described above was also the Grocer and if he sold milk then he could also be described as a Dairy man. As you go through this list of names you will see that many of these names are the same person, with a number of different 'Occupations'.
Leitrim is a county in the Irish province of Connaught and it is bounded on the north by Donegal Bay. Here is has a coastline of 2.5 miles. It is also bounded on the north by Counties Donegal and Fermanagh, on the east by Fermanagh and County Cavan and on the south by County Longford. Lough Allen divides County Leitrim into two parts.
Mayo a maritime county in the province of Connaught, is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by counties Sligo and Roscommon and on the south by county Galway. Its greatest length from the boundary near Ballyhaunis to near Erris Head is about 66 miles and its greatest breadth from Killary Harbour to Downpatrick Head is 54 miles.
Trade Directory for County Roscommon in 1931. Includes close to 500 records.
Trade directory for Co. Sligo in the year 1931. Close to 600 records available.
Sligo, a maritime county in the province of Connaught. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by county Leitrim, on the south by counties Roscommon and Mayo and on the west by county Mayo. Its length from the River Moy to the Arigna River is 40 miles and its breadth from Lough Gara to Donegal Bay is 38 miles.
Dublin, a maritime county, in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by Co. Meath, on the east by the Irish Sea, on the south by Co. Wicklow and on the west by counties Kildare and Meath. Its greatest length from Kippure Mountain on the south to the Delvin River near Balbriggan is 32 miles; and its greatest breadth from Howth Head to Clonee near Lucan is 18 miles
Kildare an inland county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by county Meath, on the east by counties Dublin and Wicklow, on the south by county Carlow and on the west by Offaly (King’s county) and county Westmeath. Its greatest length from north to south is 42 miles and its greatest breadth from east to west is 26 miles.
Longford is an inland county in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the North by counties Leitrim and Cavan, on the east and south by Westmeath and on the west by County Roscommon.
Longford is an inland county in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the North by counties Leitrim and Cavan, on the east and south by Westmeath and on the west byCounty Roscommon. It's length from a point in the south west of Lough Rea to a point in the north-east is 30.5 miles, and its greatest width from the River Inny to Drumshanbo Lake is 18 miles.
In Ireland, many of the towns had a square, and around the square were houses (homes) with one or two shops or businesses. The streets of the town all went from that square. Most towns had a 'main street' - some called it a High street, and it was usually on that main street that the majority of shops and businesses were located.
Meath, a maritime county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by counties Cavan, Monaghanand Louth, and on the east by the Irish Sea and county Dublin, on the south by counties Dublin, Kildare and Offaly (King’s), and on the west by Westmeath. Its greatest length from Delvin River to Lough Sheelin is about 48 miles and its greatest breadth from Yellow River to Ballyhoe Lake is 40 miles. - See more at: http://www.from-ireland.net/county/article/Emigration-%26-Education-Statistics%2C-1931%2C-Co.-Meath/Meath#display
Select the appropriate link on panel at left to view the Index to Advertisers, General Index, County Index, or City Index or to browse through the pages of the directory. The pages will open in PDF format and are text searchable.
Offaly (King’s County), an inland county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by county Westmeath, on the east by counties Meath and Kildare, on the south by Laois (Queen’s) and Tipperary, and no the west by counties Galway, Roscommon and Tipperary.
Westmeath, an inland county in the province of Leinster is bounded on the north-west by county Longford. On the north-east and east by county Meath, on the south by Offaly (King’s county) and on the west by county Roscommon.
Clare a maritime county in the province of Munster. It is bounded on the north by Galway Bay and Galway, and on the east and south by the Shannon, which separates it from Tipperary, Limerick and Kerry, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Miltownmalbay : Killard Civil Parish - Barony of Ibricken. Union of Kilrush. This is only a section of Miltownmalbay. Miltownmalbay (Co. Clare) belongs to the Civil Registration District of Kilrush fo. The 1911 Census film references for Miltownmalbay is 55/12.?
Cork, a maritime county is in the Province of Munster. It is the largest county in Ireland, bounded on the north by Limerick, on the east by Tipperary and Waterford, on the south by the Atlantic ocean and on the west by Kerry.