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Emigration, grave locations, passenger lists, crimes and trials, family histories, corruption, war, military operations by the British on Irish soil - Ireland's history with the United Kingdom, England specifically, is long, vast in scope, complicated, and a mine of information for researchers and genealogists. All related links will feature here.
List of grave locations in Northern Ireland for those who are holders of the Victoria Cross.
This index is a listing of those people who gave Ireland, an Irish County or an Irish Town as their place of birth. It does not include other family members in the census returns who were not born in Ireland.
An incomplete list of passengers on "City of Chester" from Liverpool to Queenston, April 27, 1891.
This database is a compilation of obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from various online sources. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as names, dates, places of birth and death, marriage information, and family relationships. Over 500,000 entries.
Ancestry.co.uk search. Focuses on many of the early Scots-Irish families in colonial America.
"Roger de Mortimer, Lord Justice, at Dublin on Sunday, the day after St. Valentine's Day."
Includes Roman Catholic marriage index from 1872 to 1901.
From abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London: 1902-26
The dawn of the Ulster-Scots. Not plantation, not conquest, not invasion. Settlement. In terms of Irish history, the period from 1603 – 1610 is perhaps the most influential, as it includes the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the Flight of the Earls in 1607 and the Plantation of (the west of) Ulster in 1610. Many claim that this era has defined Ireland’s history right up to the present day.
All is not clean-cut between North and South. There is a moderately soft lining to both coats of steel. Many well-to-do Protestants prefer to live in the South and some prosperous Catholics prefer the North. The intellectual and artistic, who do not care for politics, tend Southward. People who are interested less in their bank accounts than in sporting or intellectual surroundings forget the “love and loyalty†on which the North prides itself.
Written by Robert E. West, PEC Illinois State Director. Records are replete with references to early Irish Catholics in the West Indies. Gwynn in Analecta Hibernica, states: 'The earliest reference to the Irish is the establishment of an Irish settlement on the Amazon River in 1612."Smith, in Colonists in Bondage, reports: "a Proclamation of the year 1625 urged the banishing overseas of dangerous rogues (Irish Political Prisoners); kidnapping (of Irish) was common."
Absentee landlords were common in Ireland and for many landlord's the main interest was income rather than the conditions of their tenants. Many landlords realized that they could get a higher income by turning their properties to pasture than to continue with the old practice of collecting rents from tenant farmers. Evictions was the most common way of getting rid of unwanted tenants.
The definitive guide to the genealogical history of the royal families of Europe, the aristocratic and historical families of the British Isles, and the presidential families of the United States. There are over 1 million names in more than 15,000 records including the royal families of Europe, the peerage and gentry of the United Kingdom, historical families of Ireland, and distinguished and presidential families of the United States, as well as many other prominent individuals.
"Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery."
"The British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A. maintains a large research collection at the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center. This section is a guide to the Ireland and Northern Ireland portion of that collection, however many of the materials listed are available from the Family History Library through Family History Centers worldwide."
"M/S of a crowd outside the jail, M/S as soldiers stand by the gates, we see three prisoners emerge from the building. L/S as one of them walks down the line of people shaking hands. Various shots of a group of men on a coach waving the Irish flag."
"Fáilte to the web site of 'An Scéal',the monthly newsletter of the Irish community in Scotland. The Irish are Scotland's largest Ethnic minority Community. Keep abreast of Irish events all over Scotland. Our free monthly newsletter 'An Scéal' is posted on the website during the first week of each month."
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.
If you are researching UK genealogy, your Scottish ancestry or building your Scottish family tree, we have almost 80 million records to look through. From Scottish census records, Scottish wills, birth certificates and death certificates, we have a comprehensive choice of Scottish records to bring your Scotland ancestry to life. Build the complete picture of your Scottish ancestry with ScotlandsPeople.
The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives.
The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history. Historical Manuscripts Commission for the United Kingdom.
Explore 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and much more. Find what you need - in the arts and humanities, sciences, or any subject.
The College of Arms is the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families and their descendants. Its records also include official copies of the records of Ulster King of Arms the originals of which remain in Dublin. The officers of the College, known as heralds, specialize in genealogical and heraldic work for their respective clients.
Welcome to the Website for the Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Magnus the Martyr in the City of London. Our church is built where all people crossing the old London Bridge used to enter the City, and standing on the cross roads, it has seen many important events in its 1000 year history. The object for which the church was originally built has not changed; now as then, prayers are offered daily to God, and He is worshipped in the beauty of holiness.
This page will help you to find your way around the GENUKI hierarchy. It focuses on the key areas you will need to know about for your research, and provides an explanation of their relation to each other, and to the whole. There is a site map diagram, which represents the levels of the GENUKI structure: the UK & Ireland, Regions within the UK (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands), followed by the (pre-1834) Counties (shires), which lead to a number of Parish pages.
The industry's leading website since 1998, BuildingConservation.com includes over 1,500 companies and organisations covering every aspect of the conservation, restoration and repair of the historic built environment.
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.
This Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. (A record some 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.)
The Irish Diaspora Studies Scholarly Network - in association with The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation that was founded by Sir Fabian Ware.
Only weeks after the outbreak of World War 1, the founding of the 36th Ulster Division was announced in Belfast, to be made up of 3 infantry brigades of each 4 battalions, a pioneer battalion, three companies of Royal Engineers, a signal company, and a Royal Army Medical Corps, placed under the command of Major General C. Herbert Powell who had seen service as an officer in the Indian Army.
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.
In October 2011, Irish Traveller Movement in Britain achieved the PQASSO Quality Mark at Level 2.
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search this vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.
I have recently found transcripts of the 1911 census for Ireland which are located in the online National Archives of Ireland. The first of these (see original image above) records a family named Lawlor living at house number 20 in Rutland Cottages off Summerhill Place (Mountjoy, Dublin).
The Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester, has been in operation since 1984 and was officially opened by Peter Barry, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the 2nd November 1986.
Records are replete with references to early Irish Catholics in the West Indies. Gwynn in Analecta Hibernica, states, "The earliest reference to the Irish is the establishment of an Irish settlement on the Amazon River in 1612."
The initial plan was to offer freedom to indentured Irish slaves on the island of Barbados and elsewhere or to take more rebellious Irish slaves and transport them to Jamaica where they would be offered their freedom and 30 acres of land to work.
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
It was the Stuarts who introduced the Irish to the slave trade. Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 at a time when it was becoming clear that sugar plantations were as valuable as gold-mines.
The historical treatment of Irish Catholics by the English and British governments has been the subject of much examination, but systematic research on the social, economic, and political impact of Irish refugees who sought asylum in Spain and Latin America at various times since the sixteenth century has only recently drawn the attention of scholars.
Return of destitute poor removed from England to Ireland, from the 1st day of December 1860 till the 1st day of December 1862.
In my opinion, John Lennon should be recognised as the greatest Irish singer ever: his California-based biographer Jon Wiener after all said that Lennon "thought of himself as Irish."
Historians take great pleasure in locating the birthplaces of great figures from the past. This is particularly true when the birthplace has been the subject of heated debate for centuries, as is the case for St Patrick, the 5th century Romano-Briton who later became patron saint of Ireland.
Family historians in the United States who can trace their roots back to an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War, or the War of 1812, or the Civil War are often amazed and gratified by the amount of biographical data contained in the records of their military service.
The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) webpage contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.
An online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland and its migration experience from the 18th to the late 20th centuries.
The Act of Union Virtual Library is a unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain.
This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life.
If our affection to your Majesty could digest an abuse that proved so fatal to the prerogative, we should rejoice at the defection of England that lent us the opportunity of kissing your hand in this loyal kingdom of Ireland.
The following act was passed by the Irish Parliament of King James II.
An Act declaring that the Parliament of England cannot bind Ireland, against writs or error and appeals to be brought for removing judgments, decrees and sentences given in Ireland into England.
A printed version of the text can be found on pages 311 - 312 of A Jacobite Narrative of the War in Ireland, 1688-1691, edited by John T. Gilbert (Dublin: Joseph Dollard, 1892; reprinted New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971).
From the 1851 Census of Devon, Norfolk and Warwick and the 1881 Census of England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Mann and Royal Navy.
This webpage indexes over 3,250 free e-Books and e-Journals on the topic of Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian Genealogy, all of which can be read online.
Researching Irish family history in the Liverpool area.
The Royal Irish Constabulary and was Ireland's armed country-wide police force between 1822 in 1922 and 85,028 men passed through its ranks. Dublin had its own unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police from 1836 to 1925.
During the nineteenth century theories of race were advanced both by the scientific community and in the popular daily and periodical press.
In 1718, the first organized migration of Scots and Irish-born Presbyterian people left the north of Ireland on their way to a new life in the New England colonies in north America.
The persons recorded found in the parish register of Portpatrick Wigtownshire Scotland.
This is a list of people employed by the Irish Revenue Service in 1709. The surnames are for the most part English, those of Anglo-Irishmen. Some of these people would have been Englishmen who came to Ireland and settled down.