Grave Location: Holders Of The Victoria Cross In Northern Ireland |
List of grave locations in Northern Ireland for those who are holders of the Victoria Cross. |
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Ulster Ancestry: Northern Ireland Research |
Ulster Ancestry is a series of free pages which you can use for your research purposes. These have been sorted by date and detail the document type for your convenience. |
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Irish Genealogy |
This Irish Government supported, official web site, dedicated to helping you in your search for records of family history for past generations. |
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National Archives Of Ireland |
The National Archives holds a wide variety of records, many of which are relevant to Irish genealogy and local history. |
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Coast Guard Officers 1851 |
Extracted from a copy of the Navy List for 1851. |
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American Prisoners Released By The British In 1776 |
T3699 The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Sourced from the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. List of American prisoners in Canada released on parole by the British in 1776. |
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Northern Ireland Office |
The Northern Ireland Office is responsible for overseeing the Northern Ireland devolution settlement and representing Northern Ireland interests at UK Government level and UK Government interests in Northern Ireland. |
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Northern Ireland Office |
The Northern Ireland Office is responsible for overseeing the Northern Ireland devolution settlement and representing Northern Ireland interests at UK Government level and UK Government interests in Northern Ireland. |
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Gravestone Records |
From Ireland.net has currently amassed 50,000 gravestone entries and continues to collect and add entries to the database on a daily basis. |
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Irish Graveyard Place |
An Irish Graveyard blog by Jane Lyons of gravestone transcriptions and thousands of photographs, too. |
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Irish-World.com: Ireland's Gravestone Index |
400,00 + gravestone records from 850 + cemeteries in Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan, and Tyrone. |
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Slater's Commercial Directory Of Ireland, 1846 |
Lists detailed descriptions of the town or city, post office information and shows the names of nobility and gentry living in or close to the town. The traders of each town are arranged according to their trade. |
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Pigot & Co's Provincial Directory, Ulster, 1824 |
Pigot & Co's directory goes through the towns of Ireland alphabetically. It lists a detailed description of the town or city, post office information and shows the names of nobility and gentry living in or close to the town. Pigot & Co's Directory was first published in 1820. |
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The National Library Of Ireland |
For the period before 1864, parish records provide the only record of most baptisms, marriages and burials. Catholic parish registers are normally still held by the parish priest, but there are microfilms of many of them for the period up to 1880 in the National Library of Ireland. |
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Ulster-Scot Research |
The Ulster-Scots or Scotch-Irish (preferably the former) were a hearty people who went to Northern Ireland during the reign of James I and then emigrated to the colonies starting in 1718 to 1750 |
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Ulster Historical Foundation |
The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency. It offers extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. Services include online databases of over 2 million records, genealogy and history books, and personal ancestral research. |
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Ulster Ancestry |
Ulster Ancestry undertake detailed ancestral research and family history research here in the Province of Ulster primarily in the Counties of Antrim, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Down, Londonderry/Derry and Donegal. |
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Northern Ireland GenWeb Project |
The Northern IrelandGenWeb Project has been online since early 1998. |
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Landowners In Ireland, 1876 |
Name of every land owner in Ireland 1876 who had at least one acre of land. |
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Eircom Telephone Directory |
Ireland's telephone directory. |
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Ancestry.co.uk Ireland Message Board |
Read and post messages with other genealogy researchers |
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Griffith's Valuation Search At My Irish Ancestry.com |
Free membership and search over 1,000,000 million records. |
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Flaxgrowers Of Ireland, 1796 |
The Irish Linen Board published a list of nearly 60,000 individuals in 1796. Spinning wheels were awarded based on the number of acres planted. People who planted one acre were awarded 4 spinning wheels and those growing 5 acres were awarded a loom. Broken down by county. |
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Richard Griffith's Primary Valuation Of Ireland 1848-64 |
Records online for all counties. |
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Richard Griffith's Primary Valuation Of Ireland 1848-64 |
Searchable database. Griffith's Primary Valuation of Ireland was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864 |
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General Registrar's Office, Belfast |
Instructions on ordering birth, marriage and death certificates and an online application form for the counties of Northern Ireland only. |
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Births In Ireland, 1864 |
Birth registration in Ireland (including Northern Ireland) began in 1864. The indexes you find on this site are the first step of a two step process in finding a birth record registered in Ireland. |
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IreAtlas Townlad Database, 1851 |
Based on the 1851 Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland. |
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From Ireland |
Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online. |
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The Ulster History Circle |
The Ulster History Circle is a small, voluntary, not for profit organisation that places commemorative plaques in public places, in towns and villages all over Northern Ireland, in honour of famous men and women who have contributed to Ulster's history. |
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Raymond's Co. Down |
General resource for all things County Down. |
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Castles Of Ireland |
Early stone fortifications, castles, towers, and strong-houses, separated and arranged by county name. |
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Megalithic Ireland |
This web site features many megalithic, early christian and fortified sites we have visited around Ireland. |
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Emerald Ancestors |
Irish Genealogy website with online access to over one million birth, marriage, death and census records for Northern Ireland. |
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Banbridge District Council |
If you live or work in the Banbridge District and are looking for information on the area, then look no further! Banbridge District Online will help you discover the best things about Banbridge as it contains information on just about everything you need to know including news and events, places to visit, things to do, leisure and sport, Council services and facilities, local partnerships and a local directory. |
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County Down Convicts To Australia |
Over 1,300 convicts who were originally from County Down and were transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Some of them were in Downpatrick Gaol before transportation. |
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Down County Museum |
Down County Museum, where the rich heritage of County Down is brought to life in fascinating exhibitions, lively events, hands-on activities and award winning education programmes. The museum is located in the historic buildings of the eighteenth century County Gaol of Down. In addition to walking through the restored complex complete with cells, visitors can learn more about 9000 years of human history in County Down in the newly launched exhibitions Down Through Time. |
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The Northern Ireland Online Genealogy Centre |
The Northern Ireland Online Genealogy Centre aims to provide a single gateway to genealogical sources for those researching their family history in Northern Ireland. Online sources of genealogical information in Northern Ireland are limited and, where possible, links to these sources will be provided, otherwise the links will be to the websites of organisations which hold the primary, or occasionally secondary, sources. |
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Murals Of Northern Ireland |
This is a collection of images of murals from Northern Ireland, principally West Belfast, Republican and Loyalist, painted during the recent period of Troubles. The images are records which include historical representation, political standpoints, community concerns, forms of ideological address. They range from overtly political declaration, to brutal depictions of the conflict, to humour and irony. |
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Remembering: Victims, Survivors, And Commemoration |
List of over 7000 documents related to the victims of the Northern Ireland conflict, from 1969 to 2001; transcriptions and documents. |
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Conflict Archive On The Internet: Northern Ireland |
Commentary and source material on the troubles in Northern Ireland. Sponsored by the University of Ulster; 1968 - present, transcriptions and commentary.
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Historic Graves |
A community focused grass roots heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and related multimedia stories. |
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The Linen Hall Library, Belfast |
The Linen Hall Library is a truly unique institution. Founded in 1788, it is the oldest library in Belfast and the last subscribing library in Ireland. It is renowned for its unparalleled Irish and Local Studies Collection, ranging from comprehensive holdings of Early Belfast and Ulster printed books to the 250,000 items in the Northern Ireland Political Collection, the definitive archive of the recent troubles. |
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The Ulster Historical Foundation |
The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency. It offers extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. Services include online databases of over 2 million records, genealogy and history books, and personal ancestral research. |
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Ulster Historical Foundation |
The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency. It offers extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. Services include online databases of over 2 million records, genealogy and history books, and personal ancestral research. |
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Ros Davies' County Down Ireland Research Site |
"Aim: To make information freely available, with your help. It all helps someone, somewhere, sometime." |
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The General Register Office, Northern Ireland |
The General Register Office of Northern Ireland. |
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Cruithni: Ulster History |
There are hundreds of books, and thousands of publications on the history of Ulster. I hope that the following notes and references will provide an interesting introduction to the subject. The material is not intended to provide a rigorous historical analysis. Instead, it provides an introduction to a selection of historical events, together with suggestions for further reading. |
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Penal Laws Of Ireland |
Laws in Ireland for the suppression of popery. |
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Online Census Records For Ireland |
Categorised by county. |
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Genuki: Ireland |
"Ireland, a large island of Europe, W of Great Britain, between lon. 6 and 10, 40 W, and lat. 51, 15 and 55, 13 N, 280m. long and 160 broad, and containing 19,436,000 acres divided up into 4 provinces; Ulster N, Leinster E, Munster S, and Connaught to the W, and subdivided into 32 counties." [From The New London Gazetteer (1826)] |
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Cobh: The Queenstown Story |
From 1848 - 1950 over 6 million adults and children emigrated from Ireland - over 2.5 million departed from Cobh. Our genealogical record finder has been designed for people interested in tracing their ancestors but have no knowledge of genealogical records. |
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Ireland Roots |
General resource. |
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Ireland IGI Batch Numbers |
The LDS Church has organized the records in the IGI into 'batches'. These batches relate to how and when the information was extracted from source material. For each batch Hugh Wallis extracted the church or chapel (if specified), town, county and country names of the first record that appears when it is called up in a browser. |
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Seacourt Print Workshop |
Here you can discover our fine art printmaking resources, learn about our innovative programme and explore our artists' gallery pages. We hope your virtual visit will encourage you to pay us a real visit, perhaps enrol for one of our classes, attend one of our exhibitions or purchase some of our members' original, limited edition prints. |
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Equality Commission |
Like all employers in Northern Ireland, the Equality Commission is subject to the full range of employment and anti-discrimination laws. We aim to be an equal opportunities employer, appointing the best person for a post regardless of their gender, marital status, age, religious belief or political opinion, race, sexual orientation and whether or not they have dependants. |
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Internment |
Search and browse cemetery burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world. |
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Culture Northern Ireland |
Culture Northern Ireland is an online cultural atlas, covering music, literature, sport, heritage, dance, theatre, fashion and the visual arts. |
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Griffiths Valuation 1848-64 |
Irelands Valuation office conducted its first survey of property ownership in Ireland from 1848 to 1864. This survey became known as "Griffiths Valuation" after Richard Griffith who was the director of the office at that time. |
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Archiseek |
Archiseek is an online magazine dedicated to, but not exclusively, Irish architecture. Featuring news from Irish architecture, encouraging discussion between architects and those interested in our build environment, Archiseek is the leading Irish architecture publication. |
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Log Ainm |
Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Fiontar (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht). |
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Irish Life & Lore |
Now at Irish Life and Lore, over 3,000 voices have been captured as they discuss their own lives and histories, along with personal and family experiences of events in Irish national and social history. |
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Irish Family History Foundation |
To view an individual detail genealogy record you will need to purchase credit vouchers at a cost of €5.00 per record. |
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Irish Genealogy And History Books |
Irish Genealogy Books on each and every county in Ireland, and Classic Histories from the Four Masters, to Keatings History, and Conquest of Ireland. Includes rare works like the Irish Book of Arms and the 'Missouri Irish'. 60 titles published by the Irish Genealogical Foundation. |
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Workhouses In Ireland |
A list of all of the Workhouses in existance in Ireland during the 19th and early part of the 20th Century, together with details of who you should contact for further information as to the whereabouts of Original Workhouse Registers. |
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Here Is A Health |
Songs, music and stories of an Ulster community, collected and edited by Sean Corcoran. |
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Ancestry Ireland |
Ulster Historical Foundation, established 1956. |
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The Dictionary Of Ulster Biography |
The Dictionary of Ulster Biography is the on-line successor to the 1993 edition, compiled by Kate Newmann and published in 1993 by the Institute of Irish Studies of the Queens University of Belfast. |
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U. S. Army In Northern Ireland 1941-45 |
Includes photographs, information, and external links. |
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Irish Country Women's Association |
ICA members meet in local groups across the country, almost 700 Guilds each of which offers a varied programmes of activity including trips and visits, crafts and art, interesting speakers, competitions and a whole lot more. |
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Irish Graveyards |
The homepage of Irish Graveyard Surveyors. This site provides the facility to search a number of Irish graveyards to locate a specific grave or simply to browse through a graveyard or number of graveyards. You can use our search engine or our graveyard locator to find what you are looking for. |
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Ireland Genealogy Projects |
This site offers access to a valuable collection of material that is not readily available elsewhere including monumental inscriptions, photographs of headstones, parish registers and civil registration records. |
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History From Headstones: Northern Ireland |
The databases cover counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. There is a free surname search but there is a fee to view inscriptions. |
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Irish Death Notice Index |
This page is an index of 54,622 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers. The actual obituaries are not necessarily available online. |
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Roman Catholic Parish Maps Online |
Just click on the county of interest and a map displaying all the parishes is displayed. Click on the parish of interest to see what records, date ranges and indexes are available, and where the records are held. |
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The St. Patrick Centre |
The Centre is an exciting interpretative exhibition which tells the fascinating story of Ireland's Patron Saint. |
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Pigot's Provincial Directory Of Ireland: Ulster 1824 |
Scanned images of Pigot & Co's Provincial directory of Ireland 1824. |
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Slater's Commercial Directory Of Ireland: Ulster 1846 |
Scanned images of Slater's Commercial directory of Ireland 1846. |
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Bangor, County Down |
Located on the southern shores of Belfast, Bangor has been attracting visitors and day-trippers for centuries due to its privileged location. |
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Portaferry, County Town |
Portaferry is a small town on the North East coast of Ireland, at the tip of the Ards Peninsula. |
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The Original Northern Ireland Tourist Board |
This is a land of blue mountains and forest parks, mazy lakes and windswept moors, white Atlantic sands, an inland sea. In fact, it's a country that is just pretending to be small. |
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Local Libraries In Northern Ireland |
List of local libraries in Northern Ireland. |
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Ireland's History in Maps, 1100 |
From 1086 to 1114 the most powerful king in Ireland was Muirchertach O'Brien. He had dealings with the Anglo-Normans and the Norwegian king, and dominated most of the country. |
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Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland region of BTCV: a social enterprise group enabling people to make a difference in their lives & improve their environment. |
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Ulster History Timeline |
A brief overview of Ulster's history. |
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History Of Headstones |
Search the largest collection of online gravestone inscriptions in Northern Ireland. Our database contains over 50,000 inscriptions from over 800 graveyards in counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. |
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LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary |
Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages. |
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Public Record Office's Flickr Photostream |
Collections of images related to Northern Ireland's history. |
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County Down Ticket Booth |
General resource for all things Co. Down. |
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Ulster Heritage: All Things Ulster |
Here you will find information about Ulster genealogy, families, clans, history and culture. This is the place to renew one’s Ulster roots and to meet other Ulster folk. |
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Ancestors On Board |
Passenger lists with over 24 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide. |
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Banbridge Genealogy Services |
If you live or work in the Banbridge District and are looking for information on the area, then look no further. |
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Ulster Covenant Search |
The archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration. |
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The Irish Times Digital Archive 1859-2009 |
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. |
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Ireland Mailing Lists |
Extensive list of mailing list links. |
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Lecale & Down Historical Society |
The Lecale and Downe Historical Society is based in Downpatrick, the County Town of Down in Northern Ireland. |
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Ulster Ancestry |
Ulster Ancestry has a number of free databases. |
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My Irish Ancestry |
Post your Irish genealogy family research query on Irish county forums. |
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Irish Index |
A unique source for over 15,000 birth, marriage and death announcements appearing in a leading Irish newspaper during the years 1817-23. |
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Irish Death Notice Index |
This page is an index of 54,622 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers. |
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Placename Search |
The single most important item of information for Irish family history research is a precise place of origin, and the most important tool in identifying Irish placenames is the 1851 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, parishes and Baronies of Ireland. |
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Ellis Island |
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, to head a private sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) was founded. |
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Lisburn Historical Society Journals |
All volumes contained within. |
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Northern Ireland Publications Resource, NIPR |
Northern Ireland has no National Library, so NIPR aims to identify, collect and preserve every book, pamphlet, periodical and report published in Northern Ireland since January 2000 and create an accompanying bibliography. |
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Banbridge Area Marriages, 1848-64 |
Records of marriages in the Banbridge area of Co. Down. |
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Partial Newry Marriage & Baptism Records, 1784-1815 |
Marriage registry, 1784-1815. (LDS Film #0259218). |
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About New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-83 |
The Emigrant Savings Bank was established in 1850 by members of the Irish Emigrant Society. The bank ended up serving thousands of Irish immigrants who fled to America following the infamous Potato Famine. |
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Down Records |
General resource for all things Co. Down. |
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Irish Genealogy Blog |
Irish genealogy news from Dr. Jane Lyons, the creator of From-Ireland.net. |
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County Down Genealogy |
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. |
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1901 Census, From-Ireland.net |
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. |
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Lewis' Topographical Dictionary |
This topographical dictionary comprises of several counties, cities, boroughs, parish and villages - with historical and statistical descriptions - of Ireland. |
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Estate Records, Co. Down |
Estate records for County Down. |
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Using The IreAtlas Townland Data Base |
The book was transcribed by a large number of volunteers under a man who we knew as Sean Ruad. |
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Facebook's Irish Genealogy |
Facebook page for Irish Genealogy |
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Irish Alliance & The Tenant Right League |
A good deal of prominence was given in 'The Nation' to the report of an "Aggregate Meeting" held in the Music Hall, Lower Abbey Street, on the 20th November 1849, and called on the requisition of "80 dignitaries and 110 curates of the Catholic Church; 22 members of the regular clergy; 120 magistrates; landed proprietors, corporators, and poor law guardians; 200 members of the learned professions; 700 land-owners,and farmers, and 900 merchants, traders and artizans. |
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The League With Ulster |
At the beginning of 1850 Lucas at length transferred the 'Tablet' to Dublin. At that time the local Tenant Societies, founded by the Callan curates, were spreading over Munster, and a Tenant Protection Society had existed for four years in the North under the auspices of Sharman Crawford, with my old friend Dr. M'Knight for secretary. |
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Fair Towns Of Ireland, 1834 |
The Fair towns were very important towns and people walked for miles on a fair day to go to sell their produce. Until the Fair Day people would have no money and so once the produce or the animals were sold then the bills would be paid. |
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William B. McBurney |
"The Croppy Boy" one of the finest of our ballads, was written by W. B. Burney, a County Down man, who used the pseudonym "Carroll Malone". |
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Fuck Yeah, Ireland |
A photography blog featuring beautiful photographs taken by different people of various locations in Ireland. |
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Terms Used: “Graveyard”, “Cemetery” or “Memorial Park”? |
A little at a time: The two words which tend to get mis-used are those of Cemetery and Graveyard so here are a few definitions for you: |
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Dundonald Graveyard Records, Co. Down |
This page features free records for Dundonald Graveyard, Co. Down, transcribed by R. S. Clarke and exclusive to From-Ireland.net. |
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The Great Rush of Birds on the Night of March 29th-30th, 1911 |
THE GREAT RUSH OF BIRDS ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 29TH-30TH, AS OBSERVED IN IRELAND.
By R. M. Barrington, M.A.
Published in the Irish Naturalist Vol. XX, June 1911
On the night of March 29th, a great rush of birds was observed in several towns of S. E. Ireland, and also at some light-stations long the coast from Balbriggan to the Old Head of Kinsale. |
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Research Help: Where Do Your Family Come From in Ireland? |
People ask me all the time where in Ireland their surname may be found. A lot of these people, their ancestor/s left Ireland pre the ‘main’ famine time so they never think to look in records that we have which are for a time later than that famine period, and they should, they should particularly look at the distribution in the Griffiths Primary Valuation as per the examples I give below. |
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Baptism Records, Ballygalget, Co. Down, 1852 |
Baptism records for the town of Ballygalget in Co. Down. |
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Baptism Records, Ballyphillip and Portaferry, Co. Down, 1853 |
Ballyphillip & Portaferry Roman Catholic Parish, Diocese of Down & Connor, Co. Down, Ireland. 20th March, 1843 the parish records for this parish begin (a transcript) and they continue to 31st Dec,. 1880. |
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Video Presentation at Beyond the Grave Conference |
Dr. Jane Lyons speaks on Surveys and Transcriptions of the Graveyards of the Dioceses of Ossory. Published by Limerick Museum Archives. |
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Baptism Records, Ballyphillip and Portaferry, Co. Down, 1853 |
Ballyphillip & Portaferry Roman Catholic Parish,
Diocese of Down & Connor,
Co. Down,
Ireland.
20th March, 1843 the parish records for this parish begin (a transcript) and they continue to 31st Dec,. 1880. |
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Eighteenth-Century Funerals in Ireland |
There are, possibly, few of us who, making an early and painful acquaintance with Poetry, did not have to memorise these lines by the Rev. Charles Wolfe, descriptive of the burial of Sir John Moore after the battle of Corunna on 13th January, 1809 : |
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Eighteenth-Century Midwifery in Dublin, Ireland |
How did the Dublin citizen of the 18th century made his or her debut in this city of ours? |
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Volunteers North and South of Ireland 100 Years Ago |
Mrs Blake, nee Foley Captain. Maggie Relihan sec, Asdee Ballylongford. Mrs W Finucane, nee Coughlin, treasurer, Larha, Asdee. Mrs Moran nee Deenihan, Mary A Russel. Mrs J Walsh.
Annie O Connor. |
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Ireland and The Olympics |
Dan Ahearne won world Championship in Hop Step and Jump July 4th 1909 at Celtic Park. Edward Barrett of Rahela, Ballyduff Edward Barrett was born in Rahela, Ballyduff in 1882. father Thomas and mother Bridget Whelan. |
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Irish Death Notices |
Webpage containing death notices within Ireland. |
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Some Irish Superstitions |
Superstition is generally regarded as the offspring of the religious instinct in man misled by ignorance. Few other human weakness’ have been so unsparingly and so unanimously denounced, and yet, it survives: the savage carries his charm, and the modern motorist or the regiment on the battlefield has its mascot. Above or behind probably a million doors in England the horseshoe will be found nailed up, and there is a general desire to avoid association with the unlucky number thirteen. Neither of these were Irish superstitions, but we are borrowing them, for to the anglicised Irish mind even superstition is respectable when it happens to be English. Irish superstitions on the other hand are rapidly dying out, not because they are superstitious, but because they are only Irish, and have no place in English social life. |
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The Townland: How To Use In Genealogy |
How do we deal with finding out that there are four townlands of the same name? How do we find out exactly which townland our family came from? How do we work out which records are of importance to us, actually refer to our family and not another family of the same surname? They are really the questions that have to be asked and dealt with. |
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Megalithic Monuments of Ireland.com |
This website is the result of on-going love and passion for Archaeology as well as our devotion to the wonderment of the many Megalithic monuments throughout Ireland. All counties of Ireland are covered, some more extensively than others, and include photos, information & co-ordinates of sites. Continuously being up-dated with some fantastic photos of these extraordinary monuments, which have stood proudly today as a durable testament to their ingenious builders. |
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The Townland: How To Use In Genealogy |
How do we deal with finding out that there are four townlands of the same name? How do we find out exactly which townland our family came from? How do we work out which records are of importance to us, actually refer to our family and not another family of the same surname? They are really the questions that have to be asked and dealt with. |
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Women at War: Ireland's Forgotten Heroines of the Era |
Tens of thousands of women across the island of Ireland threw themselves enthusiastically into the war effort, yet very little has been written about them. |
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