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Irish genealogy website directory.
www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/records/state/info.htm
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"One of the peculiarities of the system of registration is that, although the local Registrars were responsible for the Registers themselves, the legal obligation to register births, deaths and marriages actually rested with the public, and was enforced with hefty fines."
