CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY

 is holding a 

REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY 

for

CARMODY'S HOTEL TRAGEDY

 as follows

Mass of Remembrance, 11:30 a.m. Ennis Cathedral 

followed by 

12:30 p.m. Launch of New Book by Clare Roots on 'Carmody's Hotel' 

at Ennis Parish Centre (rear of Cathedral). 

An Ecumenical Wreath Laying Ceremony 

at 2:00 p.m. by Remembrance Plaque 

at Carmody's Hotel Site (YOLO's) 

concludes the event.

Event Date:    14th January 2018

Contact Details:    

Secretary, Clare Roots Society secretary@clareroots.org

MORE NEWS ON ROCK STAR GENEALOGISTS... 2017 for CANADA and AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2017

Rockstar Genealogists 2017: Canada

Join me in congratulating the top Canadian Rockstar Genealogists 2017. The list comprises the six receiving most votes of the twelve nominated.

1. Gail Dever
2. Dave Obee
3. Lorine McGinnis Schulze
4. Glenn Wright
5. David Pike
6. Lynn Palermo

Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2017

Rockstar Genealogists 2017: Australia and New Zealand

Join me in congratulating following top genealogists from Australia and New Zealand who received most votes as Rockstar Genealogists 2017. The list comprises the five receiving most votes of the ten nominated. 

1. Michelle Patient
2. Jill Ball
3. Helen V Smith
4. Chris Goopy
5. Alona Tester

Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

ENNIS BOOK CLUB FESTIVAL NEWSLETTER

Ennis Book Club Festival 02-04 March 2018 The annual Ennis Book Club Festival is back from 02-04 March 2018. Just 18 weeks to go! Time to plan that spring journey to Ennis for our annual feast of reading and friendship at Ireland's only dedicated Book Club Festival. We've lots of exciting plans in the pipeline, which we'll unveil over the coming weeks as they are confirmed. To be the first in the know, make sure to follow us on Facebook andTwitter and register for our monthly newsletter on: www.ennisbookclubfestival.com.  To kick-start the 2018 countdown, this October issue contains: ENNIS BOOK CLUB FESTIVAL EXTRA EVENT WITH RODDY DOYLE IN PICTURES EARLY BIRD FESTIVAL ACCOMMODATION PACKAGES MAN BOOKER WINNER ANNOUNCED ENNIS BOOK CLUB FESTIVAL RECOMMENDS  Look forward to seeing you in Ennis in 2018!  # EBCF2018 Ennis Book Club Festival Extra Event In Photos See below a selection of photographs from Ennis Book Club Festival first ever Extra event – Roddy Doyle in conversation with Sinead Gleeson. Book Your Festival Accommodation Early! Book your Festival weekend accommodation early and avail of the following Early Bird Accommodation rates at our Ennis hotels. Auburn Lodge Hotel: +353 65 682 1247 2 nights B&B and 1 Evening Meal: (2nd March 2018 x 2 nights or 3rd March 2018 x 2 nights) 1 person €99 / 2 people €170 / 3 people €255   3 nights B&B and 1 Evening Meal: (2nd March 2018 x 3 nights) 1 person €140 / 2 people €240 / 3 people €350   1 nights B&B: (Saturday 3rd March 2018): 1 person €79 / 2 people €95 / 3 people €119 10% Discount on the above prices if booked before 22nd December 2017. Old Ground Hotel: +353 65 682 8127 1 night B&B @ €120 single occupancy; €145 twin / double occupancy 2 nights B&B and 1 Evening Meal @ €159 pps One complimentary room booking for group bookings @ €159 pps rate of 10 bedrooms or more. Temple Gate Hotel: +353 65 682 3300 €120 per night based on a 2 night stay or €135 on a 1 night stay (Room rate valid until 23 December 2017)   Hotel Woodstock: +353 65 689 9800 €90 B&B double/twin room €75 B&B single room    Treacys West County Hotel: +353 65 686 9600 Two Nights Bed & Breakfast with 1 Dinner on an evening of the guests choice priced at €99 per person sharing. A single supplement of €20 applies and therefore priced at €119 for single occupancy.   Be sure to quote Ennis Book Club Festival when making all bookings!   Man Booker Winner George Saunder's Lincoln in the Bardo was announced as 2017 The MAN Booker winner yesterday. We are really looking forward to reading this! Ennis Book Club Festival Recommends 'One of the year's most arresting, humbling and acute memoirs. It is a catch-in-the-throat, life-affirming work that you want to gulp down in one and recommend to all your friends. Fitzmaurice tells her story in sparkling prose that is as sinewy as her new sea-strengthened body, and as admirable and boundless as her spirit' Sunday Times Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe' are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. 'The Tragic Wives' Swimming Club', as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon. Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband. As she tells the story of their marriage, via diagnosis to their current precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming – culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life. Ruth will be speaking at the 2018 Ennis Book Club Festival, and it's always great when your book club has read some of the author's work. Copyright © 2017 Ennis Book Club Festival, All rights reserved. The Ennis Book Club Festival aims to promote and celebrate reading. Each year, readers both from Ireland and further afield, come to Ennis to share their love of all things book related. The Festival includes author readings, discussions, workshops and walking tours through the historic streets of Ennis. Over the past ten years, the Festival has become synonymous with quality programming, vibrant discussion and, most importantly, sheer 'good fun' in the Friendliest Town in Ireland. Our mailing address is: Ennis Book Club Festival 36 Willsgrove Cahercalla Road Ennis, Co Clare Ireland Add us to your address book    087 972 3647  |  085 784 2822 info@ennisbookclubfestival.com

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SUPERSTAR GENEALOGISTS AWARDS FOR 2017 ANNOUNCED..

International, USA, Genetic Genealogy

Blaine Bettinger

With a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and JD postnominal awarded by Syracuse University College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2009, Blaine melds his practice as an intellectual property and technology attorney with his passion for genetic genealogy. His publications include The Family Tree guide to DNA testing and genetic genealogy and the co-authored Genetic genealogy in practice. As well as the science side, Blaine has drawn on his legal background in promoting a code of ethics for genetic genealogy practice. Find him on Twitter and Facebook including on the closed group Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques.

Australia/New Zealand

Michelle Patient

Australian by birth, Michelle’s science and engineering background has helped her develop research tips, which she shares regularly with the wider genealogy community in face to face presentations, in magazines, and over the Internet. She was President of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists 2012 – 2014, New Zealand Regional Representative for the Guild of One-Name Studies 2015 – present and Education Committee Member Society of Australian Genealogists. Michelle is particularly active on Facebook.

Canada

Gail Dever

Repeating in the Superstar Gold award position, Gail Dever writes daily about genealogy news, resources and issues facing the genealogy community at Genealogy à la carte and on a variety of social media. She is a popular speaker on social media and genealogy. A native of Toronto, resident of Montreal, Gail has a bachelor degree in French literature from Laval University and has held several senior positions in public affairs, including external communications and advertising. She manages the BIFHSGO website and was recently inducted into the Society Hall of Fame.

England, Scotland, Wales

Janet Few

Returning as a Gold Rockstar Genealogist, Janet writes that she prefers the term Family Historian. As The History Interpreter, she aims to bring history alive in a variety of ways, notably encouraging young people to become interested in the past, especially through living history or family history. Author and columnist for The In-Depth Genealogist Magazine, Janet teaches family and local history classes and is a tutor for Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd. She is currently writing an historical novel.

Ireland

Maurice Gleeson

Repeating as a Superstar genealogist, with a background as psychiatrist, pharmaceutical physician and part-time actor, Maurice is widely known for his YouTube videos on genetic genealogy. He has organized the genetic genealogy lectures for Genetic Genealogy Ireland in Dublin and Who Do You Think You Are? Live in the UK since 2012. He is co-administrator for the Gleason/Gleeson, Spearin, Farrell, Irish Caribbean DNA and WW1 Missing Legacy projects.

CONGRATULATIONS

to all the 

SUPERSTAR GENEALOGISTS

Congratulations also to all winners, including all those nominated. You are all appreciated for your contributions to genealogy and family history.

Thank you to all who took the time to vote and make nominations in the first place. If your favourite ROCKSTAR wasn't in the list this year, then make sure you nominate them next year... candidates need at least two nominations to be included. There are many who work tirelessly as volunteers.. you know them, why not nominate them...

 The biggest THANK YOU goes to John D. Reid who started with this idea over six years ago... This takes a lot of time and work to plan, organise and conduct. I hope John gets a chance to take a well earned rest now. 

Visit his blog at http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/ and be sure to leave a comment.

ROCKSTAR GENEALOGISTS 2017.. SILVER AND BRONZE AWARDS ANNOUNCED

DIRECTLY FROM THE ORGANISER 

OF 

ROCKSTAR GENEALOGISTS FOR 2017,

John D. Reid, 

from 

ANGLO-CELTIC CONNECTIONS

Here are the 2017 Rockstar Genealogist "silver and bronze award winners."

International (also USA and genetic genealogists)

Silver: Judy G. Russell -- The Legal Genealogist

Bronze: CeCe Moore -- TheDNADetectives.com

The following awards are for genealogists living in or affiliated with the specified county or area.

Australia/New Zealand

Silver: Jill Ball -- Geniaus.

Bronze: Helen V. Smith -- Dragon Genealogy

              

Canada

Silver: Dave Obee -- CanGenealogy

Bronze: Lorine McGinnis Schulze -- Olive Tree Genealogy

England/Scotland/Wales

Silver: Debbie Kennett -- Cruwys news

Bronze: Chris Paton -- The GENES Blog

Ireland

Silver John Grenham -- Irish Roots 

Bronze: Claire Santry -- Irish Genealogy News

Congratulations to the award winners.

The "gold award-winners", Superstar Genealogists, will be posted tomorrow.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO TOOK THE TIME TO VOTE.

Visit John's blog at: http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/. 

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY BOOK LAUNCHES 16th November, 2017

BOOK LAUNCH

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY WILL LAUNCH 2 NEW BOOKS

Thursday 9^th November

8 pm. Maguire Suite

Old Ground Hotel

Drumcliff Section B

By Flan Hehir

This will be CRS 3 Book recording the Burials in Drumcliff Cemetery

Women of Clare

By Lucille Ellis

Women of exceptional talents who gave of themselves to serve others

Next Lecture

Tracing your Australian relations

By Debra Carter

Thursday 16^th November 2017

8 pm Old Ground Hotel

Debra Carter has worked with Ancestry Pro Genealogists in London since its inception in January last year. Her main areas of expertise are England and Australia, although she also researches Ireland, the United States, Canada and Norway. She is particularly interested in the movement of people between those countries and women's stories within that. Prior to working with ProGen, Debra owned and operated her own genealogy business in both London and Melbourne, teaching adult's genealogy, researching for private clients and volunteering at a local historical society. Her love of genealogy stemmed from her mother's interest and early research which she took over around ten years ago. Her genealogical education includes the Advanced Diploma in Local History from Oxford University and distinction completion of the Certificate in Family History from the Society of Australian Genealogists. Debra is also a full member of AGRA, the Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Australia.

HAVE YOU VOTED YET FOR ROCKSTAR GENEALOGISTS 2017?

LAST CHANCE, VOTE NOW!

HAVE YOUR SAY!

IRELAND GENEALOGY PROJECT ARCHIVES.. 100,000 GRAVESTONE IMAGES NOT ENOUGH...

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? 

Not satisfied with 100,000 gravestone images, 

IGP volunteers worked tirelessly onwards 

and have now surpassed

120,000 gravestone images!!! 

CONGRATULATIONS

to all involved

and

THANK YOU

 you are giving a great gift to genealogists,

family historians and those who always

wondered where their grandparents and great grandparents rest.

 Latest List..

ARMAGH Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Ballymacnab Old Graveyard- McKee & McParlan

DONEGAL Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Donaghmore, St. Patrick's (CoI)

Meenglass(CoI) Diocese of Raphoe

DUBLIN Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Deansgrange Cemetery, St. Anne's Section, Pt. 6

Golden Bridge Cemetery, Part 2 (D-G)

Mount Jerome, Dublin - Part 178

LIMERICK Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Mungret Graveyard

TYRONE Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Urney Cemetery, Parts - Completed

WATERFORD Genealogy Archives - Headstones

St. Otteran's, Waterford City, Part 8

WICKLOW Genealogy Archives - Headstones

Greenane Main Cemetery, Part 2

Please support them in any way you can..

ROCK STAR GENEALOGIST VOTING NOW OPEN--TILL SATURDAY

FULL DETAILS HERE

ROCK STAR GENEALOGIST 2017 NOMINATIONS CLOSING SOON!

NOMINATIONS CLOSE 

2PM ET SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER!

FULL DETAILS

HERE

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BACK TO OUR PAST - DUBLIN - 20,21, 22 OCTOBER 2017

Shelbourne Hall, RDS Dublin, Ireland.


More details...  

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GLOBAL IRISH NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2017

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Minister for the Diaspora Ciarán Cannon, T.D.

Welcome to the October Global Irish Newsletter.  The last few months have a busy period and I have been fortunate to have visited Irish communities in America and Britain. I also have a full schedule of events ahead and it is my goal to meet more Irish communities no matter where they are in the world. I and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have also been busy responding to input received from Irish organisations and from the second Global Irish Civic Forum. As such, over the last few weeks, I was pleased to be able to launch the first Diaspora Directory and at the same time approve funding for a record number of applications for the Emigrant Support Programme. There is still much to do in the months ahead and to keep up to date on this work follow us on Twitter or visit the Global Irish Hub.  Is mise le meas, Ciarán Cannon

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Global Irish News and Events

Launch of the Global Irish Diaspora Directory Following on from commitments at the second Global Irish Civic Forum, Irish Abroad Unit have launched the first edition of the Global Irish Diaspora Directory. In total there are over 360 organisations listed in this Directory, comprising all organisations that have been funded in the last five years by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Emigrant Support Programme. In addition, any organisation that was represented at the 2015 and 2017 Global Irish Civic Forums is also included in the Directory. FIND OUT MORE › Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad The annual Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad will take place next month in Áras an Uachtaráin President Michael D. Higgins will present the Awards in what has become a showcase event of the year where outstanding members of the Irish diaspora are recognised and celebrated.  There are ten recipients this year representing Irish communities around the world and representing different award categories FULL ARTICLE ›

Online Passport Renewals for the Irish Abroad For this first time online passport renewal is accessible no matter where you are in the world – all you need is a connection to the internet. This means Irish diaspora who live around the globe can now expect the same passport service as Irish citizens living in the State. If you are an Irish citizen (over 18), living outside of Ireland and have held an Irish passport you can apply online for a renewal for a Passport Book or Passport Card. This process is fast and secure and can be completed on a mobile device or desktop. FIND OUT MORE › SFI St Patrick's Day Medal The annual Science Foundation Ireland St Patrick's Day Science Medal competition is now open for nominations. This medal is a national recognition of the achievements of individuals who are of Irish citizenship, descent or those who have a strong and enduring connection to Ireland. The medal is traditionally awarded by the Taoiseach in Washington D.C. as part of the official St. Patrick's Day programme in March.  The deadline for submissions is October 20th 2017. FIND OUT MORE ›

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