CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY GENEALOGY CONFERENCE 2013

Tomorrow starts the beginning of what we hope will be a very successful event, the second Clare Roots Family History Conference. We have people travelling from all over the world and we have a wonderful line up of speakers on Saturday in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis.

 

On Wednesday tune into the Pat Kenny show to hear Peter Higginbotham and also John Cooke on the  Morning Focus programme  Clare FM will hopefully host interviews with some of our speakers during the week.

 

There are still a few places left on the tours.

Meet five minutes before the tour time at the entrance to the Library building on Harmony Row.

 

If you are visiting for the day on Saturday do look for Long stay Parking. If the Temple Gate Hotel is full, options Include Glor car park, Multi storey car park in the market and Holy family school beside the Old Ground Hotel. (all within a 5 minute walk). http://www.visitennis.com/about-ennis/map-of-ennis/

 

Brief Synopsis of the Week below.

 

Tuesday 2^nd April

Two films by Frank Golden and Frank Stapleton in the Old Ground at 7.30 pm.

 

Wednesday 3^rd April

4 pm Local Studies tour. Book via secretary@clareroots.org

5 pm Guided tour of refurbished Abbey. Book via  secretary@clareroots.org

6.30 Lecture by Tim Collins on the Music of the Slieve Aughty region in the Old Ground hotel

7.45 Book launch by Gerry Kennedy and  Flyleaf press on Tracing your Clare Ancestors

 

Thursday 4^th April

4 pm Local Studies Tour .Book via secretary@clareroots.org

5.30 Lecture with Liam Curran on the Irish Soldier in the First World War

7.30 Bindon Street book launch of Eric Shaw’s book Memorials of Past Lives in St Columba’s Church, Bindon Street

 

Friday 5^th April

3 pm Local Studies tour. Book via  secretary@clareroots.org

4-6 registration in the Temple Gate Hotel

4-6 Meet the Genealogist in the Temple Gate Hotel

6.30 Welcome reception and Official opening by the Mayor of Clare and lecture by Michael Gandy.

 

Saturday  6^th April

Registration from 9 a.m. with lectures starting at 10 am.  

Lunch 1-2

Michael Gandy will be the final speaker of the day at 4 p.m.

 

Gala Dinner at 7.30 .

 

 

It promises to be a wonderful few days and already people have started their overseas journey to join us in Clare.

 

If you are attending and have not yet booked on http://www.eventelephant.com/clarerootssocietyconference2013, you can register on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning  but it would be helpful if you could send  an email secretary@clareroots.org to me just to facilitate a quicker registration process.

 

We plan to audio record conference for all our oversea members and that hopefully will be available in the weeks after.

 

Best wishes

 

 

Clara Hoyne

Clare Roots Secretary

 

 

IRISH LIVES REMEMBERED review by John Grenham

John Grenham reviews the very good ezine in which Clare Roots featured a few issues back.

Clara Hoyne

Clare Roots Secretary

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY MARCH TALK

From: Clara Hoyne

Clare Roots Society will host its next talk on Thursday 15 March 2012 at the Civic Rooms, Drumbiggle at 8 pm. The title of the talk is

"Researching the Irish in mid nineteenth-century New Zealand" and will be given by Dr Ciara Breathnach, Department of History, University of Limerick.

In 1870 the Irish Times wrote: 'It may surprise those who are interested in watching the course of the waves of emigration from this country to learn that in 1867 there were resident in New Zealand 27,955 Irishmen and Irishwomen, all apparently doing well and pursuing an industrious life'. Despite free passage for women, assisted migration schemes (with very generous terms and conditions), boundless opportunities and an established Irish community, New Zealand as a migrant destination did not manage to gain widespread popularity. This paper focuses on reasons why. Direct migration schemes were initiated in the 1870s but they failed to adequately recruit. The first ship contained Cork workhouse immigrants and this had a disastrous effect on the Irish reputation in Otago. Intrinsically linked to class and sectarian issues, Dr. Breathnach's research points to the various pitfalls associated with transnational and marginal histories, especially when dealing with Catholic and Irish poor.

Dr Breathnach holds a Lectureship at the Department of History, University of Limerick, where she is also Course Director for the MA (History of Family) since 2005. Dr. Breathnach is President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland, and is Principal Investigator of a current IRCHSS award. Her publications include The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923, Poverty and Development in the West of Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2005); Ciara Breathnach and Catherine Lawless (eds), Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2010); Ciara Breathnach (guest editor), Ireland: Church, State and society 1900-1975, The History of the Family: International Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2008. Ciara Breathnach (ed.), Framing the West: images of rural Ireland 1890-1920 (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, 2007). Ciara Breathnach and Aoife Bhreatnach (eds.), Portraying Irish Travellers: histories and representations (Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, February 2007).

CLARE CHATTER

The Italian Ambassador's wife visited this week tracing her Clare Roots.

Clara Hoyne

Clare Roots Society Secretary

Please click on image to enlarge...

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY CHATTER

Courtesy of Clara Hoyne and Eric Shaw... from Clare Roots Society

From Eric...

The Clonmel Courthouse is quite similar to the one that stood in Ennis near
where the O'Connell Monument is at the top of O Connell street in Ennis
today. The windows on the upper floor differ but other aspects are very
close to the image in the fine painting of the Ennis .

From Clara..

I happened to be in the shop beside the square in
Ennis yesterday and as had seen Eric's photos before I went out I was trying
to visualize where the building stood. It is now more square shaped and on
picture the space in front was more angular.

Click on photos to enlarge...

'SAVE THE FORMER CHURCH OF IRELAND GRAVEYARD' KILRUSH

One more project for this week!! Paul O Brien who will speak to us this Thursday is looking for volunteers this Saturday morning, 21st January, 2012

Subject: 'Save the former Church of Ireland Graveyard'

From Paul: Hopefully, some members of the Clare Roots Society may be interested in the following project that the Kilrush Local History Group is currently undertaking. I attach some photographs of the graveyard. These photos illustrate the terrible condition of the graveyard.

 Most importantly we need VOLUNTEERS!

A tidy-up of the CoI graveyard, Kilrush is taking place next Sat morning 21 Jan. At 10am. 

Please bring some of the following: Gloves, wellies, black bags, clippers, securtares, watering can, soft brush and dry cloths. Camera is optional.

All  are welcome.

Kind Regards,

Paul O'Brien

(Kilrush Local History Group)

---

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY REFLECTS

CLARE CHATTER.. from National Library Ireland

http://www.nli.ie/en/searchresults.aspx?query=County%20Clare

Inchiquin Papers, Manuscript Collection List 143 now available

The Inchiquin Papers, a large collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in county Clare, belonging to the O'Brien family of Leamanegh and Dromoland, later Barons Inchiquin, has recently been fully catalogued and made available to researchers for the first time. This collection also includes papers pertaining to related O'Brien families in county Clare such as the Earls of Inchiquin and Earls of Thomond.

The papers span several hundred years from the late sixteenth century to the early twentieth century and are an invaluable source for genealogical, social and local history of county Clare.

Browse Inchiquin Papers Collection List

Browse all available manuscript collection lists

Back to News

National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar  A Bird's Eye View Of ireland

5 November 2008 - February 2009

A Bird's Eye View of Ireland was the title of the National Photographic Archive's exhibition of aerial photographs which provided a unique perspective on the landscape and development of twentieth century Ireland as well as a record of several significant environmental, archaeological, social and industrial events in the nation's history.

Among the images featured were photographs of the Hill of Tara in County Meath; the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare; Croagh Patrick in County Mayo; the Guinness Brewery in Dublin; Powerscourt House in Enniskerry, County Wicklow after it had been gutted by fire; the Fiat Ireland plant in Dublin; Áras an Uachtaráin, the President of Ireland's residence in the Phoenix Park, and Mondello Park, the Irish motor racing venue in Country Kildare. Also included were German aerial reconnaissance photographs of Dublin and its environs taken in December 1940. Among the areas identified were strategically important military barracks, power plants and airports.

The work featured in the exhibition was drawn from three NPA collections – the Morgan collection, the Rex Roberts collection and the Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Limited collection.

Visit the National Photographic Archive

Back to Previous Exhibitions

Collections

Ongoing indexing, digitising, copying and cataloguing projects ensure that the photographs in our care are becoming increasingly accessible to the public. However, it should be noted that there are a number of collections that cannot be made available to researchers at present.

There follows a listing of some of the better known collections in the Archive, please follow the links to find out more about a specific collection.

---

Our Own Place Collection

An archive prepared in 1996, of over 600 photographs and text, reflecting contemporary life in Ireland.

---

Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991.

A collection created in 1991, replicating 1,000 Lawrence Collection photographs, to record the changing landscapes of Ireland.

---

Cardall Collection

This collection contains 5000 negatives from the Cardall postcard firm; the images date from the 1940's – 1960's.

---

Clarke Collection

This is a relatively small collection of photographs by JJ Clarke, mainly of Dublin in the period 1897 to 1904.

---

Clonbrock Collection

A collection of 3,500 glass plates spanning the years 1860 – 1930, it is an excellent pictorial record of the life of a landed family.

---

Eason Collection

A collection of 4,000 glass plate negatives created for Eason and Sons Postcard Company between 1900 – 1940.

---

Keogh Collection

A collection of 300 photographs from the Keogh Brothers Studio, Dublin from the period 1915 – 1930, includes excellent coverage of the political figures involved in the 1916 Rising.

---

Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection

This is a collection of 300,000 negatives from the Irish Independent newspaper archive dating from 1912 to 1997.

---

Morgan Collection

This is a collection of aerial photographs of Ireland that were taken by Captain Morgan in the mid 1950s.

---

Poole Collection

A collection of 65,000 portraits and topographical images from the Poole Studio, a commercial studio based in Waterford City between 1884 – 1954.

CLARE CHATTER CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY

From: "Clara Hoyne" <secretary@clareroots.org>

Happy New Year to all our CRS members!

To start our 2012 year, the first talk is Paul O'Brien  on

'The Family Papers of the Glynns of West Clare 1790-1980'

This takes place on Thursday the 19^th of January in the Ennis Civic offices in Drumbiggle at 8 pm.

Looking forward to seeing you then.

Remember if there are any particular topics you would like to see covered, please  let me know.

Clara

GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS CLARE CASTLE/ BALLYEA

We often complain about the lack of records for Irish research, but now there is so much being released due to the work of volunteers, as well as some of the paid sites.

As many of you know, I'm involved with Clare Roots Society and am so pleased to be associated with this hard working group. One of the most recent achievements has been the documenting of around 2,000 records from the Clare Castle/Ballyea  churches... see full details below.

This book looks to be going to it's second print, which is fantastic... it sells for €10 plus postage, and was under €5 to post to Australia...

However, to go ahead with the second print, we really need names of those who genuinely would like a copy of the book. If you are one of those, could you please contact Clara Hoyne, secretary of the CRS (Clare Roots Society) at

 Clara  Hoyne <secretary@clareroots.org>

Clara will be able to help you with further details. Perhaps you could also tell Clara where you heard about this book.

Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers

2 November 2011 saw the launch of a book written and compiled by Eric Shaw entitled Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers. In conjunction with Clare Roots Society, Eric has documented all the readable gravestone inscriptions in Clare Abbey, Clare Hill, Killoo, Killone, and Ballyea & Clare Castle Churches. These amount to about 2,000 records, some dating from the late 1600s. The book will help to preserve the inscriptions and to make them available for family history research. It will also help to draw visitors and fits in with development plans to promote the attractions of the Parish.

                                                                           

CLARE CHATTER

ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY

IGP Archives have just added the RIC men who enlisted in 1842 and who were from Clare.

The names are:
BARRY, John
CUNNEEN, John
DOOLIN, Michael
HUDSON, Richard
KEOGH, Michael
LOFTUS, Edward
MALONE, John
McHUGO, Edward
MORONY, Thomas
WOODS, James

If you are interested in seeing more go to:

http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/

Click on CLARE and then Military & Constabulary

More details on site above...including other years...

 courtesy of Christina Hunt

IRISH CHATTER OBITUARIES

November, 1900

 1923

 1915 Kildysart

 April 1931

 1931

1950

CLARE CASTLE AND BALLYEA – THE PARISH REMEMBERS

Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers

2 November 2011 will see the launch of a book written and compiled by Eric Shaw entitled Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers. In conjunction with Clare Roots Society, Eric has documented all the readable gravestone inscriptions in Clare Abbey, Clare Hill, Killoo, Killone, and Ballyea & Clare Castle Churches. These amount to about 2,000 records, some dating from the late 1600s. The book will help to preserve the inscriptions and to make them available for family history research. It will also help to draw visitors and fits in with development plans to promote the attractions of the Parish.

CRS website at http://www.clareroots.org/index.php/2011-06-29-19-06-17/publications

See also Drumcliff Cemetery - the Hidden History of Ennis