CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY - 20TH APRIL - IRISH SURNAMES..DR. PAUL MacCOTTER

Thursday 20^th April

8pm Old Ground Hotel

Lecture By Dr. Paul MacCotter

Dr. Paul MacCotter will talk on Irish Surnames with emphasis on some Clare Surnames.

 Paul MacCotter, MA, Ph.D. teaches genealogy, family history, and medieval history in University College Cork and the University of Limerick.  

Since 1993 he has published widely in the fields of Genealogy Family History, Medieval History, History of Government and Church History. 

He has won prestigious research fellowships and published widely in his areas of specialty, He has written three books, has two more in press, and has made forty six contributions to various peer-reviewed journals, academic journals, and populist magazines, and has another six in press. 

He lectures regularly at academic and family history conferences and seminars. His book, Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic divisions (Four Courts Press, 2008), is the standard reference work on the subject.

He is a contributor to the Irish Roots genealogical magazine, the Irish Genealogist academic journal, and the Irish Lives Remembered e-magazine. 

Dr MacCotter is also a genealogy lecturer at university level, currently with the Irish Ancestry Research Center of the University of Limerick and the Centre for Adult Continuing Education of University College Cork.

 

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY - FEBRUARY TALK.. THE STATE INEBRIATE REFORMATORY: DR. CONOR REIDY

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY


February Monthly talk in The Maguire Suite, Old Ground Hotel on Thursday 18th of February at 8 p.m.

THE STATE INEBRIATE REFORMATORY: How Ennis became the centre of the war on criminal drunkenness in the early twentieth-century Ireland by Dr Conor Reidy

Conor will be interviewed n Clare FM
in the morning at approximately 10.30AM


Hosting our third International Family History Conference in Ennis, 23rd-24th September 2016.

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY PRESENTS...... DR CONOR REIDY

Our February 18th talk is by Dr Conor Reidy in the Old Ground Hotel at 8pm.

The State Inebriate Reformatory: How Ennis became the centre of the war on criminal drunkenness in the early twentieth-century Ireland

The Irish State Inebriate Reformatory was opened at Ennis local prison in county Clare in 1900 for the punishment and reform of habitual criminal drunkards. The reformatory came about as a result of the Inebriates Act 1898 and during a period when British penal administrators were becoming more open to experimentation. The reformatory at Ennis was one of four such institutions that opened in Ireland between 1900 and 1910, the other three being operated by clerical orders, local authorities and philanthropists.

Dr. Conor Reidy is the author of two monographs on penal reform in early twentieth-century Ireland. Ireland’s ‘moral hospital’: the Irish borstal system 1906-1956 was published by Irish Academic Press in 2009 and Criminal Irish Drunkards: the inebriate reformatory system 1900-1918 was published by The History Press Ireland 2014. For eight years he lectured in local and family history at the University of Limerick. In 2015 he joined the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland as a Historical Researcher.

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE - LORNA MOLONEY

 CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE

 BY LORNA MOLONEY

"EXPLORING THE GENEALOGY LEGACIES OF THE CLANS OF CLARE"

Old Ground Hotel 

8pm Thur 21st May

This talk explores the genealogy sources and legacies of the clans of Clare. Clare surnames are investigated and the focus on the townland as a rich source of information are revealed for use when determining landscape evidence. 

The antiquity of the county and how clans experienced change from tribal origins to lordships and from lordships to peasantry will be discussed.

Lorna is a professional genealogist, member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the Society of Genealogists UK. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. She is currently mentoring on the George Boole *200 genealogy project for UCC. 

In 2014 Lorna finished a successful exhibition 'The Aldworths of Newmarket Court.: Their influence on Duhallow and beyond. Lorna provides bespoke genealogy advice and consultation on those wishing to research in Ireland for tours, archives and projects. 

Lorna 2015 projects are as follows: 'The Genealogy Radio show' aired each THURSDAY AT 4P.M. and Podcasts available at http://rcb.ie/shows/thegenealogyradioshow.

Lorna Moloney coordinates the Irish Genealogy Summer School for University College Cork - Ancestral Connections: Names, Places & Spaces 2015. It will run from 28 June to 5 July 2015. It is now in its third year.finished a successful exhibition 'The Aldworths of Newmarket Court.: Their influence on Duhallow and beyond. Lorna provides bespoke genealogy advice and consultation on those wishing to research in Ireland for tours, archives and projects.

Lorna 2015 projects are as follows: 'The Genealogy Radio show' aired each THURSDAY AT 4P.M. and Podcasts available at http://rcb.ie/shows/thegenealogyradioshow.

Lorna Moloney coordinates the Irish Genealogy Summer School for University College Cork.

Non Members €5. Members Free

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE 15TH JAN 2015

Clare Roots Society Lecture

Thursday 15^th January 8 pm Old Ground Hotel

 

The O'Gorman Mahon

James Patrick Mahon. Born in Ennis,  Co. Clare,17th March 1802 he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin 

and became known as 'The O'Gorman Mahon'. He led an extravagant lifestyle travelling the world, 

and there are many unverified stories of his exploits abroad. He was involved in numerous military operations around the world. 

He was reputed to have attained the rank of General and Admiral in separate South America countries.

This lecture by Declan Barron tells of the evidence found for his travels in this part of the world.

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE - CAPT. CLAIRE MORTIMER, Military Archives, 20th Nov. 2014

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE

By Capt. Claire Mortimer 

Military Archives

Thursday 20th November

 8pm Old Ground Hotel

Capt. Mortimer’s talk will be based on sources available to researchers in the Military Archives using examples from Co. Clare, focusing on the period 1913-1923, using material drawn from the Bureau of Military History, Military Service Pensions Collection and other records from the Civil War.

She will also touch on archival material from the Emergency period during WW2 and briefly outline other sources that are available.

Captain Claire Mortimer is currently the Officer in Charge of Military Archives. She joined the Defence Forces in 2003 and spent a number of years in 2 Cavalry Squadron where one of her roles was Officer in Charge of the Motorcycle Escort of Honour for Heads of State and dignitaries. She served overseas with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) in 2006 andwith the Organization for Security Cooperation Europe (OSCE) in Vienna from2010-2011. Captain Mortimer joined the Military Archives staff in 2012 and has since obtained a Masters in Archives and Records Management.

GENEALOGY RECORDS LECTURE, MR. PADDY WALDRON, Feb 20th 2014

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS

Clare Roots Society February Lecture on Genealogy Records will be given by

 Mr. Paddy Waldron. Chairman of Clare Roots Society.

Learn all about townlands, electoral divisions, dispensary districts, poor law unions, civil parishes,

 ecclesiastical parishes, dioceses, 

baronies, counties and other administrative divisions;

how to find the boundaries of these divisions on maps; 

and how to work out under which division you will find birth, baptism, marriage, death, 

census, land and other records for your ancestors.

This will be a most beneficial talk for people tracing their family history.

The meeting will take place at the Civic Rooms, Ennis Town Council, 

 Drumbiggle Rd.  At 8pm Thursday 20^th Feb. ADMISSION - €5.00 to Non- Members.

       There will be a link available afterwards 

      to hear an audio recording of the talk.  
Written version also.
Link below..

audio version

http://www.pwaldron.info/CRS/

JACKIE KENNEDY'S CLARE ANCESTORS..... CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY LECTURE 21 NOV 2013

Simon O'Callaghan inspecting his Ancestors Grave in a New York Cemetery

Jackie Kennedy's Clare Ancestors

Clare Roots Society's November Lecture

Genealogist Jim O'Callaghan, 

while researching his own Curry/Corry West Clare family roots in a New York cemetery, 

relates how he discovered by accident, 

the grave of Jackie Kennedy's Co. Clare born great grandparents. 

The families were 

the Curry's from the Shandrum, Mullagh district and the Merritts from the Kilnamona area.

Previously, even the JFK First Ladies Library in Boston stated that 

Jackie Kennedy's four maternal great grandparents hailed from Co.Cork.

Jim also discovered that a baby called Thomas Merritt, who died aged one , and was a great uncle of Jackie Kennedy's,

 is buried in the family grave of Jim's Curry ancestors in New York, thus confirming a link between his Curry's and Jackie Kennedy.

 Jim O'Callaghan worked for many years in the education department of the National Gallery. 

He completed an M.Litt.in U.C.D. in 2006 on the famous watercolour artist Flora Mitchell.

 Since then, a three year diploma in genealogy led him to his research here and in the United States 

on the Irish roots of Jacqueline Kennedy, a subject of personal interest.

 For the past year, he has worked as a volunteer in the National Library in the genealogy room.

The presentation will be held in the Civic Rooms, Ennis Town Council, Drumbiggle,Ennis 

at 8 pm on Thursday, 21st November 2013. 

All are welcome. There will be a cover charge of €5 for non-members.