Féil-Scríbhinn Liam Mhic Alasdair - Essays Presented to Liam Mac Alasdair, FGSI

especially prior to Irish independence, has provided historians with new material upon which to evaluate or to review aspects of Ireland’s sometimes turbulent past. Jim was appointed a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Ireland in 2005 by Tony McCarthy, MA, FGSI, Society President, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the history of policing in Ireland and Irish genealogy. Jim lives in Ballicollig, Co. Cork with his wife Denise, daughter Rachel and son Colin.

Bartosz Kozlowski was born in Kraków, Poland in 1988. Kraków was for centuries the capital of Poland, the seat of her kings, drawing great scholars and artists from all over Europe and beyond. The city’s architecture and especially, its famous seats of learning, reflect the most important trends in European culture which both inspired and directed Bartosz’s interest in history. He attended the August Witkowski College in Kraków and excelled in English and French. He came to Ireland in 2008 like so many of his compatriots seeking work in Ireland’s once booming economy. He joined the Society in 2008 and was appointed to the Board of Directors as the Director of Internet Services and was re-elected at the 2009 Annual General Meeting. Bartosz has designed and built websites in Poland and Ireland, including the Society’s website www.familyhistory.ie As the youngest member of the Society, he was only two years of age when the Society was founded in 1990, Bartosz is new to genealogy and especially, to the publication of his work. His contribution on the links between his native Poland and Ireland represents his debut as a published author. He currently works as a freelance web designer and graphic artist in Dublin and is an active member of the Pembroke Fencing Club and the Salle Dublin Fencing Club.

Róisín Lafferty was born at Lattonfaskey Co Monaghan and educated at Our Lady's Secondary school (Convent of Mercy) Castleblayney. A former civil servant employed by Central statistics Office (Census of Population), Dublin, she retired on her marriage to become a full time home maker, afterwards occasionally employed as a Census enumerator.

An active member of the Genealogical Society of Ireland since 1992, she served on the Executive committee (DLGS) and the Board (GSI) and was a member of the organising committee for the ‘International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences’ held in Dublin Castle in 2002. She is a member of Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society and the Clogher Historical Society for a number of years. A history maker in her own right she was one of the first to obtain a ‘Genealogy’ certificate (UCD) and a Local History Diploma (NUI Maynooth). She also holds a Diploma in Family and Community History (OU), and continues with further education. An amateur family and local historian who specialises in both local and family research (counties Monaghan and Donegal) she has had much of her research published, including ‘A Commemorative History of a County Monaghan Primary School’. Currently a director of Lafferty Co., Accountants and Auditors, and Lafferty Accounting, (Dublin and Carrickmacross), she resides with her family for the last thirty years in Glenageary, Co Dublin and has four grown up children and one grandson.

Philip Lecane was born in Cork in 1953, the eldest of seven children of Philip and the late Eileen (née O’Brien) Lecane. He was educated at Christian Brothers College and University College Cork, attaining a B. Soc Sc degree. From childhood he had a love of history and reading. His interest in genealogy developed from a night class in Kilkenny in 1983. He settled in Dún Laoghaire in 1984. He subsequently joined the Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society and the Dún Laoghaire Genealogical Society (now the Genealogical Society of Ireland). He became a regular contributor to the journals of both societies and gave a number of talks to their members. Discovering that relatives from both his parents’ families fought in the First World War, he began researching Irish men and women who 147