Ireland's Genealogical Gazette (June 2018)

ISSN 1649-7937

Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann “Cuimhnigí ar Ár Sinnsir—Remember Our Ancestors”

Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette (incorporating “The Genie Gazette”) Vol. 13 No. 6

June : Meitheamh 2018

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Genealogy and Tourism

GENEALOGY HERALDRY

“Ancestry Tourism” is hugely important to all parts of Ireland and many Local Authorities and county tourism organisations have developed strategies aimed at increasing their share of visitors tracing their ancestors locally. This is as true for the greater Dublin region as it is for any locality around the country.

However, the rush during the 1980s and 1990s to localize tourism marketing and promotion and to develop local branding was, in many ways, a failure to realize the global nature of the market place. The introduction of changes to the local government structures around Dublin in 1994 and an official drive to promote a “civic cohesiveness” around these new “counties” was unfortunately conflated with tourism promotion.

This failure to “piggyback” on Dublin City’s success in the City Break Market and the concentration on unsustainable local branding, patchy marketing and sectoral promotion resulted in a very uneven development of the tourism product in the greater Dublin region.

Thankfully, over the years since then and indeed, possibly from 2013 onwards, a more strategic approach to the marketing of the regions around Dublin City has been developed. This new strategy accepts that it is Dublin City that is the destination of choice and that the challenge is to develop and promote products and services that are easily accessible by public transport from the City Centre.

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council recently adopted a very imaginative and innovative strategy document that aims to capture its share of visitors who have chosen Dublin City

VEXILLOLOGY SOCIAL HISTORY Heritage Matters Book Reviews Open Meetings as a City Break destination. The new strategy focusses on Dublin Bay—just 10 minutes from the City Centre and the Dublin Mountains— just 30 minutes from the City Centre. Varied attractions and activities abound and these are also promoted as part of an ‘Accessible Tourism Market’ which in Europe amounts to 27% of the total population.

The new strategy recognises that identification with place and people is central to the whole concept of “ancestry tourism” and, as such, it aims to maximise the potential of genealogy and our links to the Irish diaspora.

The Society’s Archive and Research Centre, An Daonchartlann, located at the DLR Leisure Centre in Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, is the latest addition to the tourism assets of the County of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown. The new tourism strategy adopted by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council highlights the importance of this facility to the promotion of “ancestry tourism” in the County.

OPEN MEETINGS Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute Cumberland Street, Dún Laoghaire Tuesday 12 June—20.00hrs Tuesday 10 July—20.00hrs _______________________________________________________________________

News & Events DATA PROTECTION The Board on May 3rd 2018 adopted the following resolution on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Res: 18/05/1380 "That, the Board, in order to make arrangements for compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on May 25th 2018, agrees to place a notice in 'Ireland's Genealogical Gazette' advising Members that the Society holds the following records on its Members (1) Name; (2) Address; (3) Telephone Number; (4) Email Address and (5) the name of the Associate Member, if applicable, and that such records are only used for the purpose of contacting Members on Society matters and for the dispatch of the Monthly Newsletter and the Annual Journal and furthermore, that these records are only held by the Director of Membership Services and are inaccessible to all other persons and that, the Society does not share this information with any other individual or organisation." All Members of the Society have been contacted regarding the GDPR.

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New Director Co-opted History and Genealogy ‘Irish Names’ James Scannell Reports GSI Lecture Programme Précis of May Lecture GSI Member’s Phone Deal Directions & map to new premises in Loughlinstown

Royal Marine Hotel Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire Wednesday 27 June—10.30hrs Wednesday 25 July—10.30hrs Contribution €3.00 p.p.

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VACANCY FILLED

CONCERT CANCELLED

At the June 7th meeting of the Board of Directors of the Society, Senator Victor Boyhan, MGSI, was co-opted to the position of Director of Public Relations. This is a very important role dealing with publicity and promotion of public awareness of the Society’s agreed policy platforms, objectives and activities. Membership Sales & Marketing, Marketing & Promotion Strategies, Advertising, Diaspora Outreach and overseas promotion. The role also covered Social Inclusion and GSI Social Club. As the Board operates a “cabinet style” governance structure, there is enormous scope to further develop the role and, no doubt, Victor, will do just that.

It was with considerable regret that Board of Directors decided to cancel the commemorative concert planned for October 2018 to mark ‘Vótáil 100’ and ‘Bliain na Gaeilge’.

The decision to cancel was taken on the advice of the Select Committee established to organise the event. The preferred producer and musical director were not in a position to give the event the level of attention that would be required given the timeframe and available resources.

The Board would like to very sincerely thank Ms. Mary T. Daly, Director of Corporate Services and her staff at Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for all of their advice and assistance with the project.

The Board is considering ways to mark ‘Vótáil 100’ and ‘Bliain na Gaeilge’ in 2018 and, it is possible, that the Society may participate in events organised by other organisations.

Have you visited An Daonchartlann at the DLR Loughlinstown Leisure Centre?

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY It is that time of the year again when we look forward to a well earned break whether it be at home or overseas.

Many of us take this time to catch up on our reading, updating our research or adding new finds to our family history database.

For the past fifteen years or so I have had the absolute delight and pleasure of reviewing works published by Four Courts Press (FCP) in Dublin and sharing those reviews in this newsletter and its predecessor. This endeavour wonderfully embraces my passion for reading and history, indeed, history was my ‘gateway’ into genealogy and heraldry. Indeed, this topic of the connection between history and genealogy will be addressed by Declan F. Brady of NUI Maynooth at the GSI Monthly Meeting on Tuesday 12th June 2018.

Whilst many of us readily understand the synergies between genealogical and historical research, especially when it comes to local history, it is surprising that many works are still being published that could have easily benefited from the inclusion of a genealogical chart or more extensive biographical details. This is especially necessary when the author is dealing with medieval Gaelic Irish families, many members of which, had unfamiliar or now obsolete forms of their forenames or many incidents of persons of the same forename and surname over several generations.

To its credit, Four Courts Press appears to have encouraged its authors to address this issue and an increasing number of works now contain, where appropriate, a genealogical chart to assist the reader. Although it is a highly respected publisher of academic works, the overwhelming majority of its publications have a general readership appeal and are readily accessible in presentation and content. Nevertheless, the subjects and the works are still rigorously peer-reviewed and as relatively few purely genealogical or heraldic books are published in Ireland each year, works in many disciplines published regularly contain items or essays of interest to the genealogist and local historian.

The exceptionally well researched ‘Maynooth Studies in Local History’ series of publications by Four Courts Press is of particular interest to the genealogist as much as the local historian. However, it is unfortunate that each of these works is published without an index and given that the titles of many of theses publications may not fully convey the content or subject matter, a lot of excellent research may not be readily identifiable or accessible. Nevertheless, genealogists and local historians are encouraged to visit the FCP website and to scroll down through this list of over 130 titles in print. Hopefully, NUI Maynooth could seek to attract some philanthropic funding to enable this entire series to be indexed and made available on-line to researchers worldwide. It is a national treasure of local history studies that should be more readily accessible to the general public and, especially, genealogists and local historians.

FOUR COURTS PRESS Irish History, Genealogy, Local History and much more. Checkout the catalogue and the wonderful special offers at www.fourcourtspress.ie

DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY The past year has been an extremely challenging and yet rewarding one for the Society. The closure of the facility at the Carlisle Pier and the relocation to Loughlinstown placed a heavy burden on the Society’s financial reserves.

It must be remembered that the Society is funded largely by its Membership Fees and the kind donations received from Members and friends at home and overseas.

The Society is a Registered Charity in Ireland and is currently considering options for fund raising and grant applications. The possibility of crowdfunding for specific projects is being considered. However, in the meantime it was decided to appeal to our Members and friends for help in defraying these exceptional costs.

Donations can be made on-line via the Society’s website or by cheque payable to the Genealogical Society of Ireland and sent to: Shane O’Brien, MGSI, Director of Finance, GSI, 135, Coolevin, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, A96

C9F7. The Board would like to sincerely thank the Members and friends of the Society who have already donated. Many Thanks!

IRISH NAMES A new publication from Morrigan Books and City of Dublin Press - ‘Irish Names’ by Conan Kennedy (ISBN: 978-0-907677-29-1 : 78pp : P/bk : Price €10.00) is a reprint of the ‘Special Report on Surnames of Ireland’ by Sir Robert Matheson which was published in 1909.

This is a very useful little book that provides information on the distribution, numerical strength within the population in 1890, derivation and ethnology of Irish surnames.

This study includes surnames of Gaelic, Danish, Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Huguenot. German and Jewish origin. This information will be particularly of interest to those undertaking One-Name Studies and local historians. This reproduction is of exceptional quality and is highly recommended as a reference book for anybody undertaking genealogical research.

Luftwaffe Eagles over Ireland ‘Luftwaffe Eagles Over Ireland: The Story of German Air Crashes Over Neutral Ireland 1940 – 1945’ by Justin Horgan and Paddy Cummins, and published by Horgan Press, Ardfert, Co. Kerry.

In June 1940 the German occupation of western France provided the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) with bases from which they could fly out deep into the North Atlantic or up and down the Irish Sea attacking and observing shipping movements and this excellent and fascinating book records those Luftwaffe aircraft which crash landed in Ireland between 1940 and 1945 for a variety of reasons including damage sustained from attacks by R.A.F. fighters, or anti-aircraft fire from ships, lack of fuel, mechanical failure, weather conditions or navigation error, and in one instance evading the advancing Allies in the final days of World War 2.

In some cases, the entire crews or some of them were killed or died from their injuries but those who survived were interned in the Curragh Camp for the duration of the Emergency while the Defence Forces tried salvage what they could from the remains of the crashed aircraft which in many cases were destroyed by their crews after crash landing using a device fitted in them specifically for this purpose.

Based on those crashes which the authors could investigate, this book is a wealth of photographs, Irish documents, British documents including squadron diaries, German documents, eye witness accounts of the crashes, post Emergency reports, augmented with the recollections of those who were interned here. Included in the book are brief biographies of those who were interned and their post World War 2 career lives as the authors kept in touch with the survivors group, even after it stood down in 1989, right up to the time of publication, supplemented with numerous photographs, many of which were provided by the former internees.

This book is a comprehensive account of an aspect of the Emergency not previously covered in any book in as much detail as this one as in an essential acquisition for anyone interested in the Emergency or Irish aviation history.

James Scannell DEAN’S GRANGE & SHANGANAGH New website worth checking out called EverAfter https://discovereverafter.com recently launched. It contains the interment register for Dean’s Grange cemetery and this cemetery dates back to 1865 and occupies 65 acres. The site does not contain all records and it appears to be a work in progress, however I found many records at the first attempt.

If you know the name of the person simply type it in and the results will show details of the date of death, age of the deceased, date of burial, plot number, others in the plot. There is also a slot for the image of a headstone and the ability to add the record to your personalise records.

The website was started by husband and wife Seán and Leona McAllister, a Belfast based interactive platform that collates graveyards and burial grounds. Planned additions to the results area are stories, videos, photos and the ability to send flowers to the grave. However on the Facebook page for Everafter the following statement says: “Everafter is the first e-commerce platform of its’ kind anywhere in the world, and was created for every family or consumer in any location globally. Everafter provides the comfort and peace of mind of delivering flowers, memorials, grave maintenance and bereavement services from any international location, delivered right to the plot itself. Cemeteries are able to maintain better standards of appearance through families taking a proactive approach to grave maintenance, and also develop brand new revenue streams. The site covers many graveyards and the inclusion of Shanganagh and especially, Dean’s Grange Cemetery is of great interest to GSI Members.

Tony O’Hara, MGSI

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In Brief….

GSI MEMBERSHIP Join this Society on-line at www.familyhistory.ie Please note that GSI Membership is open to all interested in genealogy and related subjects. Discounted membership rates available for under 25s and students at recognised genealogy courses.

PARKING AT DFEI Car-parking facilities at the Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute. The best option is to use public transport. Dublin Bus nos. 7, 7A, 46A and 75 all serve the college or streets adjacent to the college— Lower George’s Street, York Road, Clarence Street. The DART (suburban rail) services to Salthill & Monkstown. On street car-parking is usually available in the area also. Members are asked to consider ‘car pooling’ for each month’s open meeting. For details on the Institute and its courses please checkout www.dfei.ie

DISCOUNTS Exclusive discounts for the Members of the Society are available for online genealogical services and publications, including, Findmypast, Irish Newspaper Archives, Forces War Records and from Flatcapsandbonnets.com. To avail of any of these Member discounts, please contact Barry O’Connor, FGSI, by email at membership@familyhistory.ie

IDEAL GIFT IDEAS Genealogists and local historians are relatively easy souls to please when it comes to gifts—books! So if you have a birthday gift to buy—think books by our Members. Much of the research for these books was undertaken at the Society’s Archive & Research Centre—An Daonchartlann.

‘Victorian Dún Laoghaire’ by Tom Conlon—excellent local history of the town and the first to deal extensively with the poor and “the courts” where they lived. Price: €20.00 ‘Labour in Kingstown, 1890-1920’

by Charlie Callan—explores a much neglected subject—the working class of Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire and the development of organised labour and its political representation.

Price: €10.00 (published privately contact: chascallan@gmail.com) ‘Twice Built—The Construction of St. Patrick’s Church, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, 1861-66’ by Tom Conlon. An intriguing story of “church politics” surrounding the building of a parish church in Dublin. Price €12.00

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GSI Archival Collections will be accessible soon in a new premises at Loughlinstown

JAMES SCANNELL REPORTS...

ULYSSES At 19.00hrs on Thursday 14 June Brendan Moriarty will present ‘Ulysses on the South Dublin coast’ in Dalkey Library, Castle Street, Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. All welcome – admission free.

RMS LEINSTER At 14.30hrs on Saturday 16 June Philip Lecane will present ‘Torpedoed! The Sinking of the RMS Leinster’ to the Western Front Association (Dublin Branch) in the Museum of Decorative Arts & History Lecture Theatre, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7. All welcome €3.00 donation appreciated.

TOURISM IN DUBLIN At 13.05hrs on Wednesday 20 June Maeve Casserly will present a lunchtime lecture ‘Tourism in Dublin: a visit to an ever changing city’ in the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All welcome – admission free.

DÚN LAOGHAIRE BOR. HIST. SOC. At 19.00hrs on Wednesday 20 June Colin Scudds will lead a ‘Dún Laoghaire Evening Historic Walk’ covering Kelly’s Avenue, George’s Place and the Municipal Buildings.

Meet at Scrum Diddley, Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire. All welcome – please dress appropriately for that evening’s prevailing weather conditions.

IRISH NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL At 12.00hrs on Saturday 7 July the Annual Commemoration and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Irish National War Memorial, Islandbridge, Dublin 7, organised by the Royal British Legion (Republic of Ireland Branch), takes place.

‘REPUBLICAN ROLL OF HONOUR’ To mark aspects of the ‘decade of centenaries’ including the Easter Rising of 1916, the War of Independence 1919-1921 and the Irish Civil War 1922-1923, Brian Smith, has just published ‘Republican Roll of Honour—Dean’s Grange Cemetery, County Dublin’. This publication was supported by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council as part of its contribution to the national commemorations of these historic events. Brian Smith is a renowned local historian, genealogist and author of a number of works on the history of Dún Laoghaire and its environs. His research is always exceptionally thorough and hugely informative. In his latest work, Brian provide biographies for the seventeen men buried in the ‘Republican Plot’ in Dean’s Grange Cemetery, Blackrock, County Dublin. This is a vast cemetery by Irish standards with over 150,000 burials in circa 45,000 graves. The ‘Republican Plot’ is located in the West Section of the cemetery with a granite surround and a simple but elegant memorial stones with their names and dates of death covering all of the above conflicts.

THE GSI AT A GLANCE The Society’s objective is to promote an awareness, appreciation and knowledge of our genealogical, heraldic and vexillological heritage at home and overseas amongst our diaspora.

The GSI widely acclaimed as being the most active voluntary genealogical organisation in Ireland hosting Monthly Lectures each month throughout the year and eleven Morning Open Meetings from January to November each year. These are open to the public– everyone is welcome!

We publish a Monthly Newsletter, Annual Journal, operates an Archive and Research Centre and promote genealogy, heraldry and vexillology at events around Ireland through our very active ‘Outreach Programme’ offering ‘Free Family History Advice’ to the public, active retirement groups, ladies’ clubs and all sorts of community groups.

The Society has a collaborative academic research project with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RCSI. The Irish DNA Atlas project was co -designed by population geneticists at the RCSI and this Society coming together to collect DNA samples from over 200 Irish individuals with four generations of ancestry linked to specific areas across the island of Ireland. This research has been funded through a Career Development Award from Science Foundation Ireland.

RCSI is ranked among the top 250 (top 2%) of universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2018) and its research is ranked first in Ireland for citations. It is an international not-for-profit health sciences institution, with its headquarters in Dublin, focused on education and research to drive improvements in human health worldwide.

We have two ‘specialist branches’ one for heraldry and the other for vexillology (flags)—the only organisation in Ireland promoting this aspect of our cultural heritage. We promote Ireland and Irish heritage at events overseas and we maintain a very active on-line presence promoting sustainable contacts with our diaspora.

We also campaign to obtain better public access to our genealogical heritage and records held by the State or other agencies. However, as a registered charity, none of the above would be possible without the generosity of our Members who, through their Annual Subscriptions and volunteerism, provide these services all throughout the year.

PLEASE help us to do more by joining the Society—new Members always welcome or by making a donation, no matter how small, to the Society— please see page 2 of this newsletter. Many thanks!

TRACING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS

by John Grenham, MA, MAPGI, FIGRS, FGSI The Society strongly recommends to anyone embarking on their family history quest that one essential piece of kit must be, without doubt, a copy of the latest edition of ‘Tracing Your Irish Ancestors’. Please checkout the website www.gillmacmillan.com Price €22.99 [RRP].

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Précis of the May Lecture ‘DNA and Irish Genealogy – Where to now?’ by Dr. Maurice Gleeson MGSI, Education Ambassador ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogists)

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This well attended lecture started off with Dr Gleeson saying that part of his brief as education ambassador for ISOGG, is to take complex detailed genetic information and translate it into byte sized chunks for the average member of the public to understand. Dr. Gleeson spoke about the many DNA companies like Ancestry.com, 23andMe, Family Tree DNA and My Heritage etc., illustrating the pricing and types of tests they can deliver. The three different types of DNA test were the Y which follows the father, the mitochondrial following the mother and the combined Autosomal following both parents. He spoke about the limitations of the Autosomal test in that it only traces back to six or seven generations. The X and Y can go back 200,000 years into deep ancestry, something which is of little use for the average genealogist.

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Dr Gleeson then shared the results of his own Y DNA tests using Family Tree DNA and commented that the Thomas Gleeson 1822 -1887 of Tipperary is possibly the single most important piece of information in his own tree.

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DNA is a pointer, however you will need a good pedigree sheet if you are to get the best results and swapping pedigrees with similar people who share common DNA pointers can lead to great discoveries. Dr. Gleeson went on to talk about the use of Ancestry’s database of DNA results and the matching of cousins and distant relations who share DNA. The Holy Grail will be the mapping both geographically and genetically of matching results and provide a granular representation of the results. This is already happening with the Irish DNA Atlas, recently presented by Ed Gilbert from the RCSI with unique contribution from the GSI, acknowledged by Dr Gleeson with a round of applause for our own Seamus O’Reilly for his great work in organising and administrating the project.

Dr Gleeson then spoke about the ISOGG and the growing awareness of DNA in genealogy and forensic science.

He spoke of three categories, forensic, social and ancient DNA. One social example of DNA was the mass grave of children in Tuam county Galway, the work of Catherine Corless, documented that 796 children are buried there and Dr Gleeson has recently given a lecture on this topic.

He also touched on forensic applications and gave a powerful example of the “Buckskin Girl” where a body discovered in 1981 of a young woman in Ohio, lay unidentified for 37 years. A project named the DNA Doe Project led to the identification of the girl. A spoof kit of known DNA from the girl was submitted to a commercial company for DNA testing. The results identified possible relations (up to 800,000). However when the results were uploaded to GEDMatch the person was identified within four hours as Marcia King of Little Rock, Arkansas.

On the family tree she was identified as missing presumed dead.

The ancient DNA example he cited was the comparison of known relatives of Richard third whose remains were found in a car park, this was proven to be true.

The ethical issues were questioned and Dr Gleeson assures us that it’s not going to be boring. He signed off with a word on the social applications of DNA and Genealogy combined which will mushroom and will create huge ethical dilemmas as time goes by.

This talk can viewed on line at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Cjp4TFWLw&feature=youtu.be There was a Q& A session following the talk and all in all this was a well-received talk about a most absorbing subject. Many thanks to Maurice.

Tony O’Hara, MGSI

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AN DAONCHARTLANN IN LOUGHLINSTOWN Travel Information for visitors to the An Daonchartlann, Loughlinstown Leisure Centre, Loughlinstown Drive, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, A96 XP60.

DART & DUBLIN BUS— Dún Laoghaire DART Station—Bus 111 & 7A from Crofton Road, Bus Stop no.

2036 to Loughlinstown Park, Bus Stop no. 3222 LUAS & DUBLIN BUS—Bride’s Glen (Green Line) - Bus 111 from outside the Luas station, Bus Stop no. 7639 to Loughlinstown Park, Bus Stop no. 3222 DUBLIN BUS from City Centre—O’Connell Bridge, Bus Stop no. 273 or Nassau Street, Bus Stop no. 405—Bus 7A to Loughlinstown Park, Bus stop no. 3222 DRIVING— From the M50 - at Junction 16 follow the signs for Loughlinstown. Straight on through Cherrywood and over the N11 flyover. Signposted at the second traffic lights beyond the flyover on Wyattville Road turn right into Loughlinstown Drive. Follow this twisty road for about 1km to Loughlinstown Leisure Centre (very large buildings on right). GSI is behind these buildings. From N11 southwards - after Cabinteely junction, and Topaz garage move to left lane and exit left to Wyattville Road. At the second traffic lights on Wyattville Road, turn right into Loughlinstown Drive and follow as above. Checkout www.dlrleisure.ie/Loughlinstown

Mobile Phone Offer for GSI Members

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The GSI arranges various discounted products for its Members. The Board has agreed to make the following available in conjunction with THREE. The two options are as follows: 1. The price plan is NOW only €28.91 including VAT. In the plan you get the following calls, texts.

Unlimited calls to any Irish mobile network.

Unlimited texts to any Irish mobile network.

Unlimited calls to Irish landlines.

5GB of internet data.

100 international mins & 100 international texts.

This plan is a 24 month contract and would come with a FREE SMART PHONE—Samsung Galaxy J3 2016 or a HTC Desire 530. Another option is a SIM ONLY offer which consists of……

2. The price plan is NOW only €19.99 including VAT. In the plan you get the following calls, texts.

• Unlimited calls to any Irish mobile network.

• Unlimited texts to any Irish mobile network.

Unlimited calls to Irish landlines.

5GB of internet data.

100 international mins and texts.

This plan is an 18 month contract. If you would like to avail of either of the above offers please contact CONOR at Conor@threegovstaff.com or by phone on 01.687 6013 (Conor Dalton) Please Note: Your current membership of the Society will be subsequently verified to THREE by the GSI Director of Membership Services in accordance with RES: 17/04/1302

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11, Desmond Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, A96 AD76, Ireland E-mail: GAZETTE@familyhistory.ie The Society is a Nominating Body for Seanad Éireann (Irish Senate)

Board of Directors 2018-2019 Gerry Hayden (Cathaoirleach : Chairperson); Tony O’Hara (Leas-Chathaoirleach : ViceChairperson and Open Meetings Convener); Michael Merrigan (General Secretary, Company Secretary, ‘Gazette’ Editor, RF:- Oifigeach na Gaeilge, Vexillological & Heraldic Services, and Irish DNA Atlas); Shane O’Brien (Finance & pro-tem ADF, Philanthropy); Eddie Gahan (Outreach & Education); Tom Conlon (Publications & Digital Resources); Barry O’Connor (Membership Services & Cemetery Projects); Séamus Moriarty (Building & Utilities, Health and Safety Officer); Lua Ó Scolaí (Archive & Research Centre) Victor Boyhan (Public Relations & Diaspora Outreach).

The Board is limited to ten Members with a quorum of six. [Note: ‘RF’ signifies a ‘reporting function’ for a Non-Executive Officer].

“HALL’S INDEX” The “Gazette” is Ireland’s longest running monthly genealogical newsletter and it is read by thousands each month around the world. All the past issues of this newsletter and its predecessor back to 1996 have been fully indexed by the late Brendan Hall, MGSI and they are available in pdf format to read or to download free of charge on www.familyhistory.ie Although we’re not members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), the team at the “Gazette” always endeavour to operate in accordance with the NUJ Code of Conduct www.nuj.org.uk/about/nuj-code/ and in line with the 'National Policy Statement on Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland' which was endorsed by the Genealogical Society of Ireland back in June 2014 soon after its launch at the Royal Irish Academy. (see the June 2014 issue at www.familyhistory.ie)

FREE RESEARCH ADVICE An Daonchartlann, the Society’s Archive and Research Centre is located at the DLR Loughlinistown, Co. Dublin. OPEN on the following days: Currently:- Tuesdays—10.00hrs to 16.00hrs. Wednesdays—10.00hrs to 16.00hrs and Saturdays—14.00hrs to 17.00hrs. The use of our extensive archival resources is reserved for fully paid-up GSI members, however, day research membership is available for just €5.00.

GSI LECTURE PROGRAMME On Tuesday June 12—‘History and Genealogy – you can’t have one without the other’ - Declan F. Brady, NUI, Maynooth.

On Tuesday July 10 -‘Unlocking Roman Catholic records outside Ireland’ by Brian Donovan, FindMyPast.

Please note the advice regarding ‘Parking at DFEI’ on panel to the left on page 3. We welcome your comments on the lecture programme.

Please email Tony O’Hara, MGSI, the Director of Lecture Programme at toharadsl@gmail.com

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