There are two sections on this page. The first part shows the videos we have produced and published on YouTube. Below that, in the second section, you can find our collection of posts (which we publish on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).
YouTube
Over the years Genealogy.ie has made a few videos. Some to promote the company, some about genealogical research and others to promote Ireland. By clicking on the picture in the gallery below, you will be redirected to YouTube.
We post (almost) every day on these three social media. We have amassed quite a collection of snippets on Genealogy, Ireland and Irish history. Some are interesting, some are useful, some are just meant to be entertaining. You can peruse them below.
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In 1815 the Royal Dublin Society purchased Leinster House, home of the Duke of Leinster, and founded a natural history museum there. In 1853 the Great Industrial Exhibition was hosted in its grounds. At the end of the nineteenth century, two new wings were added, the National Libary Ireland and National Museum Ireland.
Magna Carta Hiberniae 1216 (or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English Magna Carta in Ireland. It was in effect the application of the Magna Carta to Ireland, with appropriate substitutions (such as "Dublin" for "London", & "Irish Church" for "Church of England")
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The transportation of Irish convicts during the Irish Great Famine is immortalised in the ‘Fields of Athenry’. The lyrics feature a fictional man from Co Galway, who stole food for his starving family and sentenced to transportation to the Australian penal colony at Botany Bay.
Paul Henry’s 1911 picture "Old-Age Pensioners", Achill Island is captivating. In 1908, the Old-Age Pensions Act was introduced, if you compare the entries for older people between 1901 and 1911 census you often see a jump in ages. Was your ancestor a pensioner in the 1911 census?
George Barrington was an infamous pickpocket transported to New South Wales for theft 1791. His escapades, arrests, and trials were widely chronicled in the London press of his day. By 1796 he was chief constable at Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales.
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12% of the convicts transported to Australia were Irish. Was your ancestor transported? Photo of "a government jail gang" in Sydney 1830. About half a million Irish people are believed to have left their homes between 1788 and 1921 to begin the long sea passage to Australia.
We can travel throughout Ireland to do record searches, source baptism records, copies of wills or other #familyhistory documents. From small to big family history, at www.Genealogy.ie we are here to help. https://genealogy.ie/service/family-history-search-and-investigation/
John Russell Young was born #OTD 1840 in Co Tyrone, Ireland. He was a journalist, author, diplomat and the seventh Librarian of the library of congress. Whilst, Young was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, his family emigrated to Philadelphia when he was a young child.
Did your ancestors leave Ireland during the Great Famine? This image is from around 1846 and it depicts emigrants on board ship about to embark for America. We cannot imagine their journey, their thoughts, their sadness and their hopes. We can help you trace their story.
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Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock died #OTD 1907. He was an Irish explorer known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. He was the eldest son of Henry McClintock and Elizabeth Melesina.
Take time to sit down and talk to the older generations in your family. Record and note their stories. Storytelling often unwraps hidden family gems. #FamilyTreasures #Ancestors At www.Genealogy.ie, we can help you find out more information about your family history.
Do you need help finding your ancestors to prove you are of Irish descent? We can help you find your #IrishRoots and source the necessary documentation to help with your application for Irish Citizenship. Find out more at www.Genealogy.ie #GrandparentRule #Ancestry
Stopford Brooke was born #OTD 1832 in Donegal. He was an Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer. Brooke's published letters record that his work brought him into touch with most of his famous contemporaries. We can help you find your #IrishAncestors at www.Genealogy.ie
In 1925 this wonderful Paul Henry travel poster was published by The London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. It really is beautiful... just like Ireland. #IrishRoots
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Infamous Ned Kelly was hanged #OTD 1880 in Melbourne, Australia. One of the last bushrangers, and by far the most famous, he is best known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
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Sir Hugh Percy Lane was born #OTD 1875 in County Cork. He was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and his bequest - at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Hugh Lane died onboard the RMS Lusitania.
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax KCVO was born #OTD 1883. He was an English composer, poet, and author. As a student at the Royal Academy of Music Bax became fascinated with Ireland and Celtic culture. Do you feel the beat of your ancestors when you listen to Irish music?
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Edward MacLysaght was born #OTD 1887. He was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames. #IrishSurnames #FamilyHistory
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#OTD 1908 Six women meet at the home of women's activists Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington to establish the Irish Women's Franchise League. Its paper was The Irish Citizen, which was published from 1912 to 1920. The paper was edited originally by James H. Cousins.
John Joly from Hollywood, Co. Offaly, was an Irish physicist and professor of geology at the University of Dublin famous for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He invented colour photography in 1894. He changed the way we see the world. #irishinventors
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Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from 31 October to 1 November, as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset.
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Irish-American painter William Harnett was born in Clonakilty, Cork. He was born during Great Famine and so, his family emigrated to America. He was known for his Trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects. He died #OTD 1892 in New York City.
#OTD 1758 Tragedy struck Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda when he was lost in a storm at sea while travelling between Holyhead and Dublin. He was an MP in the Irish House of Commons between 1725-1727 when he succeeded to his elder brother's titles in the Irish House of Lords.
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James Lawlor Kiernan was born #OTD 1837 in Mountbellew, Co Galway. He was a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. About May 1865 he gained a US consular post at Chinkiang in China. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Micheál Mac Liammóir (Alfred Willmore) was born #OTD 1899 in London. He was an actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter. He co-founded the Gate Theatre with his partner Hilton Edwards and is one of the most recognizable figures in the arts in 20th century Ireland.
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Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the USA. Did you know he visited Ireland in 1771? While in Ireland, he was struck by the contrast between the grandeur of Dublin city itself and the intense poverty of those beyond its core.
Sir Philip Francis was born in Dublin #OTD 1740. He was a politician and pamphleteer, the supposed author of the Letters of Junius (a collection of private and open letters critical of the government of King George). Did your ancestor rebel?
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St. Ann's Church Dawson Street, building in this baroque style commenced in 1720. In 1907, St. Ann's was listed with five other churches as Dublin's only church buildings surviving from the 18th century. Famous parishioners include Wolfe Tone, Douglas Hyde and Bram Stoker.
Emily Lawless, Irish novelist and poet born in Lyons House, Ardclough, Co Kildare, died #OTD 1913 in Surrey. She was "an unflagging unionist" who wrote several novels. Was your ancestor a writer?
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Oscar Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin #OTD 1854. His father Sir William Wilde (photo of father) was an eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland.
Lord Edward FitzGerald was born #OTD 1763 in Carton House. An aristocrat and revolutionary who died whilst resisting arrest on a charge of treason. He was the fifth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster and the Lady Emily Lennox.
Ross Castle, Co. Kerry, the ancestral home of O’Donoghue clan. It was built by O'Donoghue Mór in the 15th century. One of the last castles to surrender to Cromwell. Legend has it that O’Donoghue still exists in a deep slumber under the waters of Lough Leane. #localhistory
James Barry, Royal Academy of Arts was born #OTD 1741 in Cork. He was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
