GSI Lectures

GSI Lectures, these are usually delivered at Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute, Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire at 8.00pm, recent lectures have been hosted on Zoom. Most of the presentations since the end of 2016 have a video recording availble to view below.

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2024
9 July Patrick Abbott Outcast - A Mother & Baby Home Survivor
14 May Frank O'Donnell FGSI Heraldic Heritage: Heuristics or Hermeneutics
9 April Paula Jones Living in a Dublin Docklands Community, North Wall 1911
13 February Amb. Francis M. O'Donnell Another Wild Goose Chase ? - An O'Donnell in Egypt
9 January James Brady With the 6th Battalion 1916 1921 War of Independence
2023
12 December Gerard White Researching WW1 Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and Commissioners of Irish Lights, Records of Patrick Short / Shortt 1896 -1940
14 November Laura Price Family History in the Records of the Registry of Deeds
8 August Jim Herlihy Policing in Ireland in 1922
9 May Martin Goldstraw Do It Your-self Heraldry - The Design, Assumption, and Registration of Armorial Bearings
14 March Dr Edmund Gilbert Newfoundland and Labrador: A mosaic founder population of an Irish and British diaspora from 300 years ago (DNA)
14 February John Goodwillie The Stoney family of Tipperary and Offaly: life and descendants
10 January Hilary Tulloch The Irish in British India
2022
11 October Zoe Reid Recovering the archives from the Public Record Office of Ireland
13 September Gerard O'Meara Lorrha People in the Great Wa
9 August Brian Donovan The Irish in the 1921 England & Wales Census
10 May Gerard Moran Uncovering the James Hack Tuke Assisted Emigrants from the West of Ireland in the 1880s
2021
9 November Chris Baker The Irish Soldier in the Great War
5 October Michael McShane CavanTownlands.com Website
6 September Joe Mooney The East Wall School Boys Strike of 1911
3 August Amb. Francis M. O'Donnell The O'Donnells of Tyrconnell, Hidden legacy
6 July Pat Scanlan Scanlan Families of Castlemahon, Co. Limerick & USA, famine, emigration, Fenianism, poetry and life
8 June James Scannell Published Local History - a much overlooked resource for the genealogist ?
11 May Daniel Horowitz MyHeritage.com resources for research
6 April Gerard Corcoran I got my DNA results, what next?
9 March Cauvery Madhavan Research undertaken for 'The Tainted' and the Irish in India
5 January Gerard White How to Research your Irish Police Ancestors
2020
10 March Dr Edmund Gilbert The Irish DNA Atlas - Revealing Irish History through Genetics
9 February Dr. Maurice Gleeson Research your Clan using DNA and Documentary Records
14 January Shane Wilson Townlands, Maps and Directories
2019
10 December Neil Sheerin Digital Transformation of Cemeteries
12 November Frances McGee The 19th Century Valuation of Ireland 1830 1865
8 October Robert McEvoy From Tullamore to Trinidad -the Military Service (1916 - 1923) Pensions Collection as a genealogical source.
10 September Gerard White Researching WW1 Military & Naval Records of Irish Soldiers and Sailors
9 July John Nangle Headstones - their obvious and hidden messages
11 June Gerard Corcoran The Evolution of Genetic Genealogy in Ireland
14 May Lar Joye Port Collections, A history of Dublin Port and the 1906 - 1925 Name Books
9 April Antony Jordan Maud Gonne's Men
12 March Frank Tracy Killarney. the Royal visit of 1861 that put Killarney on the tourist map
12 February Paddy Waldron How to start and administer your own Y-DNA projec
2018
11 December Billy Saunderson Recording an Irish Townland History
13 November Derek Nielson Church of Ireland Records - more than just registers
9 October Jim Ryan The Records of St. Michael's Dun Laoghaire and their relevance to family and local history.
11 September Andrew Martin Using the Irish Newspaper Archive search effectively
14 August Frank Tracy If those trees could speak
10 July Brian Donovan Unlocking Roman Catholic records outside Ireland
12 June Declan F. Brady History and Genealogy - you can't have one without the other
8 May Maurice Gleeson DNA and Irish Genealogy: Where to now?
10 April Stanislav Zamyatin Moore Irish Civic Heraldry - People, Places and the Past
13 March Aidan Feerick Monsignor O'Flaherty
3 February Dr Edmund Gilbert Irish DNA Atlas: An update
9 January Georgina Scally Newspaper archives as a source of genealogical information
2017
14 November Tadg O'Shea Irishgenealogy.ie - A National Treasure
10 October James Scannell DMP Casualties during the War of Independence - Part Three
12 September Brian White Some residents of Killarney Road, Bray
8 August Brian Hollinshead OpenStreetMaps: Where historical geography meets genealogy
11 July Brian Donovan, findmypast Finding my Irish Story
13 June Mary Beglan How Online Sources Helped Put Flesh on the Bones of the Beglan Family Tree
9 May Mike Mulligan, Ancestry The story of our DNA
11 April Tom Quinlan Digitised online resources and complementary sources for researching family history
14 March Ciara Kerrigan National Library Ireland : The Manuscript Collections of the Genealogical Office
14 February Capt. Daniel Ayiotis Defence Forces: Developments at the Military Archives 2017
2016
13 December Stanislav Zamyatin The evolution of the Irish harp emblem
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