by Paul Gorry | Jul 13, 2023 | Computer Problems, Floppy disks, Genealogy, Mona Germaine |
In genealogy, you never know when an old client will reappear. Often you have someone come back several times in a short space of time, leading to a succession of searches over a period of a few years. Occasionally a client who had a single search done may return...
by Paul Gorry | Dec 19, 2022 | Baltinglass, Baltinglass Chronicles 1851-2001, Battle of Baltinglass, Books, Claude Chavasse, The Story of Baltinglass, West Wicklow Historical Society, Wicklow, Wicklow Marketplace |
On 16 December 2022 I sold my last copy of Baltinglass Chronicles 1851-2001. What that means is that it’s now more or less out of print after a sixteen-year span. On 14 December I received an order for a copy on the Wicklow Marketplace. That went to someone in the...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 11, 2022 | Baltinglass, Baltinglass Chronicles 1851-2001, Claude Chavasse, Halloween, Juggies, The Story of Baltinglass |
Today (11 March 2022) my friend Cora Crampton showed me a photograph of a sheet of paper – the one in the image here. It was in the back of a copy of Claude Chavasse’s The Story of Baltinglass (1970) which I gave her (or so she says) several years ago. She...
by Paul Gorry | Jan 6, 2022 | Allihies, Beara Peninsula, Books, Castletownbere, Cork, Daphne du Maurier, Family History, Genealogy, Hungry Hill, Hungry Hill, Local History, Puxley Family, West Cork |
A few months ago I spent a weekend with friends on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. On our way from Glengarriff to Castletownbere we drove along the base of the bleak looking Hungry Hill. It’s the highest mountain on the peninsula. During our few days we visited...
by Paul Gorry | Dec 8, 2021 | 1916, Easter Rising, Family History, Genealogy, Kildare, Merrion Press, Rootsireland.ie, Seven Signatories, War of Independence |
The signing, a century ago this week, of the Anglo-Irish Treaty echoed the signing of another document five years earlier. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic was signed by seven men in Easter Week 1916. It was, in a sense, an ancestor of the Anglo-Irish Treaty....
by Paul Gorry | Nov 22, 2021 | Aloysius, Aloysius Gonzaga, Aloysius O'Kelly, Forenames, James Joyce, John A Costello, Roman Catholics |
My second forename is Aloysius. Throughout my childhood, youth and middle age I kept it hidden from most people. I was embarrassed by it and I wasn’t a bit happy that my parents thought to lumber me with such an oddity. It took decades for me to come to terms with...
