by Paul Gorry | Sep 15, 2019 | AGI, ASGRA, BCG, Books, Credentials for Genealogists, Genealogy, ICAPGen, Professional Genealogists, Society of Genealogists |
Gorry has done a service to the genealogical community. That was one of a number of complimentary remarks in a review of my book in the latest (September 2019) edition of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. A copy of the review was sent to me the...
by Paul Gorry | Jul 22, 2019 | Baltinglass, Graveyards, Rathvilly, West Wicklow Historical Society |
I’ve been haunting St. Mary’s churchyard in Rathvilly on and off for the past few weeks. It’s surrounded almost entirely by houses, with the road to Tullow completing the circle, so it’s hard not to be seen. I’m sure people were wondering about the strange man...
by Paul Gorry | Jun 10, 2019 | 1798, Derrynamuck, Dominick Blake, Glen of Imaal, Hacketstown, Hollywood Stars, Hume Cronyn, Hume Family, Humewood, Irish Migration, Kiltegan, Michael Dwyer |
On a cold February night in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow, in 1799 it would have seemed unimaginable luxurious to those trying to stay warm that people in the future would swim in heated man-made pools. Rebels on the run hardly thought about such things. Telling...
by Paul Gorry | Apr 23, 2019 | Aldborough, Ancestral Lines, Baltinglass, Dennis Family, Descent, Fortgranite, Mountneill, Ralph Fiennes, Stratford Family, Stratford-on-Slaney, Winston Churchill |
A week ago I attended a marathon of an event. It lasted from 10.30am to sometime about 9pm, long after I had left. It was absorbing. It was full of surprises, good and bad. It was a glimpse into the past, and it said a lot about the present Irish economy. For...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 21, 2019 | Catholic Qualification Rolls, Census Returns, Claire Santry, Convert Rolls, Databases, Eileen O'Byrne, Genealogy, National Archives Ireland, Penal Laws, Record Repositories, Roman Catholics, Wallace Clare |
In the last few weeks someone ‘Liked’ a Facebook post I published in September 2016. This made me read the post again and decide that it was worth repeating as a blogpost. Little has changed in the two and a half years since I first published the piece. ...
by Paul Gorry | Feb 18, 2019 | AGI, Back To Our Past, Genealogy, National Archives Ireland, PRONI, Record Repositories |
BackTo Our Past Belfast may not have been the biggest BTOP ever but there were plenty of people around and I enjoyed it greatly. Working with my AGI colleagues and the NAI [National Archives Ireland] staff was enjoyable. Meeting people (some for the first time;...
