by Paul Gorry | Feb 12, 2019 | AGI, Eileen O'Byrne, Eilish Ellis, Genealogy |
Shock and horror! Today is the fortieth anniversary of my first day of work in genealogy. Where has all that time gone? I should add that I was a mere teenager then, albeit months away from not being one. It was a dream-come-true. A few days earlier I had my...
by Paul Gorry | Jan 22, 2019 | Ancestral Lines, Credentials for Genealogists, Descent, Genealogical Virus, Genealogy |
Predictive text often has us using odd words, conveying a message we never intended. Technology doesn’t always know what we’re thinking! To an extent there is a similarity with the automated ‘helpful’ suggestions we get from the websites of data-providing...
by Paul Gorry | Dec 19, 2018 | Family History, McDermott, Traditions, WDYTYA? |
Katie McDermott, née Nolan (1873-1964) I had 13 grandaunts and 18 granduncles – 31 in all – but only four of them were still alive when I was born. It seems that grandaunts and granduncles have gone out of fashion with Irish people. They’ve been supplanted by...
by Paul Gorry | Oct 23, 2018 | Accredited Genealogists Ireland, AGI, Back To Our Past, Credentials for Genealogists, Genealogy |
Over the weekend my AGI colleagues and I were busy at the annual Back To Our Past (BTOP) event at the RDS in Dublin. We were running the AGI (Accredited Genealogists Ireland) stand, providing free 20-minute consultations, answering queries and promoting members’...
by Paul Gorry | Aug 24, 2018 | Baltinglass, Family History, Local History, West Wicklow Historical Society |
The recent intense and prolonged heatwave experienced by Ireland reminded me of a short newspaper article I came across a few years ago. I included it in my contribution to the Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society, No. 6 (2011), ‘Miscellaneous...
by Paul Gorry | Jul 27, 2018 | Carrig Mountain, Charles Drury, Finn McCool, Folklore, Keadeen, National Folklore Commission, Talbotstown |
Earlier this month, on Facebook, I posted the first of two short pieces about the figures of Finn McCool and his wife on the side of Keadeen Mountain in West Wicklow. Actually the figures are on the western face of what is two mountains in one, Keadeen having the...
