by Paul Gorry | Dec 6, 2016 | 1916, Books, Easter Rising, Family History, Genealogy, Merrion Press, Rootsireland.ie, Seven Signatories |
I’m feeling quite happy today because my new book Seven Signatories: Tracing the Family Histories of the Men Who Signed the Proclamation is hot off the press. It concerns the ancestry of the leaders of the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. Originally it was an...
by Paul Gorry | Aug 8, 2016 | Aldborough, Ancestral Lines, Ballykilcavan, Baltinglass, Charles Stewart Parnell, Chris De Burgh, Descent, Disney Family, DNA, Elizabeth Bowen, Family History, Genealogy, Hume Cronyn, Lady Gregory, Laois, Local History, Ralph Fiennes, Sarah Ferguson, Stratford Family, Stratford-on-Slaney, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill |
Aldborough memorial, St Mary’s Church, Baltinglass Oliver and Margaret Walsh may never have been internationally recognised figures, but they had a significant impact on the world. Were it not for them the Abbey Theatre might never have been founded, the word...
by Paul Gorry | Nov 2, 2015 | Genealogy, McDermott, Rootsireland.ie, Roscommon, Tulsk |
In the 1911 Census my great-grandmother, Bridget McDermott, was stated as having had 11 children born alive and 9 still living. I accounted for 10 of these children and, over the years, I tried to find the missing one. The parish register was patchy to say the...
