by Paul Gorry | Jan 22, 2024 | Accredited Genealogists Ireland, AGI, Baltinglass, Carlow, Family History, Filmmaking, Genealogical Virus, Genealogy, Gorry Research, Graveyards, Keadeen, Kildare, Local History, Parkmore Studios, Professional Genealogists, Uncategorized, Wicklow, Wicklow Marketplace |
This blogpost is to let you know that there is a new introductory video about my research business, Gorry Research. Maybe you’d like to take a look. The one-minute ‘teaser’ is here and the full video (17 min.) will be found on the homepage of our website (just...
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 | Sep 8, 2021 | Cecil Leitch, Ernest Carter, Family History, Golf History, Great War, Hezlet Family, Irish Golf History, Irish Golfers, Joseph Gorry, Kildare, Lionel Munn, Naas, Royal Co. Down, Vagliano Trophy, War of Independence |
A hundred years ago this very day my grandfather, Joseph Gorry, reached the zenith of his amateur golfing career. Very probably for him it felt like failure. The events of that day became the stuff of golfing legend in the family. His daughter, Joan Gorry, was...
by Paul Gorry | May 21, 2021 | Gordon Bennett, Joseph Gorry, Kildare, Local History, Motor Racing, Naas |
Gordon Bennett !!! This photograph was taken on Wednesday 1 July 1903 in South Main Street, Naas, Co. Kildare. What was happening was the weighing of the cars for the 4th Gordon Bennett Cup Race, the first to be held outside of France. The race took place the...
by Paul Gorry | Nov 19, 2020 | Aldborough, Baltinglass, Belan, Dennis Family, Dunlavin, Fortgranite, Hacketstown, Hartpole, Mountneill, Powerscourt, Rathvilly, Shrule, Stratford Family, Tynte family, Tynte Park |
There must have been much rejoicing when John and Martha Stratford’s eighth child arrived in the mid-1730s, about a decade into their marriage. According to Martha’s second cousin, Pole Cosby, that eighth child, Edward, was their first son. It is said that John and...
