The 2025 IGRS Annual General Meeting and lecture is to be held via Zoom on Saturday, 17th May, 2025 at 2pm (GMT (or UTC) +1)
This will be followed by the AGM Lecture at approximately 2:45pm (depending on the time required to complete the formal business of the General Meeting). Please visit the Events page to register for the AGM or click here.
The Agenda for this year’s meeting, the draft minutes for last year’s meeting, and the officer reports will be posted on the AGM website page in due course.
Please note that this is a member only event. The AGM will be recorded for the purpose of minutes taking.
AGM Lecture
This year Dr Ciarán Reilly will give a talk titled "'A catalogue of evicted tenants': The Great Famine eviction database". During the years of the Great Irish Famine more than a quarter of a million families were removed from the land and evicted. No part of the country was immune from eviction. Whole townlands were cleared and erased from the landscape in what was a near daily occurrence. In this illustrated lecture, Dr Ciaran Reilly will highlight where people were evicted from and focussing on data from almost 2,000 evictions sites, insights will be given as to how the story of eviction during the Famine can be used for genealogical purposes.
