News Archive
29/12/2025
Nick Reddan - Recipient of the Wallace Clare Award 2025
The Council of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Wallace Clare Award is Richard Nicholas ‘Nick’ Reddan.
20/12/2025
New talk recording available to members
Rachel Fehily discusses legacy issues for the mixed-race children of unmarried mothers in Ireland born between 1940 and 1970
20/11/2025
New talk recording available to members
A talk about how the Irish naming tradition can help build your family tree.
13/10/2025
New talk recording available to members
A talk about the 165km route taken in 1847 by tenants of the Strokestown estate in Roscommon to Dublin, to sail to Canada.
21/09/2025
One Thousand New Entries Added to our Early Irish BMD Indexes
One Thousand additional entries added to the Society's Early Irish Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes.
16/07/2025
Smythe-Wood Newspaper Collection Now Online
A collection of biographical details noted from Irish and Canadian newspapers has now been launched by the Society. This data comes from the collection compiled by the late Patrick Smythe-Wood.
18/06/2025
Michael Leader Parish Register Collection
The late Michael Leader's collection of transcribed Co. Cork parish / church registers is held by the Irish Genealogical Research Society.
27/05/2025
New Free to View Talk Available
The Society's annual post Annual General Meeting lecture "'A catalogue of evicted tenants': The Great Famine eviction database" is now available free to all.
20/05/2025
IGRS Announces Four New Recipients of our Valued Service Certificate
In recent years, Rosaleen Boardman, Maire Bound, Sharon Hintze, and Paul Masterson have all made a significant contribution to the work of the Society.
14/04/2025
Launch Online of IGRS Newsletter Database
Indexed Scanned images of the Society's Newsletter have now been uploaded to our website.
10/04/2025
IGRS Annual General Meeting & Lecture – Saturday, 17th May 2025
The 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.
30/03/2025
New talk recording available to members
An exploration of the Imirce project by the University of Galway to publish online and expand the Kerby A. Miller collection of Irish emigrant letters.
19/03/2025
Results of Paddy's Day Draw 2025
The results are in from our St Patrick’s Day Draw for three free IGRS memberships for 2025/2026.
06/03/2025
New talk recording available to members
A free ranging exploration of Megan Smolenyak's Irish-centred research over the years, in conversation with Audrey Mac Cready and Gay Conroy.
01/03/2025
St Patrick's Day Draw
This coming St Patrick’s Day the IGRS will celebrate Ireland’s patron saint with an exciting celebratory draw for three free annual memberships for the Society. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can take part.
11/02/2025
St Valentine's Day Update to Early Irish Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes
To celebrate St Valentine's Day, the Society has added 2,500 new entries to its Early Irish Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes. This latest tranche brings the total number of names across the three databases to approximately 275,000.
31/01/2025
Changes to The Irish Genealogist
Important news about arrangements for ordering your print copy of the 2024 edition of The Irish Genealogist.
19/01/2025
New talk recording available to members
A new talk recording taking us through the steps in researching Irish ancestry in South Africa in the years before World War One by Professor Donal McCracken
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