Join the Ireland Branch committee and friends for a social evening of genealogy chat to get you in the Christmas spirit.

This is a guided introduction to Arbour Hill, its vantage point and usefulness in viking times, the military prison, the military chapel, and the entire military site, graveyard, schools and bringing you up to the Irish military takeover and the UN museum and visitor centre.

Soldier marriages & Family Histories by Dr Aoife Breathnach

The 2019 IGRS Open Day and Annual General Meeting is to be held on Saturday, 11th May, 2019 at the Abbey Conference Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BU, United Kingdom. As usual, the day will take the format of two talks in the morning, followed by lunch and the AGM in the afternoon. Below are details of the day's programme. 10:15 Registration, coffee and biscuits 10.45 Mining for Treasure in the IGRS Collections – Jill Williams, FIGRS 11.45 Freed felons,…

Four talks: two before lunch and two after lunch.  There will be a silent raffle.  As in previous years, the event is free and everyone is welcome. The speakers are: Ian d’Alton - 'A pile of stones, a living memory, a family member: Bowen's Court, Elizabeth Bowen, and imagining the Irish gentry.' Joan Sharkey - 'Some families of interest in the Raheny Area'. Joan Kavanagh - Banished Beyond the Seas: NAI records of convict transportation to Australia, 1788-1868'" David Butler…