St Patrick's Day Draw 2026

Thursday 5th March 2026
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Cork St Patrick's Day Parade 2023 (c) Cork City Council.

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.

IGRS’ St Patrick’s Day Draw

The Irish Genealogical  Research Society is known for being the “Great Granddaddy of all Irish Family History Societies”, an accolade which recognises its status as the world’s first and oldest society dedicated to the pursuit and study of Irish genealogy. Moreover, having been founded in 1936, this year we are celebrating our 90th anniversary.

This coming St Patrick’s Day, 17th March, the IGRS will celebrate Ireland’s patron saint with an exciting celebratory draw for three free annual memberships for the Society - and with each comes a free online genealogy consultation session with with one of the Society's highly experienced genealogists. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can take part. 

The benefits of membership are all listed in the following link, but briefly they include: a pdf of our annual journal, The Irish Genealogist, our monthly eBulletin, and our bi-annual Newsletter; access to our online indexes and databases; attendance at our Zoom talks and lectures; Members’ Forum; and special offers and discounts available only to IGRS members. For full details of the benefits of membership click here.

If you’d like to take part in our free draw then please click here and add your details.

We’ll be announcing the three winners on our website shortly after Patrick’s Day. For each winner, only their name and city, county or state will be published.

All runners-up will be offered, via email, a discount for an annual membership for 2026/2027.

Click here to register.

Best of luck!  

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