In the latest of fascinating accounts on the value of exploring Church of Ireland parish registers, Gerry Kearney explores his approach to tracking parochial families in Killinane and Kilconickny in County Galway. Killinane Killinane, sometimes recorded as Killinan, was a vicarage …
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Missed the last conference at Armagh Public Library on 23rd April? Members of COIHS can now listen to the latest papers delivered by Ms Valerie Adams on the Church of Ireland records in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Dr Jane McKee on the …
On Saturday 23rd April, the Church of Ireland Historical Society (COIHS) hosted its first conference of the year in the Armagh Public Library. Ms Valerie Adams, who is librarian and archivist at the Presbyterian Historical Society, began proceedings with a broad overview of …
The Church of Ireland Historical Society has taken the next step in global domination by joining Twitter. Together with our website, the Society hopes to connect to a wider audience and keep both members and non-members informed of developments. We also …
With a week and a half to go, the Church of Ireland Historical Society’s first conference of the year will take place at 11am on Saturday, 23 April 2016 at Armagh Public Library. Tea and coffee will be served from 10.30am. Speakers include Ms Valerie Adams (archivist at the …
For the month of April, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will be hosting weekly lunchtime lectures at Tuesday afternoons. The series is entitled ‘Music in context at St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin’ and will take place in the Lady Chapel of the …
On Friday 8th April, Dr Andy Bielenberg of University College Cork will be delivering a paper at the Maynooth University History Forum entitled The emigration of southern Irish Protestants during the War of Independence and the Civil War. The talk will …
Emigration of southern Irish Protestants in the 1920s Read more »
As some of you may know 2016 marks the 160th anniversary of the Church of Ireland Gazette. It was first published in March 1856. Initially known as the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette (up to 1900) for the first three years of its existence the paper …
Reporting the Rising: A Church of Ireland Perspective Read more »
The Church of Ireland Historical Society’s spring conference will be on Saturday, 23 April 2016 in Armagh Public Library. The library is located at the northwest entrance gate to the Church of Ireland Cathedral. Tea and coffee will be served from 10.30am and the first paper will …
Date for your diary: COIHS Spring Conference, 23 April 2016 Read more »
An unusual source was recently brought to the attention of the RCB Library staff by professional genealogist Máire Mac Conghail who is a regular user of the Library’s family history resources. Having consulted the combined register for St Audoen’s parish …