Download password changed March 2008

The password on all downloads was changed at the beginning of March 2008. Current members wanting to download password protected documents please contact the society using the more information button below.

Father Clare’s Newspaper Index available for download

Thanks to the sterling work of Rosalind McCutcheon, this huge collection of approximately 18,000 records is now indexed and available as a searchable 2MB PDF file. Created in the late 1940s by Father Wallace Clare and others, most of the records (up to 1802) are from the Hibernian Chronicle, covering the whole country. From that date onwards, although the main emphasis is on County Cork events, a considerable number of events are reported from all over Ireland and abroad. Click here to download (Note: you need the new password.)

The Irish Genealogist on CD-ROM

Members will be pleased to hear that Volumes 1-8 of the The Irish Genealogist, most long since out of print, have been republished on CD-Rom by Eneclann of Dublin who can be found at www.eneclann.ie. Members can purchase a copy of the CD-Rom at half price.

Frances-Jane French papers available at library

The papers of the late Frances-Jane French, about 800 files, will be made available for research in the library from Saturday 25th March onwards. A well known Dublin genealogist Miss French had researched Irish records for Debrett’s Peerage. Her own published pedigree of French of Dublin and Hone, which includes the artists Nathaniel Hone and Evie Hone, appeared in Burke’s Irish Family Records (1976). She also worked on the Irish pedigree of Diana, Princess of Wales. Please note these files are not necessarily complete pedigrees and may be just working notes. Members may download the list of files using the password. Click here

Now published

A new edition of The Convert Rolls using Father Clare’s original source manuscript in the IGRS Library (Irish Manuscripts Commission). See The IGRS Millennium Project.