Merriman Research & Training

Great fun promoting ACE courses UCC at City Square, Waterford today and weather was fabulous. Sunny South East for sure.

Irish Genealogy News: Genealogy Day in Skibbereen - booking open : A full week of free-of-charge events to celebrate the Gathering will kick off with a Genealogy Day at Skibbereen Heritage Centre on Saturday...

I am delighted to be giving a talk on The MacNamara - Origins, history and distribution on the Name MacNamara - 23 June 2013 at Cliffs of Moher in 'The Gathering' Surname lectures. MacNamara Name in County Clare “We shall find that the members of our Sept, from the early part of the fifth to the middle of the seventeenth century, dwelt in a well defined district of Clare, a county which until comparatively recent times was isolated from the rest of Ireland; its southern and eastern boundary being formed by the river Shannon, which throughout this part of its course was only fordable at one place situated below the town of Killaloe... The geographical position of the county was such as to preserve its inhabitants from successful invasion, or from being occupied by foreigners until late in the sixteenth century; thus not only did the people of Clare retain their independence but also their old Brehon laws and customs for two if not three centuries after much of the rest of I...

Irish Genealogy News: History & Genealogy Village sets up in Dun Laoghai... : This Friday and Saturday, a History and Genealogy Village will be created as part of the Bratacha (flag) festival in Dún Laoghaire. Exhibi...

Irish Genealogy News: Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: Recent additi... : Click for larger view of watch inscription Below are details of the most recent additions to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. Each ha...

Irish Genealogy News: Gathering gestures for overseas visitors : Yesterday saw the launch of a new app that any overseas visitors to Ireland this year will want to try out before they arrive. It's desi...

Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (35) Adams of Sprowston Hall, baronets : Adams of Sprowston Hall Sir Thomas Adams (1586-1667), Lord Mayor of London in 1645-46, was the second son of a minor gentry family at ...

Lorna Moloney will be delivering a working called 'Famine Genealogy- Eyes and Ears of the Past' at St Cronan's, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare at 7p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome. Lorna will be examining the sources surrounding famine genealogy and showing how such eyewitness testimony to the past can reveal sources pertinent to those exploring their family history. It will examine the concepts of 'eyewitnessing' as standards of 'evidence and proof' or the lack of it. From 'There is such a tendency to exaggeration and inaccuracy in Irish reports that delay in acting on them is always desirable. (Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, October 1845) to the reality for the people in Ireland where 'Nothing else is heard of, nothing else is spoken of… Famine must be looked forward to and there will follow, as a natural consequence, as in former years, typhus fever, or some other malignant pestilence. (Dr. Babington, October 1845. Lorna will explore how we c...

Me & Bobby at St Cronan's, Tuamgraney, Co Clare during filming on Lough Derg with Mark C. O'Dwyer - Luxury Yachting Ireland, Killaloe.