ADULT LEARNERS’ FESTIVAL at the NATIONAL LIBRARY

AGI participated in the recent Adult Learners’ Festival in association with the National Library of Ireland.  AGI Members delivered a series of lectures and workshops for family historians during the week.  The lectures were delivered by John Grenham and Helen Kelly.  Both were well attended, with over 60 in the audience.  The talks were followed by the workshops, with four AGI Members participating on each day.  The members involved were Linda Clayton, Aiden Feerick, Máire Mac Conghail,  Hilda McGauley, Nicola Morris, Anne-Marie Smith and Joan Sharkey. This was the third year of AGI’s participation in the Adult Learners’ event and … Read More

IMAGE OF THE MONTH – MARCH 2017

Georgina Scally, MAGI, Dublin As the fall-out from the UK BREXIT vote trundles along a pace, a far reaching consequence has been the upturn in requests from the UK for information about acquiring Irish citizenship, the ultimate aim being to obtain an Irish passport. Presently, there are several routes to gaining Irish citizenship, one of which is citizenship through descent from Irish grandparents – if one of your grandparents is an Irish citizen who was born in Ireland, but neither you, nor your parents were born here, you may become an Irish citizen. Some time ago I received one of … Read More