Congratulations and welcome to our newest Member, Clare Doyle. Clare is no stranger to the AGI ‘family’ as she has been one of our Affiliates for almost two years. As well as being a genealogist, she is a qualified archivist and she holds an MA in local history. Before becoming an AGI Affiliate, Clare worked as Galway City Council Archivist and as genealogy manager for Ireland Reaching Out. She also contributed in a voluntary capacity to gravestone transcription and the parish history publication in Killererin, Co. Galway. Based near Tuam, Co. Galway, Clare runs her own practice as Wild Atlantic … Read More
IMAGE OF THE MONTH – NOVEMBER 2018
Lest we forget Tony Hennessy, M.A.G.I. Tom Burnell’s book The Waterford War Dead, from his important ‘War Dead’ series, lists some 1138 Waterford men and women who died in WW1. Probably most well known of those listed is John Condon, the Boy Soldier. His gravestone at Poelcappele, Belgium, among the most visited of all WWI graves, records his age as just 14 years old when he fell in 1915, making him the youngest British soldier of the Great War to die in battle. We now know however from the record of his birth at Jenkins Lane in October 1896 and … Read More