 My first talk since Covid was given at the end of March 2023 at Kihleeshil and Clonaneese Historical Societies Community Centre in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland!
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 How the Wigtownshire ‘Campbells’ of Southwest Scotland became the Scots Irish ‘Gambles’ (April 2023).
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 The story of the famous 18th Century Irish giant known as 'Charles Byrne' has been in the news recently.
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 Research at Irish Origenes has revealed that about 15% of Irish surnames are exclusive to a single location within Ireland.
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 One of my enduring memories of growing up in the 1980’s in Ballymun in Dublin, Ireland was the theme tune from the TV programme ‘Dallas’ (in Dublin we had 4 TV channels, reduced to 2 i
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 Introduction (May 2022)
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 A commercial ancestral Y-DNA test ONLY explores the paternal line, and it can therefore be used to pin one’s direct male ancestors to specific locations at specific time points in history.
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 'When he came to Tyrconnell the inhabitants took off his head, because they would not have their country discovered.' Such was the fate of the English Map Maker
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 Oct 2021. Scotland and Ireland are close neighbours, and it is no surprise that commer
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