Meetings & Lectures
Coming Meetings
Thursday 16 February 2012 in the Civic Rooms, Drumbiggle, at 8 pm: Clare Roots Society will host a talk by Brian Donovan of Eneclann entitled "Murderers, rebels and drunkards: your ancestors and the law" (ClareFM radio interview).
14th March 2012 at 8.15pm in the Claregalway Hotel: Larry Brennan will speak at the March meeting of the Western Family History Association on the Clare Roots Society.
Past Meetings and Events
April 2006: Paul O'Donnell: Setting Up a Genealogy Group
May 2006: Peter Beirne : Resources at the Manse in Ennis
Sept. 2006: Declan Barron: Family History - beginning the search
Oct. 2006: Jim Herlihy: The RIC
Nov. 2006: Larry Brennan: Using Computers for Genealogy
Jan. 2007: Liam Curran: Irish in the British Army 1914-1918
Feb. 2007: Gerry Kennedy: Using the Irish National Archives
Mar 2007: Paddy Waldron: O'Hallorans of Sixmilebridge (see summary at this link).
Apr 2007: Declan Barron & Larry Brennan: Genealogy Workshop
May 2007: Ger Madden: The O'Gradys
Sept 2007: Drumcliffe Group: Drumcliffe Project Planning meeting
Oct 2007: CRS Members: Workshop
Nov 2007: Jonny Dillon: Schools Folklore Project 1938/9
Jan 2008: Paul O'Donnell: Developing Genealogy in the West
Feb. 2008: CRS members: Social Evening
Mar. 2008: Renee Franklin: Clare County Archives
May 2008: Seamas Brennan: Using DNA in Genealogical Research
Sept 2008: Drumcliffe Group: Completion of Drumcliffe Project
Oct 2008: Fíona de Buitléir: Who Do You Think You Are?
Nov. 2008: Kieran Hoare: Archives at Hardiman Library, NUIG
Jan 2009: Robert Cullen: How to Develop your Family Tree
Feb 2009: Brian Donovan: Eneclann - Digitisation of Records
Mar 2009: Eric Shaw & Declan Barron: Killone Abbey, Unusual Sources for Genealogy
Apr 2009: Dr. Pat Nugent: Surnames in 16/17th c. Clare documents
Sept 2009: Brian Spring: Who Do You Think You Are?
Oct 2009: Jim Foran: The Irish in Australian Records
Nov 2009: Local Clare group: Current Folklore Project
Jan 2010: Eddie Lock: Archives from Our Lady's Hospital
Feb 2010: Fiona Fitzsimons: Fostering and Adoption Records
March 2010: Steven Smyrl: Ireland's Court Records
April 2010: Lecture cancelled due to difficulty in air-travel from the US
May 2010: Launch of Ennis Parish (Drumcliff) Indexes to Marriage & Baptism Records 1837 - 1900
August 2010: Visit to Corrovorrin Graveyard organised by Ennis Tidy Towns Committee & Clare Roots Society (part of Heritage Week 2010)
August 2010: Genealogy Day at the DeValera Library, Ennis: lectures by Clare Roots Society experts
September 2010: Larry Brennan - "Starting Out in Genealogy" workshop.
September 2010: Patricia Moorhead - “Delving into the Records - A Case Study
October 2010: Risteard Ua Croinin, Clare Co. Co. Conservation officer - "The Evolution of Townlands in Co. Clare"
November 2010: Dr. Larry Geary, UCC - "Death & Disease in 19th Century Ireland"
January 2011: Imelda King-Kennedy "Burial Customs & Traditions in the 19th & 20th Centuries".
February 2011: Presentation of the CIGO 2010 award to the Clare County Library by Steven C Smyrl (see background on the CIGO award and Steven Smyrl's speech).
March 2011: Catriona Crowe "Clare in the 1901 & 1911 censuses - resources for genealogy"
April 2011: James G Kennedy (CRS chairman) "From a photograph to a family genealogy"
May 2011: Junior Genealogist Awards Night (prizes to schools and individual children who took part successfully in our Clare Roots initiative for 2010/2011)
August 2011: the book "Drumcliff Cemetery - the Hidden History of Ennis" launched by the Clare Roots Society and the mayor of Ennis.
September 2011: John Joe Conwell - "The Ireland XO project".
October 1st 2011 International Genealogy Conference, Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis (see post-conference press release and the Clare Champion report of 07-Oct-2011).
October 20th 2011: Question and Answer session with launch/sale of the DVD of the Clare Genealogy Conference that was held 1st October 2011 in Ennis.
November 2nd 2011: launch of the book “Clarecastle and Ballyea Remembers” in the hall of the new primary school in Clarecastle.
Thursday November 17th 2011: “Matchmaking and marriage customs” by Sean O Dúill, the Dublin based historian. See http://www.heirsireland.com/
January 2012: Paul O'Brien on 'The Family Papers of the Glynns of West Clare 1790-1980'.