Most Corkmen know a lot; but this one knew everything. I tried many times to catch him out on some bit of esoteric information but it was no use. Invariably he was ready for me, and whether it was some abstruse point in Canon Law, the history of the Babylonian civilisation, the multifarious uses of the Soya Bean, or even how to make drisheens, he could hold forth for a couple of hours and never become boring.
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The following hand-picked links will take you to resources on Irish local history and genealogy.
LOCAL HISTORY SITES
(County Galway)
(County Antrim, Six Mile Valley...)
(County Tipperary)
(Pighouse Collection...)
(Craggaunowen, West Clare Railway, costume, famine, Cromwell, the Little Ark of Kilbaha...)
(Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone Louth, Donegal...)
(famine, land war...)
(Ulster history, hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farming, Bronze Age Celts, Vikings, Normans, Tudor conquest, Apprentice Boys, Siege of Derry...)
(County Kerry, mesolithic, stone age, bronze age, iron age, Viking, early Christian...)
(houses, neighbourhoods, suburbs, city, archives, online history texts, memoirs...)
(County Waterford)
(County Antrim)
(history and folklore of Limerick city)
(County Cork)
(honouring the memory of all those from Mayo who served and died in all wars worldwide)
Visit the TOWNS & VILLAGES PAGE for other local sites that often include historical background and genealogical information.
GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY
Tiara (), based in Massachusetts, provides an immense amount of useful information and links. Their excellent website, maintained by Denis Aherne, will help make sense out of the tidal wave of information available on the Internet to family history researchers.
GENERAL SITES:
at RootsWeb (information on all counties in Ireland)
(Genealogy UK and Ireland)
(Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)
(some online cemetery records for Ireland)
SITES FOR SPECIFIC AREAS:
(County Roscommon)
Norris Taylor explains what is meant by the term .
IRISH HERALDRY & COATS OF ARMS
Bruce Miller of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) provides a , a very useful article and guide to the peculiar and special lingo of heraldic blazons.
