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Cork Genealogical Society Ireland
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Ancestor Bothering in Cork City, Cork County,The World ❤️‍🩹 🇮🇪🧩🧬📚
Volunteers Society based in Cork City. Check our website corkgenealogicalsociety.com
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As the WHAI continue to promote the Discipline of Women's History in Ireland we are delighted to announce that we are now on LinkedIn. If you are on LinkedIn please do give us a follow.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual @NationalMons Conference
#WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions
'Inside, outside and through town walls: urban–rural relationships in late medieval Ireland'
by Dr Margaret Murphy
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#HeritageIreland2030
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Dr. Margaret Murphy - Within Without – The Archaeology of Partitions
YouTube video by National Monuments Service
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November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This online CPD session explores the concept of “heritage at risk” w/in the context of the 2026 Heritage week events. Visit buff.ly/oB0H1N4 to reserve your FREE spot!
#heritageatrisk #irisharchaeology #irishheritage #culturalheritage #heritageweek #heritagecouncil #cpd #archaeologycpd
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Thank You again for listening to Season Nine, it's been a joy to bring you such wonderful guests, all with stories to tell.

Here's a re-cap for you!

Of course, we began with the trailer:
familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/05/01/s... #genealogy #GenHour #ancestry #AncestryHour #FamilyHistory
Series Nine is here! - The Family Histories Podcast
Season Nine of The Family Histories Podcast has arrived - find out about this season's guests and episode schedule.
familyhistoriespodcast.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
One of her best #Corkwoman
Bowen's WW2 story 'The Demon Lover' suits the season. If you like audio, there are several versions available as podcasts.

Storyscape has a nicely gothic, slightly OTT version, performed by Alex Rogers. See Wild 7 Podcast Network wherever you listen to pods. Episode 5, October 2021.
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Finished!

The English Market, Cork. Autumn 2025

(Ink and pencil on A3 300gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper - for people who care about such things)

#Cork #speirgorm #corkart #IrishArt #tradart #painting
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom
Gregor MacGregor’s Paper Kingdom
Inside one of the 19th century’s biggest scams
worldhistory.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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AHOY THERE!

IT’S INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY!

EVERY DAY IS CATURDAY ON THE FERRYS
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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All the best to Sam Kinirons, Research Ireland PhD Scholar, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the other speakers at the 26th Medieval Dublin Symposium. Oct 4, 9:30–5:00, Robert Emmet Theatre, Trinity College.

dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/26th-m...
October 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
October 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A great day yesterday @corkgenealogysoc.bsky.social conference. Three great speakers. Especially impressed by Zoë Reid, Keeper with National Archives of Ireland giving us a preview of what to expect from the 1926 census #Genealogy #Cork
October 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Keep cool in the Arboretum at #Fota House @fotawildlife.bsky.social #BigTrees #BigHouse #Cork
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Canada, New Zealand and Ireland have been named among the safest countries in the world for women travellers.
Canada named second safest country in the world for women travellers
Canada has been named the second safest country in the world for women travellers.
cultmtl.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
During the First World War, Louis and Antoinette Thuillier created thousands of glass negatives containing photographs of soldiers. The digitized images are astonishingly clear: you can read the date of a newspaper folded on a lap.
The First World War, in Sharp Focus
An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.
www.newyorker.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#Speirgorm starting now RTEOne or plus one and player 1/2
July 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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If you're after a cross-over #RailwayHistory & #FamilyHistory podcast - and let's face it, why *wouldn't* you be?! - then this is for you!

Family Tree Talk takes #Railway200 as its starting point - great that we could discuss all sorts, & well worth a listen!

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Railway Lives: Discovering Our Ancestors' Work on the Tracks | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In this episode of Family Tree Talk, hosts Helen Tovey and Nathan Ward speak to Dr Mike Esbester, head of the Railway Work, Life & Death Project, to uncover the rich history of railway workers in the…
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July 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
CGS Conference October 4th 2025 in Cork City tickets and information on our website. All welcome ❤️‍🩹 www.corkgenealogicalsociety.com
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July 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#onthisday, 13 July 1870, Dr Richard Barter opened the last of several #TurkishBaths provided for patients at his St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment near #Blarney, Co #Cork. He was to die 3 months later. Opened by his eldest daughter, & designed by his architect namesake Mr Richard Barter. 🗃️ #C19th
July 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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For #StunDay and #StandingStoneSunday... Two Standing stones, a five stone circle and a small cairn in Kealkill, Co Cork, Ireland
Image: 2024
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Cork
July 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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How did early medieval Ireland connect with the continent?
From sacred texts to sea routes, explore the cultural currents that linked Irish monks to Europe.
Read about the major new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland @currentarchaeology.bsky.socialthe-past.com/feature/word...
June 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Galway name Ó Loingsigh/Lynch is set to feature in this Sunday’s episode of Sloinne, the TG4 series exploring the history of some of Ireland’s most widespread surnames www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Lynches of Galway to feature in TG4 series on Irish surnames
Galway name Ó Loingsigh/Lynch is set to feature in this Sunday’s episode of Sloinne, the TG4 series exploring the history of some of Ireland’s most widespread surnames.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Brilliant read about now: makes me [re]consider research & writing about people from the past. Their life can be played out in newspapers, letters, diaries, but this is an incomplete story, & my selecting bits to share is disingenuous, maybe even harmful #OnePlaceStudy vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/j-...
7 things in life you should always keep private, according to psychology
We live in a time that celebrates radical openness—but what if some things are better left unsaid? This essay explores the quiet power of privacy in a world obsessed with exposure.
vegoutmag.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM