Celebrate Your Irish Heritage
Hi, we're Mike and Carina. We travel Ireland and the Irish ancestral trails of the world, connect with people of Irish descent and share the resulting stories, photos, videos and podcasts with you.
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Recent Articles
Land records show your Irish ancestors as tenants, but that’s only half the story. See how one family held their ground in Kilkenny for 1,300 years.
What was life like for an Irish shoemaker in 1926? Mike uses the new census to reconstruct the daily world of Carina’s Moynihan ancestors in Cork.
A West Cork shopkeeper filled in his 1926 census form on a spring night in Ovens. A hundred years later, you can sit down and read exactly what he wrote.
For many people, the desire to trace Irish ancestors begins with something small. A family name.A photograph.A story about “coming from Cork” or “somewhere in Mayo.”Perhaps a census record abroad that lists a birthplace simply as Ireland. From that point onward the same question usually appears: Where do I begin? Irish genealogy becomes far easier…
Short answer: Irish genealogy has some real challenges, mainly because certain early records were lost. But for many families — particularly those who emigrated after the mid-nineteenth century — enough records survive to make real progress possible. Many people arrive at Irish genealogy already feeling discouraged. Someone at a family gathering may have said the…