Back Issues List

	Back Issues of Irish Roots magazine 1992-2007

The following is a list of all issues of Irish Roots published between March 1992 (issue No. 1) and December 2007 (issue No. 64) with the main features in each one listed.  If you wish to buy any of these magazines, check the list below first for its availability, then note its year and number and go to Buy Back Issues

Each issue of Irish Roots has a mix of articles to provide an informative and entertaining read.  Genealogy is the main focus, but Irish history, culture and news also feature prominently.  The listing below includes the main articles from each issue.  However, regular features not mentioned include news pages, a letters column, book reviews, notes on Irish family history societies and a genealogical problem page.

Issues followed by 'AVAILABLE' may be ordered by going to the Buy Back Issues page.  Issues followed by 'UNAVAILABLE' are out of print.

Issue No. 1 (1992 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 1: The Genealogical  Office

• Jobs in Genealogy

• Irish Blues

• Surnames of County Waterford

• Current Archaeology: Newgrange

• Profile of Millstreet Town

• Byways: Undervalued Genealogical Sources

• Changing Times at the Public Library

• Pedigree Prices

• Hitler: His Irish Relatives

• 1st  Irish Genealogical Congress

• History in our Primary Schools

Issue No. 2 (1992 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 2: The National Archives

• A Zambian on Rathlin Ireland

• Research in Ireland in 1992

• Surnames of County Meath

• Archaeology: Dating Artefacts

• Newry: the Frontier Town

• Byways: Estate Records

• Adoption and Roots

• The Irish in Britain

• Mayo Research Centre Opens

• Irish Immigration to Queensland

Issue No. 3 (1992 Third Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 3: The General Register Office

• Meet the Clans

• International Gathering of O’Neills

• Surnames of County Wexford

• World’s Biggest Roots Festival

• Byways: Poor Law Records

• Guide to Genealogical Guidebooks Part 1

• Cork: A Genealogical Black Spot

• It’s the Stories that Matter

• The Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland

• Surveying the Land of Ireland

Issue No. 4 (1992 Fourth Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 4: The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Ellis Island: Gateway to America

• Clan Controversy

• Surnames of County Westmeath

• Bowl Playing: One of Ireland’s National Games

• Guide to Genealogical Guidebooks Part 2

• Cobh, County Cork

• Celtic Cross for New Zealand

• The Travellers: A Separate Ethnic Group?

• Ancient Astronomies

Issue No. 5 (1993 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 5: The National Library of Ireland

• San Patricios: the Irishmen who died for Mexico

• An Emigrant’s Diary (1873)

• Surnames of County Roscommon

• Darting Around Dublin: an American’s experience of researching in Dublin

• Guide to Genealogical Guidebooks Part 3

• The Breens of County Carlow

• Byways: The Kildare Place Society Records

• The Irish Spirit: the story of whiskey

• Wattle and Daub: an Irish home in the making

Issue No. 6 (1993 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 6: The Registry of Deeds

• Computers in Genealogy

• Che Guevara’s Irish Blood

• Surnames of County Derry

• The Town of Clones

• Byways: National School Records part 1

• Guide to Genealogical Guidebooks Part 4

• The Irish Roots of New Zealand’s Prime Minister

• Wattle and Daub: around the hearth

• The Brontë’s Irish Roots

• Research in Ireland in 1993

Issue No. 7 (1993 Third Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 6: The Valuation Office

• Alex Haley’s Irish Roots

• Tracing Your Irish Roots in Boston: a case history

• Surnames of County Antrim

• The Beatles: their Irish connections

• Byways: National School Records part 2

• September: All-Ireland finals month

• Clan Revival

• Wattle and Daub: furniture and fittings

Issue No. 8 (1993 Fourth Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 8: Family History Centres

• Argentina: the Forgotten Irish

• The Irish in South Africa

• Surnames of County Tyrone

• Gaelic Chiefships and the Irish Republic

• Byways: Records of the Rotunda Hospital

• The Irish Roots of Australia’s Prime Minister

• Virginia’s Lost Irish Colonists

• How to Determine a Relationship

• Wattle and Daub: the Irish farmyard

Issue No. 9 (1994 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 9: Doing Research in Cork

• The Donnelly Murders

• Ireland and de Gaulle

• Surnames of County Galway

• The People of Ireland: from man’s first arrival  to the triumph of the Celts

• Byways: Newspapers as a source

• How Irish is Montserrat Part 1

• Never Sell Your Ancestors Short

• Islands and Archaeology

• Irish Rural Crafts: the Blacksmith

Issue No. 10 (1994 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 10: The Linen Hall Library

• The Fulham Brothers: Fenians

• The Moravians of Dublin

• Surnames of County Tipperary

• The People of Ireland: the story from St Patrick to Hugh O’Neill

• Byways: Secondary and University education sources

• How Irish is Montserrat Part 2

• Research in Ireland 1994

• Parish Records: to see or not to see

• Irish Rural Crafts: the Scythe Maker and the Rake Maker

Issue No. 11 (1994 Third Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 11: The Representative Church Body Library

• The Value of Oral Tradition

• Irish Emigration to the Province of Ontario

• Surnames of County Cork

• The People of Ireland: the story from the Plantation of Ulster to Partition

• Byways: Records of the Medical Profession

• Irish Estate Records

• An Australian Descendant of Michael Dwyer (the Wicklow Chief)

• Irish Rural Crafts: the Village Cooper

Issue No. 12 (1994 Fourth Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 12: The Land Commission

• Tradition and Television

• Baltimore Letter

• Surnames of County Leitrim

• The People of Ireland: your roots in Irish history

• Byways: Irish material in British  archives

• How  Irish is Montserrat Part 3

• Irish Medieval Lineages

• Irish Rural Crafts: Wood Turning and the Besom Squire

• The Murphy Septs

Issue No. 13 (1995 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 13: The Genealogical Office Revisited

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: First Steps

• The Irish Famine: A Guide to its History Part 1

• Surnames of County Mayo

• Byways: Records of the Evicted Tenants Committee

• The Roots of Irish Genealogy Part 1

• Church of Ireland Vestry Records

• Irish Rural Crafts: Dry Stone Walling

• The Kelly Septs

Issue No. 14 (1995 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 14: Irish Genealogical Project Centres

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Research Methods

• The Irish Famine: A Guide to its History Part 2

• Surnames of County Donegal

• The Roots of Irish Genealogy Part 2

• Census Substitutes

• The Needle in the Haystack

• The Clans of Ireland

• Irish Rural Crafts: Curraghs and Coracles

• The O’Connor Septs

Issue No. 15 (1995 Third Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 15: Garda Museum and Archives

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Census Records

• Byways: Church of Ireland Registers

• Surnames of County Kerry

• The Roots of Irish Genealogy Part 3

• Nobiliary Titles in the Republic

• Birr County Offaly: its history and its records Part 1

• Irish Fighting Irish

• Irish Rural Crafts: the Irish Ciseán (basket)

• The O’Sullivan Sept

Issue No. 16 (1995 Fourth Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 16: Irish National War Memorial

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: The General Register Office

• Bill Clinton: his Irish roots

• Surnames of County Offaly

• The Roots of Irish Genealogy Part 4

• Irish Roots Index 1992-1995

• Birr County Offaly: its history and its records Part 2

• A Look at Irish Probate Records

• Irish Rural Crafts: the Irish Cart

• The Surname Walsh

Issue No. 17 (1996 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 17: The Irish Palatine Association

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Valuation Records

• St Patrick’s Day in Vienna

• Surnames of County Down

• The Roots of Irish Genealogy Part 5

• The Irish Famine: A Guide to its History Part 3

• Ireland’s Longest Serving Political Dynasty

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 1

• Irish Rural Crafts: Dressing Up

• The O’Brien Sept

Issue No. 18 (1996 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 18: Dublin Friends Historical Library

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Church Registers

• Byways: Estate Papers in Trinity College Library

• Surnames of County Fermanagh

• Things that Happen to Christian Names

• Research in Ireland in 1996

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 2

• Irish Rural Crafts: Calendar Customs

• The Ryan Sept

Issue No. 19 (1996 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 19: The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Wills

• Speaking Good of the Dead

• Surnames of County Clare

• The Irish Famine: A Guide to its History Part 4

• Byways: the IGRS Tombstone Archive

• The Personal Name: a problem for  genealogists

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 3

• Irish Rural Crafts: some specialist crafts

• The (O)Byrne Sept

Issue No. 20 (1996 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Irish Archives No. 20: The Irish Jewish Museum

• A Primer in Irish Genealogy: Miscellaneous Sources

• Edmund Rice: his life and work

• Surnames of County Laois

• Paper Chasing

• Genealogy: is it sustainable?

• The Irish Epitaph

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 4

• Irish Rural Crafts: Bodhran and fiddle

• The Surname Smith/Smyth

Issue No. 21 (1997 First Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Our First Farmers

• St Patrick’s Day in New York, 1779

• Surnames of County Wicklow

• The First Guard

• Clergy Relief Fund 1831: a little known genealogical source

• The Kings of Redonda Part 1

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 5

• Not in Front of the Servants: Downstairs an Overview Part 1

• The Irish of the Canaries

• Heraldry Part 1: the following family  arms are illustrated: Langton, Rokele, Barry

Issue No. 22 (1997 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• 3rd Irish Genealogical Congress

• Irish Guilds and their Records

• Surnames of County Longford

• Researching in Ireland in 1997

• The Irish in Brazil

• The Kings of Redonda Part 2

• The Future of Irish Genealogy Part 6

• Not in Front of the Servants: Downstairs an Overview Part 2

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 1

• Heraldry Part 1: the Norman Period

Issue No. 23 (1997 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Irish Records are English!

• Irish Passenger Lists

• Surnames of County Carlow

• The Geography of Ireland Part 1: Structure and Geology

• The Great Famine in South Leitrim

• The Kings of Redonda Part 3

• Ejectment Books: an unknown genealogical source

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Parlour Maid

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 2:

• Heraldry Part 3: the following family arms are illustrated: French, McGillycuddy, McMahon, Madden, Dunne, Browne, Joyce, O’Gormley, Roche, Hackett, Browne, Pery, Caulfield, Gregory, Bagwell, Dawson, Barry, Enraght-Moony, Chichester, Fleming, Murphy, Herbert, O’Grady, O’Daly, Gogarty, Wrixon-Becher, McCabe, Boyle, Lawrence, Honan, Shee, Morris, McDonagh, Hartstonge, MacCostello, Waring, Comerford, O’Duggan, Hunt, Bury, Scally, Molyneux, Paul, Crossley, Toler, Ward, O’Donel, Martin, Dorman, D’Arcy, Higgins Reynell, Bellew, St Leger, McCann, Taafe, Blake, Hurley, Stoney, O’Phelan, Fortescue, Cuffe, Delacour, Holmes

Issue No. 24 (1997 Fourth Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Consulates and Convents

• Ancient Irish Genealogies

• Surnames of County Armagh

• The Geography of Ireland, Part 2: Irish Weather

• Brevet Generals of Irish Birth in the US Civil War

• The Kings of Redonda Part 4

• Microfilms of Irish Genealogical Records

• 3rd Irish Genealogical Congress: a pictorial record

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Butler

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 3: Ashe, Barratt/Barrett,

Barron, Barry, Bennett, Bermingham, Brett/Britt, Brown, Burke/Bourke, Butler, Cody, Cogan, Comerford, Condon, Costello

• Heraldry Part 4: Cadency

Issue No. 25 (1998 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The Kings of Redonda Part 5

• A Couple of Stories from Australia

• Surnames of County Kildare

• The Geography of Ireland, Part 3: Demography

• It is a Lonesome Thing to be Away from Ireland Always

• The South American Irish Part 1

• John Hinde’s Ireland

• 3rd Irish Genealogical Congress: some personal impressions

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Cook

• Problem Page: Surname Blake; Surname Oslin

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 4: Cusack, Dalton, Darcy, Dillon Dowdall, Fagan/Fegan, Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon, Fitzmaurice, Fitzsimons, Fleming, French/Francis, Furlong, Garland, Gibbons, Goggin/Cogan, Gough/Goff, Grace, Hackett, Herbert, Hore/Hoare, Hussey, Jennings, Jordan, Joyce/Joy, Keating, Lacy/Lacey, Lambert

• Heraldry Part 5: Marshalling

Issue No. 26 (1998 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The Bells of Banagher

• Researching in Ireland in 1998

• Surnames of County Monaghan

• The Geography of Ireland, Part 4: Economy

• McCarthy Genealogical Database, Barrett, Martin

• America’s Response to the Great Famine in Ireland

• The South American Irish Part 2

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Footman

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 4: Lawless/Lillis, Mason, McElligott, McNicholas, Mead(e), Morris, Nagle/Nangle, Nash, Nugent, Pender, Pierce, Pigott, Plunkett, Power, Prendergast, Purcell, Redmond, Rice, Roche

• Heraldry Part 6, the Crest: the following family arms are illustrated: O’Conor Sligo, O’Conor Don, O’Callaghan, O’Brien, MacLysaght, O’Donnell

Issue No. 27 (1998 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Compiling a Clan History

• Blair Lineages

• Surnames of County Cavan

• The Clans of Ireland

• The Rising of 1848 Commemorated

• An RIC Man’s Diary

• The South American Irish Part 3

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Governess

• The Clans of Ireland

• Kavanagh Clan Gathering

• Emigration from the Beara Peninsula

• The Anglo-Norman Surnames of Ireland Part 4: Russell, Savage, Sherlock, Short, Sinnott/Synnott, Stack, Stafford, Stanton/Staunton/McEvilly, Stapleton, Sutton, Tobin, Tyrrell, Wall, Walsh/Brennagh/Brannagh, Warren/Waring, White/Whyte, Woulfe

• Heraldry Part 7: Gaelic Heraldry: the following family arms are illustrated: O’Dempsey, O’Beirne, MacNally, MacCarthy, O’Connell, O’Sullivan, O’Brien, O’Meara, MacConsidine MacCoughlan, O’Grady, MacMahon, MacInerny, MacClancy, MacLysaght, O’Hickey, O’Heffernan, MacNamara, O’Carroll, O’Meagher, O’More, MacGennis, MacCartan, O’Connor Kerry, O’Farrell, Mulledy, MacRannall

Issue No. 28 (1998 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Women of Beara

• Bogus Irish Titles for Sale

• Surnames of County Limerick

• Irish-born Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence

• O’Neill Family Reunion

• The Dunbrody Project

• The South American Irish Part 4

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Lady’s Maid

• The Fennessy Clan Gathering

• Problem Page: John L. Sullivan Connection?

• The Irish Clans of Desmond

• The Irish in Manchester

• Heraldry Part 8: More Gaelic Heraldry: the following family arms are illustrated: McAuley, MacGeoghegan, O’Shiel, O’Daly, O’Melaghlin, O’Connor, O’Flanagan, MacGeraghty, O’Concannon, O’Donnellan, MacDermot, O’Malley, O’Reilly

Issue No. 29 (1999 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Lecturing and Learning in America

• Titles for Sale

• Surnames of County Kilkenny

• Ogham Stones

• Were There Any Irish Names Among the First Crusaders?

• The Story of Stout

• Some Family History Periodicals

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Nanny

• Irish Heritage Centre Survey

• Vital Records Index, British Isles

• Eamon de Valera’s Paternity

• Were Your Folks from Spindle City?

• Heraldry Part 9: Heraldic Symbolism: the following family arms are illustrated: FitzGerald, FitzMaurice, FitzMilo, Mandeville deVere, FitzGeoffrey, Cleves, Schomberg, Musgrave, Lowther, Handcock, Wingfield, Armstrong, Purcell, Lovett, Lowe, Fraser, Maunsell, Wilkinson, Ragget, Ussher, Archer, Foster, Parker, Connell, O’Donel, O’Friel, O’Driscoll, Redmond, Creagh, Forbes, Douglas, Martin, Gillman, Day

Issue No. 30 (1999 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Directory of Irish Genealogical Resources 1999: A 12-page pullout section giving a full inventory of Ireland’s genealogical resources at the end of the Second Millennium

• The Search for Edward Bransfield

• Surnames of County Louth

• de Valera’s Paternity

• The Knights Templar in Ireland

• Heraldry Part 10: The Achievement

Issue No. 31 (1999 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•  

• The de Valera Story Continues

• Irish in Spanish Archives

• Surnames of County Dublin

• Vital Records, British Isles: a reply

• Knights of St John of Jerusalem

• Welsh Surnames in Ireland

• The MacCarthy Mór Controversy

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Laundry Maid

• The Last Flame in Tyrone

• Certificate Course in Genealogy

• Ring Forts

• Heraldry Part 11: Knighthood

Issue No. 32 (1999 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• A History of the Surname Barter

• Surnames of County Sligo

• BIFHS Family History Seminar

• The Minor Orders of Knighthood

• The Search for Vivian de Valera

• Not in Front of the Servants: Life’s Little Dilemmas

• Irish Roots Index 1996-1999

• Jenny Mitchel: Patriot and wife of John Mitchel

• Irish Surnames, Readers’ Queries Addressed: new series

• Heraldry Part 12: Knighthood continued: the following family arms are illustrated: Leitrim, Southwell, de Valera, Hillery, McCormack, de Stackpoole

Issue No. 33 (2000 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The Irish Art Market

• Colonel Morgan’s Will

• Zorro Unmasked (he was Irish!)

• The Origins of Photography and its Evolution in Ireland Part I

• Ireland’s Forgotten Link with Bulgaria

• The Search for Vivian de Valera Part II

• The Struggle for Better Research Facilities

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Gamekeeper

• Clans of Ireland

• Heraldry and the Church

Issue No. 34 (2000 Second Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• The Irish Surname Expert: O’Devine, Aherne

• The Origins of Photography and its Evolution in Ireland Part II

• The Account Book of Private William Breen

• Irish Police and their Records

• A Simple Guide to Finding an Old India Hand

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Gardener

• Problem Page: Discussion of Placenames

• Heraldry Part 14: the following family  arms are illustrated: De Vere, Dillon, Galwey, Browne, Browne-Clayton, St George, Croker, Caulfield, Alexander, Chinnery, Cole, George, Hunt, Lane, Lighton, Bloomfield.

Issue No. 35 (2000 Third Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• Irish-American Hitlers

• Irish Surname Expert: Phibbs/Phipps, Lambkin

• Database No 25: Presidential Family Forest

• The Origins of Photography and its Evolution in Ireland Part III

• The Notorious Lola Montez

• Soldiers of the East India Company

• Kilt Facts: The Celtic National Dress?

• Soden Family Gathering

• Dear Old Skibbereen

• Problem Page: Emigration Query

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Gough, Hamilton, Wellington, Packenham, Ross of Bladensburg, Keane, O’Halloran

Issue No. 36 (2000 Fourth Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• Irish Surname Expert: Mulhearn/Milkerrin; Medole/Madole

• The Origins of Photography and its Evolution in Ireland Part IV

• Irish Involvement in the British Empire

• Irish Postmen

• Irish Clan History: The Base of Your Family Tree

• Genealogy Centres in Ireland

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Gardener Part III

• Problem Page: The Odell Family

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Villiers-Stuart, Charteris, Napier, Buchanan, McCausland, Annesley, Coote, Cusack-Smith, Ormond, Bouchier, Nash, Toomey, Lecky

Issue No. 37 (2001 First Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• The Kilt: not a Traditional Irish Garment!

• Irish Surname Expert: Kavanagh/Cavanagh

• Alexander Thom: Founder of Thom’s Directory

• Exotic Ancestors

• La Touche Family Reunion

• Ordinary People

• With Wellington at Waterloo

• Napoleon Kelly and Cleopatra Browne

• Sionnach/Fox family history

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Groom

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Griffin, O’Hanraghty, Tryhy (Troy), Lefroy, Macquillan, Crichton

Issue No. 38 (2001 Second Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• President Bush’s Irish roots

• Irish Surname Expert: MacCurtin, O’Hourican

• Database No. 28: Agricultural Census County Antrim, 1803

• What About Gaelic Knighthoods?

• Facts about the Census

• Genealogical Research in Superintendent Registrars’ Offices

• The Slevin Family

• An Application for a Lease

• Search Your Attic

• Not in Front of the Servants: The Land Steward

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: O’Neylan, Slevin, Kemmis, Conyngham, Newport, Stewart, Carew, Watkins, Quin, Prendergast, Travers

Issue No. 39 (2001 Third Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• Research Irish Style: The General Register Office, Dublin

• Irish Surname Expert: Moriarty, Ferris, Boden

• Special Collections: Pre-eighteenth century records

• The Alien Registration Act as a Genealogical Source

• Grave Thoughts: Reading and interpreting gravestone inscriptions in Ireland

• The 4th Irish Genealogical Congress

• The Slevin Family

• Major Thomas J. Crean VC

• Ellis Island Database: 22 Million US Immigrants Online.

• Not in Front of the Servants: Estate Dwellings

• Genealogical Society of Ireland’s Publications List

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Wilmot, Tuite, Chaloner, de Salis, McAuliffe, O’Byrne, Cusack, Humfrey, FitzMaurice

Issue No. 40 (2001 Fourth Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• The Lynch Sisters of Nanango (Australia)

• Irish Surname Expert: O’Duignan, Minnet/Minnette

• National Library of Ireland: Annual Report

• Refugees in Ireland

• Did Ireland Have a Black Community?

• Little Known Resources for Irish Probate Records at the Family History Library

• John Steinbeck’s Ancestry

• From Bantry Bay to Narragansett Bay

• The Miracles of Knock: A Genealogical Source

• A Painting and Two Words: David Sisk tells how he  found his Irish roots

• Letters Page: Last word on the Kilt

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Grenville, St Leger, Milner, Polland, Arthur, Kingsmill, James, Moore, Nutall, Cosby, Homan-Mulock, Wyndham, Bunbury, Ormsby, Cardief, Carden, Archer, Walsh, O’Coffey, Hockmore, Jocelyn

Issue No. 41 (2002 First Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• Mohammed Ali’s Irish roots

• The Baby Exchange

• Pension and other RIC Records

• US Social Security Records as a Genealogical Source

• Irish Immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

• The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund

• Our Heritage in Stone: Belvedere House

• Local Newspapers as a  Source of Emigrant Information

• Historical Connections Between Ireland and Germany.

• The Galway Roots of Governor Hugh Carey

• Irish Surname Expert: Kilbane, O’Kelly

• Where There’s a Will…

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Sarsfield, Finglas, Sherlock, Atkins, Sainthill, Tenison, Gallagher, Eyre, Slack, Dreyer, Hamilton, St Lawrence, Hungerford, La Touche, Vignoles, Gregg

Issue No. 42 (2002 Second Quarter) •AVAILABLE•

• The Last Queen of Ireland

• Census Returns

• Resting in Flatbush

• Family Detective

• Republic of Ireland Census 2002

• Our Heritage in Stone: Fore, Place of Seven Wonders

• Researching in Ireland in 2002

• Blood of the Gaels.

• Such Barbarous and Beastlye People…

• Irish Surname Expert: Native Gaelic or Celtic Surnames

• The Eagle and the Goose

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Butler, O’Brien, Ormond, De Robeck, Bernard, Ormsby, Hackett, Shee

Issue No. 43 (2002 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Your Family History: Who owns it?

• Virginia or Londonderry: early seventeenth century opportunities

• Our Heritage in Stone: Donamon Castle

• A Death at Sea

• Employment of Children in the Mines of Ireland

• The Glennon Y-DNA Project

• Granuaile and Westport House

• American Civil War Records

• Catherine Beatty: A Dublin school mistress

• Irish Surname Expert: Anglo-Norman and British Surnames

Issue No. 44 (2002 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Soldiers and Saints: the Irish in Italy

• The Search for Missing Friends: The Boston Pilot 1831-1920

• Family History Tourism

• 25th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences

• The Willis Family in 2002

• Our Heritage in Stone: Powerscourt, County Wicklow

• The O'Donoghue Society

• British Parliamentary Papers as a Source for Irish Genealogy

• In My Liverpool Home

• Irish Surname Expert: The Surnames Patrick and Bagge

• Policing the English

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Lonox-Conyngham, Wyndham-Quin, Smith-Barry, Bunbury-Tighe, Packenham-Mahon, Fitzgerald-Ros

Issue No. 45 (2003 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The Surname Kearney

• Shipwreck Index of Ireland

• Bushmills Helps American Families Find their Irish Roots

• Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, County Dublin

• Irish ISurnames DNA Project

• Putting in All Together: How to Finish Your Family Tree

• James McHenry of Antrim: American Patriot and Statesman

• Phoenix Park Training Depot

• National Library of Ireland Website

• Independence and Partition

• Irish Surname Expert: Raine/Rainey/Reaney, Canterbury

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: Blayney, Lynch & Penryhs, Sping-Rice, Lewis, Mathew, Evans, Lloyd & Hale, Tudur Trefor, Morgan.

Issue No. 46 (2003 Second Quarter)      •UNAVAILABLE•

• Irish Census Records

• Three Lives of a Prefabricated Building

• Scaling the  Mast of a Spanish Galleon

• Lismore Castle, County Waterford

• Tobin's Field: the highlight of a wonderful trip to a wonderful country

• Researching in Ireland in 2003

• 1916 Rebels

• Local Newspapers: The Hidden Archive

• Ulysses S. Grant in Ireland

• The 1830s Tithe War

• Daphne du Maurier and the Puxleys

• Rogues and Vagabonds: the fate of the Irish poor in England

• Irish Surname Expert: Whelan/Phelan/O'Failon, Byrum/Byrom/Byron

• Heraldry in Ireland: the following family arms are illustrated: 

Fitzstephen, Bruce, Clarence, Richard II, Edmund Mortimer, Roger Mortimer, Poynings, FitzGerald, Raleigh, Bagenal, Mountjoy, Carew, Borlase, Rinuccini, Grattan, Parnell, Casement, Markievicz

Issue No. 47 (2003 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Bloomsday Centenary (news section)

• A Beardless Lad

• The Surnames of Kilkenny

• RIC Links

• Johnstown Castle, County Wexford

• The Faithful Steward: the Story of an Emigrant Ship

• Civil Servants in New York

• Professional Researchers in Ireland

• The End of Courtesy Recognition

• Irish Schools in 1615

• Photo Restoration Basics

• Irish Surname Expert: Lambert, Calvey, Caveny/McCaveny

Issue No. 48 (2003 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Surnames of County Monaghan

• New York's 1892 State Census

• Emo Court, County Laois

• William Massey Ferguson: Great Imperial Statesman

• The Irish in Argentina: A Day in Capitan Sarmiento

• The Fighting Sullivans

• Records of Early Travellers from Ireland to Britain

• Emigration from Ireland to Clinton Connecticut 1850-1870

• Irish Surname Expert: Hyland, O'Mahoney/Mahony

• Irish Roots Index 2000-2003

Issue No. 49 (2004 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• An Irishwoman researches her Australian roots

• Irish Heritage Centres

• Bones of our ancestors

• The Tin Box Under the Bed

• Sean Moylan's Memoirs

• Seventeenth Century Planters, Eighteenth Century Immigrants

• Vivian de Valera: The Search Continues Part 1

• The Bureau of Military History

• Live Registration

• Records of Criminal Justice

• General Conway's American Revolution

• Clan News

Issue No. 50 (2004 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Vivian de Valera: the Search Continues Part 2

• Research Pitfalls

• Irish Surname Expert: Shiel and Ross

• Grant of Arms to Richard Lane of Lusk

• Clonalis: Domicile of Last High Kings

• Scottish Planters and their Surnames

• Genealogy Research Centres

• The Bureau of Military History Part 2

• The Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Wills and Administrations

• The Battle of Vinegar Hill, New South Wales

• Book Reviews; Letters; Problem Page

Issue No. 51 (2004 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• APGI Honours Eilish Ellis

• The Great Dying

• Dean Mahomet

• Picking Blackberries

• On-line Surprise: An Unusual Internet Source

• Strokestown House, Roscommon

• Josef Locke: The Irish Tenor

• Key Irish  Genealogical Sources

• The Irish Credentials of the US Presidential Candidates

• Kevin Charles J. McCann: notable Irish-born American

• The Bureau of Military History Part 3

• Irish Surname Expert: Background on Irish Surnames

• Irish Sources in Suffolk Record Office

Issue No. 52 (2004 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Lusitania Tragedy

• Digging up Irish Roots

• The British View of the Irish

• Official Opening of Genealogical Society of Ireland Premises

• Newtown Castle, County Clare

• Henry Miller: A Derry-Australian Link

• Research in Pre 1850 Sources

• Sligo Genealogical Festival

• At Work in Falls River, Mass

• The Bureau of Military History Part 4

• The Fate of a Soldier's Wife and Family

• Maps and Mapping: The Monaghan Story

Issue No. 53 (2005 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• 2005 Will Be a Good Irish-Australian Year

• Free Genealogy Advisory Service

• Irish Surname Expert: McSweeney and Mayze/Maze

• Galway Family History

• Dysert O'Dea Ancient Buildings, County Clare

• Austins: A Successful Business

• Ireland's Memorial Records of World War I

• Genealogy Websites

• I Couldn't Leave Ireland

• Merchant Seamen Identity Cards

• Tenement Life in Dublin

• Soupers: Converted by the Bible or the Ladle?

• Larkin Clan Gathering

Issue No. 54 (2005 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Ulster Scots Symposium

• Review of Ulster Historical Association Website

• Irish Surname Expert: Bradley/Brodie and Limerick/Limbrick

• Malone-Burns Irish Genealogy

• Mucross: Mansion in the Mountains

• The Brownlow Leasebook 1667-1711

• Demise of the Irish Genealogical Congress

• Seine Boat Rescue

• Scotland's Failure to Assimilate Irish Immigrants

• Newspapers  for Research

• The Man Behind the Mask of Zorro

• Lestrange Family

Issue No. 55 (2005 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The Australian Census: discussion

• www.ellisisland.org

• The Battle of Rorke's Drift

• Iberian Accord: Irish-Spanish Connections

• Cratlow Woods House, County Clare

• Adoption and Roots

• The Stem of the Irish Nation: The Descent of Niall of the Nine Hostages from the Creation.

• Living in Bastardstown

• Putting Your Family Tree in Historical Context

• Frongach Internment Camp

• The San Patricios

• The Treatment of Catholics in Protestant England

Issue No. 56 (2005 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• The story of the Irish navvy in Britain.

• The San Francisco Earthquake: Irish involvement.

• Brian Mitchell writes about the Haberdashers' Settlement in Londonderry.

• Our Heritage in Stone series looks at Kilkenny Castle.

• A one page review of the new translation of The Great Book of Irish Genealogies (Leabhar Genelach) compiled by Duald MacFirbis.

• Tony McCarthy demolishes the myth that the European Flag was designed by an Irish Chief Herald.

• More from Seamus O Fogartaigh about the Irish in Mexico.

• Seamus Metress recounts how geography and the Irish shaped the Great Lakes Region of the United States.

• Anthony Breen in 'Trafalgar and the Irish' asks: were your ancestors with Nelson?.

• Database No. 42 profiles a new book published by the the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society which could be of considerable interest to Irish-Americans: The Truth Teller.

Issue No. 57 (2006 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• 1630:Earliest Date in a Wexford Graveyard.

• Good News for Irish Census Searchers.

• Irish Contribution to the Spanish Navy at Trafalgar.

• James Knox Polk: Irish Roots of a US President.

• Our Heritage in Stone: Slane Castle.

• Bridging the Gap: Locating the Place of Origin in Ireland of an Irish Immigrant Ancestor to the US.

• A Childhood Hero: The Day I Met the General, by Jim Herlihy.

• A List of Irish-born Recipients of the Victoria Cross.

• Kings Inns Barristers: 1868-2004.

• The Irish Police.

• Landlords and Hotels in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland.

• Are Your Ancestors on Famine Lists?

Issue No. 58 (2006 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Genealogy and Herladry Bill 2006

• Congressman Nicholas Sinnott: son of a Wexford immigrant

• Duffy's Cut: the story of an emigrant ship

• Bridging the Gap: locating the place of origin in Ireland of an Irish immigrant ancestor to Australia

• Finding John Dargan: tracking the movements of a merchant seaman

• Sotheby's sale of Irish art

• Hiberno-Mexican Historical Links

• O'Kief coshe Mang as a Genealogical Source

• Irish Involvement in French Military Affairs

• Irish Brigade Descendant

• Detective Work on a Detecteive

• RIC Special Branch Files

• 100 most Common Irish Surnames with Mottoes

• Irish People in Census Indexes for England and Wales

Issue No. 59 (2006 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Improvements in Australian Research Facilities

• Emigration to Australia: Direct from Derry to Sidney

• A Nation of Johns and Marys

• Our Heritage in Stone: Adare Manor, County Limerick

• The Emergency Years and Volunteer John Keane

• the Nobel Surname

• Irish Genealogy Archives in Spain

• The Importance of the Big House in Ireland

• A Voice for Genealogists in the Library World

• America is not a Land of Milk and Honey

• An Irish Estate in Jamaica

• Bridging the Gap: locating the place of origin in Ireland of an Irish immigrant ancestor to New Zealand

Issue No. 60 (2006 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Vital Records in the Australian States and Territories

• Irish Military Medals

• Joseph Cordner: an early Irish aviator

• Our Heritage in Stone: Maynooth Castle, County Kildare

• An Irish Artilleryman's Experience of the Indian Mutiny

• The Last Connaughton in Argentina

• The Irish Rovers (the story of Shamrock Rovers)

• Major-General WRE Murphy: Teacher, War Hero, Policeman, Sports Guru

• The Wexford Family that Build California part 1

• The Connaught Rangers

• The Big House

• Bridging the Gap: locating the place of origin in Ireland of an Irish immigrant ancestor to England and Wales

Issue No. 61 (2007 First Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• O'Kief Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater

• William Foy, Irish Portrait Artist

• Letters from the Trenches

• Our Heritage in Stone: Malahide Co. Dublin, a Talbot Stronghold

• The Trouble with Townlands

• Eneclann Essay Competition: results and winning entry

• A Chain of Family Hotels: the Huggards

• The Wexford Family That Build California part 2

• The Castle Building of William Marshall

• The Big Houses of Ashford, County Wicklow

• Making the Link: Anthony Breen's experience of some important genealogical sources

• Rodolpho Walsh: Argentine Heart, Irish Blood

Issue No. 62 (2007 Second Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• New Developments to Aid Irish Research

• Princess Grace Irish Library

• Difficulties in Tracing 18th Century Irish Ancestors

• Our Heritage in Stone: Kilkea Castle, County Kildare

• They Came with their Faith and Heritage

• An Irish Community in South Africa: Umbogintwini

• The Dream

• TV Anchorman's RIC Link

• The Big House Debt

• Where There's a Will, There's a Relative

• The Royal Irish Regiment

• The Wexford Family that Built California: part 3

Issue No. 63 (2007 Third Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• From Grog Tents to Town Centres: the development of towns in Australia

• Emigration Merchants and Marine Art

• James Davoran Casey: search for

• Our Heritage in Stone: Roscrea Castle and Damer House

• What Happened to Richard Wilson after he left Carrick-on-Suir?

• Dublin's Viking Warship

• Irish Immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

• The Devereux Merchant Princes of Wexford

• Erin go Bragh: How my Heritage Found Me

• Research in Old Irish Genealogies

• Barnaby Bryan's Lease

• Canon William O'Kennedy

• Usher Reunion in Birr

• Bridging the Gap: locating the place of origin in Ireland of an Irish immigrant ancestor to Canada

• Irish Times Digital Archive

Issue No. 64 (2007 Fourth Quarter)      •AVAILABLE•

• Australian Connections 1992-2007

• The Old Homestead

• The Jewell Brothers of Bristol and Derry

• Our Heritage in Stone: Desmond Castle, Kinsale, County Cork

• 1910: A Black Year for Arklow

• Phibbsfest

• British Parliamentary Papers

• The Demise of the Big House

• The MacRagnalls of Leitrim from Old Genealogies

• New Proprietors for Irish Roots

• Irish Roots Index 2004-2007