Ireland

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This article details connections between British India and Ireland, particularly emigration and immigration.

Also see

FIBIS Resources

External links

  • IrishGenealogy.ie operated by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, “a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their Irish Ancestry. The website is home to the on-line historic Indexes of the Civil Registers (GRO) of Births, Marriages, Civil Partnerships and Deaths and to Church Records of Baptism, Marriage and Burial from a number of counties”. There is also a category "Research in Ireland: Get Help"
Update: From 8 September 2016 The General Register Office's historical birth, marriage and death registers are also available online. Due to privacy restrictions, birth records from the past 100 years, marriage records from the past 75 years and death records from the past 50 years are not available.
  • National Archives of Ireland
    • Genealogy Includes links to the 1901 and 1911 Censuses, Soldiers Wills 1914-1918 and Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920. Free online records.
Update 15 September 2016. Six new record series were released , including "Shipping agreements and crew lists, 1863 – 1921" for the Merchant Navy, which covers not only Irish sailors, but include natives of Norway, Russia, Sweden, American and Germany. Also "Will Registers 1858 – 1922". Four of these record series, including Crew Lists and Will Registers are also available for free on findmypast.
  • "The India Callaghans" by Alfred D. F. Gabb, Volume 11 (1995) page 32
  • "From Co. Kildare to India" by Tom Radigan, Volume 13 (1997) page 3
  • "An Irish community in Bombay" by Abagail Sheppard, Volume 15 (1999) page 22
  • "Irishmen in the East-India Company Army" by Peter Bailey, Volume 17 (2001) page 84

References

  1. "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness" by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity edited by M Mc Carthy 2005. pdf Website: ARAN, National University of Ireland, Galway.