Category: News

They now believe the site to have been the home of a 13th Century medieval monastic farm associated with the French Cistercian foundation of De Bello Becco (Beaubec)

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan’s Bill passed to allow families of missing persons presumed dead will no longer have to wait seven years to deal with their estates…..

Death certificates from 1878 to 1968 are now accessible for free on Irish Genealogy and these old records reveal some long gone occupations…

Read Kathryn O’Sullivan’s opinion piece on why current historical restrictions on people you cannot marry in Ireland needs to be changed….

A special investigation by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) into sham Irish marriages as a means of obtaining EU residency rights for illegal immigrants was intended ….

If you live in the UK and are applying for an Irish passport for the first time, there’s no need to panic as the Brexit drama rolls on…

This Georgian Street was in the doldrums in 1979 until a preservation society was formed…..

It’s over two decades since divorce was legalised in Ireland, and voters will go to the polls again in the coming months to vote on reducing the four-year wait for divorce to two years….

Marriage Certificates can be a valuable tool for people seeking out details on Irish relatives. Read more here….

People are regularly confused by the terms “long form” Birth Certificates and “Short” Birth Certificates. But how do they differ?