Surnames. Provinces. The Famine. The records. How to actually find your family.
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Gaelic origins, Norman arrivals, and what your family name was before it was anglicised. The history compressed into one word.
Munster, Leinster, Connacht, Ulster. Each has a distinct culture, history, and emigration story. Your province shapes everything.
1845–1852. One million dead. Two million emigrated. If your ancestors arrived in America between 1845 and 1860, this is their story.
The practical steps: civil records, church registers, Griffith's Valuation, the 1901 census. Free resources that cover most of Ireland.
Where they settled, what they built, how they moved from the bottom to the heart of American civic life in two generations.
The counties, the townlands, the harbours they sailed from. What survives. What you can visit. What still carries their names.
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A free email course delivered over 7 consecutive days, covering Irish surnames, the four provinces, the Great Famine, genealogy research, and the Irish-American experience. Written by heritage researchers with 64,000+ subscribers.
Irish-Americans, Irish Australians, and anyone in the Irish diaspora who wants to understand where their family came from and what happened to them. No prior knowledge of Irish history required.
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We cover 105 of the most common Irish surnames in their many anglicised forms — Murphy, O'Brien, Walsh, Kelly, Sullivan, and many more. Try entering the most common spelling. If your surname isn't covered, the course continues with the general Irish history and genealogy content.
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