Claire Bradley

The #Ghosts film has provided much needed laughter today. Definitely one for fans of the show.

“It’s giving colonialism”: Ireland still owes rent to dukes and earls. Although, even though the OPW lists these rents as payable, some of the named beneficiaries say they haven't been getting them.

What can an estate archive reveal about an Irish family? The Harvey family papers of Malin Hall (1731–1946), offer a glimpse into generations of family life through accounts, rentals, correspondence, photographs, sketches & more Explore the collection: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000923312

Last week, an English person asked me if we 'have Halloween in Ireland' This is the most offensive thing that anyone has ever said.

This post is a "never not re-post" for me. It's an amazing story about making decisions for the right reason, defying the odds and making the world a better place for being in it.

Today I am amused by having to search for Dudley children born to a Moore mother.

This is great news & a huge relief that they're not losing funding.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Anyone here a legal person with access to ie.vlex.com that could look up something for me please? Found a potential client ancestor case. #Speirgorm

We have acquired a number of digital resources to assist with research, providing access to: • 100s of Irish newspaper titles + serials • Full text access to many standard reference works • Records of government + official publication • Digitised books, manuscripts + maps https://ow.ly/Y1Cv50ZUVuR

New blog on Irish in #genealogy records, with thanks to @darach.bsky.social for the help cbgenealogy.ie/your-irish-c... #speirgorm #irishgenealogy #ancestryhour #genhour

IGRS Top Research Tip #229: Researching irish ancestors who lived in China, 1850s to 1940s? This free database comprises over 60,000 names from government, legal, diplomatic, cemetery & other records. It includes many Irish people, connected with Shanghai & other treaty ports: www.chinafamilies.net

Seeing some grandparent regions on client kits on Ancestry. Exciting! #GeneticGenealogy

A secret cache of census material for Malahide: yes please! cbgenealogy.ie/secret-cache... #AncestryHour #GenHour #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #Speirgorm #Malahide

"Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is FALSE. buff.ly/Pa7fvr8

Spotted in Banner books in Kilrush @drkarencummings.bsky.social

Last two talks for the day: John Grenham and Maurice Gleeson.

We're on to Fiona Fitzsimons of the Irish family history centre at EPIC Ireland.

We're on to Fiona Fitzsimons now of the Irish Family History Centre at @epic.org

Next up is @rachelmurphy.bsky.social my former supervisor at @ulhistory.bsky.social

Kilrush genealogy conference kicked off with a talk on 19th records from @ryangenealogy.bsky.social #IrishGenealogy

Settling in to Kilrush for the genealogy conference on what appears to be the first day of winter this year.

If you take this excellent course, you are then eligible to join the Pro-Am Genies network, which has a free monthly online CPD session.

To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?

According to one calculator, I'm going to be €266 better off next year. That's great. Once again single & self-employed people are the poor relations in an Irish budget.

Today is so full, I've had to plan it like a military campaign. General Bradley has a nice ring to it.

Just made a splendid discovery in the newspaper collection on @findmypast.bsky.social - this cartoon in the Daily Mirror predicting 'When We All Have Pocket Telephones'. But who can guess the year it was published in?

A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today

This might be the kind of thing that moves me away from Microsoft.

Lovely episode of Nationwide on Friday prompted me to write a piece about Irish Quakers for #WorldQuakerDay cbgenealogy.ie/world-quaker...

New wordpress editor is horrible!

Employed person: Wahay, it's Sunday! Fun times. Self-employed person: I've had a few hours off, it's ok to go back to writing that blog post now. Surely it's nearly Monday already.

For anyone interested I'm giving an online course on researching American Civil War servicemen with an Irish focus, covering things like pension files. The first class is on 14 October at 5pm Central. More details and sign up info at the link below! celticjunction.org/product/amer...

Great turnout for my talk on the La Mancha murders today as part of the Fingal festival of history.

Does Lancashire archives ever answer their phone or respond to queries? Sigh.

October newsletter now out! claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/october-ra... #IrishGenealogy #Speirgorm #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

Insert rant here about how difficult Irish institutions make it to deal with executor issues. Small insurance rebate issued as cheque to "reps of late XX" after being told it would go back electronically. Bank won't lodge cheque because account is in actual names.

The #1926Census provides a snapshot into life in the newly-formed Irish state on the eve of 18th April 1926. Gregory Walls provides a glimpse into what the census tells us (& what it doesn't) about the nation's capital at this time in a recent talk, available to watch now - youtu.be/LLdrCe30Uk8

I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.

I'm preparing some articles for my October newsletter. Sign here if you're not already getting it: claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/subscribe

A new piece on my blog today about the value of commercial genealogy sites. cbgenealogy.ie/subscriptions/ #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #AncestryHour #GenChat

Tayto continues to rock. #Speirgorm

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023

Hot off the presses today & in Fingal library branches next week: Fingal Studies 7 has an article and a book review by me. #IrishGenealogy #Speirgorm

Hit a brick wall trying to pinpoint where your Irish ancestors came from? DNA might be the key to unlocking their origins. 🧬☘️ Join the St. Louis Genealogical Society Irish Special Interest Group for our upcoming hybrid meeting on October 24! Get more information at stlgs.org.

Mistransciptions making me laugh today: #IrishGenealogy

Looking forward to this. I'm doing 2 talks and also have an article in the new Fingal Studies which will be launched next week.

The September equinox is today, 23rd September, 2026. Today the sun will be directly above the equator for a moment as it makes its way south. And that moment is now, 01:04 Dublin time (i.e. 01:04 IST, 00:04 UTC).