Researching Your Irish Ancestors at Home and Abroad by David R. Elliott

Author:David R. Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ontario Genealogical Society
Published: 2012-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

National Library, Dublin. The locker room is through the portal and to the left. The genealogy office is up the first flight of stairs and to the left.

DRE photo 2007.

The Genealogy Advisory Room contains a number of important sources: the householders’ index for the counties (which has the indexed surnames of the tithe applotments and the Griffith’s Primary Valuation), an index of the tithe applotment microfilms, many Irish reference works, as well as copies of James Ryan’s Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History and John Grenham’s Tracing Your Irish Ancestors. The latter has a listing of the microfilm numbers for the Roman Catholic parish registers. Ryan’s book lists many resources for each county; many of those books and manuscripts are held upstairs in the reading room or the Department of Manuscripts down the street. This room has computer access to Griffith’s Primary Valuation, the Ordnance Survey maps for the Republic of Ireland, the 1901 and 1911 censuses for Ireland, and other online resources.

After leaving the Genealogy Advisory Room, you will cross the landing to the Microfilm Reading Room, where you will find the Roman Catholic parish registers. If you desire a photocopy of the church record, you will have to take the microfilm back to the Genealogy Reference Room to the microfilm printer there. However, the tithe applotment microfilms and other microfilms can be micro-copied upstairs in a room off the main reading room. Note: When using parish registers or tithe applotment microfilms, here or in other facilities, you may find more than one parish recorded on the reel. In the Catholic parish registers, you may find some of the entries in Latin.

The National Library of Ireland operates a cafeteria on the main floor to the right of the rotunda. If your eyes are burned out after spinning microfilm for hours and you need to give them a rest, you may wish to attend one of the free noon-hour lectures on Irish history or readings from the works of Irish writers, including Yeats, Joyce, Wilde and others. The bookstore also carries a number of important works on Irish history, literature, and genealogy.

For the serious family historian and genealogist, the National Library has many more resources. The reading room upstairs has books, directories, tithe applotment microfilms, and newspapers pertaining to Ireland before and after the partition of 1922. To use them, you must secure a free reader’s ticket. You apply for it in a room to the left of the reference counter in the upstairs reading room.

The card catalogue is computerized, and it includes material held in the main library and in the Department of Manuscripts. You will have to fill in a request form with your reader’s ticket number if you want to use its materials. You may have to wait an hour for the materials to be delivered to your desk. There is a photocopying facility for making copies from books.

The Department of Manuscripts of the National Library about a block away is at the corner of Kildare and Leinster Streets.

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