Your Family & 1916: Genealogy of the Rising
National Library of Ireland, Lecture Theatre Introduced by Sean Rocks, Presenter, Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 How and where to find evidence of your 1916 Ancestors....
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The National Library will host an eclectic offering of exhibitions, readings, genealogy advice, talks and music based around the year that was 1916.
Explore the lives of the 7 signatories of the Proclamation in a Front Hall exhibition, or listen to readings from WB Yeats in the Reading Room, where so many of the figures of the period researched and worked. Find out where your ancestors were in the year of the Rising from expert genealogists, or book into talks on the personal testimonies of 1916, eyewitness diaries and what it said in the papers that week, and after.
Please Note:
National Library of Ireland’s Genealogy Room is not wheelchair accessible.
Photograph of The National Library of Ireland courtesy of RTÉ Archives.
National Library of Ireland, Lecture Theatre Introduced by Sean Rocks, Presenter, Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 How and where to find evidence of your 1916 Ancestors....
National Library of Ireland: Front Hall 7 Signatories of the Proclamation against a backdrop of music from the period. Photograph courtesy of the RTÉ Archives
Reading Room Readings from WB Yeats in the magnificent Reading Room where so many of the figure of the period researched and worked. Photograph...
National Library of Ireland, Lecture Theatre Introduced by Sean Rocks, Presenter, Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 Voicing 1916: Personal Testimonies of the Easter Rising It was...
National Library of Ireland, Lecture Theatre Introduced by Sean Rocks, Presenter, Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 We Kill All Our Own What it Said in thePapers:...