PRONI adds History of Belfast City Cemetery talk to YouTube

PRONI has added a video to its YouTube channel entitled History of Belfast City Cemetery. Here's the blurb:

Author, Tom Hartley, talks about the history of Belfast City Cemetery which opened on the 1 August 1869 as a cross denominational burial ground for the people of Belfast. This event took place on 17 October 2019.

The talk can be viewed at https://youtu.be/6No9QLVxqbY and is presented here also for convenience:

Chris

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PRONI YouTube additions - 1994 files and the 1918 vote

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni) has added a new video to its YouTube channel.

Secrets from the files 1994
Dr Eamon Phoenix and Sam McBride reveal the secrets behind the news headlines from the recently released government files of 1994 at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. This event took place on Tuesday 8th January 2019.

The video is available at https://youtu.be/M--VekANFaw, and presented below.

Also recently added:

PRONI - 1918 and the Vote
To mark the centenary of the 1918 General Election, PRONI is held a conference on 22 November 2018. This event saw the launch of new PRONI resources about Suffrage and the 1918 election.

The video is available at https://youtu.be/tR7_sDsTVD0 and presneted here also:

For more from PRONI on YouTube visit https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline.

Chris

My next Scottish Research Online course starts March 11th 2019 - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Details of my genealogical research service are available at www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk. For my Scottish and Irish themed books, visit https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html. Further news published daily on The GENES Blog Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

New talks added to PRONI YouTube channel

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni) has just added the following lecture to its You Tube channel:

Glentoran & The Community of East Belfast: The Ties That Bind
Published on 16 May 2017

PRONI hosted an event on 5th May 2017, examining the history of Glentoran Football Club and its role at the heart of a developing and changing community. The 2 speakers were Sam Robinson & Alan Carr.

The talk is available at https://youtu.be/Q_iuOJRo97o or can be viewed below:

PRONI also recently uploaded the following:

From Ireland to India - Women of Change
Published on 21 Mar 2017

To mark International Women's Day, PRONI hosted an afternoon event which explored the role of Irish women in India. This event took place on 8th March 2017.

The lecture is available at https://youtu.be/9wFTSoYs2B4 or can be viewed below:

The PRONI YouTube channel is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline

Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course commences Sept 11th 2017 - details at https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102.
For details on my Scottish & Irish genealogy guide books, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.
For my genealogy research service, please visit http://www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk.

PRONI adds Hillsborough disaster lecture to YouTube

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has added a new recorded lecture to its online YouTube collection:

Hillsborough - Researching 'Truth', Delivering 'Justice'

Ninety-six people died following a crush at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 during a match between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forest. In April 2016, an inquest jury concluded the fans were unlawfully killed.

Author of the highly acclaimed Hillsborough: The Truth (new edition 2016), Phil Scraton headed the Panel’s research and was primary author of its report. Having worked with the families and survivors since 1989, he was advisor to the families’ legal teams throughout the inquests. In this public lecture he reflects on the long-term campaign for truth, details the Panel’s extensive findings, analyses the new inquests, their outcome, the work of the IPCC and the case for prosecutions. Finally, he examines the impact of his critical research and truth recovery for challenging institutional injustice and holding State institutions to account.

Phil Scraton PhD is Professor of Criminology in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast and Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative.

To view the video please visit https://youtu.be/kZgm5fGbq6Y

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy, A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

PRONI commemorates the Somme

From the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk):

The Battle of the Somme

To mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, PRONI has released a composite panoramic photograph of the Somme battlefield. Stitched together from more than a dozen individual photographs, this image shows a 120 degree angle shot of German positions opposite the British Lines. The photographs were taken by an Irish officer serving in the Royal Artillery and they show villages, trenches, woods and other points of interest that the British army would be attacking. It is available to view on the PRONI website at www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni. (See https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/somme-panoramic-video or view below - Chris)

Explore other talks series and recently added videos on our website. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/proni-youtube

Or explore our full video archive on our dedicated Youtube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline


Exhibitions

PRONI is currently hosting its First World War exhibition to mark the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme. The exhibition uses documents contained within the PRONI archive to provide an insight into what life was like for those who lived through the War. Items such as letters from the soldiers at the front, trench maps and recruitment posters provide a snapshot into key aspects of the war such as the home front, the battle of the Somme, the war at Sea and the role that women played in the war effort.

Libraries NI will be touring PRONI’s travelling exhibition on Constance and Eva Gore Booth entitled ‘Con and Eva’. This will be going to Armagh Library in July and then on to various other libraries over the following months.

(With thanks to the PRONI Express)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Free online tutorials from UKBMD

From Ian Hartas of UKBMD:

Local BMD Project - Free Online Tutorials

Dear editors, tutors and others,
Over the years I've had the honour to talk at a variety of Family History Society and U3A group meetings on the subject of "BMDs on the Internet", offering an introduction and advice on how to get the best out of the various BMD websites that are part of the Local BMD Project. I've now split my talk up into a set of separate video tutorials which can be accessed, for free, via the UKBMD website.
Full details about the contents of these tutorials can be found on the Tutorials page.

Website links:

UKBMD website : http://www.UKBMD.org.uk
Links to the various Local BMD websites: http://www.UKBMD.org.uk/localbmd
Information about the Local BMD Project : http://www.UKBMD.org.uk/localbmdproject
The new tutorials page within the UKBMD website : http://www.UKBMD.org.uk/tutorials

(With thanks to Ian)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

BIFHSGO launches YouTube channel

The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (http://bifhsgo.ca) has launched a YouTube channel, with the first lecture available to view on it being 'Ignored But Not Forgotten: Canada's English Immigrants', by Lucille Campey.

John Reid has all the details on his Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections blog at http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/lucille-campey-inaugurates-bifhsgo.html.

(With thanks to John)

Chris

Stuck for a Christmas gift?! I have a series of genealogy books available in the UK, Australia and Canada, on Scottish, Irish and British based subject areas. Further details at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. Santa approves!

PRONI - After the Gathering and Sunningdale demise conferences on YouTube

PRONI (www.proni.gov.uk) has added two videos to its YouTube site in the last week:

After The Gathering: Dissonant Voices In Irish Diaspora Studies
http://youtu.be/fQheMfEihgc

Queen's University's Institute of Collaborative Research in the Humanities, DCAL and the Ministerial Advisory Group of the Ulster Scots Academy hosted this symposium focussing on diaspora histories, representations, culture and politics following the events of the Irish government's Gathering year.

This event was held in PRONI on 6th June 2014.
Speakers included in this video are:

Dr Dominic Bryan, Queen's University Belfast -- 'Defining Ireland: Those gathered for Irish Studies'

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew, University of Ulster -- 'Whose diaspora, whose migration, whose identity?' Migration and diaspora in the Northern Ireland context since 1921

Prof Mark Boyle, NUI Maynooth -- Recasting diaspora strategies within care frameworks: The case of the Ireland's the Gathering 2013

Dr Barry Vann -- 'Natural Liberty in the Bible Belt: Ulster-Scots Emigration and Explaining Voting Patterns in Southern Appalachia'


and

PRONI - Sunningdale, The Ulster Workers Council Strike & Their Legacies
http://youtu.be/6cTqR9q-0dE

'Disclaimer' - ***Please note that PRONI is not responsible for any language in this video which some people may find offensive***

The 40th anniversary of the establishment of the first power-sharing executive is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of democratic practice in Northern Ireland. This one-day conference, which took place on 23rd May 2014, aimed to explore not only the reasons for the sudden demise of the 'Sunningdale Assembly' during the Ulster Workers' Council Strike but also the divided legacies that demise bestowed on Northern Irish politics.

The questions that surround the Sunningdale power-sharing experiment continue to resonate within Northern Ireland today:

- Democracy has widened, but to what extent has it deepened?
- In what ways and in what areas are people's voices not being heard?
- How can political disenchantment, apathy and differing views on democratic legitimacy be managed?
- What do we, as a society, do about groups who feel alienated from mainstream politics?
- What are the reasons behind the resilience of violent factions?

This unique event brought together historians, journalists, commentators, eyewitnesses to the executive, archivists and political scientists to address these and other issues relating to the long struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland. It aimed to assess the lessons of the Sunningdale failure and asks how they apply to contemporary Northern Ireland.

Speakers include Professor Arthur Aughey; Sir Kenneth Bloomfield; Dr Sarah Campbell; Dr Jude Collins; Dr Anthony Craig; Dr Aaron Edwards; Dr Gordon Gillespie; Professor Thomas Hennessey; Mr David Huddleston; Mr Alex Kane; Dr Brendan Lynn; and Dr Malachi O'Doherty.

Hosted and sponsored by:
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland
The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Ulster
The Political Studies Association, Irish Specialist Group

This conference took place on 23rd May 2014 in PRONI.

(With thanks to @stephenscarth)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And FindmyPast - please reinstate the original Scottish census citations on your new site.

Additions to PRONI YouTube channel

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk) has added the following talks to its YouTube channel

• Improving Belfast 1911
• Conference: Mount Stewart & the Wider World - Exploring the Londonderry Family Papers
• Talk: Na Blianta Luatha: The Early Years of the Irish Language Movement in Northern Ireland

The channel is accessible at https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline/videos

(With thanks to Garth Stewart at PRONI)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And FindmyPast - please reinstate the original Scottish census citations on your new site.

Lectures added to PRONI YouTube channel

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk) has added the following recorded lectures to its online YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline/videos

• Exploring Your Archives in Depth: Practical Workshops in Family and Local History, Jan-Feb 2014
• PRONI Showcase Evening: Maps, Photographs, Anecdotes, Politics, Feb 2014
• Open University Exploring Family History Lecture Series, Autumn 2013
• The History of Witchcraft, Magic and the Devil in Ireland Conference, Oct 2013
• Volunteering in Ireland, 1912-16 Lecture Series, Aug/Sept 2013

(With thanks to Garth Stewart at PRONI)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians. And for those wishing to take Scottish ancestral research a bit further, my next Pharos course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Records, commences May 14th 2014.

PRONI updates YouTube listings page and launches cycling exhibition

Latest news from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.proni.gov.uk):

Firstly we would like to announce that our defined Youtube page is being streamlined to allow for simpler access to videos and recordings of our public events. We hope that the clear layout and descriptions included in this page will make it easier to navigate, and allow for users to revisit past talks and catch up on ones that they missed. This page will be updated fully later today.

We would also like to mention that PRONI has now fully embraced the spirit of the Giro d'Italia! Given that many of the world's premiere cyclists will pass by our own doorstep at the end of this week, we have taken the opportunity to uncover some of the gems from our archival collections connected to the history of cycling. The best of these documents and images can now been viewed in a small pop-up exhibition in our atrium space. This display will be available for viewing until the end of May, so don't forget to take a look next time you visit!

If you are unable to make it in, then we have also made an online 'highlight reel' of images of this exhibition available on our website for your enjoyment. These are grouped by the exhibition themes and are yet another testament to the sheer scale, variety and eccentricity of PRONI's archive collections.

NB: PRONI will be closed from 3.15pm on Friday May 9th due to road closures associated with the Giro d'Italia Big Start 2014.

(With thanks to Garth Stewart)

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians. And for those wishing to take Scottish ancestral research a bit further, my next Pharos course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Records, commences May 14th 2014.

PRONI - Using Church Records lecture on YouTube

A big thanks to PRONI for helping me to resolve something that has bugged me for a few years! The archive has placed online a lecture by Valerie Adams of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, entitled Using Church Records, and divided up into four segments. Here's the first:

Also directly available on YouTube at http://youtu.be/K-0_pihTPO0

Links for the rest are:
Part 2 http://youtu.be/5wYHJPrUup4
Part 3 http://youtu.be/u0WQi2t4rhM
Part 4 http://youtu.be/0CRXTcjTbP0

The question that bugged me was about Ireland's state church records, those of the Anglican based Church of Ireland. If the church's hierarchy was Anglican, why were there not bishops transcripts kept at the diocesan level, as in England and Wales? Well, it it turns out that there were - but they were also destroyed in the Four Courts fire in 1922, with just a few fragments surviving. It's a small thing, but wee questions like that bug the hell out of me if I can't get an answer - so that's another one to tick off the list...!

The PRONI You Tube channel also has a copy of a lecture by Dr. Annaleigh Margey of Dundalk Institute of Technology on The 1641 Depositions- an early source for local history (and beyond), available via http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/proni-on-youtube.htm

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians. And for those wishing to take Scottish ancestral research a bit further, my next Pharos course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Records, commences May 14th 2014.

National Library of Ireland's new YouTube channel

The National Library of Ireland has launched a YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/NationalLibraryNLI with helpful videos on how to use the institution's online catalogue, the photographic collection, newspapers and more, as well as how to place orders online for materials to consult in the reading room.

There's a full blog post from the institution at www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/10/16/youtube-it/.

(With thanks to @findmypastie)

Chris

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