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Data Protection

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25th 2018. The Board, under Res: 18/05/1380, advises Members that the Society holds the following records on its Members (1) Name; (2) Address; (3) Telephone Number; (4) Email Address and (5) the name of the Associate Member, if applicable, and that such records are only used for the purpose of contacting Members on Society matters and for the dispatch of the Monthly Newsletter and the Annual Journal and furthermore, that these records are only held by the Director of Membership Services and are inaccessible to all other persons and that, the Society does not share this information with any other individual or organisation. Records are also held for contractual necessity to deliver paid services.

Notice Of Annual General Meeting

The AGM of the Society will be held at 20.00hrs on Tuesday 14 March 2023 via Zoom. A link will be sent by email to Members and will be available from Membership@familyhistory.ie

֍ Email: membership@familyhistory.ie

Meetings

EVENING OPEN MEETING (via

Zoom)

Tuesday 14 March 2023 (AGM) 20.00hrs

Tuesday 11 April 2023 20.00hrs

Morning Open Meeting

(via Zoom)

Wednesday 22 March 2023 11.00hrs

Wednesday 26 April 2023 11.00hrs

Contribution €5.00 p.p. (Donations via www.familyhistory.ie)

Gsi On Youtube

The Society’s lectures and some informational short videos were uploaded to our YouTube Channel. To view the videos and hopefully, to ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ them, and to ‘Subscribe’ to our YouTube channel please checkout: www.YouTube.com/c/

GenealogicalSocietyOfIrelandGSI

On Instagram

The Society has been expanding its presence across all social media platforms and we’re on Instagram! Please checkout this link: www.instagram.com/GenSocIreland

“ARCHIVE DROP-INS”

The weekly “Drop-Ins” hosted by Eddie Gahan, FGSI, Director of the Outreach Programme, are hugely popular with our Members around the world. These informal weekly “Drop-Ins” are only for fully paid up Members and are designed to allow you to join the Zoom meeting at any time between 11.00hrs and 12.00hrs on Wednesdays.

The “Drop-In” on the 4th Wednesday is a publicly accessible ‘Drop-In’ for Members and visitors alike. Visitors can email membership@familyhistory.ie for the link to this Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday. Members receive an email from the Director of Membership Services each week with access details. Members can send in their research query in advance to Archivist@familyhistory.ie (Please also see page 4)

We’ll All Stay Connected Each Week via Zoom

Recently Published by Four Courts Press

‘Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present’ edited by Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr and published by Four Courts Press this month. ISBN: 978-1-84682-740-2 : 244pp : H/bk : ills : Catalogue price: €55.00 : Web Price: €49.95.

Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive and unjust rule – in a word, on tyranny. The fame of Magna Carta spread as England, and later Britain, came to girdle the globe in its power. This volume in the Irish Legal History Society series is the first to examine the importance of Ireland in the story of Magna Carta’s dissemination. Four centuries before Magna Carta crossed the Atlantic, it had already been implanted across the Irish Sea. A version of the charter, issued in November 1216 in the name of the boy-king Henry III, was sent to Ireland, where it became fundamental to the English common law tradition in Ireland that survives to the present. This volume – the proceedings of a conference marking the 800th anniversary of the transmission of Magna Carta to Ireland – explores the paradoxes presented by the reception of Magna Carta into Irish law, above all the contested idea of ‘liberty’ that developed in Ireland. Contributors examine the legal, political and polemical uses to which Magna Carta was put from the thirteenth century onwards, as well as its modern invocations as a living presence in contemporary Irish law. The volume also includes a new edition and translation of the Magna Carta Hibernie (‘The Great Charter of Ireland’) an adaptation of the 1216 issue of Magna Carta found in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer, which was destroyed in 1922.

Contributors: Paul Brand, Ian Campbell, Peter Crooks, Coleman Dennehy, Adrian Empey, Patrick Geoghegan, James Kelly, Colum Kenny, John Larkin, Thomas Mohr, Bláthna Ruane. Peter Crooks is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at TCD, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is co-editor of The Geraldines and medieval Ireland: the making of a myth (Dublin, 2016). Thomas Mohr is Associate Professor at the School of Law, UCD. He is honorary secretary of the Irish Legal History Society and the author of Guardian of the Treaty: the Privy Council appeal and Irish sovereignty (Dublin, 2016). (FCP website)

NEXT MONTH REVIEW ‘Soccer and Society in Dublin A History of Association

Football in Ireland’s Capital’ by Conor Curran and published by Four Courts Press last month. ISBN: 978-1

The Society’s is very grateful to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the level of grant aid provided to the Society to assist with running costs of the Society. The Society continues to campaign for the establishment of an ‘Irish Institute of Genealogical and Heraldic Studies – incorporating a Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies’ in Dún Laoghaire in conjunction with the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

The Society’s Annual Journal was produced by a Select Committee for the second time in 2022 and as this collaborative method of productions was so hugely successful, a Select Committee was established for the 2023 Annual Journal.

In addition to the Annual Journal, which is published in electronic format, the Society published twelve issues of its newsletter ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’ and its readership figures continued to be very strong throughout the year especially on-line where it was available in pdf format. It is Ireland’s longest running monthly genealogical newsletter and it is fully indexed online in the “Hall’s Index” on the Society’s website.

The Board elected two new Vice Presidents of the Society, Ms. Fiona Fitzsimons, MA, FGSI, and Amb. Francis M. O’Donnell, FGSI, and appointed Dr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas, SHA, FGSI, of Madrid, Spain, as Honorary Herald of the Society

The College of Fellows, on the recommendation of the Board, elected new Fellows – James Scannell, FGSI, Fiona Tipple, FGSI, Clare Tuohy, FGSI, Francis M. O’Donnell, FGSI and Gerard Hayden, FGSI.

On legislative matters, the Society continued its endeavours to have section 13 of the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997 amended to regularise the position of heraldic grants made in Ireland prior to May 2005. The Society’s two branches, Vexillology Ireland and Heraldry Ireland, continue to deal with these specific aspects of the Society’s many and varied activities. The Society is Ireland’s only member of FIAV – the International Federation of Vexillological Associations

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4 : 366pp : H/bk : ills : Catalogue price: €35.00 : Web Price: €31.50. Although, this work was previously flagged as one to look forward to in the April 2022 issue of this newsletter (Vol. 17 No. 4 – see https://www.familyhistory.ie ) the prices given have been updated. This is an absolute gem for the lover of the ‘beautiful game’ and the family, local or social historian. It is the first full-length history of soccer in Dublin city and environs. Conor Curran is an adjunct lecturer in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, who has published extensively on the history of sport and society.

FOUR COURTS PRESS

Irish History, Genealogy, Local History and much more. Checkout the extensive online catalogue for 2023 and the wonderful special offers at www.fourcourtspress.ie note the “back-in-prints” too!!

Gsi Board News

The Board of Directors held its monthly meeting on Thursday 2nd March 2023 at 11.00hrs via Zoom with nine in attendance.

The General Secretary, as Company Secretary presented the Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the meeting for considering. The Board adopted the report under Res: 23/03/1734 and instructed that it be published in the March issue of the ‘Gazette’

The Annual Board Meeting Attendance Record presented by the General Secretary is attached to the Minutes of the Board Meeting held on March 2nd 2023 and is available on request.

Lua Ó Scolaí, MGSI, Director of Finance, confirmed that the Annual Financial Report for the period ending 31st December 2022 was forwarded to the auditor last month, however, it is unlikely that the audited accounts will be available for the AGM. The unaudited accounts will be presented at the AGM and once the audited accounts have been received from the auditor they will be submitted to the Companies Registration Office. They will be publicly available via the CRO website https://www.cro.ie

Eddie Gahan, FGSI, Director of the GSI Outreach Programme, advised the Board that the Society will have a stand at the Active Retirement Ireland event to be held at the Clayton White’s Hotel, Wexford, on Wednesday 15th March 2023. Eddie calls for more volunteers for the GSI Stand at Wexford.

Shane Wilson, MGSI, Director of Internet Services, provided an update on the development of the facility for the recording of images and information for the Society’s ’National Heraldic Survey’. It was agreed to conduct a limited trial of the facility this month before its formal launch as Ireland’s first heraldic survey.

Gerard Corcoran, MGSI, Director of Archival Services & Education, proposed that the remaining Covid-19 restrictions and measures required for visiting An Daonchartlann be lifted. The Board agreed to do so under Res: 23/03/1735 with immediate effect.

Eddie Gahan, FGSI and Paula Jones, MGSI, advised the Board that they will not be seeking re-election at the AGM, however, both will continue to be active in the Society. The Board praised both for their outstanding contributions to the Society and for the commitment and diligence to their duties and responsibilities at Directors of the Society.

Laura Price, MGSI, will succeed Paula Jones, MGSI as chairperson of the 2023 Annual Journal Select Committee. Paula will remain on the Select Committee The next Board Meeting will be held on Thursday April 6th 2022 at 11.00hrs via Zoom, at which, the Board will allocate portfolios to those elected at the AGM.

General Secretary

Work is continuing to host a Members Only Section on the Society’s website and to greatly expand the range of archival holdings available online, including access to the GSI publications. Electronic voting for the Annual General Meeting was added to our website in 2022 and is available now for the 2023 AGM. The Facebook page and Twitter account continue to be valuable components in the promotion of the activities of the Society, its legislative campaigns and Irish genealogy in general. The Irish DNA Atlas Project operated in conjunction with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), continues to provide very exciting and ground-breaking data from this unique academic genetic genealogy research project was welcomed by genealogists, geneticists, historians, and others from around the world.

In addition to the above, the Board dealt with matters relating to the Society’s membership of the Federation of Family History Societies, The Wheel, DLR PPN, INAR and FIAV. The Board also complied with its statutory obligations in respect of the Companies Act, 2014, Register of Beneficial Ownership (SI 110/2019), the Charities Act, 2009, the Charities Regulatory Authority, the EU GDPR and as a Nominating Body for Seanad Éireann.

The Board requested the Society’s President, Mr. Stuart Rosenblatt, PC, FGSI, to remain in office until March 2024 and he has very graciously agreed to do so. In December 2022 the President donated twenty-two volumes of his magnum opus on the archival heritage of the Irish-Jewish Community to the National Library of Israel which will now form the ‘Rosenblatt Collection’ at the library.

The ‘Presidential Forum on Funding’ was not convened as planned in 2022, however, we are endeavouring to host this important forum during 2023.

In September 2022 the Board assigned the oversight of this forum to An Daonchartlann Foundation which was reconstituted in July 2022. The newly reconstituted body will have three non-Board Member Trustees (appointments pending) in addition to three appointed by the Board. Finally, our thoughts are with all those who were bereaved by the loss of family, friends, or colleagues due to Covid-19 and we wish all those still struggling with this disease a speedy and full recovery. Furthermore, our thoughts are with the families of Members and friends of the Society who passed away since our last Annual General Meeting.

Michael Merrigan, MA, FGSI, General Secretary