The availability of Irish birth, marriage and death records online has been extended, with a further 12 months of each type of record now accessible for free at IrishGenealogy.ie.
Earlier this month, an additional year of historical birth records, marriage records and death records were released online on the government-run website www.irishgenealogy.ie. Under the 100-75-50 year rule, the newly released civil records cover:
- Birth index entries and register images for 1924
- Marriage index entries and register images for 1949
- Death index entries and register images for 1974
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The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, which runs the website, highlighted several notable additions in this year’s update. Among them are Christy O’Connor Snr, born Patrick Connor in 1924, one of Ireland’s greatest golfers who played in 10 consecutive Ryder Cups and represented Ireland in 15 World Cups, famously winning in 1958 alongside Harry Bradshaw; Tom Clancy, also born in 1924, an actor and member of the Irish folk group The Clancy Brothers; and Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth President of Ireland, who served from 1973 until his death in 1974.
Also featured in the latest update, though not mentioned by the department, are Myrtle Allen, the Michelin star-winning chef at Ballymaloe House, born Gladys Myrtle Hill in 1924, and Joan O Reilly, the pioneering Irish hockey player, also born 1924, who won 34 caps for Ireland and helped secure the 1950 Triple Crown with a historic victory over England.
The IrishGenealogy website is free to use, with no subscription or registration required. Each year, an additional year of birth, marriage and death records is added to the website. The full record set now available online includes:
- Birth records: 1864 to 1924
- Marriage records: 1845 to 1949 (from 1864 for Catholic marriages)
- Death records: 1871 to 1974 (index entries are available from 1864)
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These records provide valuable information for genealogical research, including:
For births:
- Child’s forename(/s)
- Date and place of birth
- Father’s name and address
- Mother’s name and maiden name (if married)
- Father’s occupation
- Signature, qualification and residence of informant (person who registered the birth)
- Date of registration
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For marriages:
- Marriage location
- Date of marriage
- Forenames and surnames of bride and groom
- Ages of bride and groom
- Condition (i.e. bachelor, spinster or widow/er)
- Occupations of bride and groom
- Addresses of bride and groom
- Names of fathers of bride and groom (and sometimes their addresses or whether alive or deceased)
- Occupations of fathers of bride and groom
- Signatures of bride and groom
- Signatures of witnesses
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For deaths:
- Date and place of death
- Forename and surname of deceased
- Condition (i.e. bachelor, spinster or widow/er)
- Age
- Occupation
- Cause of death and duration of illness
- Signature, qualification and residence of informant (person who registered the death)
- Date of registration
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Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport Patrick O’Donovan, TD, welcomed the release of the new records:
“This release of an additional year of register data by the Civil Registration Service is part of the ongoing partnership between my Department and the Department of Social Protection.
The aim of this continuing project is to make all these historic records freely and easily accessible to all members of the public and broader diaspora via the www.irishgeneaology.ie website.
I’m sure both new and returning visitors to the site, will welcome the addition of these records for continued research. I know that this annual update is eagerly anticipated and will be of great benefit to anyone carrying out research on their Irish ancestry.”
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Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary, TD, also commented:
“I am delighted to make these additional records available to the Department of Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport so that members of the public and the Irish diaspora can access records to support family history research.
These records of civil registration in the State are a very rich source of information. At this time of year we are particularly reminded of our predecessors who have emigrated and established lives across the globe. These valuable records enable that connection to remain strong.”
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2 Responses
I have been looking for documents to support my gr gr gr grandfather John Enright who left Limerick in 1845 . He married Mary Hynes and they went to Canada.
They died in 1902 at the age of 82 so I think they were born in 1820.
Any direction at all would be appreciated.
Civil registration of non-Catholic marriages began in 1845, but full civil registration of all marriages, births and deaths did not begin until 1864. As John Enright left Ireland in 1845, church records would be the best starting point. Do you know what religion the family was? In terms of land records, Griffith’s Valuation is too late to catch John himself, but it might still show relatives who remained in Limerick. Do you have any idea where in the county he came from, or was it Limerick city?