Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History
The best source for tracking down records in Ireland.
Irish Records is your guide to locating Irish genealogical sources in Ireland.
For the period of greatest interest to family history researchers -- the late eighteenth and early to middle nineteenth centuries -- Irish family records are sparse. However, sources are available -- civil registers, censuses, land records, church records -- and Irish Records tells you where to find them.
Irish Records is arranged by Irish count and describes civil, ecclesiastical, and printed primary and secondary sources for each.
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Book details
- Author
- James Ryan
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
Reference › Bibliographies & Indexes - Topics
- Irish genealogy · family history research · church records · land records · civil registration · census records · bibliography
- ISBN-13
- 9781681620046 (Paperback)9781681620138 (Hardcover)
About the author
JAMES G. RYAN is an Irish author, genealogist, and biologist whose reference works on Irish records span more than a decade of publication. His books include Sources for Irish Family History, Irish Church Records: Their History, Availability, and Use in Family and Local History Research, and A Guide to Tracing Your Dublin Ancestors.
Ryan has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and the Journal of the Genealogical Society of Ireland. His foundational reference, Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History, first published in 1988, was revised in 1997.
When not writing, Ryan works in science policy consulting and research management. His publications reflect a sustained focus on Irish history and the survival of historical records.