IFHS Journal 2025
The Ulster Settlers Database, an exciting biographical and historical resource, is now available to researchers. Making innovative use of historical data relating to the English and Scottish men and women who settled in Ulster in the period c.1609-1641, the database is a searchable account of a community in flux.
The initial phase of the project was funded by the Royal Irish Academy through the Hunter Digital Fellowship. Beginning in early 2022, the project was co-hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies at Queens University Belfast and Maynooth University’s Arts and Humanities Institute.
Taking on the challenges involved in working with incomplete biographical data, this project models existing data into life events and then digitally links all these related events to reconstruct a searchable prosopography or biographical map of the entire settler cohort.
The Ulster Settlers database is available to search here: https://ulster-settlers.clericus.ie/
The launch of Dr Bernadette Cunningham’s new book, English Countess, Irish Earl: The Social World of Frances, Countess of Clanricard, 1567–1632. The book will be officially launched at 6:00pm
The census was released exactly on schedule at midnight on the 18th April. You can access it here. I’m sure you’ve been tuned into all
FamilySearch Roots Ireland Nothing new this month. Find My Past Ancestry New collections: Updated: See: Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry Virtual Record Treasury of
We’re nearly there! The census will be released in the early hours of Saturday 18th April. It will be available from the revamped census site
