Festival of Samhain 2023 – Letter from An Cathaoirleach

Festival of Samhain 2023 – Letter from An Cathaoirleach In this season, as we move from Autumn to Winter, our ancestors celebrated the festival of Samhain. With its many traditions marking the move from the plentiful harvest to the dark days of winter, this turning of the year, now more familiar to many as Halloween, […]

11 August 2023 – Decolonising an Irish Surname by Working the Hyphen of Gene-Ealogy

11 August 2023 – Decolonising an Irish Surname by Working the Hyphen of Gene-Ealogy A very insightful article by Esther Fitzpatrick and Mike Fitzpatrick just published in the journal Genealogy 2023, 7(3), 58Abstract:The surname Fitzpatrick is readily identified as Irish. Until recently, the traditional Fitzpatrick surname narrative was of a medieval super-progenitor named Giolla Phádraig. […]