Irish Genealogy October 2024 Education Day
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Join us for presentations from historian Seán Brosnahan and a workshop on mapping your Irish ancestors. We'll also have a Q & A session and our library collection for you to browse and borrow from.
$10 Irish LNI member / $15 non-member
10.00am Registration and tea/coffee
10.30am WORKSHOP: Mapping your Irish ancestors - Graeme McVerry
11.15am Break
11.30am TALK: Irish Emigration in the 19th century: New Zealand and the global diaspora - Seán Brosnahan
12.30pm Lunch
1.15pm TALK: An Gorta Mór: the shadow of the Great Irish Famine and New Zealand's Irish pioneer generation - Seán Brosnahan
2.15pm Q & A session, library resources
3.00pm Close
Please see our flyer for more details: Education Day October 2024 [PDF 160KB].
About our speaker
Seán Brosnahan
Seán Brosnahan is a New Zealand historian of Irish extraction whose work has focussed on Irish migration and settlement in southern New Zealand.
For over thirty years, Seán has been a history curator at Toitῡ Otago Settlers Museum, New Zealand's leading specialist social history museum.
In 2013 he was named Ceann Fine (clan chieftain) at a World Gathering of Clan Brosnan at Castleisland, Co Kerry.
Seán's website to share his historical work
Main image: Irish Emigrants leaving Queenstown Harbour, The Illustrated London News, 5 September 1874.
Organiser
Irish Interest Group Lower North Island.Established in 2005 and based in Wellington, New Zealand, we are here to help you research your Irish family history. An NZSG Special Interest Group, we cover the Lower North Island region, from Taranaki across to Hawke's Bay, down to Wellington.
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1/33 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington 6037
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