Acknowledging more than three decades of work by the Irish Ancestry Group (IAG), Dr Val Noone speaks with Carmel McEvey on Des Regan and the early days of the IAG; Anne Bladeni…
GSV Webcasts
Number of Webcasts = 17
Date Published: 25 Mar 2023 @ 2:00 am
Duration: 79 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
The presentation examines the famines that occurred in Ireland and the various reports and Poor Law Acts instituted in an endeavour to alleviate poverty during the 19th century…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:54 am
Duration: 56 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
John Wroe describes the conditions onboard the immigrant vessels travelling to Victoria. He discusses the length of the voyage, the food and health hazards, the shipping…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:29 am
Duration: 27 minutes
The talk discusses the availability of the freeman and guild records of primarily London but also of Dublin and Ireland. These records are largely available online.
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:29 am
Duration: 48 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
Dr Pescod examines the lives of some of Irish born immigrants who established Victorian companies manufacturing a very wide range of products. They were part of the growth of…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:28 am
Duration: 44 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
This presentation discusses and gives examples of Irish Prison Registers and Irish Petty Sessions (lower court) records (mainly 19th century) and explains how to access them.…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:28 am
Duration: 48 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
The presentation provides background information regarding the state of Irish society in the first half of the 19th century. The talk also examines the various emigration…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:28 am
Duration: 40 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
The presentation examines the famines that occurred in Ireland and the various reports and Poor Law Acts instituted in an endeavour to alleviate poverty during the 19th century…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:27 am
Duration: 56 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
The presentation discusses the Scots-Irish, the people descended from Scots who migrated to Ireland, principally Ulster, from the 1600s under the scheme known as the Plantation…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:27 am
Duration: 47 minutesTopics related to this webcast:
Carmel McEvey’s presentation details the study of a diary written by an Irishwoman from County Tipperary during the 1860s. Her diary offers a significant insight into the role…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:26 am
Duration: 54 minutes
Peter Gavin provides a history of the Celtic Club in Melbourne which was established in 1887 as an organisation for those who supported an independent Ireland.
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:26 am
Duration: 26 minutes
Kevin Molloy speaks about the State Library Victoria’s collections of Irish and Irish-Australian materials which includes personal papers, book collections, manuscripts,…
Date Published: 28 Feb 2023 @ 6:26 am
Duration: 24 minutes