By Karel Kiely, Mario Corrigan & James Durney
Flyleaf Press has published a new edition of our ‘Guide to tracing your Kildare Ancestors’ by Karel Kiely, Mario Corrigan & James Durney. All three authors are centrally involved in Kildare genealogy as researchers, archivists and/or authors.
The publication is a comprehensive guide to all of the records available for tracing families in the county and is filled with information on what the records contain, and how and where they can be accessed. It is well illustrated with maps of the various administrative divisions; with examples of the types of records to be found; and with other relevant material. It also provides background on the social history of the counties and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records. There is also a comprehensive index. This is the latest in a series of county guides published by Flyleaf Press. These include guides for Limerick, Sligo, Galway, Dublin, Clare, Westmeath, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Roscommon, Mayo and Donegal.
Tracing Kildare Ancestors (ISBN: 978-1-907990-07-6)
by Karel Kiely, Mario Corrigan & James Durney
Retail: €13.00 160 pages; 227 x 145 mm; paperback; indexed; b/w illustrations.
About the authors:
Karel Kiely has run the County Kildare genealogy service for over twenty-three years. A native of Newbridge, Co. Kildare, she is a graduate of both Trinity College and Maynooth University, where she completed her M.A. in Local History in 1994. Her minor thesis on Naas Workhouse during the Famine reflects her interest in Irish social history and the Great Famine period. She has been the secretary of the Irish Family History Foundation since 2006 and the manager of its website www.rootsireland.ie, since 2007. She has contributed articles to various publications over the years and currently edits Clann, the newsletter of the Irish Family History Foundation.
Mario Corrigan is the Executive Librarian in charge of Kildare Collections and Research Services for Kildare Library & Arts Services. He has professional qualifications in History and Library & Information Science from University College, Dublin. He has written, edited and compiled many books, booklets and articles relating to County Kildare including ‘Hearth and Home: A history of social housing in Kildare Town 1889-2009’ with James Durney and Joseph Connelly which won the Nilsson Local Heritage Publishing Award in Listowel Writer's Week in 2013. Mario has taught introductory genealogy courses as well as delivering many presentations, talks and walks on Kildare history and heritage.
James Durney is an author/historian who works in the Local Studies and Genealogy Department of Kildare Library & Arts Services. He is the author of twelve books on local and Irish history. He has written extensively on the history of his native County Kildare, and on Irish history in general. James has worked on several TV projects for RTE and TG4 as a researcher and two of his books have been the basis of TV documentaries – ‘Mobs Mheirica’ and ‘War Stories – Korea.’ His essay ‘From defiance to defeat: the Curragh internees 1916-24,’ won the 2011 Lord Walter Fitzgerald Literary Award for Original Research. Heart and Home: A history of social housing in Kildare Town 1881-2012 (2012) won 1st Prize for the Nilson Heritage Award at the Listowel Writer’s Festival 2013. He is Chairman of the Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups; Chairman of Naas Local History Group; and a Committee member of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society. His latest book is ‘In a Time of War. Kildare 1914-1918’, published by Merrion Press.
Flyleaf Press is the publishing arm of Ancestor Network Ltd. (http://ancestornetwork.ie) which provides research services to personal and professional clients. Flyleaf Press was founded in 1987 and is Ireland’s major specialist publisher of family history and genealogy titles. Flyleaf specialise in high-quality ‘how-to’ guides for research in various counties of Ireland. To date guides for 12 counties have been published. They also publish reference works on Church Records, Census records and wills. Reviewers of Flyleaf titles have noted that their titles contain ‘…information vital to the researcher, assembled by well-qualified genealogists’ (Books Ireland) while NY Genealogical & Biographical Record have said that “Genealogical Libraries will want to acquire all of them”.
See www.flyleaf.ie
